(from Huffington Post)
scientists are very careful not to overstate correlations as causality (just b/c you washed your car, doesn't mean you made it rain); they are, however, in agreement that our actions are contributing to changes in our weather and much too quickly for the planet to keep up. For many of you, this is not earth-shattering news; for others, if you're still here, this is still too nebulous for you. Read the latest on the "debate": climate change, for reals
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(from Slate)
news flash: Al Gore didn't invent the internet! (but it wasn't an individual job creator either):
what government does
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(from Jake Tapper of ABC)
lots of sturm und drang (manufactured or otherwise) re Obama's comments, which were taken out of context, re who built what with whose help: my hands didn't build this
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we keeping hearing big numbers about the number of people here in the U.S. who don't have healthcare--what does that really look like? e.g., more people now don't have healthcare than the number of votes GWB received in his last election.
(from Ezra Klein)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/07/12/how-big-is-50-7-million-uninsured/
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(from the NYT)
voter ID being contested
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Ezra Klein, per usual, has some facts and stats that contradict some conventional wisdom:
does raising taxes on the rich hurt small businesses?
scientists are very careful not to overstate correlations as causality (just b/c you washed your car, doesn't mean you made it rain); they are, however, in agreement that our actions are contributing to changes in our weather and much too quickly for the planet to keep up. For many of you, this is not earth-shattering news; for others, if you're still here, this is still too nebulous for you. Read the latest on the "debate": climate change, for reals
* * * * *
(from Slate)
news flash: Al Gore didn't invent the internet! (but it wasn't an individual job creator either):
what government does
* * * * *
(from Jake Tapper of ABC)
lots of sturm und drang (manufactured or otherwise) re Obama's comments, which were taken out of context, re who built what with whose help: my hands didn't build this
* * * * *
we keeping hearing big numbers about the number of people here in the U.S. who don't have healthcare--what does that really look like? e.g., more people now don't have healthcare than the number of votes GWB received in his last election.
(from Ezra Klein)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/07/12/how-big-is-50-7-million-uninsured/
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(from the NYT)
voter ID being contested
* * * * *
Ezra Klein, per usual, has some facts and stats that contradict some conventional wisdom:
does raising taxes on the rich hurt small businesses?
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