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Showing posts with label government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label government. Show all posts
Friday, November 8, 2013

"We hate the government, except for the large part of it that helps us"

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[Colin Woodard's map of 11 American nations] I just got back from another nation. According to Colin Woodard, author of American N...
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Saturday, September 21, 2013

Medicare Part D: Another year, another huge price increase

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I signed up for Medicare last month. In addition to standard Medicare, I added Part D, the prescription drug benefit. My 2013  costs, if t...
Friday, May 17, 2013

Money: The God of This World

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This week Pope Francis spoke out against the cult of money. Here is how Catholic News Service's Carol Glatz summarized his remarks : ...
Monday, January 21, 2013

Maybe the fighting is almost over ...

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[The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir singing at President Obama's second inauguration] "Faith in America's Future" - that...
Thursday, January 17, 2013

A short rant about memes and rants

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We Americans managed to make it past the 2012 election without descending into civil war. We somehow made it past the fiscal cliff without...
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Monday, November 5, 2012

Advice for November 6: Choose your battle wisely

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Vice-President Aaron Burr spoils his political career by killing former treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton. Yesterday during the Pra...
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Monday, October 22, 2012

The foreign policy debate, the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, and four candidates

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Albrecht Dürer, ca 1497-98 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Tonight's debate between President Obama and Governor Romney is ab...
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Friday, September 21, 2012

The best healthcare in the world

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I have had only a few personal experiences with European-style healthcare, and they were a long time ago. A Swiss doctor gave me my pre-coll...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Our nonpartisan American runaway train

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Art by Stephen Slade Tien via Wikimedia Commons I freely admit what you already know: I am a wonk . So when the book I'm reading, Th...
Monday, September 17, 2012

Good government, bad government--"everybody's confused"

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Before beginning the next paragraph, please click here and listen to Mavis Staples and Jeff Tweedy performing "Only the Lord Knows....