The anti-reformers' proposed amendment that would impose a requirement for proving citizenship in order to get health care has been shot down. This is what they use as a hinge for their claim that HR3200 is "unclear" about the matter, when it is glaringly obvious that HR3200 is in fact quite clear about it.

The anti- crowd knows that no one is going to vote for a national ID card, and no one is going to vote to require proof of citizenship simply to buy even unsubsidized health...

Smears, innuendo and veiled references to a ten year old incident that was well covered at the time it occurred (apparently in an attempt to make it seem like it happened this year, and to make it seem as if Mr. Jennings was there) equals "Truth".

Check.

Well-researched, documented fact-checking and direct interviews with people who have first-hand knowledge of the falsity of said smears and innuendo equals "Left Wing Propaganda".

Check.

Human beings doing what...

President Bush I broadcast a speech to all school children on October 1, 1991 using CSpan. He touted his educational initiatives. What the current hysteria illustrates is that our country has become balkanized by the media.

Most modern journalism no longer tries to report what is true; it simply repeats even the most outrageous and easily debunked lies as "he said, she said". Combine this with the extreme, agenda-driven bias of a major cable news network and the result in 2009 is...

Of course it's money.

Bachmann taps into the extremist market the same way Glenn Beck does. She raises nearly three times the amount of money that the average congressperson does, much of it from individual contributions.

Most of that money does not come from the 6th district. Bachmann maintains a publicity and fundraising staff that is much larger than average and it is national in scope.

She's not that different from a typical televangelist; she alternates her extreme...