Anti-ACA Random Anecdote FAIL

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With legislation as complex and far-reaching as the ACA, it would be difficult for it not to have bad effects for someone, even though it's a major positive on net. What's remarkable, as Michael Hiltzik and Kevin Drum have pointed out, is that the anecdotes about...

End the Blue Slip

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Pema Levy notes that despite the abolition of the filibuster on most judicial appointments gridlock persists: This brings us back to Burr and May-Parker. The White House's efforts to fill.

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Dead Horses in American History (IX)

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Aftermath of the Rochester, Minnesota tornado, August 21, 1883. There's a whole page at the NOAA site of photos documenting the aftermath of this F5 tornado. Also, this series has become so popular that people are now helping me with it. Friends of the blog Jacob...

Class Identity

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A very interesting report showing that despite the constant discussion of the middle class in the media and by our politicians, as many Americans openly identify as working class as.

Film Blog (VI)

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I've put up another set of short reviews on my tenth-rate film blog. Read if you care. In short: Leave Her to Heaven (Stahl, 1945)--I know people love this film, but I've seen in a couple times and can't get over the huge plot problems. Women...
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