July 2012
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People who read books see the world differently
azspot:
It has been said that parents do not surround their kids with books like they used to. Instead, they just buy them a computer and a Xbox and call it a day. That if you physically put endless tomes of literature in front of a curious mind, usually they’ll find their way to reading them.
Might be.
Though I was not surrounded by books as a kid, once attaining college age (or shortly...
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How a Brutal Strain of American Aristocrats Have... →
Michael Lind first called out the existence of this conflict in his 2006 book, Made In Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics. He argued that much of American history has been characterized by a struggle between two historical factions among the American elite — and that the election of George W. Bush was a definitive sign that the wrong side was winning.
For most...
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Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness : NPR →
I believe in the pursuit of happiness. Not its attainment, nor its final definition, but its pursuit. I believe in the journey, not the arrival; in conversation, not monologues; in multiple questions rather than any single answer. I believe in the struggle to remake ourselves and challenge each other in the spirit of eternal forgiveness, in the awareness that none of us knows for sure what...
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Mitt Romney Stands Alone On Health Care | TPM2012 →
justinspoliticalcorner:
Mitt Romney and President Obama may be the most sharply divided nominees of their generation on the issues of the day, but they’re also the only two people in the country to sign an individual health care mandate into law. The difference is that Obama has a party that’s willing to defend him.
Romney boldly predicted other governors would follow right behind him when he...
New Financial Forms Show Clarence Thomas's Wife...
abaldwin360:
Last week, a meme made its way around the Internet asking why Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was planning to rule on the healthcare law when his wife, a conservative lobbyist, has made so much money challenging the law.
Now, just days after healthcare law was upheld (with Clarence Thomas dissenting), new financial forms show that Thomas’s wife, Ginni, continued to rake in a...
Why Republicans Will Never Have A Health Care Plan
liberalsarecool:
Jonathan Chait:
“If Republicans really wanted to replace Obamacare with some more ‘market-friendly’ alternative, then there’s a simple way they could go about it. They could promise to repeal the law only if they packaged the repeal with a replacement that did not increase the number of uninsured. But they’ll never do that, because the magic, cheaper free-market alternative...
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