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Selling the Iraq War under false pretenses
08.17.07 | Dick Cheney sums up in 80 seconds exactly what resulted from our military actions in 2003-2007. If the administration knew this was going to happen, at the very least how could they betray the trust of the public by not giving us a fair opportunity to weigh the true costs?
The Return of Big Tobacco
05.01.07 | The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act will authorize the FDA to regulate tobacco. However, it will not help "prevent smoking" nor it will "control tobacco" favorably for public health. Phillip Morris strongly supports the legislation and the head of the FDA opposes it. Something is wrong here.
Transforming the Power Grid into the Electranet
05.01.07 | Already half a million Americans are without power for at least two hours each day, and experts warn that unless the United States makes changes to its electrical grid, more and more Americans could be left in the dark.
Mike Gravel, Fiery Unknown
05.01.07 | The only Democratic candidate to receive much media attention after the South Carolina debates was former Senator Mike Gravel. In this video, he talks about political courage and excoriates current Senators and Congressmen, particularly Harry Reid for not doing enough to end the war in Iraq.
Criminalising the consumer
04.30.07 | It is trivial to download music and videos from iTunes and then transfer it to your iPod. Digital Rights Management is easy to manuever around and ineffective. How will copyright owners protect their intellectual property in coming years now that DRM has been proven to be more a hindrance than a help?
The Public Genome
04.30.07 | The Human Genome Project was a massive effort to determine the sequence of the human genome, now complete. What would be far more useful, however, is to know individual patients’ exact genomes.
Return to New Orleans
04.30.07 | Public housing residents of New Orleans remain scattered across the country. Many want to go home but returning to the same squalid and dangerous housing projects that were isolated cauldrons of dysfunction and pathology is neither just nor humane. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is trying to make things right but a lawsuit filed by the Advancement Project, a Washington-based civil rights organization, against federal, state and city officials is holding things up.
The Right to Work
04.29.07 | How are 17 states, 276 cities and towns (including the District of Columbia) and 433 companies of the Fortune 500 more advanced - daresay, more civilized - than the federal government? They all prohibit employment discrimination based on sexual orientation. It's about time Congress allowed the nation to catch up - and maybe it will, now that the Employment Non-Discrimination Act has been reintroduced in the House.
Bring Climate Idealism Down to Earth
04.29.07 | The global cap and trade approach directed at achieving the rapid emissions reductions enshrined in the Kyoto protocol could be ineffective or even counterpoductive by substituting for more realistic approaches to the problem.
Rent Extraction
04.28.07 | Politicians often introduce legislation designed to scare wealthy industries into contributing to their campaigns. The process is called "rent extraction" and the bills introduced are alternatively called "milkers," "fetchers," or "cash cows."
The Reform of Health Care
04.28.07 | The early Presidential campaigning season is replete with complaints, discussions, and proposals concerning the health care system, widely regarded as broken. It is true that health costs are rising faster than the inflation rate. But rising costs, even of "essential" products and services, such as food, health care, and national defense, do not necessarily demonstrate the existence of a problem.
Farm Subsidies: The Dirty Truth
04.27.07 | Economists regularly argue against the heavy subsidies given to American farmers. However, the American public support the subsidies by a wide margin.
It's not the uninsured, Stupid
04.27.07 | Today marks the beginning of Cover the Uninsured Week. Funded by a conglomeration of unions corporations and foundations the goal of this campaign is to provide health insurance to all of the estimated 47 million Americans who lack it.
Iraq War De-Escalation Act of 2007
02.06.07 | Last week, Senator Barack Obama introduced binding legislation reversing President Bush's plan for a "surge" of US troops in Iraq. The Democratic leadership in Congress has so far ignored this legislation, instead focusing on yet another nonbinding resolution. Meanwhile, the press has been virtually absent on coverage of this legislation, which would bring home every U.S. soldier in Iraq.
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04.30.07 | Also worth watching: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT8OI3xnZJE
04.30.07 | The Politico agrees: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0407/36...
04.30.07 | Also worth a look is The Economist's analysis: http://www.economi...
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