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By Angela DuBois on February 23, 2011 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 [...] [...]
By nikflorida on May 1, 2010 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 [...] [...]
By nikflorida on April 28, 2010 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”… [...] [...]
By nikflorida on April 8, 2010 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 [...] [...]
By nikflorida on March 8, 2010 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 [...] [...]
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