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And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Health Care Politics Go Into Extra Innings
BY FROMA HARROP There was never much doubt that the individual mandate in “ObamaCare” was constitutional. As Harvard Law School professor Einer Elhauge had noted, the first Congress in 1790 passed a law ordering ship owners to buy medical insurance for their seamen. Twenty framers of the U.S. Constitution were members, and President George Washington […]
Confessions And Truth
BY VERN TURNER
While listening to a news program that featured an interview with the recently released lobbyist Jack Abramoff, I was struck by his...
Living In Denial
BY SHARON MARTIN
If you fear change enough, you can just refuse to acknowledge that things are changing. We humans have the amazing ability to...