Planned Parenthood filed a federal lawsuit in San Francisco on Thursday against the anti-abortion activists that produced a series of heavily edited, secretly recorded videos of the family planning provider's staffers talking about fetal tissue donations.

The civil suit accuses the defendants -- the anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress and a fake fetal tissue procurement company called "BioMax"-- of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act and committing fraud, invasion of privacy, illegal secret recording and trespassing. The accused conspirators, David Daleiden, Troy Newman and four other activists, used fake government IDs to gain entry into private medical conferences, secretly taped conversations with Planned Parenthood staffers, and sliced up those interviews into a series of inflammatory videos that accuse the family planning provider of selling fetal tissue for profit.

lets boil the attacks down to their most undiluted essence.

it's not like it's a mystery...

Clinton is charging Sanders with a zealotry that will cause more harm than good now what is that?

that is a charge of incompetence.

Sanders is charging Clinton with being corrupted by moneyed interests. now what is that?

That is an attack on integrity.

i'll let anyone who reads this decide which is the more personal attack.  my (just one) opinion... Personally i think the attack on integrity is more personal because, well, you can forgive well intentioned zealotry even if it fails (we all still love love love Jimmy Carter), you can't forgive a calculated cave in to the evil overlords.

just one opinion.

to follow up, what Clinton is doing, and it's framed as giving Obama a big hug -- and thus by implication Clinton is putting Sanders in the position of smearing Obama's legacy, with southern primary states looming....  but it's more than that, Clinton is pulling in the entire Democratic party.   it's not just Obama that received money from banks, is it a stretch to consider that Elizabeth Warren herself receives money from securities and investment firms?  looks like she does but i'm no expert.  but wait, that's ok and she's not the one being corrupted cause she supports Bernie.

Paul Kirk? i understand he is (i'm having fun with this, the adverbs are always so much fun when breathlessly intoned) .... shhhh.... intimately tied to lobbyists.  But Sanders isn't attacking Paul Kirk in his ad that attacks Clinton's integrity?  of course not...

And to address some concerns that have been bandied about my bold:

It's unclear whether Sanders would eliminate deductibles and co-pays. These costs currently exist under Medicare, and his 2013 bill makes no mention of changing the system. But the breakdown from his campaign lists both as $0.

The 6.7 percent payroll tax should also be counted as a worker cost, since it most likely would come out of wages rather than employers' pockets, experts said. That's because the sticker price of employer-based insurance isn't what employers are actually spending.

Employers "pay nothing for insurance in reality," as health care is a fringe benefit of a total compensation package, said Gerard Anderson, a professor of health policy at Johns Hopkins University. So when employers stop providing insurance and are required to pay into single-payer, less money will be available for paychecks.

With this adjustment, the average family would save $505 to $1,823 a year.

Like a free lunch, of course, there ain't no such thing as free health care. So where is the money to provide universal coverage coming from?

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A national single-payer system would require a payroll tax of 11.7 percent, according to the National Institute for Health Care Reform.

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But beyond a 6-percent income tax and a sliding payroll tax of 3 to 6 percent, that would require a financial transaction tax (Sanders included this in his 2013 bill but has since committed the tax to free college tuition) as well an estate tax, a capital gains tax and a cap on high-income tax deductions. (Sanders has proposed these but hasn't said they'll be used to pay for health care.)

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First, it's not guaranteed that workers will have the same quality or amount of care under a Medicare-for-all system.

Most employer-based health insurance policies currently have more comprehensive coverage than traditional Medicare, pointed out William Hsiao, a leading health economist at Harvard University who designed universal coverage systems for Vermont, China, Sweden, and South Africa, to name a few.

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Second, reduced costs could also create issues with access. Lower drug prices limit funding for research and development, lower physicians' salaries disincentivize people going into medicine, lower fees could bankrupt hospitals, and people would have less choice in health plans, listed Hussey.

And finally, experts expressed skepticism that lawmakers would ever pass Sanders' single-payer system, which would require a tax increase of hundreds of billions.

"The company moved to Fairfield in 1974, when many major companies were leaving New York City for suburbia with its lower taxes and living costs, and good public schools."

BEST PICTURE:

• "The Big Short"
  
• "Bridge of Spies"
  
• "Brooklyn"
  
• "Mad Max: Fury Road"
  
• "The Martian"
  
• "The Revenant"
  
• "Room"
  
• "Spotlight"

• Adam McKay, "The Big Short"
  
• George Miller, "Mad Max: Fury Road"
  
• Alejandro G. Iñárritu, "The Revenant"
  
• Lenny Abrahamson, "Room"
  
• Tom McCarthy, "Spotlight"

• Cate Blanchett, "Carol"
  
• Brie Larson, "Room"
  
• Jennifer Lawrence, "Joy"
  
• Charlotte Rampling, "45 Years"
  
• Saoirse Ronan, "Brooklyn"

• Bryan Cranston, "Trumbo"
  
• Matt Damon, "The Martian"
  
• Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Revenant"
  
• Michael Fassbender, "Steve Jobs"
  
• Eddie Redmayne, "The Danish Girl"

• Jennifer Jason Leigh, "The Hateful Eight"
  
• Rooney Mara, "Carol"
  
• Rachel McAdams, "Spotlight"
  
• Alicia Vikander, "The Danish Girl"
  
• Kate Winslet, "Steve Jobs"

• Christian Bale, "The Big Short"
  
• Tom Hardy, "The Revenant"
  
• Mark Ruffalo, "Spotlight"
  
• Mark Rylance, "Bridge of Spies"
  
• Sylvester Stallone, "Creed"

• "Embrace of the Serpent" (Colombia)
  
• "A War" (Denmark)
  
• "Mustang" (France)
  
• "Son Of Saul" (Hungary)
  
• "Theeb" (Jordan)

• "Amy"
  
• "Cartel Land"
  
• "The Look of Silence"
  
• "What Happened, Miss Simone?"
  
• "Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom"

And once again, with the exception of Alejandro G. Iñárritu in the Director category for "The Revenant," all the nominees in the major categories are white. You'd think that Academy voters would have heeded the criticism leveled at them last year over that very topic, but it looks as though they decided instead to double down.

Case in point: Despite a pretty robust awards campaign mounted for Universal Studios' summer blockbuster "Straight Outta Compton," neither that film's director, F. Gary Gray, nor any of its black lead actors received nominations. However, its two white screenwriters were recognized in the Original Screenplay category.

Some cool songs I had not heard before.

Truly a beautiful version:
"Modern Love" by The Last Town Chorus  

For the old Pink Floyd fans:
David Bowie & David Gilmour - Arnold Layne
David Bowie - See Emily Play

Christa Päffgen:
Nico - Heroes

"He has summoned the people to a "political revolution," arguing that the changes our country so desperately needs can only happen when we wrest our democracy from the corrupt grip of Wall Street bankers and billionaires," the publication's editors said. "We believe such a revolution is not only possible but necessary."

I would phrase that slightly differently in that I think that this revolution is not only necessary, but possible.

Apparently, the more Clinton goes into attack mode, the more people rally to Sanders.

I am rooting for him in Iowa and N.H.