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Archive for June, 2011
June 19th, 2011
Category: Watching Conservatives
After Texas secedes, will Rick Perry still be eligible to be President
June 19th, 2011
Category: Uncategorized
The Nobel Laureate Gary Becker sketches his views here. Do you agree? Would Larry Summers agree?
June 18th, 2011
Category: Europe, Liberalism
I remember sitting in a hotel bar in Nevada watching NBC pollmeister Chuck Todd state confidently that Barack Obama would lose the state in the 2008 Presidential election because “The Republican Party always overperforms there”. A Mexican-American businessman with whom I had been chatting during commercials responded “The Nevada he knows isn’t Nevada any more”. [...]
June 18th, 2011
Category: Literature
Laxus and those sons of Corund walked on an afternoon in Krothering home mead. The sky above them was hot and coloured of lead, presaging thunder. No wind stirred in the trees that were livid-green against that leaden pall. The noise of mattock and crow-bar came without intermission from the castle. Where gardens had been [...]
June 18th, 2011
Category: Affordable Care Act
An unfair charge regarding the implementation of health reform.
June 17th, 2011
Category: Affordable Care Act, Watching Conservatives
Michelle Bachmann figures out Barack Obama’s secret plot to wreck Medicare. She claims he wants to replace it with private purchase of insurance through exchanges.
That’s right: Michelle Bachmann has accused Barack Obama of supporting the Ryan plan.
June 17th, 2011
Category: Medicaid
I’m going to cannabalize and tweak something I wrote for the Incidental Economist. I’m not sure this even needs a cite. It was near the bottom of a long post. No one may even know that it’s there. People ask: Is Medicaid better or worse than private insurance in gaining access to needed care? I [...]