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One item I didn’t include in my Chop Suey post over the weekend was a comment on the Citizens United decision handed down by the Supreme Court last week, Citizens United, as you might be aware, had to do (among other things) with federal restrictions on campaign contributions by corporate entities. The Supreme Court struck down [...] 
Today, the NYT has an article looking at the health insurance exchanges featured in the the leading health care reform proposals. The thesis of the article: But policy experts say few lawmakers have yet paid enough attention to what that new marketplace should look like — and whether it would actually work as promised. Without careful design [...]
Yesterday, Paul Krugman blogged, arguing that the free market doesn’t have The Answer when it comes to health care: There are two strongly distinctive aspects of health care. One is that you don’t know when or whether you’ll need care — but if you do, the care can be extremely expensive. The big bucks are in [...] 
While partaking in the hotel’s free breakfast this morning, I saw a news report on the various tea parties held Friday to protest the feds’ stimulus plan. Since I was a captive audience (read: there was a sign asking guests to not remove food from the breakfast room), I got to thinking (always a dangerous thing). Whether [...] 
One of the reasons I started / I maintain this site is that I think too much. Every so often an oddball thought pops into my head, and it’s nice to express it, either in the hopes that it’s either a good thought worthy of being shared…or that it will serve as evidence for one [...]
One of the threads in media-covered political discussion over the weekend has been the comparing-and-contrasting of capital gains taxes in McCain’s and Obama’s economic plans. McCain wants to maintain the reduced capital gains tax level (along with the other Bush cuts) to maintain stimulation to the economy. Obama wants to roll back the tax due [...] 
There has been quite a bit of discussion on many blogs and other media about what to do with the Florida and Michigan delegate mess. Although I still think that a policy of “the rules are the rules; to change them retroactively would be unfair” is the best policy, it seems increasingly unlikely that political pressures [...] 
Driving home from work today, I of course got a taste of the commentary associated with the 1 April Congressional event, where four Big Oil CEO’s were called in to be yelled at for making too much money (and investing too little of that profit into new energy). Naturally, the pro-environment commentators mentioned the oft-mentioned concepts [...]
Seen in Insurance Journal: The chairman of the Judiciary Committee in the Vermont House says he’d like lawmakers to consider lowering the threshold at which a driver is drunk behind the wheel from a blood-alcohol content of .08 percent to a lowest-in-the-nation .05. Considering the volume of complaints when the threshold was dropped to 0.08% from the [...]
It’s been over a year since the U.S., in its war against online sin, clamped down on online gambling by making it illegal for credit card companies to interact with online, international betting. I was reminded as this as I pondered my current trip to Las Vegas, in which I’ve had to explain a couple of [...] |
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