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If you are a Wall Street investment banker, there's new evidence that you've got the best Supreme Court money can buy. Conservative Supreme Court justices did little to hide their disdain for the need to protect the interests of investors earlier this week as they...

Wow. ThinkProgress breaks the story that Don Stewart, communications director for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, contacted traditional media reporters and encouraged them to write stories criticizing the Frost family. He oh-so-innocently wrote: "Seen the...

Last night on the Alan Colmes radio show, I debated conservative blogger Dan Riehl about the State Children's Health Insurance Program and the attacks on the Frost family, though I didn't have to do too much because Colmes picked Riehl apart quite nicely. Riehl has...

Headzup puts the SCHIP choice facing House conservatives in its proper political context.

After liberal bloggers called out the conservative smear job on the Frost family, the New York Times, USA Today and Baltimore Sun picked up the story. And all conservatives have accomplished is to shine a brighter light on the struggles of working class Americans:

Last month, I noted that the coordinated attack against SCHIP had failed miserably, leaving conservatives desperate. Who knew how desperate they would get? Conservative bloggers have begun an intimidation and harassment campaign against 12-year old Graeme Frost and...

In both SCHIP debates held on ABC's This Week and CBS' Face The Nation, hosts passively allowed Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt and Rep. Adam Putnam to spread misinformation without correcting the record. On ABC, Leavitt repeated the $83,000 lie:...

Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked....

In These Times and ThinkProgress had already taken the White House to task for pushing the lie that the SCHIP bill would raise the income eligibility limit to families earning $83,000 a year. Of course, Bush is still saying it: "this program expands coverage, federal...

As noted here before, House conservatives are sweating the upcoming vote to override Bush's veto of SCHIP expansion. Unlike Bush, everyone in the House is up for re-election in 2008. Support for covering 4 million more children with health insurance, and paying for...