Author: BooMan

Don’t Call it ObamaCare

It’s depressing that so many red state citizens tell pollsters that they oppose ObamaCare even as they report liking their state’s health exchanges. I suppose, however, that this is an area ripe for investigation by...

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The NSA Is Not On Your Side

Quinn Norton has written an interesting article on how insecure our online communications are and why we seem culturally incapable of doing anything about it. Part of his explanation is that the Intelligence Community is itself...

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VA Scandal Bolsters Case for Socialized Medicine

As Tim Noah points out at MSNBC, people wait at least as long, and probably longer, to get a doctor’s appointment in the private sector than they do at the Veterans’ Administration. Directly comparable data for the...

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Lunch Buffet

The U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team is still adjusting to the fact that Head Coach Juergen Klinsmann cut Landon Donovan from the World Cup roster. The man who went on a shooting rampage last night at UC-Santa Barbara was a...

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This Is Not a Binary Argument

Elias Isquith is correct that the fundamental distinction between Glenn Greenwald and his critics is based on how each, respectively, views the current state of the American government. Those that consider our government to be...

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