And #Romneyshambles talks health care: Romney, who championed the Massachusetts health care mandate, but is an opponent of the federal mandate passed by President Barack Obama, marveled at how little Israel spends on health care relative to the United States. “When our health care costs are completely out of control. Do you realize what health …
Archives for July 2012
#RomneyShambles starts another day of his tour…
The tour of shame continues. Yesterday Mitt proved that he would perform whatever tricks Bibi asked him to perform. He also rejected any viable peace plan for the I/P conflict through an embrace of a one-sided solution to the Jerusalem Question. He had one last event in Israel–a fundraiser. It had been planned for Sunday, but it turned …
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When they lose in Congress, they go to the courts
Steve Benen at Maddowblog: For much of 2012, congressional Republicans have pushed back aggressively against the preventive care measures in the Affordable Care Act, driven entirely by the right’s opposition to contraception access. In the Senate, we saw the odious Blunt Amendment reach the floor, and in the House, GOP lawmakers vowed to block implementation …
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Sight
Sight from Sight Systems on Vimeo. If you want to understand why people are both excited by, and fear, Google Glass, this short movie will give you an idea. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I already suffer from a terrible case of NADD (Nerd Attention Deficit Disorder) so as far as …
Race and IQ
Some light morning reading for anyone who works/commutes/lives with someone made dumber by pseudoscientific racists like Charles Murray. First, a long and thorough study knocking down the ‘hard IQ’ argument, which holds that IQ measures something fixed and heritable. This matters because people have a hard time linking race and intelligence if ‘IQ’ has no …
Israeli Reaction to Mitt’s Visit
Haaretz has a long and insightful response to Romney’s visit in the form of an open letter. The whole thing is worth a read, but the core of it is that they don’t think that American Jews, who are a traditionally liberal voting bloc, are going to be swayed by Romney’s bromance with Bibi. They …
Romney Intends to Share No More Than We Peons Deserve
And he’ll be the one to decide what that little shall be. Don’t miss Charles P. Pierce’s wise words on “The Shredder Campaign“: … Over the course of the past 30 years, the shredder has become emblematic of how the government of the United States works, particularly in its Executive branch. Ever since Richard Nixon …
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