Author: BooMan

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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Football, Elections, Bailouts, and Austerity

When, over the weekend, Greece beat Russia 1-0 and Germany defeated Denmark 2-1, it set up a very compelling quarterfinal matchup between the two countries in the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship. No two European...

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RIP, Rodney King

I always thought that Rodney King had a very sweet side to him. Even as he pursued justice for himself, he was able to call for reconciliation and forgiveness. But, you know, people are complicated. He obviously wasn’t...

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