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Blogs React To McCain's Sick Health Care Plan

Since you probably didn't find much substantive analysis of McCain's health care plan in the traditional media, bloggers have taken up the task. And it isn't pretty. Obsidian Wings: It's easy to make health policy when you don't allow little things like facts to...

Jeremiah Wright: What (Else) Is Going On

Jeremiah Wright is everywhere this week -- and the media doesn't quite know what to make of it. Mostly, they're stuck so hard in the election horse-race narrative that they only question they can think to ask is: Does having Wright out there hurt Obama, or help him?...

No Choice At All

Today in Tampa, Sen. John McCain, as conservatives often do, tried to claim the "choice" mantle when describing his "health" care plan: You simply choose the insurance provider that suits you best ... The health plan you choose would be as good as any that an employer...

Way Past Time To Lock Up Guilt-By-Association Politics

Whether or not you are a supporter of Sen. Barack Obama, if you are a politician interested in having your substantive arguments be heard, or if you're a citizen that wants your government responding to your needs, you'll stand against ridiculous guilt-by-association...

My Father's Eyes

This weekend, we attended a local conference for LGBT parents and families, and I spoke on a panel about interracial couples and inter-cultural families. At some point, I found myself speaking less as a gay dad and more as a Black man raising two Black sons, and...

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