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Public Option Harder Ball

…don’t want any public insurance except for medicare and medicaid, then they can refuse to have it. The rule is the public option is not available in a state if…

One Alaskan’s take on the Palin business

…have said it. We all know it. The public record already contains evidence that the Department of Public Safety was contacted roughly 20 times by Palin senior staff, and her…

Squashing news or interference in NASA reporting

…of climate change in a manner that reduced, marginalized, or mischaracterized climate change science made available to the general public through those particular media over which the Office of Public

Censoring for me, but not for thee

…its traditional principles. Public health should never again manipulate or deny authentic scientific results to manipulate the public’s behavior. It should dismiss practitioners who use public health as a weapon…