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Physicist and director of New York's Hayden Planetarium discusses extraterrestrial life and what happened to Pluto with Jon Stewart

Courtesy of Sister Irma. This is the kind of health care every family may need at one point or other. This is what the Health Care legislation will guarantee for all Americans. If the bill fails,

"I FELT MY EYES SWELLING AS IF THEY WOULD BURST FROM THEIR SOCKETS AND THE VEINS ON MY TEMPLES WERE DREADFULLY DISTENDED. I FELT A COLD SWEAT COMING OVER ME WHICH SEEMED TO BE A WARNING THAT DEATH WA

“PEOPLE THINK IF WE DO NOTHING WE WILL HAVE WHAT WE HAVE NOW. IN FACT, WHAT WE WILL HAVE IS A SUBSTANTIAL DETERIORATION.” HEALTH POLICY ANALYSTS AND ECONOMISTS AGREE: UNRELENTING RISE IN MEDICAL CO

ACCORDING TO THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION RANKING, THE UNITED STATES HAS THE 37th BEST HEALTH CARE IN THE WORLD, BEHIND COSTA RICA, COLUMBIA, BELGIUM AND MALTA. NUMBER ONE? FRANCE. Rank

RIGHT-WING MEDIA FIGURES MOCKED DEMOCRATS DESCRIPTIONS OF HARDSHIPS FACED BY CONSTITUENTS WHO LACK HEALTH INSURANCE, INCLUDING A STORY BY REP. LOUISE SLAUGHTER WHO TOLD ABOUT A WOMAN WHO WORE DENTURES

REP. TRENT FRANKS, A REPUBLICAN FROM ARIZONA SAID ON FRIDAY THAT BECAUSE OF U.S. ABORTION POLICY, “FAR MORE OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY IS BEING DEVASTATED BY THE POLICIES OF TODAY THAN WERE BEI

WHEN YOU ARE THE FIRST BLACK GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK AND BLACK ELECTED OFFICIALS AND MEMBERS OF THE CLERGY ARE GATHERING TO LIGHT THE PATH TO YOUR EXIT, YOU ARE IN DEEP, DEEP TROUBLE. THE BOTTOM HAD COM

“HE CAME TO ME ON SATURDAY MORNING IN A BOX TIGHTLY HOOPED MARKED ‘THIS SIDE UP’ FROM THE CITY OF RICHMOND!” MR. McKIM WROTE. “DID YOU EVER HEAR OF ANYTHING TO BEAT THAT?” By ALISON LEIGH COWAN,

“MY COLLEAGUES AND I HAVE TRAVELED TWO DAYS INTO THE FUTURE AND LISTENED TO EVERYTHING THE PRESIDENT WILL SAY,” REP. JOHN BOEHNER TOLD REPORTERS AT THE CAPITAL. “AND IT WILL ALL SUCK.” WASHINGTON

Keith Olbermann discusses Rush Limbaugh's analysis of pending Health Care Reform legilsation. Rushbo claimed that the Health Care Bill as written was another "Civil Rights Bill" and constituted "Repa

RAchel Maddow discusses President Obama's Health Care Reform proposal sand assesses it's chances for passage.

Republican rising star, Virginia Gov. McDonnell signed an executive order allowing discrimination against Gay people. Yale Professor of African-American Studies Mellissa Harris Lacewell responds.

“I HAD FIVE CORE THINGS IN MIND FOR MY KIDS AND FOR OUR STUDENTS. I WANTED THEM TO BE WHOLESOME IN CHARACTER, COMPASSIONATE, TO GIVE SOMETHING TO THE WORLD, TO HAVE A SOPHISTICATED INTELLECT AND TO

FEW OF A PARTICULAR POLITICAL PERSUASION ARE AS ENTERTAINING OR INSIGHTFUL AS RACHEL MADDOW. WHAT MAKES THE MSNBC HOST UNIQUE IS THAT WHILE SHE SURELY SEEKS INFLUENCE SHE PREFERS IT ON HER OWN TERMS—

IT’S BLACK HISTORY MONTH YET AGAIN. WITH SEVERAL YEARS OF UNIVERSITY TEACHING UNDER MY BELT, I’VE BEGUN TO WONDER WHAT BLACK HISTORY MY STUDENTS HAVE ACTUALLY LEARNED DURING THIS MONTH OR ANY MONTH B

ENEMY OF SOCIALIZED MEDICINE SARAH PALIN BENEFITS FROM FEDERALLY FUNDED HEALTH CARE AFFORDED TO HER FAMILY…BUT WATCH OUT! BARACK OBAMA MIGHT KILL THEM! PUT THIS ON THE LIST OF PALIN’S GREATEST HYPOC

“AFTER DEBATING THIS ISSUE EXHAUSTIVELY FOR A YEAR, LET’S MOVE FORWARD TOGETHER. WHAT’S BEING TESTED HERE IS NOT JUST OUR ABILITY TO SOLVE THIS ONE PROBLEM BUT OUR ABILITY TO SOLVE ANY PROBLEM.”

“I HAVE AN ARIA ALBUM THAT’S COMING UP ON ARETHA’S RECORDS. I LOVE PUCCINI BUT I’M GOING TO DO A LITTLE MOZART ON THIS DUAL OFFERING THAT CONDOLEEZZA RICE AND I WILL BE DOING OVER THE SUMMER FOR OUR

“SHE IS STRANGE,” WROTE LANGSTON HUGHES. “SHE IS FAR OUT AND AT THE SAME TIME COMMON. SHE IS DIFFERENT. YOU EITHER LIKE HER OR DON’T. IF YOU DON’T, YOU WON’T. IF YOU DO---WHEEE-0UUUEU! YOU DO!”

IT’S PERFECTLY REASONABLE TO QUESTION WHETHER THE $862 BILLION WAS WELL SPENT AND WHETHER IT IS GOOD ECONOMIC POLICY. BUT THAT MONEY HAS CLEARLY RESULTED IN TENS OF THOUSANDS OF JOBS THAT WOULDN’T EX

“SIR, I WOULD SAY THAT 70 YEARS AGO YOU AND I COULDN’T SERVE IN THE SAME NAVY, THE SAME AIR FORCE, THE SAME ARMY BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF MY SKIN,” SGT. ROBINSON TOLD MULLEN. “THE U.S. MILITARY WAS AL

THE CAPACITY FOR EMPATHY SEEMS TO BE INNATE AND IS EVIDENT EVEN IN OTHER SPECIES. BUT IN OTHERWISE NORMAL CHILDREN, THE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH THEY ARE REARED CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE IN WHETHER EMPAT

“YOU WERE TOUTING A GREEN TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION PROGRAM, TALKING ABOUT HOW GREAT THAT WAS GOING TO BE FOR YOUR DISTRICT” SHE SAID, “BUT YOU VOTED AGAINST THE BILL THAT CREATED THAT GRANT.” A heated