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The Confluence (Latest Posts)- Gross Evidence of Rent-Seeking November 15, 2009It’s not often that you get enough evidence of rent-seeking you can actually find it entered into a public record. Leave it to Stupakistan to show the incredible power of insurance and other nondepository financial institutions to leave their fingerprints without shame on the public policy debate over the healthcare payments system. It [...]dakinikat
- Sunday Morning at the Confluence Bed & Breakfast November 15, 2009Good morning Conflucians! It’s a cool fall day here in the Mid-Atlantic – a perfect day to linger just a bit longer in bed. Not to worry, your breakfast and Sunday news are being delivered bedside. I’ll just leave the thermal coffee urn. I’m sure it will take a second cup to get you moving.. First [...]Stateofdisbelief
- Our First Pacific President?? November 15, 2009 myiq2xu
- Is it the Y chromosome? November 14, 2009Honestly, I know enough biology to know that it can’t be. It just can’t. And yet how else to explain the sudden ignorance of a guy as sharp as Bob Somerby? He’s talking about Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow beating up on Stupak for tribalistic, Village reasons. Somerby finds that inappropriate. For ourselves, we [...]quixote
- Saturday Afternoon News REAL November 14, 2009Good Afternoon Conflucians! In the mood to discuss some news? The Nation Politic: I read this yesterday morning from a link in the morning news thread down page, but it bears putting up here if you didn’t catch it. It’s from RealClearPolitics and it’s entitled “Can the Clinton Coalition survive Obama? It’s a great look at Virgi […]dakinikat
- Debate Club: The use of animals for testing November 14, 2009I must admit, I love debates; and the caliber of those in our community make this forum an excellent opportunity to hone our chops in this area. We previously held an excellent debate discussion here at TC on the issue of parental rights versus responsibility regarding medical treatments for their children. Therefore, I’d love to [...]Stateofdisbelief
- Saturday Morning Open Thread November 14, 2009 myiq2xu
- Make me laugh: Open Thread November 14, 2009OK Conflucians, we’ve had more depressing news this week than we certainly deserve. Therefore, I’m ordering a cease and desist on gloom and doom, at least for this thread. I’m challenging you all to make me, and everyone else here, LAUGH. What do you have in your bag ‘o’ tricks that will create spontaneous explosions [...]Stateofdisbelief
- It’s time to say “No More.” November 13, 2009Yesterday I received my official Democratic Party Headquarters “2009 Priority Issues Survey.” This document reveals just what “Change” is being implemented. While pleading for donations to the DCCC, they provide a checklist survey which includes among other things, a request for donors to rank a list of Democratic “priorities. […]Stateofdisbelief
- Irreconciliable Differences in Stupakistan November 13, 2009Politico has a series of threads up on the Stupak Amendment, insurance coverage of abortion, and angry choice activists. The first one is on the amendment and what hopefully is its inability to survive the reconciliation process . The other is on the RNC pulling abortion coverage from its staff’s insurance plan. The men in [...]dakinikat
- Gross Evidence of Rent-Seeking November 15, 2009
I read the news today, OH BOY!
If I was in need of a mini-vacation then I have to tell you that reading the latest Vanity Fair was not going to do it for me. There were three articles that brought me down to earth with a thud! One was the account by Christopher Hitchens who voluntarily underwent water boarding and concluded [...]
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