A Jared Manifesto

• God Bless you,

  God Bless you, The Onion:
  
  
  Zombie Reagan Raised From Grave To Lead GOP [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 3:43pm EST
  

• A little funny and ...

  A little funny and disturbing, but, like the caption says, more non-fiction than the usual fiction regarding European and Native American interaction in the Americas.
  
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 11:16am EST
  

• If you're a Republican, you ...

  If you're a Republican, you have a lot of soul-searching to do:
  
  
  
  This, once again, isn't about a difference of opinion. This is about believing in something that is demonstrably false. If you honestly confess to being a Republican, you need to [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:01pm EST
  

• They won't say so openly, but there ...

  They won't say so openly, but there are those in our society who seem to think that slavery and child labor are good ideas. No, really. Rachel Maddow, as usual, says it best:
  
  
  
  "But as Republicans and conservative Democrats in Congress start lining up'" [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 1:12pm EST
  

• For all those who believe that government ...

  For all those who believe that government intervention doesn't work, suck it:
  
  "Government efforts to funnel hundreds of billions of dollars into the U.S. economy appear to be helping the U.S. climb out of the worst recession in decades. [Emphasis added, ed.]
  
  A load operator at'" [...]
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  Posted: September 03, 2009, 1:34pm EDT
  

• So here is my first person report ...

  So here is my first person report on the so-called "Health Care Reform Town Hall" hosted by my Congressman, Gary Peters. All I can say is that Republicans, conservatives, and anyone else who goes to these town halls with their rhetoric is either stoned or stupid.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: September 02, 2009, 10:23am EDT
  

• Ok, people. One last time. STOP listening ...

  Ok, people. One last time. STOP listening to Jonah friggin' Goldberg (no relation, thank G-d). Nazism was NOT a left-wing ideology. It was an outgrowth of the German ultranationalist right.
  
  Again, this is clearly verifiable. "But, wait, Jared," you dimwitted conservative d-bags cry out. "They were the National'" [...]
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  Posted: August 25, 2009, 11:35am EDT
  

• After watching all the "Obama = Hitler" ...

  After watching all the "Obama = Hitler" statements from the far-right vis-à-vis health care, I suddenly became scared. Like this woman here:
  
  
  
  EXCEPT FOR ONE TINY LITTLE PROBLEM:
  
  Hitler didn't invent Germany's universal health care system. Neither did his predecessor, Paul von Hindenburg, last [...]
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  Posted: August 12, 2009, 1:18pm EDT
  

• Are you tired of those blowhards and ...

  Are you tired of those blowhards and ideological windbags who worship the so-called "free market" (which, like the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and Santa Claus, has never and will never exist)? Who think the best way out of our health care crisis is more of this "free market" that [...]
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  Posted: July 28, 2009, 12:22pm EDT
  

• Seriously?"Top Bush administration officials ...

  Seriously?
  
  "Top Bush administration officials in 2002 debated testing the Constitution by sending American troops into the suburbs of Buffalo to arrest a group of men suspected of plotting with Al Qaeda, according to former administration officials.
  
  Some of the advisers to President George W. Bush, including" [...]
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  Posted: July 27, 2009, 2:09pm EDT
  

• My idiot-sense is tingling when I watch ...

  My idiot-sense is tingling when I watch this one:
  
  
  
  That's Representative Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)of Tennessee's 7th District (Which includes Nashville and the suburbs of Memphis, the wealthiest district in Tennessee), in case you didn't know.
  
  "Let's agree that we're going to have PAYGO enforcement—that'" [...]
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  Posted: July 23, 2009, 11:54am EDT
  

• Glenn Reynolds demonstrates exactly how NOT to ...

  Glenn Reynolds demonstrates exactly how NOT to write an op/ed demonizing universal health care, which he is conflating with "socialized medicine":
  
  "Lots of people are beginning to question the cost of President Barack Obama's healthcare 'reform' plans, and with good reason. (Just compare the original projections for'" [...]
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  Posted: July 13, 2009, 3:54pm EDT
  

• It takes quite a lot to render ...

  It takes quite a lot to render me speechless. Congratulations, Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen (R)!
  
  
  
  I do not know what is worse: actually having enough mindless, unquestioning ideology to actually make public policy around the belief that the Earth is 6,000 years old (or [...]
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  Posted: July 08, 2009, 11:30am EDT
  

• Please, oh please, oh pretty please with ...

  Please, oh please, oh pretty please with sugar and a cherry on top can Sarah Palin get the GOP nomination in 2012?
  
  "Sarah Palin and her defenders have cited numerous ethics complaints against the Alaska governor as a practical reason for her resignation. Fighting the claims, Palin told" [...]
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  Posted: July 08, 2009, 9:07am EDT
  

• Via Crooks ...

  Via Crooks and Liars, here's a hilarious yet interesting video on the absurdity of our current health insurance industry:
  
  ' [...]
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  Posted: June 30, 2009, 9:33am EDT
  

• Ezra Klein on health care ...

  Ezra Klein on health care insurance companies:
  
  "Insurers often complain that their critics don't understand their business practices. It would be hard to say that about Wendell Potter. Potter, whose name sounds like that of a character in a Frank Capra movie, worked in the health'" [...]
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  Posted: June 26, 2009, 11:51am EDT
  

• In honor of my old ...

  In honor of my old AZA chapter, Hank Greenberg AZA #151, get ready for some serious cuteness overload.
  
  WARNING: If you do not have a cuteness dampener installed on your computer, it may explode after viewing this picture:
  
  [...]
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  Posted: June 05, 2009, 8:03am EDT
  

• Republicans love to talk about so-called "entitlement" ...

  Republicans love to talk about so-called "entitlement" programs: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc. How about this "entitlment":
  
  "Shortly after 1:30 on the afternoon of March 18, two dozen traders in AIG's financial-products division stepped away from their Bloomberg terminals and huddled around televisions to watch their boss,'" [...]
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  Posted: April 25, 2009, 9:56pm EDT
  

• Nobel Prize Winning Economist Paul Krugman ...

  Nobel Prize Winning Economist Paul Krugman lays it out in layman's terms for us:
  
  "Let's say this slowly: the Bush administration wanted to use 9/11 as a pretext to invade Iraq, even though Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. So it tortured people to make" [...]
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  Posted: April 24, 2009, 2:03pm EDT
  

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  Posted: April 16, 2009, 4:18pm EDT
  

• Leave it to Matt Taibbi to

  Leave it to Matt Taibbi to say what we're all thinking with regard to the so-called "Tea Bag" Protests (As an aside, can we PLEASE find anyone word to use? I've seen videos of these protests, and when I couple these images to the phrase "tea-bagging", I get the [...]
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  Posted: April 16, 2009, 2:23pm EDT
  

• There's never been enough Republican hypocrisy when ...

  There's never been enough Republican hypocrisy when it comes to the Coleman-Franken fiasco (By the way, just in case anyone has forgotten, Franken still has not been seated in the Senate, despite winning the election). Now, of course, we can add irony:
  
  "The three-judge panel charged with'" [...]
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  Posted: April 14, 2009, 2:55pm EDT
  

• I received this email Tuesday morning from ...

  I received this email Tuesday morning from Former Michigan Representative Leon Drolet, on behalf of his organization, The Michigan Taxpayers Alliance. As this is right-wing propaganda/mindless drivel of a particularly heinous nature, I will unfortunately have to intersperse my response into each paragraph, as the lies and half-truths are [...]
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  Posted: April 14, 2009, 11:20am EDT
  

• Truth to power from . . ...

  Truth to power from . . . Charlie Chaplin? . . . :
  
  "I'm sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible - Jew, Gentile - black'" [...]
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  Posted: April 12, 2009, 11:39pm EDT
  

• And this post goes out to that ...

  And this post goes out to that wonderful Hospital and Molecular Epidemiologist-in-training, Alicia . . .
  
  You know those stories about the so-called "Somali pirates"? Turns out some the blame for this situation lies with us, specifically Western European nations using the waters of the coast [...]
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  Posted: April 12, 2009, 5:22pm EDT
  

• Holy shitballs: "Here is ...

  Holy shitballs:
  
  "Here is a tale that sounds like it comes right from the pages of 'Little Dorrit,' Charles Dickens's scathing indictment of Victorian England's debtors' prisons. Unfortunately, it is happening in 21st-century America.
  
  Edwina Nowlin, a poor Michigan resident, was ordered to reimburse a juvenile'" [...]
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  Posted: April 08, 2009, 12:28pm EDT
  

• I haven't said it lately, but Keith ...

  I haven't said it lately, but Keith Olbermann is AWESOME, and here's why:
  
  "Finally tonight, as promised, a Special Comment on the latest atrocity from the banks. The vast, engorged, gluttonous multi-national corporations. Whose sneezes can be fatal to our jobs. Whose mistakes can turn us into" [...]
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  Posted: March 20, 2009, 8:50am EDT
  

• Just so everyone is clear, because there's ...

  Just so everyone is clear, because there's a lot of misinformation out there, here is one accounting of the reasons behind the economic crisis:
  
  "Financial deregulation led directly to the current economic meltdown. For the last three decades, government regulators, Congress and the executive branch, on a'" [...]
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  Posted: March 15, 2009, 11:21pm EDT
  

• Didn't you hate the kid who always ...

  Didn't you hate the kid who always showed up late to lecture, never paid attention, but always, always, ALWAYS raised their hand and managed to waste everyone's time with their inane questions? Do you remember that audacity?
  
  Here's the King of Audacity himself, Dick Cheney, further demonstrating' [...]
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  Posted: March 15, 2009, 3:58pm EDT
  

• Why I wish Bernie Sanders was ...

  Why I wish Bernie Sanders was MY Senator:
  
  "The late Milton Friedman was a provocative teacher at my alma mater, the University of Chicago. He got his students involved with their studies. He was a gifted writer and communicator. And he received a Nobel Prize for his" [...]
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  Posted: February 23, 2009, 12:31am EST
  

• Bank Bailout 2.0: "The ...

  Bank Bailout 2.0:
  
  "The top members of a key House panel told banking leaders Wednesday they must win over a disgusted public and work harder to right the deeply troubled financial system.
  
  'I urge you going forward to be ungrudgingly cooperative,' said Rep. Barney Frank, the" [...]
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  Posted: February 11, 2009, 11:59am EST
  

• This isn't a normal blog post. There ...

  This isn't a normal blog post. There are no politics, no philosophy, no nothing. It's just my words.
  
  I've always considered the written word to be mankind's greatest achievement. Knowledge and progress would just not be possible without it.
  
  Maybe I've felt this way because I've [...]
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  Posted: February 03, 2009, 7:29pm EST
  

• In the same vein of this

  In the same vein of this post, here is an article from The Onion entitled, "Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over' from January 17, 2001, I kid you not:
  
  "Mere days from assuming the presidency and closing the door [...]
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  Posted: January 21, 2009, 3:48pm EST
  

• Holy crap:

  Holy crap:
  
  Satellite Picture of National Mall on Inauguration Day [...]
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  Posted: January 21, 2009, 1:00pm EST
  

• Via Rising Hegemon: "Dear ...

  Via Rising Hegemon:
  
  "Dear World:
  
  We, the United States of America, your top quality supplier of the ideals of liberty and democracy, would like to apologize for our 2001-2008 interruption in service. The technical fault that led to this eight-year service outage has been located, and" [...]
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  Posted: January 21, 2009, 11:08am EST
  

• Do you remember back in 2000, in ...

  Do you remember back in 2000, in that month-long period when we didn't know who the next President was (although it's been established that had the Democrats done the recount properly, Al Gore would have been our 43rd President; he did win the popular vote)? Well, I completely forgot, [...]
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  Posted: January 20, 2009, 6:51pm EST
  

• For all of you people who ...

  For all of you people who have been flag waving, cheering on the continuation of the war on Gaza without any sort of regard for the impact that it has had on the Palestinian civilians in Gaza, I hope you're happy about this:
  
  "A few days'" [...]
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  Posted: January 15, 2009, 8:48am EST
  

• I don't agree with Mitch Albom often, ...

  I don't agree with Mitch Albom often, but I think he hit a soft spot (Hang on until the end if you've already read this because I'm going to editorialize/put my two cents in):
  
  "This was Christmas night. In the basement of a church off an'" [...]
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  Posted: January 12, 2009, 3:36pm EST
  

• Here's a video making my ...

  Here's a video making my point from yesterday:
  
  ' [...]
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  Posted: January 09, 2009, 10:40am EST
  

• I Am Against the War on Gaza ...

  I Am Against the War on Gaza and I Want a Ceasefire
  
  I don't usually title posts, but I feel it is appropriate this time. I have largely kept quiet since the fighting began on December 27. In the beginning (from 2000 to late 2002)I had been far more' [...]
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  Posted: January 08, 2009, 11:06am EST
  

• Wow. Fox News is complete nonsense. Check ...

  Wow. Fox News is complete nonsense. Check out this article about the military vote:
  
  "A poll by the Military Times newspaper group suggests that there is overwhelming support for John McCain among U.S. troops in every branch of the armed forces by a nearly 3-1 margin.
  [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2008, 2:00pm EDT
  

• Here's an interesting piece by Harold ...

  Here's an interesting piece by Harold Pollack, a former professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health (my current employer) who is now an associate professor at the University of Chicago:
  
  "Before my present gig, I taught public health at University of Michigan. I and'" [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2008, 10:41am EDT
  

• Here's an awesome video by Larry Lessig, ...

  Here's an awesome video by Larry Lessig, Stanford Law Professor, genius, innovator, great thinker, and awesome man. I first discovered him two years ago when I saw videos of his various talks, using his very unique and creative presentation style.
  
  This video is an excellent continuation of that' [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2008, 10:54am EDT
  

• I'm not going to pretend I understand ...

  I'm not going to pretend I understand completely what is going on with the current catastrophes on Wall Street. I leave that to people much more educated in that field (and, in return, I would like to have the floor yielded to me by conservatives whenever topics like Jewish' [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2008, 1:43pm EDT
  

• Are you kidding me?

  Are you kidding me?
  
  "Michigan Republicans plan to foreclose African American voters
  
  The chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County Michigan, a key swing county in a key swing state, is planning to use a list of foreclosed homes to block people from voting in" [...]
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  Posted: September 12, 2008, 9:01am EDT
  

• Quote of the day, via the

  Quote of the day, via the New York Times:
  
  "Today’s necessary but likely very expensive action for taxpayers is the consequence of regulatory neglect and of a broader political system's reluctance to take on what should have been clearly seen as festering problems." - Lawrence H. Summers,' [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2008, 9:48am EDT
  

• That does it. If you are a ...

  That does it. If you are a Republican and think this was ok:
  
  
  
  . . . then you're evil. Just plain evil. And that ain't an exaggeration. There will be a special circle of Hell for those Republicans who think there is nothing wrong with [...]
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  Posted: September 05, 2008, 1:28pm EDT
  

• Well, it didn't take long for someone ...

  Well, it didn't take long for someone to point out the lies in the speech from the candidate for Republican Vice-President and religious-fundamentalist-anti-choice-hypocritical-corrupt Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin:
  
  "Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama'" [...]
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  Posted: September 05, 2008, 8:47am EDT
  

• Surprise, surprise (Nothing to follow, this ...

  Surprise, surprise (Nothing to follow, this article says it all):
  
  "The old saying holds true: The rich do get richer.
  
  Even as world financial markets broke down last year, personal wealth around the world grew 5 percent to $109.5 trillion, according to a global wealth report" [...]
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  Posted: September 04, 2008, 9:27pm EDT
  

• Just found this video of Mario Cuomo's ...

  Just found this video of Mario Cuomo's speech at the DNC on July 16, 1984 (I was just 11 days shy of being six months old). In honor of that speech and with the hope that the delegates at the current DNC in 2008 will also honor that speech, here' [...]
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  Posted: August 27, 2008, 1:56pm EDT
  

• Must. Post. New. JibJab. ...

  Must. Post. New. JibJab. Cartoon. Hilarious.
  
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  Posted: July 21, 2008, 3:00am EDT
  

• As further evidence of Naomi Klein's

  As further evidence of Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine, Bush continues to push for offshore drilling and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR):
  
  "President Bush prodded Congress on Friday to allow oil drilling in offshore waters and in the Alaskan wildlife refuge, citing 'tough economic" [...]
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  Posted: July 11, 2008, 3:34pm EDT
  

• Senate Approves Bill to Broaden Wiretap ...

  Senate Approves Bill to Broaden Wiretap Powers
  
  To all the Democrats who voted in favor of this major capitulation to the Bush Administration (thankfully, neither one of my senators did . . . Yay for Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow!): you suck. Big time.
  
  YEAs
  [...]
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  Posted: July 10, 2008, 3:21am EDT
  

• And another update on my ...

  And another update on my post about rising gas prices:
  
  "One is a billionaire financier and the other operates seven gas stations and convenience stores in a farming community of 7,000 in eastern Washington state.
  
  But George Soros and Gerry Ramm joined others in delivering" [...]
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  Posted: June 25, 2008, 10:36pm EDT
  

• First, an update on this post ...

  First, an update on this post from last month regarding the recent surge in gas prices and the complicity of the Bush Administration. Apparently, I'm not the only one who thinks so:
  
  "But the sharp growth in petroleum costs is due far more to a combination [...]
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  Posted: June 23, 2008, 3:20pm EDT
  

• For all those religious fundamentalists who say ...

  For all those religious fundamentalists who say you can't observe evolution or that mutations cannot give rise to a new, beneficial trait, take this:
  
  "A major evolutionary innovation has unfurled right in front of researchers' eyes. It's the first time evolution has been caught in the act [...]
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  Posted: June 19, 2008, 2:35pm EDT
  

• So, I read this post on ...

  So, I read this post on Crooks and Liars about gas prices "shooting" up to a whopping $8.00 per gallon.
  
  Out of curiosity, I wanted to look up retail gas prices for the years of the Clinton Administration. This is what I found (via Wikipedia).
  [...]
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  Posted: May 19, 2008, 1:15pm EDT
  

• Nolan Finley's latest diatribe has hit ...

  Nolan Finley's latest diatribe has hit a new low of absurdity:
  
  "At a recent conference on the future of the military, an Army major was asked what subject should be emphasized in high school to better prepare young people for military service and encourage them to join [...]
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  Posted: May 18, 2008, 5:12pm EDT
  

• I've stayed away from the petty squabbling ...

  I've stayed away from the petty squabbling between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for several reasons. One, it's all phony. Under normal circumstances, these two would agree on far more things than they would disagree. The media has hyped them up and pushed them to quarrel when in reality we [...]
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  Posted: March 01, 2008, 11:14pm EST
  

• Just a quick link (or two) to ...

  Just a quick link (or two) to Sara Robinson's wonderful insight into the Canadian health care system.
  
  Mythbusting Canadian Health Care -- Part I
  
  Mythbusting Canadian Healthcare, Part II: Debunking the Free Marketeers
  
  My favorite line comes from part two:
  
  "I [...]
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  Posted: February 13, 2008, 8:45pm EST
  

• A fascinating article on impeachment by ...

  A fascinating article on impeachment by Scott Horton in Harper's Weekly:
  
  "As the final eleven months of the Bush Administration are being counted off in Washington, the accepted wisdom is that impeachment must be taken off the table. The end is now so close by—what's the point? [...]
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  Posted: February 05, 2008, 6:38pm EST
  

• Once again, the charge of bias against ...

  Once again, the charge of bias against the Daily has been leveled. Sure, I don't write there anymore, but thanks to the wonders of the Internet, I can still read it. Here's the accusation in question:
  
  "The outstanding bias present in The Michigan Daily when it comes [...]
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  Posted: January 30, 2008, 4:48pm EST
  

• An interesting article by Gershon ...

  An interesting article by Gershon Baskin about the recent destruction of the wall that separates the Gaza Strip from Egypt:
  
  "Even after the disengagement from Gaza, Israel remained legally responsible for the welfare of the 1.5 million Palestinians there. International law considered the Gaza Strip to [...]
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  Posted: January 29, 2008, 12:56am EST
  

• Via Mobius at Orthodox ...

  Via Mobius at Orthodox Anarchist, comes this video from a recent broadcast of Wolf Blitzer:
  
  
  
  Why would you need to pardon yourself if you haven't done anything wrong? The Bush Administration is guilty of war crimes, the least of which would [...]
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  Posted: January 20, 2008, 4:13pm EST
  

• Happy Gentile New Year to all you ...

  Happy Gentile New Year to all you true believers out there (Yes, I wrote gentile New Year because it is a new calendar year based on the birth of one religion's prophet/messenger/whatever you want to call him).
  
  I remember when it was 1998, and I'm not that old. [...]
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  Posted: December 31, 2007, 5:26pm EST
  

• "You take the red pill, you stay ...

  "You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." - Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus in The Matrix.
  
  Via Crooks and Liars comes this story about how the director of the state science curriculum was fired:
  [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2007, 5:16am EST
  

• This is why America is doomed:

  This is why America is doomed:
  
  
  
  Allegedly taken at a mall in Boise, Idaho sometime VERY early in the morning, this video demonstrates what is wrong with this country. People rushing and running over one another for . . . what? To buy things, which, if [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2007, 2:11pm EST
  

• When Michael Moore interviewed Tony ...

  When Michael Moore interviewed Tony Benn, a former Labour politician in the House of Commons about the birth of Great Britain's National Health Service in Sicko, Benn observed that when you burden people with debt, they tend to become socially, economically, and most importantly, politically marginalized. They [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2007, 4:14pm EST
  

• I've written and blogged about file-sharing ad ...

  I've written and blogged about file-sharing ad nausea, and today's ruling in Capitol v. Thomas has just made me even more sick:
  
  "The recording industry hopes $222,000 will be enough to dissuade music lovers from downloading songs from the Internet without paying for them. That's the amount [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2007, 3:36pm EDT
  

• Wow. Two posts in one day. Oh ...

  Wow. Two posts in one day. Oh my. I was going to write about the Jena 6 almost two months ago, but I was writing that post at 5:00 am one summer night/morning and after a while my thoughts became clouded.
  
  I won't go into the details [...]
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  Posted: September 25, 2007, 4:55pm EDT
  by Jared

• Everyone's flustered about Ahmadinejad's speech ...

  Everyone's flustered about Ahmadinejad's speech at Columbia yesterday:
  
  "He said that there were no homosexuals in Iran — not one — and that the Nazi slaughter of six million Jews should not be treated as fact, but theory, and therefore open to debate and more research.
  [...]
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  Posted: September 25, 2007, 3:48pm EDT
  by Jared

• The Republicans are continuing to tarnish our ...

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  The Republicans are continuing to tarnish our democracy once again. Check out what they're trying to do in California:
  
  "Lawyers behind a California ballot proposal that could benefit the 2008 Republican presidential nominee have ties to a Texas homebuilder who financed attacks on Democrat John Kerry's Vietnam [...]
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  Posted: September 05, 2007, 12:38am EDT
  by Jared

• Via Arbor Update, apparently the

  Via Arbor Update, apparently the People's Food Co-op will have a vote next month on whether or not to boycott Israeli food products. The confrontation arose last winter when several members noticed several Israeli couscous was being sold. Since then, they've been pushing for all of the [...]
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  Posted: August 31, 2007, 2:12am EDT
  by Jared

• Apparently, Bush's new Iraq war czar thinks we sho...

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  Apparently, Bush's new Iraq war czar thinks we should keep a reinstatement of the draft on the table:
  
  "Frequent tours for U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan have stressed the all-volunteer force and made it worth considering a return to a military draft, President Bush's new war [...]
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  Posted: August 12, 2007, 5:05pm EDT
  by Jared

• There have been several things that have been both...

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  There have been several things that have been bothering me lately. One of them arose while I was watching Robert Greenwald's documentary, Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers. The movie details how the Bush Administration has privatized much of the military, or more accurately, many former military functions. He [...]
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  Posted: July 27, 2007, 11:04pm EDT
  by Jared

• From the July 26, 2007 Detroit Free Press: "...

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  From the July 26, 2007 Detroit Free Press:
  
  
  
  
  "Raise taxes on the rich
  
  I found Craig DeRoche's words of wisdom to be offensive. He criticized Democrats for wanting to raise taxes, yet he failed to inform readers that [...]
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  Posted: July 27, 2007, 12:38am EDT
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• Ok, so Blogger won't let me upload an image for ...

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  Ok, so Blogger won't let me upload an image for a banner unless I post one. So here it is. Enjoy. [...]
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  Posted: July 24, 2007, 2:12am EDT
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• Ahh, Mitch Albom. Love him or hate him, he's dead...

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  Ahh, Mitch Albom. Love him or hate him, he's dead on with another folly of the Bush Administration:
  
  "We can be a pretty lazy nation, but one thing that gets us riled up is our health, right?
  
  When a baby is sick, look out. When a [...]
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  Posted: July 15, 2007, 3:58pm EDT
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• Michael Moore's new documentary, Sicko is already ...

  Michael Moore's new documentary, Sicko is already gaining some controversy, as it tries to expose the follies of our current healthcare system.
  
  Last summer, our own John Stiglich argued against universal health care, both in the Daily and at the Podium.
  
  Some gems: [...]
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  Posted: June 12, 2007, 9:05am EDT
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• Over at Barbara Ehrenreich's post on the economic ...

  Over at Barbara Ehrenreich's post on the economic gap between CEO's and other members of the corporate structure, a commenter made this appalling comment, and I'm unsure if it's satire:
  
  "I would actually be in favour of perfectly legal slavery in exchange for things like [...]
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  Posted: May 30, 2007, 10:55am EDT
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• After all the campaign promises, all the huffing a...

  After all the campaign promises, all the huffing and puffing, all the media showmanship against the President, it seems out Democrat-dominated Congress gave Bush exactly what he wanted:
  
  "Both houses of the US Congress have passed a bill allocating $100bn of new funding for the Iraq war.
  [...]
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  Posted: May 25, 2007, 2:00am EDT
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• The Moral Politics Compass Results: "The follow...

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  The Moral Politics Compass Results:
  
  "The following items best match your score:
  
  1. System: Socialism
  2. Variation: Moral Socialism, Extreme Socialism
  3. Ideologies: Social Democratism, Activism
  4. US Parties: No match.
  5. Presidents: Jimmy Carter (81.78%)
  6. 2004 Election Candidates: Ralph Nader (86.02%), John Kerry (72.05%), [...]
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  Posted: May 04, 2007, 10:55pm EDT
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• So, here I sit, a college graduate, pondering my l...

  So, here I sit, a college graduate, pondering my life. I try and think of what happened to the last five years. The memory of walking up the steps of Chene Park at my high school graduation only to see the bare ass of a mooner on a boat on [...]
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  Posted: April 26, 2007, 2:53am EDT
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• There are few words to describe what happened at V...

  There are few words to describe what happened at Virginia Tech on Monday. Some have looked to inspiration to Liviu Librescu, the Holocaust surviving Israeli expatriate who died to prevent the shooter, Cho Seung-hui, from killing his students.
  
  When viewing his so-called "manifesto", it's pretty clear [...]
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  Posted: April 18, 2007, 7:47pm EDT
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• Two weeks and a day after my column on the Armenia...

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  Two weeks and a day after my column on the Armenian Genocide, The New York Times runs an interesting editorial on it:
  
  "More than 90 years ago, when Turkey was still part of the Ottoman Empire, Turkish nationalists launched an extermination campaign there that killed [...]
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  Posted: April 14, 2007, 8:34pm EDT
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• America's favorite puritans aren't done with their...

  America's favorite puritans aren't done with their fight against Plan B. Now that the FDA has allowed over-the-counter access to the drug, they're planning a new lawsuit:
  
  "Two conservative organizations and other groups have asked a court to overturn U.S. regulators' decision to allow nonprescription sales of [...]
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  Posted: April 13, 2007, 6:07pm EDT
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• Via Mobius at Jewschool, here's a little piece by ...

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  Via Mobius at Jewschool, here's a little piece by - wait for it, I know you'll be REALLY surprised - Ben Stein himself, regarding the things that are "new, hot and exciting -- or terrible -- in business today." He wrote:
  
  "A few days ago, [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2007, 11:40pm EDT
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• Fresh off of his win at the Academy Awards for An ...

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  Fresh off of his win at the Academy Awards for An Inconvenient Truth, a conservative think tank from Tennessee, Gore's home state, supposedly dug up his utility bills and is trying to paint him as a hypocrite:
  
  "Al Gore, a leading voice against global warming, is being [...]
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  Posted: March 01, 2007, 9:13pm EST
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• Here's a surprise: Vice President Dick Cheney won...

  Here's a surprise: Vice President Dick Cheney won't take back statements in which he said that Nancy Pelosi's challenge to the administration's Iraq policy was akin to helping Al-Qaeda:
  
  "Vice President Dick Cheney refused Friday to take back his charge that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's opposition to [...]
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  Posted: February 23, 2007, 8:48pm EST
  by Jared

• Melissa, this one is for you: "Just when you thou...

  Melissa, this one is for you:
  
  "Just when you thought it couldn't possibly get any worse, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy has done it again. The think-tank known for its staunch conservatism and extreme free-market ideas recently concluded that funding the arts in Michigan should not be [...]
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  Posted: February 22, 2007, 10:12pm EST
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• Funny quote of the day: "If I get stuck on the ...

  Funny quote of the day:
  
  "If I get stuck on the tarmac for more than three hours, I plan to use my cell phone to call Homeland Security. Let’s face it, JetBlue and the rest of you: Anything more than three hours on the ground isn’t an airline [...]
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  Posted: February 21, 2007, 6:17pm EST
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• Even with all of the right-wing pundits proclaimin...

  Even with all of the right-wing pundits proclaiming their duty to Israel, Jews still don't vote for Republicans in great numbers. Jennifer Rubin writes why that is:
  
  "It is no secret that Jews in America have historically not favored the Republican Party. Several polls estimated that only [...]
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  Posted: February 19, 2007, 1:23am EST
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• In today's Daily, and mentioned at ann arbor is ov...

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  In today's Daily, and mentioned at ann arbor is overrated, the topic of student housing and its effect on Ann Arbor residents:
  
  "Gwen Alexander and her daughter had been living on White Street for 18 years when five University students moved into the house across the [...]
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  Posted: February 15, 2007, 3:08pm EST
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• It appears that former Republican Massachusetts Go...

  It appears that former Republican Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has decided he wants to run for President in 2008. And where did he announce his candidacy? Henry Ford Museum. Now, the National Jewish Democratic Council has condemned Romney for choosing the museum which bears Ford's name as [...]

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  Posted: February 13, 2007, 1:32pm EST
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• I just found this article which tells of the contr...

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  I just found this article which tells of the controversy in Italy over an Israeli professor's new book which suggested medieval Jews actually did sacrifice Christians and use their blood to make matzah:
  
  "A Jewish academic has shocked Italy by claiming Jews murdered Christians for their blood [...]
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  Posted: February 10, 2007, 1:26pm EST
  by Jared

• The controversy that isn't: "During my time at...

  The controversy that isn't:
  
  "During my time at the Daily, I've attributed the causes of our problems to all sorts of people. Conservatives, anti-Semites, chicken hawks, racists, imperialists, capitalists and religious fanatics - these people are easily blamed on a world of issues. But there's one issue [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2007, 4:58am EST
  by Jared

• It appears that even with a Democratic majority, d...

  It appears that even with a Democratic majority, debate on our Iraq policy is halted:
  
  "Republicans blocked a full-fledged Senate debate over Iraq on Monday, but Democrats vowed they would eventually find a way to force President Bush to change course in a war that has claimed [...]
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  Posted: February 06, 2007, 1:44am EST
  by Jared

• For those of you who watched the State of the Unio...

  For those of you who watched the State of the Union Address, you may have thought, "Hmmm, this sounds like crap. But I can't prove it." Well, now, thanks to Keith Olbermann, and by extension, David Swanson, we can prove some of it was crap.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: January 31, 2007, 8:18pm EST
  by Jared

• So, I think I'm going to go to YAF's 3 former terr...

  So, I think I'm going to go to YAF's 3 former terrorists event in about a half an hour. While someone from opinion is going to cover it for a viewpoint, and most definitely news will be covering it (which I couldn't do even if I wanted to, damn [...]
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  Posted: January 30, 2007, 6:25pm EST
  by Jared

• Another January 27, another birthday. Last year, ...

  Another January 27, another birthday. Last year, when I wrote on my 22nd birthday, I was pessimistic about the state of the world. A year has passed and our country is still fighting an immoral war. I constantly read about the follies of World War I, Vietnam, and my conclusions [...]
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  Posted: January 27, 2007, 1:24pm EST
  by Jared