The Red White and Blue Pill
I am the very model of a Stable Genius Liberal.
Pope Francis interview: Forget homosexuality and birth control. He’s a flaming liberal.
Is he betting that the number of liberals who left the church because of its focus on gays and abortion will exceed the number of social conservatives that might leave because of Pope Francis’ focus on social justice issues?
> These numbers should (but probably won’t) finally kill claims that rising inequality is all about the highly educated doing better than those with less training. Only a small fraction of college graduates make it into the charmed circle of the 1 percent. Meanwhile, many, even most, highly educated young people are having a very rough time. They have their degrees, often acquired at the cost of heavy debts, but many remain unemployed or underemployed
The Rational Choices of Crack Addicts
> “They didn’t fit the caricature of the drug addict who can’t stop once he gets a taste,” Dr. Hart said. “When they were given an alternative to crack, they made rational economic decisions.”
At some point we will have to come to terms with the fact that addiction, poverty and violence are related social ills that can only be solved together and only by collective action.
conspiracytheorist79: #EditorialCartoon “Eye of Sauron” by @Nick_Anderson_ #NSA
The Political Legacy of American Slavery
>Whites who currently live in Southern counties that had high shares of slaves population in 1860 are less likely to identify as Democrat, more likely to oppose affirmative action policies, and more likely to express racial resentment toward blacks
But if you suggest racism is still a problem, or that it is a problem in the parts of the country that are southern, older and more republican you are accused of as race baiting.
Obama’s Options #Syria thenonprophet: Obama’s Options #Syria
Kaiser Obamacare premium study: Affordable Care Act will be cheaper than expected.
The real success will be when the right starts using it as an example of market based reforms rather than dismissing it as socialized medicine.
It Takes A Government (To Make A Market)
there’s an additional factor, that even supporters of the Affordable Care Act mostly missed: the extent to which, for the first time, the Act is creating a truly functioning market in nongroup insurance.
Market based reforms often require government. This should be obvious, but since it violates right-wing political correctness, it is ignored or shouted down.
McCain playing poker on his iPhone during Committee hearing on Syria. McCain playing poker on his iPhone