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Health reform passes the House.
Archive for November, 2009
November 6th, 2009
Category: History, Most interesting thing I learned today
Hume debunks the still-received story.
November 5th, 2009
Category: Religion and Politics
Now is the time for the Jewish community to do its part in ensuring that the Fort Hood outrage does not lead to anti-Muslim or anti-Arab hysteria.
November 4th, 2009
Category: Education policy, Sports
[UPDATE 2: Our resolution passed 3:2 91-68 in a very well-attended meeting. Local coverage here. Woo, hoo!] The Berkeley faculty will meet tomorrow afternoon about the Intercollegiate Athletics program. This is a $65m per year enterprise that is supposed to operate on a self-sustaining basis but instead gets $12m per year in subsidies from various [...]
November 3rd, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
So it would appear. Virginia was a wipeout, as expected. On behalf of the President, I’d like to thank Sarah Palin for ruining what could otherwise have been a very good night for the GOP.
November 3rd, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
The Senlis proposal, behavioral decision theory, and suboxone: three new essays in drug policy.
November 1st, 2009
Category: Watching Conservatives
Once again, Barack Obama helps his opponents commit political suicide.