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...members, perhaps, the fat-acceptance movement has yo-yoed in size over the years. In the late 1960s, small groups were active on both coasts. NAAFA itself started in 1969 in New York City, although it was originally called the National Association to Aid Fat Americans. Engineer Bill Fabrey had tired of the discrimination his overweight wife faced and started the group as an advocate for the big-boned. But NAAFA remained at the periphery for years, prompting some members to argue for a more confrontational approach. Taking their cue from the radical left, several West Coast members split from...
...Kristol, Bill • Obama is called "arrogant" by, which is hilarious because, you know, there are those who'd say his predecessor was the walking - scratch that, strutting - embodiment of that particular adjective...
Palin, Sarah • bill banning a beloved pastime of - shooting defenseless animals from aircraft - is introduced in the Senate • Clear Channel is not interested in syndicating a radio show hosted by, so we may never get to hear blithering twaddle like this • demagoguery of is noted by Carl Bernstein and Maureen Dowd • hated reporters are told by that "our troops are willing to die for you" so "how 'bout ya quit makin' things up" in honor of the American soldiers so grotesquely exploited by • quitting speech of is ridiculed by Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart...
...pace, Obama's team has racked up by almost any measure one of the most successful early records in modern memory, especially if you focus on big scoreboard numbers and not the detailed stats. But each of his team's major accomplishments - from the stimulus to the House energy bill to the health-care-reform proposals now making their way through Congress - has been just as notable for what Obama has agreed to give up during the negotiation process. (See TIME's video "The Story of an Uninsured Woman...
...Those provisions make liberal Democrats uncomfortable, if not suspicious. "The assumption that Democrats will accept anything is a totally false assumption," says Senator Christopher Dodd, who led the drafting of a more generous Senate alternative measure. "It had better be a strong bill, or they won't have a bill...