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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As we’ve all heard by now, Bibi Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, is convinced claims that the deal the P5+1 countries just negotiated with Iran is a horrible one, one which will undoubtedly allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons and destroy Israel. That’s despite the assurances from all the negotiators that in fact inspections of …
Governor Sam Brownback makes no bones about being a very devout Christian, as I recall from his time in the Senate. That’s fine, but he and his fellow Republicans in the state legislature might need some remedial study in just exactly what their God taught. Jesus was a compassionate man who fed people when they …
Big day today. It’s Opening Day around Major League Baseball, with 14 games scheduled around the country. Then this evening the Wisconsin Badgers play the Duke Blue Devils for the national basketball championship, and if you had both these teams playing for the title in your bracket you should quit your day job and try …
Arguably the genre began with Gram Parsons, Chris Hillman, Chris Ethridge and Sneaky Pete Kleinow when they formed The Flying Burrito Brothers in 1969. The style then grew like Topsy: here’s a pretty good family tree chart of California Country Rock from pre-Byrds to the still-extant editions of Crosby Stills and Nash and Eagles. I …
Virtually every Republican Presidential office-seeker has said he’d blow up the nuclear deal the Obama Administration just reached with Iran if he were elected. Scott Walker was first out of the gate, talking about things he knows little about again. None of these guys seems to recognize that the deal was between something called the …
The radio show Says You airs every Thursday on Hawai’i Public Radio. On February 9, the show’s creator and host, Richard Sher, died of cancer at 66. Yet every show since has still featured him as a host. There are tributes to him on the show’s website, but I have yet to hear anything on …
Way back in 1973 or 1974 I bought a pair of Bose 501 Series II speakers from the Navy Exchange in Yokosuka, Japan. They traveled with me for the next four or five years until I moved to Hawai’i in 1978. During that move one of the speakers was damaged beyond repair, and I filed …