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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
The Nation of Refugees
Although it isn't hard to gather five or six stories from the news services, week after week there's less and less news about the floods in Pakistan and the earthquake in Haiti, and almost all of it is beginning to sound more or less the same. Aid is inadequate, both governments are ineffective, and millions of their former citizens are gradually disappearing into the twilight zone of an international nation of refugees.

Friday, September 17, 2010
Bongo! The Bipartisan Plan for Single-Payer Healthcare
(4 comments) The jump of 4.3 million uninsured is the largest one-year increase on record and would have been much higher - over 10 million - had there not been a huge expansion of public coverage, primarily Medicaid, to an additional 5.8 million people.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Racing to the Bottom with Phony "Two-Party" Politics
(4 comments) The Republican platform of yesterday is the Democratic platform of today, and the Republican platform of today is a previously inconceivable further reversion toward the dog-eat-dog primitivism of 19th Century robber-barons and the miserable impoverishment of almost all of us.

Thursday, August 19, 2010
The Blimpie at Ground Zero
(2 comments) Unlike most of my left-wing friends, I can totally sympathize with right-wing protests about the "Mosque at Ground Zero," because I felt exactly the same way when they built a Blimpie at 30 John Street, only two blocks away from the World Trade Center!

Wednesday, August 18, 2010
The Tea-Sucker Manifesto
The Wall Street Journal is currently displaying "A Tea Party Manifesto" at the top of its website, and this thing includes a declaration of war on the Republican Party. The tea party movement is not seeking a junior partnership with the Republican Party, but a hostile takeover of it.