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3,000,000
Wow. This is in The Huffington Post this morning: The Obama administration said Friday that more than 3 million people have now signed up for private plans through the federal and state health insurance exchanges, including more than 800,000 in … Continue reading
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Tagged Affordable Care Act, hillary clinton, Marketplace, Obama, obamacare, Red State
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Is Obamacare a Train Wreck?
In today’s NYT is an article on the initial failure of the Obamacare website’s functioning (healthcare.gov) that nevertheless contains a ray of hope: Administration officials have said there is plenty of time to resolve the [portal] problems before the mid-December … Continue reading
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Tagged fitness, health, health care, insurance, obamacare, rush limbaugh, train wreck
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Kill Obamacare or Republicans Will Default on the Debt and the Global Economy Will Die!
Historian Anne Applebaum bottom-lines Republican hostage-taking: Obamacare is the law, as confirmed by the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of our political system. A portion of one of those branches is therefore not now legally or morally empowered to change that … Continue reading
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Tagged America, debt default, economy, obamacare, Red State, rush limbaugh
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Obamacare’s Exchanges are a Good Thing
This woman’s story is illustrative of why:
Republicans Want to Shut the Government Down
They can barely contain themselves. In fact, they’re flush about it. This was in The New York Times yesterday: The mood in the Capitol on Saturday, at least among Republicans, was downright giddy. When Republican leaders presented their plan in a … Continue reading
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Tagged America, economy, obamacare, Politics, Red State, Republicans, rush limbaugh
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Reality is starting to assert itself. You won’t read this at the Drudge Report, but evidence is accumulating that Obamacare has been working over the past three years, and it’s poised to be a success moving into its “insurance exchange … Continue reading
Obamacare: You Fund It, You Own It
It’s entertaining to watch the Tea Party right send the Republican Party over the cliff, as in this ad pressing Mitch McConnell to defund Obamacare: __________ The Republican leadership clearly recognizes that it cannot defund Obamacare without a stand-off with … Continue reading
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Tagged America, evolution, fitness, health care, Michelle Obama, Obama, obamacare
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Why Do Grandmas (Post-Menopausal Women) Exist?
Judith Shulevitz at The New Republic homes in on two theories: the “stopping-early hypothesis” and the “grandmother hypothesis”: In 1957, the evolutionary biologist George Williams proposed what is called the “stopping-early” hypothesis: Middle-age women need baby-free time to usher their youngest children into … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Charles Darwin, elderly, evolution, life, medicare, obamacare, senior citizens, social security, taxes
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The Comforts of Modernity Lead to Atheism
That’s the fascinating thesis of psychologist Nigel Barber, supported: (1) inductively, by research he’s been conducting; and (2) deductively, by a rather straightforward syllogism, which I would put this way: Religion thrives on fear and insecurity. Where people have it … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, atheist, demographics, demography, God, Karl Marx, obamacare, religion, social democracy
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Let the 30-Year-Old Die!: The Christianist Party Shouts for Crucifixion
This is a must-see. It’s the Republican audience’s reaction to a debate question directed last night to Ron Paul by Wolf Blitzer. The gist of the question was the following: Should society let an employed 30-year-old experiencing a catastrophic health crisis, but lacking insurance, die? … Continue reading
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Prometheus Unbound 