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Archive for December, 2009
December 10th, 2009
Category: Climate change
If anyone tries to tell you that uncertainty about climate change is a reason for inaction, he’s either a fool or a scoundrel. Probably a bit of both.
December 9th, 2009
Category: Affordable Care Act
Move-On wants progressives to try to kill the health care reform bill.
December 7th, 2009
Category: Crime Control
…actually Mark is getting plenty of props in his own country too, but When Brute Force Fails is a Book of the Year in The Economist‘s annual list of easy-to-wrap presents for smart friends. The rest of the RBC is happily basking in his reflected glory: you should just click on the first link, and [...]
December 7th, 2009
Category: Affordable Care Act, Health Care
Instead of a “public option”: Medicare buy-in for those 55-64, Medicaid up to 150% of poverty, an a private health plan or plans negotiated nationally by the Office of Personnel Management.
December 6th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
His extension of clemency to someone who became a multiple cop-killer is going to cost him politically. But, unlike the Dumond pardon, that decision was justifiable; all it did was reduce a sentence of 108 years given to a sixteen-year-old for crimes none of which involved a weapon.
December 5th, 2009
Category: Health Care
… and the health bill that gets to the President’s desk is going to have a lot of good things in it. Some activists need to take a deep breath and notice that.