Quick Reaction to Judge Vinson's Ruling Against PPACA
Reagan appointee U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson out of Florida has ruled against PPACA. He ruled against the individual mandate on commerce clause grounds, but as I had predicted, he went further...
View ArticleSeverability and Hypocrisy
There is an interesting bit of hypocrisy on all sides with regard to the arguments being made around Judge Vinson's ruling on the non-severability of the individual mandate from the rest of the...
View ArticleMoJo's Summary of Egypt Opposition Committee of 10
I just want to bring to the attention of the dKos community an interesting article on the Mother Jones blog by Jaeah Lee titled "Meet Egypt's Power Brokers".The title is somewhat misleading insofar as...
View ArticleMilitary & Labor: Why People's Revolutions Succeed?
Why and when do People's Revolutions succeed. I would argue, that -- for all very real differences between countries, cultures and history -- it really comes down to two factors:1. Will the military,...
View ArticleMore about Community Health Centers
Having worked with Community Health Centers as a major part of my day job for the past 16 years, I would like to follow-up on Joan’s front page article Republican budget would end community health...
View ArticleVoter Disenfranchisement & 14th Amendment
Once again, as always, Republicans are fighting hard to disenfranchise legitimate voters. Once again, as always, their sole purpose is to reduce the number of voters who are more likely to vote...
View ArticleThe Shock Doctrine of Ryan's Medicare & Medicaid "Reform"
From PNHP, Dr. Margaret Flowers has an important, wonky, yet highly readable analysis analysis of much that is wrong with the Republican Ryan plan to privatize Medicare and flatline Medicaid; and of...
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In honor of May Day: the Robber Barons of World are United
cross posted at my blog Rooted CosmopolitanToday, May 1st, is the internationally recognized day to celebrate labor and working people. But was deemed too socialist (and too European) by American...
View ArticleI want to see his Long Form Death Certificate
cross posted to my Rooted Cosmopolitan blogSo, anybody else out there want to see Osama's Long Form Death Certificate? Just sayin' :)Meanwhile there is no reason to believe Al Qaeda will not continue...
View ArticleBunkum: Republicans claim to want to repeal Individual Mandate
HuffPo's Sam Stein has a new report today, that Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.), chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, is acknowledging the House leadership is giving up repealing health...
View ArticleWhich Jerusalem do you mean?
Cross-posted to my RootedCosmopolitan blog.This diary is meant to help clarify one of the more confusing points around the Israeli-Arab conflict. Both sides claim Jerusalem as their capital. And the...
View ArticleThey Still Lie: 1967 Borders with Agreed Upon Land Swaps
1967 borders WITH LAND SWAPS, is NOT the same as 1967 borders.If I say a house is green with blue trim, that is not the same as saying a house is all green.Even after the President of United States...
View ArticleCuomo's quid pro quo with Republican Donors for Same Sex Marriage
New York State's passing legislation legalizing same sex marriage is a wonderful thing. Recognizing all our citizens as having equal rights, equal protection, is a wonderful thing.However it is also...
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American Right: Jeffersonian means to Hamiltonian ends
A recent interview reminds us of Herbert Crowly's now classic definition of American Liberalism from 1909:“The use of Hamiltonian means to achieve Jeffersonian ends.” As Franklin Foer notes,From the...
View ArticleWhy is the Donors Capital Fund funding Islamophobia?
In their new report Fear Inc.: The Roots Of the Islamophobia Network In America ThinkProgress has done the hard work to bring into the light who is behind the phony Islamophobia campaign. All credit...
View ArticleI was a 9-11 "Second" Responder
For this tenth anniversary, I am blogging (for the last time) about my personal experience on that day. First, some caveats:I agree with many others that there are at least 10 more important things...
View ArticleRuling against Individual Mandate and Guarantee Issue
In what could be a telling ruling today, a conservative Bush appointed Republican federal judge ruled against the PPACA (aka: the health care reform we got). What makes this potentially telling, and...
View ArticleOccupy the Democratic Party
Hopefully the Occupy Wall Street and all affiliated 99% vs. 1% activist and street movements will continue to grow. Having been active in lefty-progressive economic populist (and admittedly also the...
View ArticleVideo: Single Payer (& me) at OccupyWallStreet today
A small contingent -- including several medical students, a senior officer in the U.S. Public Health Service, senior deans from two different medical schools, why even a few private practice docs,...
View ArticleDoctors for the 99%
Members from a variety of progressive health care groups have been supporting and show up at the NYC Occupy Wall Street movement.There is a health care for all working group active with the NYC general...
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