I have another Huffington Post piece up today. It’s about an amazingly douchey guy from St. Louis named Kenneth Gladney. St. Louis Teabag Protester Lies about Medical Coverage to Solicit “Donations” I’m just sayin’…

Cross-posted at the Daily Kos. I have three major updates to my two Daily Kos Rec List diaries regarding last week’s Rep. John Dingell health care town hall meeting and about Kenneth Gladney, the protestor in St. Louis who claimed not to have health insurance. Executive summary: Kenneth Gladney DOES have health insurance and he’s still collecting money anyway. Mike […]

I have a new article up at the Huffington Post, a rewrite of my Daily Kos diary on John Dingell’s health care town hall meeting last week. Raucous Politics — Rep. John Dingell Calmly Faces “The Screamers” I’m just sayin’…

Cross-posted at the Daily Kos. (Updated twice below.) There are already a couple other diaries up (at the Daily Kos) that talk about Kenneth Gladney, the African American man who claims he was attacked by SEIU “thugs” (HERE and HERE), so I won’t go into any detail on that. Those diarist have done a much better job than I could […]

Heading into last night’s health care town hall meeting with U.S. Representative John Dingell, my wife and I anticipated that there would probably be a decent turnout of opposition from the tea bagger side of the tracks. I’ve been reading about how the Disrupticans (hat tip: Detroit Mark) have been shutting down any semblance of civil discourse at these events […]

Former head of the EPA and Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, Carol Browner, was in Michigan yesterday to talk to Detroit vehicle manufacturers about the future of the industry. She was invited by freshman Representative Gary Peters (D-Bloomfield) who has recently introduced legislation called ADVANCED VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY ACT that will inject $550 million into the Dept. […]

The Washington Post has reported that the anti-health care reform camp is spending $1.4 million per day to fight health care reform efforts, particularly to kill the public option. The aim of the lobbying blitz is simple: to minimize the damage to insurers, hospitals and other major sectors while maximizing the potential of up to 46 million uninsured Americans as […]

Spread this one far and wide. Email it to your elderly (American) grandparents, other relatives and friends/neighbors. Fighting the misinformation and outright lies is so bloody difficult but it MUST be done. I’m just sayin’…

xkcd nails the “What if…?” scenario. Understocked Can’t we all just get along? I’m just sayin’…

In November of 2007, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm issued an executive order establishing the Michigan Climate Action Council (MCAC). Over the course of the next 16 months, the MCAC, a collection of stakeholders from across the spectrum, developed a 125-page document, the Michigan Climate Action Council Climate Action Plan [.pdf] which contains 53 recommendations for reducing the impacts of climate […]

I’ve been giving a LOT of thought to this whole Birthers thing. I’ve done the research. I’ve read the blogs. I’ve listened to Dobbs. And now, at long last, I’ve reached a conclusion. It’s not one that will be popular with many progressive liberals and other Obama supporters but when the details of the diabolical plot are revealed, I think […]