To Save Or Not To Save? That Is The $1 Trillion Question

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More discussion and an interesting link about the cost and the savings the healthcare reform (or 'Healthcare Cost Reduction' as Mike Barnicle cleverly said it should be called to rein in the wilder parts of the 'debate', or scaremongering) have thrown up.

Tell The Truthiness Says ; How much exactly will it save? Will it stop all those people who can afford vast insurance plans clogging up space in hospitals with unnecessary procedures and visits and driving up overall costs?

Maddow Goes After Buchanan For Sotomayor Race Rant

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Watch Sonia Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings Here

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The Change We Need 2 ; Supreme Court Nominee Sotomayor

President Barack Obama decided to nominated Sonia Sotomayor on Monday evening and will be a historic Supreme Court Justice when she is confirmed.

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For the inside story on the decision, click here.

Tell The Truthiness Says ; And the press corps didn't catch any of her meeting with the President last week, could her nickname be Stealthy Sotomayor?

Special Comment On Dick Cheney

Here's Keith Olbermann's take on Dick Cheney, the Vice President who "just won't die".

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Tell The Truthiness Says ; Once again we ask, who is in charge of the Republicans? Do you really want it to be Dick Cheney?

Healthcare Proposals Get Krugman Thumbs-Up

The healthcare proposals currently being discussed between the government and healthcare companies have got a positive response from Nobel prize winner Paul Krugman.

Tell The Truthiness Says ; The comments from Krugman in his op-ed show how fine a line all concerned have to walk to get any real progress made in the healthcare debate.

The Truthiness From 2008

The favourite people of the year Countdown episode from last week ;

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The Rachel Maddow Revolution

Here's a link to an insightful article on the new Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC.

Tell The Truthiness Says ; How long will we have to wait for a video podcast of the show?

Holding Them To Account 24 ; Special Comment On The GOP Hijacking Of 9/11

Apologies for not posting this earlier.

Saunter To The White House 43 ; First Hillary Fixes The Screen...

Tell The Truthiness ; Lets call her at 2am, just to catch her off balance!

Saunter To The White House 42 ; Colbert Woos Michelle Obama

Stephen Colbert has had quite a busy time lately.



Tell The Truthiness ; Stephen should get on America's Got Talent.

Saunter To The White House 41 ; The Clinton Thing That Wouldn't Die

Tim Russert rounds up what happened with Hillary Clinton and the snipers



Tell The Truthiness ; Is he getting his editors from The Daily Show?

Saunter To The White House 38 ; Reuters Says It's Over For Hillary Clinton

Reuters has become the latest media outlet to report or editorialise that Hillary Clinton is fighting a battle she has little chance of winning. The Politico was the first of any significance to call time on Clinton's campaign bid.

Tell The Truthiness ; Is it just media positioning, or will this judgement become the majority view in the coming weeks?

Holding Them To Account 11 ; Fox News Feuds On Friday

The editorial policy at Fox News boiled over for all to see for what it is today. Anchor Brian Kilmeade walked off the set and later Chris Wallace slated his own network for "Obama bashing". All this follows the misrepresenting of comments by Senator Obama about his grandmother.





Tell The Truthiness ; Fox News, Fairly Unbalanced On Their Unbalancing

Truthiness Teller Colbert AP's Celebrity Of The Year

He may have suffered a faltering attempt to stand for President and be off air while the writer's strike drags on, but the father of twenty-first century news comment has been acclaimed.

Stephen Colbert has been named by the Associated Press as their Celebrity of the Year.

The man who speaks not his mind, but his gut on all things news, has done it again.

Tell The Truthiness ; A merry American Christmas to our celebrity of the year, Stephen Colbert.

Nation, you know you should be bowing in honour.

The View's Sherri Shepherd Does It Again

Sherri Shepherd is quickly becoming the daytime version of Rudy Giuliani with her priceless comments.

After blasting us with the news that the Earth is flat and that she didn't think anything happened before the Christians arrived, she's gone one better.

Whoopi Goldberg tried her best to save Sherri and the discussion on sexual stereotypes and transgender children. However Sherri said she would stop her son from playing dress-up at school if he was allowed to put on a dress.

Tell The Truthiness ; Why did they hire Sherri Shepherd of all people?

Keith Olbermann Counts Down Lou Dobbs Continual Immigration Coverage

Tell The Truthiness ; Immigration is an important issue, but it's not the only one.

Road To Tehran 6 ; No Nukes, But 'Still Dangerous'? Are You Sure?

A US intelligence report has today poured cold water on the chance that Iran has, is about to, or has stashed somewhere, nuclear weapons.

The National Intelligence Estimate says that Tehran stopped it's nuclear weapons program in 2003. Furthermore, if they did decide to restart work today, it would be 2009 before they gained anything worth lobbing to pierce anyone's armour.

Of course, the Bush administration had very little choice but to say the NIE was "positive", but they also stated how dangerous it would be if Iran got hold of a nuclear weapon. You know, in the same way you'd think about a five year old getting their fingers stuck in a wall socket.

Tell The Truthiness ; In both cases, the chance is there, but it's very small. So stop trying to stick the nation's fingers in the nearest socket Mr Bush.

War On Reality Part 77 ; British & Don't Like Bush? Lock Your Doors Now

If the lax attitude to the advantages of democracy you thought had been reached by the US government, think again.

At the Court Of Appeal in London, a lawyer for the US government said that kidnapping of UK citizens is legal.

That's right. You may be the United States greatest ally. You may have stood by our shoulder on 9/11. You may have gone into Afghanistan and illegally into Iraq at our behest.

But we will kidnap your own citizens on your soil, if we like.

Because it's now law. Indeed, it's been law since the 1860s.

You would expect the US government then to calm fears by issuing a statement saying it needs amending and in the meantime it is doubtful it would be used?

Tell The Truthiness : However, the US Department Of Justice declined to comment. Typical.

Hostage Situation At Clinton Campaign Office Over

The last hostage in the Rochester, New Hampshire situation has been released.

A few minutes later, the suspect stepped outside, into the middle of the street. Surrounded by a SWAT team, the man, dressed in smart trousers, a white shirt and red tie, took off the 'bomb' he claimed to have, before being taken into custody.

The suspect was known to the local police in Rochester.

No-one has been hurt and the hostages are ok. Congratulations to Rochester police department and all authorities concerned.

That's how it should be done.