Where do the beneficiaries of the ACA (Obamacare) live? That’s a question Carter Price and David Evans tried to answer at The Equitable Growth Blog. Using data from the Internal Revenue Service’s Statistics of Income and information from the Kaiser Family Foundation State Health Facts they’ve come up with three maps. The first shows which …
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And it decided to stay in the UK by a margin of 55% to 45%, 1,877,252 “No” votes to 1,512,688 “Yes” votes. Prime Minister David Cameron made a bunch of promises to the Scots if they’d remain in the Union, and they’re not going to be forgotten by the No voters and their spokesmen. With …
“Should Scotland be an independent country?” That is the question some proportion of 4,285,323 people – 97% of the electorate – will answer tomorrow in that northernmost region of the United Kingdom. Votes will be cast at 2,608 polling places across the country between 07:00 and 22:00 on Thursday. The result is expected early on …
Russian President Vladimir Putin is incapable of shame or embarrassment, I’m afraid. He’s certainly not going to admit any guilt for supporting the murderous vandals who managed to kill 298 people on Malaysia Air Flight 17 with a sophisticated anti-aircraft missile. Nor is he going to assist investigators by giving them a clear path to …
In essence, it’s Too many fools talk too much and know too little. In the days since Vladimir Putin sent Russian troops into the Crimea, it has been amateur hour back in Washington. I don’t mean Barack Obama. He’s doing pretty much everything he can, with what are a very limited set of policy options …
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There are some members of the US Congress and the political media that seem to think if the United States President just makes enough threatening noises with military muscle the rest of the world will roll over and play nicely. I question their powers of observation. Where has that assumption failed? Iraq is Exhibit One. …
If you have to ask which bellicose Senator said “we are all Ukrainians”, you will have to do several hours of penance, writing “This is good news for John McCain” on the blackboard over and over again. Why in the name of George Washington, James Madison, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson the media keeps going …
NBC News has a backgrounder. It’s trickier than I thought. I was under the impression that it was the middle class and the wealthy who were as angry with the new President as they had been toward Chavez, but the students are joining in too. It’s not hard to figure out why: Venezuelan society is …
If anyone is up for political action, and in particular action which strongly opposes the diminution of American civil liberties, tax giveaways to the corporate sector and the wealthy, and energy policy centered on resource use rather than conservation, I recommend you sign up for MoveOn. Read their FAQ and their press notices; then sign …