“I don’t want to support freeloaders.” He stopped; his argument against any kind of universal healthcare consisted of nothing but that one soundbite. [1] That kind of argument […]
politics
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Palin in 2012 – The GOP’s Big Plan
Look, you know the GOP wants Sarah Palin to run in 2012, right? Let’s be clear: The thought of Palin as president quite frankly terrifies me – even […]
healthcare / politics / pro-life / sociology
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Pro-life? Then support universal health care.
It was chilling to see such a blatant dollar amount put on a life. When we say a human life is worth a certain amount of money, we make inhuman decisions – like deciding whether or not to give someone medical care – the appearance of being rational. Some folks are already claiming that national health care would do something like that.
But the system we have now does exactly that..
economics / politics
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Keynesian principles – or how I stopped worrying and loved the stimulus
I originally wrote this for @KevinPorter, but I realized that these were questions (and misunderstandings) that I heard a lot. So this is a (very) brief overview of […]
politics / rant
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Authors, Pundits, and Hegel, oh my.
Social inequality – or at least the form it takes – is not inevitable. Both structural functionalism and conflict theory (which roughly map to the political right and […]
politics
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Party like it’s 1773… or not.
I don’t get it. Why are taxes such a big deal? First, the ludicrous “tea parties” being held across the country. I can only think of two possible […]