Aug
31
Uninsured America
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[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?22 45 million uninsured Americans is more than… • All [...]
Aug
30
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Aug
29
Paper Trail Catches Glitch in E-Voting Machine
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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]
Aug
28
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 [...]
Aug
27
If hate kills, your country will disappear.
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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 [...]





