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Health Care Reform Hard Ball

…to keep government hands off their medicare was an attempt at humor. I am sure that the vast majority of US senior citizens accept the fact that the medicare administration…

In Memoriam for Old Vet

…his country in Vietnam. His wife, Emily, wrote that he kept his sense of humor to the end, and did not really suffer. He also got to vote absentee 2…

Gay Pride Around the World

…things, make stupid assumptions, and ask stupid questions: Usually that sort of stupid brings on horrible consequences. Fortunately, the universe occasionally displays a sense of humor. Click on images to…

Why Is Brazil Ahead of the US…fuel

…natural gas, other than the odd city bus or garbage truck in random municipalities? The answer is a simple but unpleasant one. See, we in the US would label the…

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

…political debates, is a disagreement about how far to turn the knobs when adjusting policy; it does not seem to call for a separate ideological label. That said, Mr. Konczal…