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Michael Hiltzik translates WellPoint CEO Angela Braly’s words thusly: The nation’s health coverage system is so hopelessly broken that even the health insurance industry can’t handle it anymore. Insuring the aging and unemployed is killing health insurance profits! Those poor, poor insurers… via What do we need health insurers for anyway? – Los Angeles Times
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The President’s pubic rebuke of a Supreme Court decision was a rare moment, but should indicate the egregiousness of the court’s action: The core of the Citizens United decision said corporations have a First Amendment right to make independent expenditures in candidate elections. Only a constitutional amendment, which is exceedingly unlikely, could undo that core [...]
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The Supreme Court’s recent decision about corporate freedom of speech should be curdling your blood. Some even think free market capitalism champion Milton Friedman is rolling over in his grave because of it. Here’s what Harvard Business Review editorial director Justin Fox says about it: His point was that CEOs shouldn’t go around imposing their [...]
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Good video from Jon Stewart: The Notorious AIG – Congress Wants to Blame Someone (The Daily Show)
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Very cool tool that graphs the frequency of words in presidential speeches over time: Speech Wars – State of the Union Addresses, History of Politics
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Sounds like a scary title. Sounds so…Chinese. But according to this video, a democracy is the last thing we want in America (ok, second or third to the last thing we want). Unlike we products of public schools, the Founding Fathers of our country knew the difference between a republic and a democracy. That difference [...]
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Harry Shearer says it pretty damn well: I know most Kerry supporters are still stunned/sad today, so maybe you might want to set this note aside for reading over the weekend (after checking out the important gig dates at the bottom!!!). Well I remember liberal friends four years ago being upset with my critique of [...]
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