Irregular Week In Review Podcast Sept 27 – Oct 3
Most of the week in review podcasts out there are broadcast on Friday, just when people are getting ready to tune out for a relaxing weekend, and to forget about what’s just taken place. I’m creating...
View ArticleCatholic Bishops Control Health Care Reform: Discuss
Among the more controversial aspects of the deal reached last night to ban coverage of abortion by private health insurance plans participating in health care reform: Lobbyists representing Catholic...
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GOP Outrage At Health Care Rallies Round The Sabbath
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives had a great deal of fun this weekend, I think, coming up with increasingly extravagant terms in which to describe the terrible awfulness which is health...
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Founding Fathers Are Rain Gods, Says Tom Price
This morning, I wrote about Congressman Steve King’s warning that passing health care reform legislation this week was blasphemy because some legislative action took place during his religion’s...
View ArticleInternational Action Center Politicizes September 11 For Broad Aims
The International Action Center call to action gets it half right. “On September 11 the Tea Party and its racist allies will again demonstrate against a proposed Islamic community center several blocks...
View ArticleIntercessory Prayer Science Goes Quiet after Rejection of God Hypothesis
You may recall that a few years ago, there was a certain degree of excitement in some religious circles over the imminent publication of research findings regarding the effect of “intercessory prayer”...
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Another Perspective On Health Care Mandates
Last week, as the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case challenging the legality of health care reform passed by the 110th Congress and signed into law by Barack Obama, most journalists have...
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McDonalds Advises its Workers: Get a Second Job and don’t buy Food or our...
As Brendan Kiley notes, McDonalds has created a special budgeting guide for its employees. Here’s just one page from the guide: Kiley has noticed that there isn’t any spot for food in McDonalds’ sample...
View ArticleBusiness is Always Better? Consider Health Care, says Amy
John Stossel writes: “I bet my readers $1,000 that they couldn’t name one thing that government does better than the private sector. I am yet to pay. Free enterprise does everything better.” John...
View ArticleHave You Found your Obamacare Microchip Implant Yet?
A year ago at this time, conservative and libertarian conspiracy websites like News With Views and Before It’s News were publishing articles that boldly made predictions that on March 23 2013, the...
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Conservatives Across America Heap Accolades on Barack Obama for Ebola Policy
American conservatives are out on the streets, showing their love for President Barack Obama’s Ebola policy. That’s what I must conclude from the sudden appearance of bumper stickers like this across...
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In the Network: Top 10 Federal Contractors of 2014, Connected through Lobbyists
A few years ago, I looked into the ties that connected the top 10 federal contractors of 2010 and 2011, and last year I took an updated look at the top contractors of 2013. Let’s return to that...
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Results, Not Rhetoric, From Rick Perry
Over the weekend, Rick Perry issued a challenge to Hillary Clinton. He tweeted that “Americans want results not rhetoric.” As Governor of Texas, Rick Perry certainly got results. – At the end of his...
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This is What a Positive Policy Intervention Looks Like
New data released yesterday from the U.S. Census Bureau on health insurance coverage in the United States: 18,297,000 more Americans had health insurance in 2015 (the most recent year for which data is...
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Small Town Maine Takes to a Bridge for Protest
The towns of Damariscotta and Newcastle, Maine are very small (with populations of just 2,200 and 1,700 people respectively). So are the towns surrounding them. When 180 people turned out to the...
View ArticleThe Republicans Don’t Want To Repeal The Affordable Care Act. They Just Want...
Keep this simple phrase in mind as you watch the theatrics from Congress and the White House today over whether Paul Ryan’s bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act will pass the House of...
View ArticleCongressman to GOP: “I don’t have to be nice to nobody when you’re being...
A remarkable exchange in the House Rules Committee on Friday, March 24 laid bare the difference between the priorities of the Republican Party and the priorities of the ruling party’s opponents....
View ArticleAmended GOP Plan To Undermine Health Care Would Increase Costs While Reducing...
A couple of weeks ago, efforts to pass the American Health Care Act, Republican legislation that would weaken the Affordable Care Act, fell apart dramatically, as Paul Ryan was forced to withdraw the...
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Donald Trump Declares The National Day Of Faith Healing
In almost the same breath, Donald Trump declared today to be a National Day of Prayer and issued an executive order allowing religiously-run hospitals to deny people medical care, using their religious...
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Donald Trump Breaks Health Care Promise, Moves To Kick Millions Off Health Care
When he was a presidential candidate, Donald Trump promised great health care that would be available to all Americans: “Everybody’s going to be taken care of much better than they’re taken care of...
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