Public Option: its not the size, its what you do with it
Does size matter when it comes to Public Options? Yes and no. Its not the size its what you do with it when it comes to Public Options. Even a relatively modest program could have large impacts on...
View ArticlePoll tax for the poor
Margaret Thatcher was finally undone in the UK by her insistence on attempting to finance local government expenditure with a poll tax. This proposal led to civil disobedience and mayhem because a...
View ArticleLiberals are smarter- Science proves it!
This study http://www.sciencedaily.com/... says that on average, smarter people are more likely to be athiests and liberal. Smarter men are also more likely to be monogamous apparently.This information...
View ArticleNY Met Opera Occupied
I went to see "Faust" at the NY Met tonight. After the first interval moments before the third act was supposed to begin, a protester started shouting "Occupy Wall Street" at the top of his voice....
View ArticleL.O.V.E (Let One Voice Emerge)
This is not so much a diary as a pointer to a great song encouraging women (and others!) to register and vote. Maybe all y'all have already seen it in which case many apologies but its a belter of a...
View ArticleTony Benn RIP
Tony Benn who died yesterday was a Labour MP in the UK for many years, before that he was a hereditary peer who insisted on relinquishing his peerage so he could stay in the House of Commons. For...
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