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By Bill Boyarsky — By monopolizing the airwaves with his calm rationality, President Obama has retaken control of the national health care debate, which was beginning to descend into ideological hysteria.
Posted on Sep 24, 2009
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White House / Pete Souza
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By Bill Boyarsky — President Barack Obama’s health care reform speech to Congress Wednesday night was impassioned, but it also echoed a lot of ideas from insurance company lobbying.
Posted on Sep 10, 2009
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White House / Pete Souza
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By Bill Boyarsky — The fight over the public option has occupied much of the media coverage, but left unsaid is the fact that weeks of behind-the-scenes negotiations have weakened the public option proposal to the point that it is hardly an option at all.
Posted on Sep 3, 2009
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AP / Susan Walsh
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By Bill Boyarsky — By the time Congress returns from its recess and takes another whack at the health insurance mess, Rep. Henry Waxman will have started revealing the deceit that protects health business profiteers.
Posted on Aug 25, 2009
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AP photo / M. Spencer Green
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By Bill Boyarsky — The national health care crisis, intensified by the recession, is so bad that nothing can be permitted to stop reform of the system, not even the implosion of the president’s health czar.
Posted on Feb 19, 2009
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AP photo / J. Scott Applewhite
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By Bill Boyarsky — One of the worst messes facing the Obama administration is the disgraceful state of the federal government’s immigration detention centers.
Posted on Feb 7, 2009
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By Bill Boyarsky — President Barack Obama’s inaugural speech was an inspiring call to national service. But you have to read it closely.
Posted on Jan 21, 2009
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AP photo / Jose Luis Magana
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By Bill Boyarsky — Like many other people, I’d like to party all week when Barack Obama is sworn in as president. But this isn’t the year for it, not with unemployment rising and fear spreading through the land.
Posted on Jan 13, 2009
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AP photo / Rina Castelnuovo, pool
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By Bill Boyarsky — The president-elect has struggled to stay out of the Gaza fight, but based on everything he said during the campaign, he appears determined to stand up for Israel.
Posted on Jan 8, 2009
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AP photo / Kevork Djansezian
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By Bill Boyarsky — I’m concerned about the uncertain future for journalists. Without them, who will “watchdog” politicians and bureaucrats, charity officials, cops, educators and the many others who help make our society run?
Posted on Dec 16, 2008
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AP photo / Rick Bowmer
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By Bill Boyarsky — With unemployment soaring, the need grows daily for guaranteed health care. But that may not happen in the coming year because of the desperate need to revive the economy and put people to work.
Posted on Dec 8, 2008
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AP photo / Carlos Osorio
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By Bill Boyarsky — If jobs weren’t disappearing and a depression threatening, it would be easy and satisfying to send the American auto industry into bankruptcy or liquidation. But this isn’t the time to make Chrysler, General Motors and Ford pay for their years of failure and shortsightedness.
Posted on Nov 20, 2008
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AP photo / Alex Brandon
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By Bill Boyarsky — This is a day to think about how far we’ve come, to think about our experiences in past times and how we are now ready to begin forging a country where all of life is no longer defined by race.
Posted on Nov 5, 2008
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By Bill Boyarsky — Next Tuesday, don’t be shocked if the Republicans roll out their familiar tactics of intimidating Democratic voters, challenging their eligibility and subjecting them to long lines at polling places. If the election is close, these shady maneuvers might pay off.
Posted on Oct 28, 2008
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By Bill Boyarsky — What struck me during my week in Appalachian Ohio was how different this was from the America of the McCain-Palin campaign, a divided place where the Republicans pit one part of the country against another with vicious robocalls at the dinner hour.
Posted on Oct 21, 2008
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