Yglesias responds, conceding that the Swiss analogy doesn’t really work “except in the broad sense that Switzerland is the other example of a developed country that came late to the universal health care game thus did it in a way that involves a lot of compromises with existing interest groups.” To invoke our shared institutional […]
Month: September 2009
Matt may well be right that whatever bill that emerges from Congress will be enough of an improvement over the status quo to be worth supporting. His claim, however, that the Baucus bill “would
I can only praise Jeebus for the fact that my children are too young to be exposed to the nefarious, American-hating, Marxist doctrines of Barry Soetoro. Of course, we’ll be homeschooling the gi
Now the real work begins.
In the confusion around my move, I was reminded today that I forgot to thank frequent commenter Howard for very generously getting me Speak No Evil and The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady from my wish
JMM: Am I the only one who thinks that if the Dems pass a bill with mandates and subsidies for poor and moderate income people to purchase it but no public option or competition with the insurers, tha
Yeah, there are better players out there, but it’s still another remarkable accomplishment by a remarkable player. Zumsteg, before the fact: — I would love to see Ichiro! get his 2,000th MLB hit in front of Oakland fans, who are not fans. And I hope when he gets back, he gets the ovation his milestone’s […]
David Axe has managed to secure a embed with anti-piracy forces off the coast of Somalia, but needs help getting where he needs to be. Drop a nickel in the can, if you have a chance.
I’m sure that folks have already seen this: Farhan Haq told the Swiss News Agency that Libya had submitted the proposal for discussion by the General Assembly. It was thrown out by the committee
Washington 23 – 31 LSU Unlike my colleague Dr. Farley, I will not be blogging much on the (American) football program of my alma mater. (Perhaps it’s because we suck?) I fully expected the University of Washington to not win against LSU yesterday. Indeed, this speaks to the new depths that this formerly glorious program […]
That is all.
This passage from the WaPo ombudsman’s defense of Monica Hesse’s lengthy puff piece on professional homophobe Brian Brown is revealing in the way that it fails to address the central issue