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The latest health insurance coverage figures are out. Fifty million Americans are uninsured. New figures underscore the necessity, and the maddening back-loading, of health reform.
Archive for September, 2010
September 16th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
Christine O’Donnell Christine O’Donnell says “nutty” things, has “serious character problems,” lacks “rectitude and truthfulness and sincerity,” and belongs in the United States Senate.
September 16th, 2010
Category: Health and Medicine
Can we mobilize Christine O’Donnell’s fear of science as a wedge issue?
September 15th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
The Republicans have decided to make this fall about Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barack Obama. Sarah Palin is less popular than any of them; the NYT likely-voter poll shows her at 21 favorable, 46 unfavorable. Sarah Palin is also dominating this Republican primary season. Any questions?
September 15th, 2010
Category: Watching Conservatives
Took less than 24 hours for the Palinites to bring him to heel: the National Republican Senatorial Committee will support joke candidate Christine O’Donnell.
September 15th, 2010
Yet another reason administrators and ordinary faculty fail to understand each other: what administrators think is the essence of innovation, ordinary faculty think is the enemy of innovation.
September 15th, 2010
Category: Watching Conservatives
Richard Viguerie says Karl Rove isn’t an “American” and that Fox News isn’t doing real journalism.
September 15th, 2010
Category: Crime Control
Crime was down again last year, about 5% overall. Reporters and some criminologists continue to insist that there’s a puzzle here, because crime ought to go up with unemployment. How that idea fits with the high-crime Roaring Twenties and the low-crime Depression era, or the very peaceful low-growth 1950s and the crime explosion that accompanied the [...]
September 15th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
I’ve been wondering at what point the sane people in the Republican Party were going to decide to stop letting themselves be used by the wingnuts. That seems to have started to happen. Update Karl Rove – Karl Rove! – thinks that O’Donnell lacks the “rectitude and truthfulness and sincerity and character” requisite for office. [...]