Ian Pearl Speaks
A previous Kmareka post commented on a Washington Times story about Ian Pearl, a man with muscular dystrophy whose insurance company is pulling out of a whole region in order to drop him and a few other high acuity patients from coverage. Ian Pearl’s post on the situation is here.
Save the Rich–For the Children
On Main Street people are selfishly preoccupied with whether they will keep their jobs and health insurance, whether they can help their kids through college– boring stuff like that. But they fail to realize how hurtful and threatening this economy is to the rich…
The rich get richer and the poor get…..
It should come as no surprise that Wall Street fat cats are once again gorging themselves at the public’s expense. After a tough year of trying to figure out what to do with all that tax money we gave them, they decided to reward themselves for a job well done. Our first example is our [...]
No Such Thing as Natural Beauty
And where’s the profit in people liking themselves? Think of all the trouble they might get into if they weren’t so busy improving.
Senator Whitehouse Meets Constituents
A young woman asked him about the ACORN controversy. Whitehouse said that the film shot by conservative activists was embarrassing, and no one in Congress wanted that fight, but he voted against censure because the response in Congress had ‘the odor of a stampede’. He said that he had served as attorney general and he is committed to due process, not conviction without a fair trial.
Disturbing Data on Lack of Economic Mobility for Black Families
In the process of developing researching the question of what kind of debt Americans are in today, I found some very interesting research about economic mobility in the United States. Research from a study published in 2007 indicates that not only do black families earn substantially less than white families, but also children from black [...]
Bad Girls
Maine Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins are catching some flack from their party for being willing to work on health care reform. Here’s a little saying they can memorize so that they’ll stay on message– ‘Mitch McConnell said it, I believe it, that settles it.’
Another Terry Schiavo?
I’ve observed that it’s easier to love those who are silently unborn than those who are not only born, but in need of expensive care to keep them in this world.
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