Voting by Mail and the Next Election Meltdown – A Prophecy
…across the state. “There is no statewide standard, and we’re all left to interpret these things county by county,” said Joe Canciamilla, registrar of voters in Contra Costa County. Vince…
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White House Looking at Food and Nutrition, But Will it Matter?
…to change consumer habits. We should have learned that a long time ago with cigarettes, a known carcinogen or murder sticks as some called them. Kurt Vonnegut tongue in cheek…
Is ‘Big Pharma’ To Blame For the Opioid Crisis?
…and It’s Subsidiary Janssen’s Actions “Created a Public Nuisance” Is ‘Big Pharma’ To Blame For the Opioid Crisis? MedPage’s article lets Pharma off the hook as well as many of…
Housing Update
…considered almost risk-free because if the borrowers default, Fannie or Freddie will pay off the loans (assuming Fannie and Freddie remain solvent). Non-conforming loans go into pools known as private-label…
The mindless canard stating as unexplained fact that it would be worse to expand the federal government by a third in order to accommodate single-payer healthcare insurance than it is to have private, for-profit health insurance companies playing this role instead
…outstanding column in today’s New York Times, the theme of which is that Sanders unnecessarily complicates his candidacy and causes confusion—providing an opening to his opponents like the one Clinton…
Who Is Really A Socialist?
…command versus market, with command in its socialist form coming from the state, although clearly a monopoly capitalist system may involve command coming from the large corporations, with this reaching…
Is There No Hope for “Muslim Social Democracy”?
…instead of “Muslim.” The group claiming this apparently failing and declining label is the Ennadha Party of Tuinisia, founded in 1981 and still led by al-Ghannouchi, currently Tunis’s Speaker of…
Interesting Stuff from My In-Box
…Health Cost Growth, Health Affairs, Authors. Consistently healthcare exceeds growth in the gross domestic product. The rising costs of health care impose an increasing burden on consumers, employers, and federal and…
Where Tim Walz Stands on Healthcare Issues
…veterans diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and chronic pain. Walz also sided with reproductive rights and issues affecting the LGBTQ+ community. In April 2023, as Governor of Minnesota, Walz signed…
Important Take on the First Amendment
…of government. Carr tried to create window dressing for it, characterizing media companies that believe in freedom of the press as companies that don’t “operate in the public interest.” But…