Bill Moyers interviews Wendell Potter on Healthcare
Had your rage quotient for today? Enjoy this interview of a former Cigna executive by Bill Moyers. In case you’re wondering, the debate on public healthcare has been deeply corrupted by the healthcare...
View ArticleArizona 2010 State of the State address
In case you didn’t know, Arizona’s leadership is completely fucked. Since the whitehouse drafted our previous governor, Jan Brewer has stepped in to try and navigate the mess that is Arizona politics....
View ArticlePoor People Didn't Cause the Crash
It’s been 2 years now since wall street smashed our economy into a brick wall and like a lot of drunk drivers, amazingly the Banks walked away almost completely unscathed, while the rest of the...
View ArticleDrugs and Mexico and Monkeys
In the past few days, Hillary Clinton and other senior administration members flew down to Mexico to work on “cartels vs. the military part II”. A visit punctuated by 5 days of murders related to...
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On Prop 100
So the ballot measure is done, and it passed by a huge margin. I was really conflicted on this. There are a lot of factors that go into making a decision about a tax that will take a billion dollars a...
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The Power of Dumb Compels You
For those of you blissfully unaware of the all-new heights of political insanity leading up to this November’s midterm elections, let me introduce you to the pain. The republicans are smelling blood....
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Running the Asylum
Listening to NPR a few weeks ago, there was a fellow on talking about the American education system, and the disconnect between what we believe about American opportunity and the stark reality of...
View ArticleCorporations aren't people – Romney is wrong
Recently, Mitt Romney was delivering the standard conservative line on why taxes are evil, when hecklers started shouting that we need to increase taxes on corporations. His response was that...
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Why can't Johnny Vote? How Bachmann and Perry don't stand a chance.
A recent post over at FiveThirtyEight pointed out the increasing popularity of Texas Governor Rick Perry, and how he may start being a concern to more mainstream candidate Mitt Romney. It should be...
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The Romney Campaign: Victims of their own bias
Now that this incredibly wasteful election cycle is finally finished, the postmortems are rolling in. There are many very good ones which I don’t want to duplicate here, but can be summarized thusly:...
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