An Election Day Metaphor

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Sunday October 31, 2010 · 7:16 AM PDT

2010/10/31 · 07:16

Given the nature of our two-party system, here's the metaphorical choice the country faces next Tuesday:

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Thursday September 10, 2009 · 8:22 AM PDT

2009/09/10 · 08:22

There was enough in President Obama's speech last night, but only barely. There was a bit of red meat and some tugged heartstrings, but I'll say this - his health plan is far too considerate of Big Insurance & Big Pharma and not nearly considerate enough of what is needed to truly reform the system.

In the President's proposal it would be illegal for people not to buy insurance from a private insurance company. In effect, he's adding a new tax, to be paid not to the government but to private, for-profit companies. Equating this mandate to the requirement to carry automobile insurance, as Obama did last night, is bogus because you can choose not to own a car but you can't simply choose not to get sick. This makes Aetna, Wellpoint, United Healthcare et al. into latter-day publicans, who've purchased the right to squeeze the populace for as much as they can. What the President laid out last night is a giveaway to insurance companies - the profits from the 30-50 million new, mandated "customers" will far outstrip any reduction in their profits due to restrictions on policy rescission and rejections for pre-existing conditions.

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Friday August 11, 2006 · 4:59 AM PDT

2006/08/11 · 04:59

Whether they were Al-Qaeda or not, yesterday's news of the arrest in the UK and Pakistan of 2 dozen people who were plotting to blow up airliners en route to the US shows us something very important - and it's something the Bush administration has never understood (or never cared to understand). There is no effective "war" on terrorism - unless you consider the term "war" in the same sense as the war on organized crime. Read More

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