The Sun (of all papers) manufactures a controversy about . . . Gordon Brown.The time line is telling. Brown, blind in one eye and of notoriously illegible handwriting (something I can say that I understand), pens a letter to the mother of a fallen soldier...
Month: November 2009
Sesame Street turns 40, the Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago.Discuss.
One explanation for why people who advocate transparently idiotic policies that result in national disasters (the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, our current health care system, our drug laws, our.
Lesson of the day: Things are always fine if you're a white male with a college degree, age 25-44. I suspect that if it had asked how many college degrees I have, the unemployment rate would have gone up...
Fred Hiatt on the immorality of health care reform:Yet neither should a civilized nation saddle its coming generations with a lower standard of living, a likely effect of U.S. profligacy.
Amy Sullivan asserts that the Stupak-Pitts amendment was the result of "political malpractice:"Despite the fact that anyone who has followed U.S. politics over the last thirty years could have told.
Over at Science-Based Medicine, Mark Crislip offers a long, detailed and highly-informed critique of this cover story in The Atlantic that speculates (sloppily) about the efficacy and safety of the vaccine for H1N1/09. Unlike Crislip, I'm not an infectious disease doctor and I don't intent...
The classic Sopranos pattern: big events in the penultimate episode, final episode sets up the next season. But the finale was richly entertaining in itself...
It turns out this is a difficult question to answer. Two recent studies came to quite different conclusions in regard to the related issue of how many employer-based private insurance.
Via ema in comments, some crucial info about Stupak's handiwork:The Stupak-Pitts amendment forbids any plan offering abortion coverage in the new system from accepting even one subsidized customer. Since more than 80 percent of the participants in the exchange will be subsidized, it seems certain...
For your convenience. Included are 26 Democrats now on the record as opposing expanded access to health care but who want to make sure that if health care passes despite.
Brad Ellsworth, Bart Stupak, and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. I would hope that this amendment gets stripped out in conference. On the other hand, it's entirely possible that.