Hitting The Cost Curve's Guardrails

Tyler Cowen counters Yglesias: As I understand it, the apparently fiscally responsible portions of the bill come from a) eventual cuts in Medicare spending, and b) rising taxes on some health insurance plans and they come later of course.

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Not A Good Thing

Martha Stewart is asked about Palin.

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A Talking Point Built Of Straw

Greenwald fisks the Republican meme - "trials in a real court would lead to the disclosure of classified information that would help the Terrorists": To see how false this claim is, all anyone ever had to was look at the.

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Back To The Middle Ages

Jamie Kirchick wants to stop sending PEPFAR money to Uganda, which has introduced legislation that would make homosexuality a crime punishable by death: When a government actively encourages homophobia, the effect reverberates throughout society.

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Prudery Or Parody?

Tanner Ringerud passes along a video: A group of Christian rappers extol the virtues of the “Christian side hug”.

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A World Of Reflex?

Razib Khan ponders the similarities between Islam and orthodox westerners: On issues such as abortion and the marriage of homosexuals the orthodox will part ways with the conservative.

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Denialism

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Palin: Not A Liar, A Bullshitter

A reader writes: About Sarah Palin, you've written that "All we know for sure is that whatever she says isn't true.

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Wonderwoman

My column plumbs the amazing powers of a certain someone: Palin is indeed a feisty Alaskan and a genuine triumph of red-state feminism.

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Beyond Intuition

Razib Khan builds off the arguments in Michael Specter's new book: [S]erious problems emerge when our intuitive prejudices push themselves into the scientific domain.

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