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OPINION

 Sorry, Mr. President, 
 Nobody Likes Change 

Let's reform health care, as long as it can stay the same

Aug 28, 09 9:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - If you listen to pandering politicians or ranting radio hosts, you’d think Americans want big, far-reaching change right away. They might disagree on what change, but nobody likes the way things are. Well, you’d be wrong, writes Michael Kinsley for the Washington Post. As the health care... More »

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protests • Clinton administration • health care reform • town hall meeting • change • Obama administration • President Obama • William Kristol

Mali's President Bails
on Women's Rights Law

Protests force him to send it back for review

Aug 27, 09 8:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mali's president says he won't sign a controversial new law that gives more rights to women, the BBC reports. President Amadou Toumani Toure says he supports the so-called family law, which Muslim leaders have denounced as the devil's work, but is sending it back to parliament for review. "I... More »

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Africa • women's rights • marriage • protests • Muslim • parliament • Mali • Amadou Toumani Toure

 Gay Toughs Bash Back 


Aug 25, 09 1:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Many gays are damn mad and they're not going to take it anymore. Now Bash Back!—formed just over a year ago—is boosting gay, transgender and sex worker protest to a freshly provocative level, reports Details. The group, with some 15 chapters nationwide, has forged its reputation with... More »

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gay rights • protests • transgender • protesters • gay • sex worker • Bash Back!

OPINION

NRA Shouldn't Tolerate Gun-Toting Protesters

It's just not a safe way to use a firearm

Aug 20, 09 9:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - If the National Rifle Association is really, to quote its website “dedicated to the lawful, effective, responsible, and above all safe use of firearms,” then it should loudly discourage people from carrying those firearms to political rallies, writes Stephen Stromberg of the Washington Post. Politics aside,... More »

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NRA • gun control • protests • health care reform • town hall meeting • National Rifle Association • political protest • guns

Rush to Barney Frank:
Oh Yeah? You Live on Uranus

Finds town hall protester 'fabulous and hilarious'

Aug 20, 09 7:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh is eating up the town hall protests. Covering the Barney Frank town hall last night, Rush said it was “fabulous and fantastic and hilarious” that a woman showed up with a poster of Obama as Adolf Hitler and asked why Frank supported a Nazi health care policy,... More »

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homophobia • Rush Limbaugh • protests • Barney Frank • town hall meeting • right wingers • homosexual • gay

ANALYSIS

Insurer Urges Employees to Protest Health Care Reform

UnitedHealth Group lays down AstroTurf

Aug 19, 09 3:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s second-biggest health insurance firm, has been encouraging employees to attend events protesting health-care reform, Talking Points Memo reports. In a clear-cut example of “Astroturf”—fake grassroots action—a memo to employees urges them to call an “advocacy specialist” who can provide talking... More »

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health insurance • protests • grassroots • health care reform • UnitedHealth • political protest • Talking Points Memo • AstroTurf • tea parties • America's Independent Party

(Newser) - The man who brought an assault rifle to Barack Obama’s speech yesterday wasn’t alone. Roughly a dozen protesters were seen carrying guns, the AP reports. Phoenix police say the men didn’t need permits, and didn’t commit any crime. In fact, they say they were worried someone... More »

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Barack Obama • Arizona • protests • Phoenix • health care reform • Second Amendment • assault rifles • assault weapons • deathers

(Newser) - Chinese furious about a lead smelting plant that has sickened some 600 children stormed the factory yesterday after a suicide attempt by teenager who feared she had been poisoned, reports the Wall Street Journal. Some 150 children have been hospitalized due to lead poisoning near the plant in northwest China's... More »

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China • health • Shanxi Province • protests • lead poisoning • contamination

OPINION

 These Kooks 
 Aren't Fooling Anyone 


Aug 14, 09 12:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - The “wild-eyed rants” reverberating through town hall meetings are pretty amusing. But do Republicans “really think the country is dopey enough to mistake microwave mobs staging Potemkin village protests” for actual American rage, asks Scot Lehigh of the Boston Globe. “If so, they’re delusional.”... More »

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health care • protests • Enron • health care reform • town hall meeting • medical care

Archie-Veronica Wedding Sparks Fan Protest 

Everyone knows it should be Betty, says collector

Aug 14, 09 12:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - A comic book store owner and Archie fan is so upset that the comic hero is marrying Veronica after 67 years that he’s selling his copy of the series’ first issue in protest, the AP reports. Girl next door “Betty is it. Not Veronica," says Dave Luebke.... More »

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protests • auction • comic books • Archie • Archie Comics

OPINION

Health Care Opponents Aren't (All) Crazy

They aren't 'delusional' for equating reform
with fewer choices

Aug 11, 09 12:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - There are definitely crazy black helicopter watchers amongst the screaming masses of health care foes, but most of the people filling town halls are “confused and concerned Americans,” writes Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post. “And they have a point.” Robinson’s a self-proclaimed “... More »

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health care costs • protests • universal health care • rationing • health care reform

(Newser) - Hundreds of women marched through Kathmandu yesterday to protest a government plan to offer $600 to anybody who marries a widow, the Independent reports. The government says the scheme will help overcome social stigmas attached to widowhood, but the women say it is insulting and warn that it will lead... More »

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women • protests • Nepal • human trafficking • widows • women's issues

(Newser) - Sarah Palin urged supporters to show restraint at town hall meetings, arguing that disruptive protests were giving Democrats ammunition. “There are many disturbing details in the current bill that Washington is trying to rush through Congress,” she said on Facebook yesterday, but we must “not get sidetracked... More »

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health care • protests • health care reform • town hall meeting • Sarah Palin • Trig Palin • deathers

 Iran: Protesters Were Tortured 

Prosecutor general blamed Basij, Revolutionary Guard for 'painful accidents'

Aug 9, 09 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Iranian prosecutor general admitted today that protesters arrested in the wake of the disputed presidential election were tortured, the New York Times reports. The comments by Qorbanali Dori-Najafabadi were the first official acknowledgments of torture made by an Iranian government official. Dori-Najafabadi blamed what he called a few “... More »

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Iran • torture • prosecutor • protests • political protest • detention

(Newser) - With health care town hall meetings around the country turning into shouting matches and even brawls, you might be wondering if there are any rules governing these things. But there aren’t, explains Christopher Beam of Salon. Political town halls are just informal gatherings, with no set format on who... More »

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protests • health care reform • town hall meeting

(Newser) - Americans everywhere are storming town halls to heckle their congressmen over health care, and that shouldn't come as a surprise. “They hired a man to represent them in Washington,” explains Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal. “And all they ask in return is that he... More »

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health care • Democrats • protests • health care reform • Peggy Noonan • protesters

Grass Roots or Astroturf? Protests Disrupt Town Halls

Dems come home
to hecklers swinging at
health care legislation

Aug 6, 09 11:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Many Democrats' August recess is off to a noisy start, as conservative dissenters flood town-hall meetings to protest health care legislation, the Boston Globe reports. Using tactics and questions prescribed online, hecklers do their best to disrupt the events, yelling questions and shouting out while videotaping the exchange. Republicans... More »

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protests • grassroots • health care reform • town hall meeting • right wingers • David Koch

(Newser) - Supporters of a woman facing 40 lashes for wearing trousers were beaten and teargassed by police in Sudan yesterday, the Guardian reports. Some her female supporters wore pants in solidarity with Lubna Hussein, in defiance of the country's law against "indecent dressing." "We are here to protest... More »

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Sudan • protests • Islamic law • Khartoum • flogging • Lubna Ahmed Hussein

forget the beach

 5 Things to Watch During 
 Critical August Break

Health care takes center stage in 'consequential' recess

Aug 3, 09 12:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - With health care reform hanging in the balance, the August congressional recess is likely to be a lot less relaxing than usual, writes Glenn Thrush in Politico. What to watch:
  1. Health insurers’ response to Nancy Pelosi’s singling them out as the "bad guys" on soaring health care
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Nancy Pelosi • Congress • protests • Senate Finance Committee • recess • health care reform • Max Baucus • health insurers • approval ratings • President Obama • tea parties • public option

PETA Wants Psych Test for Vick to Return

Animal-rights group threatens NFL with protest otherwise

Jul 22, 09 12:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - PETA may protest if Michael Vick gets another job in the NFL without first undergoing a psychological evaluation, the animal-rights group’s DC office says. A spokesperson tells CBS affiliate WUSA-TV that a person who’s served time has the right to go free, but isn’t entitled to go... More »

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NFL • Michael Vick • protests • animal rights • PETA • dog fighting

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