[Center for American Progress] 45 Million Uninsured Americans by Jeanne Lambrew August 26, 2004 Today, the Census Bureau reported that 45 million Americans lacked health insurance in 2003, up by 1.4 million from 2002 and 5.2 million from 2000. The report states that this increase is “statistically significant.” How large is 45 million?1 45 million uninsured Americans is more than… • All [...]
Archive For August, 2004
Paper Trail Catches Glitch in E-Voting Machine
A recent demonstration of Sequoia Voting Systems’ new paper trail-enabled voting machine proved more than expected: when the machine malfunctioned, the paper trail caught the error. [EFF: Mini Links]
If hate kills, your country will disappear.
Brad DeLong’s Journal has posted an email exchange from January 2003 to the present, between an American professor and a Muslim student in Africa, on Iraq, America, ethics, and being human. The collection provides a remarkably honest, unfiltered insight into how the Islamic world (and much of the planet) views America. “…Destroying a country can [...]
Guantanamo abuses amount to war crimes
By Sheryl McCarthy, Newsday ‘Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom,” a play that opened in New York this week, tells the stories of three families sucked into the undertow of America’s response to Sept. 11. It’s about Beshar al-Rawi, Jamal al-Harith and Moazzam Begg, all Muslims and citizens or residents of Great Britain, who wound [...]
Iraq Olympians Say Bush Is Not on Their Team
Some soccer players angrily object to being cited in the president’s reelection drive. White House says the message is freedom, not politics. By Tracy Wilkinson, LA Times Staff Writer ATHENS — They’re the darlings of the Summer Games and just one win away from a medal. But now Iraq’s Olympic soccer players, and many of [...]
In Depth: U.S. elections
By Tom O’Lincoln From Socialist Alternative Ed: 76 March 2004 [This is a little old (from before we knew who the Democratic candidate would be) and I disagree with some of the assessment of the Green Party, but it does spell out how neither the Democrats nor Republicans are the solution. -RS] Do you hate [...]
BUSH OUTSOURCES ELECTION TO INDIA
[The Borowitz Report] Approval Rating in Bangalore Tops 98% Citing “significant cost savings,� President George W. Bush today outsourced the fall election to a call center in Bangalore, India. Mr. Bush said that by having all voting and vote-counting take place in Bangalore, the U.S. will save up to $3 billion, which could be used [...]
The Homefront
[Posted by Joe on The American Leftist] On Friday the Independent wrote of the family of a British soldier, Fusilier Gordon Campbell Gentle, who was killed in Iraq. Gentle was killed on the very day of the phony handover, and his family is speaking out against the war. In particular, his 14-year-old sister Maxine wrote [...]
Greenspan: Let’s keep phasing out Social Security
Everyone’s favourite central Banker gave testimony today that Social Security and Medicare are in trouble and that benefits should be cut back, perhaps by raising the age at which they kick in. This is tiresome. Perhaps Greenspan thinks we don’t remeber that he was the one who provided ideological cover for Bush’s disastrous tax cuts [...]