Month: June 2012

Medicare For All

Pretend you’re an insurance agent. Someone comes to you and wants to buy fire insurance for their home. Upon questioning, you realize that their home is actually on fire as you speak. Do you sell that individual fire...

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Medicare For All

Pretend you’re an insurance agent. Someone comes to you and wants to buy fire insurance for their home. Upon questioning, you realize that their home is actually on fire as you speak. Do you sell that individual fire...

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Death to the Cult of Bowles-Simpson

The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (Bowles-Simpson) was only necessary because neither party can unilaterally makes the kind of radical budgeting decisions necessary to bring our budget into balance....

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Here Comes Everybody: Failure For Free

In Here Comes Everybody: The Power Of Organizing Without Organizations, Clay Shirky observes that one consequence of the shift to a “Publish, Then Filter” culture is a massive, exponential increase in the amount of...

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Good For Richard Land

Chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Richard Land has unimpeachable conservative credentials—both religious and political.  Which makes his sharp break with...

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