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Ezra Klein: Is The U.S. Too Corrupt For Single-Payer Health Care?
BY EZRA KLEINJanuary 16, 2014You often hear people say that the reason the United States doesn't have a single-payer health-care system is that special interests have a hammerlock on Congress. But in...
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The United States Is Becoming More Liberal
Republican President Theodore RooseveltAmerica's first progressive president.http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/politics-reform/essays/theodore-roosevelt-making-progressive-reformer***Alan:...
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Theodore Roosevelt: The Making of a Progressive Reformer
by Kathleen DaltonTeddy Roosevelt in the Rough Riders, ca. 1898. (Gilder Lehrman Collection)Theodore Roosevelt’s interesting life often tempts biographers to write about him with the history left out....
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David Brooks On Inequality In America
"[T]o frame the issue as income inequality is to lump together different issues that are not especially related. What we call "inequality" is caused by two different constellations of problems. At the...
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The Obamacare Doomsday Scenario Is Gone. Disappeared. No Longer Exists
Alan: What are we to make of American conservatism's lunatic alarmism?It's like living with someone who has Bipolar Disease.Oppositional Defiant Disorder is also "in play.""American Conservatives And...
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Obama's Path From Critic To Defender Of Spying
"Every breath you take. Every move you make."Stinghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOGaugKpzsObama's path from critic to defender of spying. "More than six years later, the onetime constitutional lawyer...
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How Washington Beat Wall Street
"Goldman Sachs, the biggest money machine in Wall Street history, is a shell of its former self. Morgan Stanley, Goldman's one-time bitter rival in the swashbuckling world of high-risk trading, is...
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Two Weeks Into Obamacare Rollout: Ho Hum
The Symbol of Success***Two weeks into health rollout: Few problems, few patients. "Two weeks into the full rollout of the Affordable Care Act, hospitals and doctors say they are coping with the...
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"Stand Your Ground" And The Creation Of All-American Monsters
Sheriff rejects popcorn killer’s ‘stand your ground’ defense: ‘Why didn’t he move seats?’By Travis GettysFriday, January 17, 2014 The sheriff who’s investigating the fatal shooting of a moviegoer this...
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Stephen Colbert: ‘Naughty’ Wall Street Wants Spanking by Market's ‘Invisible...
Scott KaufmanJanuary 17, 2014In the latest segment of Stephen Colbert’s exclusive “Colbert Platinum Club” for wealthy viewers, the late-night host implored his wealthy viewers to purchase $50,000...
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"Duck Dynasty" Ratings Down 28% In Season Opener
"Quack" practices religion as a "Get Out Of Bigotry Free" card."Bigotry is a safe harbor for the weak." Goldie Taylor"Phil Robertson: Conservatives Get Their Bigot Back"...
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Robots May Take Half Our Jobs In 20 Years
"Automation, Robotization, Software-Enhanced Productivity And Permanent Job Loss"http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/02/automation-robotization-and-job-loss.html***How fast does change take...
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"How Government Wages War On The Poor,' Wall Street Journal
Alan: When witless austerity comes in to play, the last cut is always reserved for the nation's throat."If it seems strange to claim that the federal government has become more anti-poor than...
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Post Literacy. Texting. Social Promotion
MoroccoThe world's first university was founded by an Islamic Moroccan woman, Fatima al-Fihri in 859.The great Jewish philosopher, Maimonides, was an...
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The World's Oldest University Was Founded By An Islamic Moroccan Woman
University of al-KaraouineJāmi`at al-Qarawīīn(جامعة القرويين)Interior of al-Karaouine Mosque and university; note the similarity of the architecture to theAlhambra (الحمراء)EstablishedMosque 859[1]Type...
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Fifty Years Of Smoking In Two Charts and Why Public Health Regulations Are Good
Public HealthBy John Tozzi January 17, 2014In view of the continuing and mounting evidence from many sources, it is the judgment of the Committee that cigarette smoking contributes substantially to...
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Guns Don't Kill People. 4 Year Olds Kill People
Ah! Aren't they cute?!?***"Gun Cartoons and Gun Violence Bibliography"http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/07/gun-cartoons-and-gun-violence.html***Four-year-old girl accidentally shoots dead...
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