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He might be. Really. [UPDATED: Unsurprisingly, he's not. See below.] By now, you — and millions of others — have heard about Jon Kyl’s admission that his claim that 90% of Planned Parenthood’s budget goes to abortions was a bald-faced lie. And you have heard this perhaps because Stephen Colbert has ripped Kyl not a [...]
Archive for April, 2011
April 14th, 2011
Category: Drug Policy, Health Care
The military’s huge TRICARE insurance program should cover methadone and buprenorphine maintenance therapies for prescription painkiller misuse.
April 14th, 2011
Category: Drug Policy
The post-incarceration overdose death rates of heroin-dependent people in the U.K. are truly appalling. “Everybody knows” that drugs are readily available in prison, but this is an urban myth that has been conclusively disproved by careful research. In reality, most addicts can’t get drugs in prison and as a result their tolerance wanes. When released, [...]
April 13th, 2011
Category: History, Tell About The South
One particular comment on my post about the Civil War particularly stood out in my mind. The commenter said he was a “proud son of the South” and suggested that he felt obliged to question the causes of the North’s entry into the war, commenting that perhaps it was the North’s desire to defend capitalist interests [...]
April 13th, 2011
Category: Uncategorized
If the Republicans achieve their budget goals what will HUD’s budget be? Will it be a positive number? HUD anticipates this challenge and is launching a pinch of a PR campaign. Now, the RBC is reality based — what is your verdict for HUD? If you were named its Secretary what would you focus your [...]
April 13th, 2011
Pravda Foxnewskaya has made it clear that Donald Trump is not favored by The Party for the nomination. Official Party Organ mouthpiece Bill O’Reilly last night made clear that War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, and Barack Obama “does have a legitimate birth certificate.” These guys are really quite efficient. Just a [...]
April 13th, 2011
Category: History, Tell About The South
Just for the record, as the day ends on the West Coast: The Civil War was a rebellion against a democratically-elected government by white southerners when they lost an election in a system rigged to protect them. They committed treason in order to preserve their ability to enslave African-Americans. Fortunately enough, the good guys won and the bad [...]
April 12th, 2011
Turns out that although Paul Ryan budget plan cuts $4.3 trillion dollars in spending, mostly for the poor and middle class, it also cuts taxes– mostly for the very wealthy — by nearly $4.2 trillion dollars, leaving only $155 billion in deficit reduction over ten years. You could get that just by cutting farm subsidies in [...]