Another Reason Why My Doctor Tells Me The Nation Shouldn't Read Megan McArdle...

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Friday August 28, 2009 · 4:29 PM PDT

2009/08/28 · 16:29

...the necessary blood pressure medication on its own would bankrupt our soon-to-be-reformed health care system.

Read on for a compulsive fisking of McArdle's post on the reasons those of us concerned about the rash of gun appearances at political events this summer are merely frivolous self-amusers, blinded by our loathing for our opponents.

(Cross posted, in slightly different form, at The Inverse Square Blog.)

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Wednesday June 24, 2009 · 8:53 AM PDT

2009/06/24 · 08:53

I just received an email signed by Michelle Obama, asking me to join her in a National Day of Health Care Service. Below, find my reply. (BTW...It's addressed the President because that was the name that appeared in the To: window when I hit reply.)

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Monday May 18, 2009 · 10:19 AM PDT

2009/05/18 · 10:19

To channel my inner Bob Dole, I have been hungry to know where the outrage is over torture.

I wasn't sure I needed to write this, though; others are saying the same, better (h/t Eric Martin) and with more eloquent rage.

But it’s still important, I guess, just to add one more jot to the load of outrage. If everyone who can, does, perhaps we will begin to feel what is necessary after eight years of sustained, calculated official nattering intended to numb moral judgment.

So here, I want to inject just a little history into the chorus, some perspective on just how badly wrong the Bush torture cabal got it, and how much moral and practical damage they have done to the legitimate exercise of state power.

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Friday May 01, 2009 · 11:06 AM PDT

2009/05/01 · 11:06

Why? This from Halperin.

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Friday February 13, 2009 · 7:57 PM PST

2009/02/13 · 19:57

(cross posted at The Inverse Square Blog, and picked up by John Cole and Brad Delong)

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Sunday October 19, 2008 · 10:13 AM PDT

2008/10/19 · 10:13

This diary got kind of overshadowed mid- writing by the Powell news today -- but on the off chance that issue analysis still matters, Andrew Revkin has an important piece up at the NYT comparing Obama and McCain on climate change policy and expectations come next January.

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