Month: May 2015

A Modest ACA Tweak Proposal

From labor through birth to runway ready within sixteen hours.  Fit for a Duchess. A major difference in US prenatal-birth-postnatal health care and that offered by the NHS in the UK is the role of professional midwifes....

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A Bush Talks About Foreign Policy Disasters

Someone from the Bush family is trying to talk to us about foreign policy disasters. What’s the proper response to this? It’d be one thing if they were talking about disasters of their own making, at least, if they...

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Sorry That Ben Carson Disappointed You

I know that there are people in the world for whom Ben Carson has been an important, even life-altering, inspiration. I respect that. I really do. And I’ve wondered about how those people are dealing with Carson’s...

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Pretty Much Sums It Up

This seems like a pretty good summation of how I feel about the Republican Party and their role in our political system. It works on so many levels that it would almost be a crime to list just a few.

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Why We Write About David Brooks

It’s probably not true, but it feels like every time I either write about David Brooks or link to someone who has written about David Brooks that there are commenters who take offense. This disapproval is typically...

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