But what we've got is better than what we will get if the Supremes decide the ACA cannot stand. Fred Clark sums up Ezra Klein and a few other guys, so I won't sum him up further.

Let's grant that, and begin.

It is also the art of creating relationships( ... )

Summary judgment was rendered in the case of Golinski v. Office of Personnel Management, granting medical benefits to the spouse of a woman named Karen Golinski, whose wife is also a woman ( Read more... )

No, not on reforming government, at least not in any way that you or I would conceive as reform ( Read more... )

Polls don't matter.

To any highly-committed, very conservative or very liberal, non-pragmatic, uncompromising voter, this is absolute axiom. It is a self-evident assumption for the 10-15% of extreme right or left voters, polls are biased in favor of the center, voters who are less likely to vote than those extremely committed, ideological ( Read more... )

Indeed, where is the center of gravity in the Tea Party movement as a whole? When trade union employees openly despise unions on ideological grounds, and hate teachers both for their union organizations and their "indoctrination" tactics (outrageous, how they demand children learn facts in order to be graded on their progress!) and advocate ( Read more... )

As a gentleman was quoted saying on NPR tonight, anger is often a good reason to do things in the political arena.

( Fear rarely is. )

And we would still need to reform some of our tort law, which as any L1 will tell you, is crazy complicated. (although most of it does make sense, if you're willing to spend two years thinking about it ( Read more... )

I'm sorry, Canada. So sorry.

Total inability to connect with reality. Which is also known to the APA, as psychosis.