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And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Talking Out Of Both Sides Of His Mouth
BY DARLA REYNOLDS SPARKS
My soul is saddened. Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn is opposed to President Obama's health plan.
Obama hasn't put forth a health plan...
How Soon We Forget
BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD
Sometimes one has cause to wonder if all the civil disorder, going under the pseudo title of town meetings, is really...
Uncle Al
BY SUSAN ESTRICH He might have won the Nobel Prize before I was born. Back in 1940, when he was a researcher at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston [as in, “call Uncle Al at the BI”], he was studying the effects of infection on the heart and circulatory system. One of the effects seemed […]
Health Reform By The Numbers
BY KENNY BELFORD
As September approaches, so does the moment of decision on real health care reform. The real contest starts when members of Congress...
Obama’s Enforcer: Not Really Tough Enough
BY JOE CONASON If the Democrats fail to pass real changes in the health care system this year – rather than a sham that mimics and mocks reform – they will have nobody to blame but themselves. Or at least nobody to blame but other Democrats, notably those in the White House who have never […]