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Low Life Expectancy tracks with Opposition to Obamacare (Map)
Life expectancy in the United States by state (2009 statistics): Hawaii has the longest life expectancy among the states, so maybe Obama thought it isn’t […]
Patriotism and PTSD (Levinson)
Nan Levinson writes at Tomdispatch.com: Mad, Bad, Sad What’s Really Happened to America’s Soldiers By Nan Levinson “PTSD is going to color everything you write,” […]
Supreme Court declines to take US Health Care in direction of Sub-Saharan Africa
Well, we dodged the bullet of looking like Zimbabwe on this issue. But we still need a single payer system. And the court exempting states […]
Supreme Courts and Democracy in Egypt, Pakistan and the United States
As the US Supreme Court rules on the universal health care plan, it is worth considering that all of a sudden the courts are playing […]
Supreme Court declines to take US Health Care in Direction of Sub-Saharan Africa (Map)
Well, we dodged the bullet of looking like Zimbabwe on this issue. But we still need a single payer system. And the court exempting states […]
Graphs of Death: US Drone Strikes Visualized (Pegg)
David Pegg writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism These graphs accurately reflect the Bureau’s data on CIA drone strikes in Pakistan to the most […]
Global Warming and Colorado’s Great Fire
Weather is specific events, climate is the long-term pattern. Catastrophes like the forest fire in Colorado that has expelled 32,000 people from their homes are […]
Letter to President Obama on Yemen: More Aid, Fewer Drones, Please
The Atlantic Council and The Project on Middle East Democracy are worried about the drift in Obama administration policy on Yemen, about the lack of […]
Top Ten Reasons the ‘Obama lost Egypt’ Meme won’t Work for Romney
The Republican Party is trying out a “who lost Egypt” line of attack against President Barack Obama, in the wake of the victory in the […]
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