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I can understand completely that an agency charged with estimating tax revenue might say that they can’t make an estimate at the moment of what a new proposal will bring in because they need more time and information, and then put an estimate out once more information is available and they have had more time [...]
Archive for September, 2010
September 24th, 2010
Category: Health and Medicine
Bill Manville and Dr. Dave Moore, who write a regular column on addiction in the New York Daily News, took note of the active debate about methadone and recovery on RBC here and here and have made it the subject of their column today.
September 24th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
Lots of blogosperic chatter about the “vacuousness” of the Pledge to America. (One nation, indivisible, being bullshat again by the GOP.) I don’t disagree, but I would like to point out that the word is “vacuity.”
September 23rd, 2010
On the tax cuts, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid made the best of bad situation; blaming them for caving risks creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
September 23rd, 2010
The UK government is grappling with a problem that bedevils all of us who provide, teach, administer or advocate for addiction treatment: Treatment outcomes are often disappointing. Among the quality problems that contribute to this situation are organizational dysfunction, excessive paperwork, the stigmatized nature of the enterprise, lack of connection between addiction services and the [...]
September 23rd, 2010
Category: Affordable Care Act
Humanity and social change, expressed through a boring form letter.
September 22nd, 2010
Category: Elections 2010 and 2012, Republican Party
It’s clearly unfair to lump Republicans together with the Tea Party—says a Republican outraged that anyone would criticize the Tea Party.
September 22nd, 2010
Category: Watching Conservatives
If the 14th Amendment guarantees every “person” due process and equal protection, but (per Scalia) does not forbid discrimination against women, then does Scalia believe that women are not persons?
September 21st, 2010
Category: Don't ask, don't tell
Every Democrat save the two from Arkansas voted to end DADT. Every Republican voted the other way. Who’s to blame, do you think?