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If you're tired of hearing about the recovery you can't feel, while seeing headline after headline about how well Goldman Sachs is doing — or who's getting big bonuses on Wall Street now, while the rest of the country is facing the grim reality of long-term...

Dogs & Trainwrecks: How Big Insurance Sees Us

When I was up You would always come round But when I needed a friend Oh, you could never be found I got a hole Where my heart used to be I wouldn't treat a dog, no, no The way you treated me Cher, "I Wouldn't Treat a Dog the Way You Treated Me" Hey, Sen. Landrieu....

Whatever, Mary.

I saw this on Friday, but didn't get around to writing something about it until today. Since then, of course, many other bloggers have covered it by now. But when a Democrat says something like what Sen. Mary Landrieu did on health care reform, I can't help chiming in...

Rush: In His Own Words

This is already being done by plenty of other people, but I can't help myself. When a guy who just a month ago said "We need segregated buses," takes umbrage at the notion that people think he's a racist... Well, it's just too hard to resist. They are the ones with...

AHIP's "Mask of Sanity" Slips

Maya Angelou has been credited with saying "When people show you who they really are, believe them," which is sometimes expanded to "When people show you who they really are, believe them the first time." The idea is that doing so may be crucial to protecting your...

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