Democrats should not be disappointed by Joe Lieberman’s threat to filibuster Obama’s healthcare reform bill, writes The Salon’s Joe Conason. Like Senator Evan Bayh, who too plans to filibuster against the reforms, Lieberman’s wife has profited from the healthcare industry. "The Lieberman family's financial ties to the health industry are no secret, yet their full extent remains unknown. During her husband's 2006 re-election campaign, Hadassah Lieberman's employment as a ‘senior counselor’ to Hill & Knowlton, one of the world’s biggest lobbying firms, briefly erupted as an issue, especially because the clients she served were in the controversial pharmaceutical and insurance sectors. Exactly what she did for those clients has never been disclosed."
From corrupt czars to bloodthirsty Bolsheviks, Russia has had no shortage of bad leaders. But just how evil were they really?
As important as his Nobel Prize-winning technical accomplishments was his ability to communicate to the public.
A retraction regarding a May 6, 2019 article entitled "Are these 100 people killing the planet?"
