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Strategies for accessing quality healthcare

Book Review: Surviving HIV/AIDS in the Inner City: How Resourceful Latinas Beat the Odds (Studies in Medical Anthropology) Despite the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights assertion to the contrary, Some people contend that it’s not the government’s responsibility to ensure that all of its citizens have equal access to quality health care. This attitude [...] [...]

What I Believe

Am I a liberal? Am I a libertarian? Am I a Christian or an Atheist? (If I’m a Christian, am I a Charismatic Fundamentalist or some other stripe?) I think it’s high time that I clarify a few things. I’m not blindly anti-government, but I do believe that the US Government is particularly bad at [...] [...]

Tea Party Literature

One of my favorite things to do is review crappy new political books. Today, we’re going to take on The Tea Party Patriot: A Tale of American Tyranny. In the book, a novel “of, by and for the Tea Party,” the potential reader is encouraged to “order it while it’s still legal”… [...] [...]

Is Fox News Channel’s obvious bias a ‘myth’ or what?

This morning, Fox and Friends behaved like cheerleaders to support the idea that a science text that dismisses Creationism as a matter outside the scope of science should be banned. Just banned, or burned, I wonder? Now? In its third edition? It was fine from 1998 till now, but now it’s [...] [...]

Truth or Consequences: Karl Rove’s new Book

Well, we may as well try to beat Fox News to the punch on this one:  Karl Rove‘s new book claims that Bush’s lies about Iraq and Al Qu’eda, Saddam and Osama, were “substantiated by available intelligence.”  No they weren’t.  In fact, quite the opposite is true. Note that Rove’s book specifically waffles when it refers [...] [...]