- Congressman Joseph Cao, R-La.
- Congressman Joe Sestak, D-Pa.
From the Web:
- Armey leaves firm amid health care flap
- Public Citizen Congress Watch September 2004 (page 95-96 has what Rachel quoted on the show)
- GOP lawmaker criticizes Nazi talk
- Time.com: Oh,
- Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 (Pub. L. 108-173)
- The part quoted on the show: SUBTITLE B--OTHER PROVISIONS
- The Geneva Conventions: the core of international humanitarian law
- Memorandum for John Rizzo (pdf)
- ICRC REPORT ON THE TREATMENT OF FOURTEEN "HIGH VALUE DETAINEES" IN CIA CUSTODY
- In the conclusion: "The allegations of ill-treatment of the detainees indicate that, in many cases, the ill-treatment to which they were subjected while held in the CIA program, either singly or in combination, constituted torture. In addition, many other elements of the illtreatment, either singly or in combination, constituted cruel inhuman or degrading treatment."
- Rep. Paul Broun: ObamaCare Will Leave "Mama" to Die in Agony in Bed
- Vets' health care is safe and sound
- CBN News: 'C Street' Mystery to Some, Refuge for Others
- The story Rachel is reading on the way home from D.C.: World Magazine: All in the family
- George Felos, former attorney for Michael Schiavo
- Senator Bernie Sanders
- Paola Gourley, Wife of detained Newsweek reporter, Maziar Bahari
From the Web:
- Newt Gingrich: Across the Country, Some Systems Are Getting It Right
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Sarah Palin, Governor of the state of Alaska, do hereby proclaim April 16, 2008, as: Healthcare Decisions Day in Alaska, and I call this observance to the attention of all our citizens. - LegalZoom.com - The only thing Rachel Maddow and Rush Limbaugh have in common.
- A Window Into C.I.A.’s Embrace of Secret Jail
- Free Maziar Bahari
- Newsweek: Free Maziar Bahari
- FurCon on Flickr
- Dr. Warren Hern, director of the Boulder Abortion Clinic in Colorado. He's one of the few remaining doctors in this country who perform late abortions.
- Bob Krause, candidate for U.S. Senate representing Iowa
- Malcolm Nance, former master instructor and chief of training at the Navy's Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape school--the SERE school. Mr. Nance is now a consultant on counter-terrorism and terrorism intelligence for the U.S. government.
From the Web:
- Executive producer Bill Wolff presents tonight's topics.
- Rachel Maddow illustrates her point about the gun-weilding health care protester's sign and Timothy McVeigh's t-shirt at the time of his arrest: Pic 1, Pic 2, Explanation. At Obama event today.
- The Last Abortion Doctor
- How House Bill Runs Over Grandma - Editor's Note: This version corrects the original editorial which implied that physicist Stephen Hawking, a professor at the University of Cambridge, did not live in the UK.
- Who cares if Professor Stephen Hawking lives or dies. Actually, we all do
- Twitter: We love the NHS
- Public Policy Polling: Birthers strong in NC too
- Full NC polling results (pdf)
- 2 U.S. Architects of Harsh Tactics in 9/11’s Wake
- Iraq National Baseball 2009 Home Jersey from Ebbets Field Flannels procedes
- CTG Athletics (Verdero)
- Charities helping Iraq:
-ICRC - International Committee of the Red Cross
-IFRC - International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
-Operation Give, which has its own iraqi baseball thing going on
-Doctors Without Borders | Donate - Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
- John Rother, Executive vice president of policy, AARP
- Senator Sherrod Brown
- David Goldsmith, a mechanic and owner of Urban Classics Auto Shop in Brooklyn, New York and a weekly guest on the Auto Lab Radio Show on WMCA, 570 AM in New York
From the Web:
- Executive producer Bill Wolff previews tonight's topics.
- The Plum Line: On Private Conference Call, Tea Party Organizers Say No Reform At All Is Goal
- DLA Piper lobbying report
- The Plum Line: Brutal Mailer From Anti-Reform Group Displays Sick, Languishing Old People
- House Judiciary Committee Releases Rove and Miers Interview Transcripts and Over 5,400 Pages of Bush White House Documents
- Interviews of White House Officials regarding U.S. attorney firings
- Public Policy Polling: Birthers strong in NC too
- Full NC polling results (pdf)
- The Auto Lab Radio Show
- Retractable fifth wheel for tight parking spots
- Rachel Maddow illustrates her point about the gun-weilding health care protester's sign and Timothy McVeigh's t-shirt at the time of his arrest: Pic 1, Pic 2, Explanation. At Obama event today.
- Senator Barbara Boxer
- Wendell Potter, formerly the head of Public Relations for CIGNA, one of the nation's largest insurers. He is now a senior fellow on health care at the Center for Media and Democracy.
- Amy Hagstrom Miller, Executive Director of Whole Woman's Health
From the Web:
- A Primer on the Details of Health Care Reform
- AARP: Pulling strings from afar
- Known Funders of: 60 Plus Association
- Sourcewatch: 60 Plus Association
- Wendell Potter's blog
- "Profits at 10 of the country’s largest publicly traded health insurance companies in 2007 rose 428 percent from 2000 to 2007, from $2.4 billion to $12.9 billion, according to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings. In 2007 alone, the chief executive officers at these companies collected combined total compensation of $118.6 million—an average of $11.9 million each." LINK (pdf)
- Blagojevich does Elvis
- She wasn't kidding: GovernorRod.com
- Questions for Alberto Gonzales
- Steve Benen: "I don't think it occurs to Palin that far-right activists might be less inclined to intimidate and harass if their leaders stopped telling them that the White House wants to kill children and their grandparents."
- Congressman Tim Murphy: We must stop the nonsense and focus on the real issues
- ...in response to 'Birther' control: Praise the righteous right