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Campaign finance has long been a system of legalized bribery. Thanks to the Republican majority on the Supreme Court, it’s now a secret system of legalized bribery.
Archive for October, 2010
October 11th, 2010
America’s health insurance companies seem to believe, along with Republicans, that they can screw up health care reform and get the voters to blame the Democrats for it. Maybe they’re right.
October 11th, 2010
Category: Health and Medicine, Intellectual disability
My latest American Prospect article explores the dilemma of newborn fragile X screening.
October 10th, 2010
Category: Crime Control, Uncategorized
Why do the laws largely ignore teen-on-teen crime?
October 9th, 2010
Category: Crime Control, Firearms
A recent study placing the costs of murder at $17.25 million is attracting a great deal of attention. I hope it will help make the case for crime prevention initiatives at a time of diminishing state budgets. As with many cost-benefit studies, the number itself cannot convey the human impact of what it is estimating [...]
October 8th, 2010
Category: MSM (mainstream media)
The Washington Post should not provide a platform for this guy.
October 8th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
A Republican Congress is much scarier than a vampire. Thanks to Steve Benen and Bill Simmon.
October 8th, 2010
New Jersey is a living embodiment of why political boundaries should never be drawn along rivers, and always along ridgelines. Nine million people live in two enormous clusters attached economically and culturally, but not politically, to the cities of New York and Philadelphia across the major regional rivers. These clusters anchor the ends of an [...]
October 7th, 2010
Category: Public management, Science and its methods
There are so many ways to like this story! Especially for a Californian. First, bees are a really big deal. Like apples? Nuts? No pollinators, no crop, and fruits, nuts and vegetables are half the value of US agriculture, not to mention good for you and yummy. Bee colony collapse, along with varroa mites and [...]