Author Archives: John Wallenfeldt

Op-Ed Columnist – Health Reform Myths – NYTimes.com

“The only part of health care in which there isn’t already a lot of federal intervention is the market in which individuals who can’t get employment-based coverage buy their own insurance. And that market, in case you hadn’t noticed, is a disaster — no coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions, coverage dropped when you get sick, and huge premium increases in the middle of an economic crisis. It’s this sector, plus the plight of Americans with no insurance at all, that reform aims to fix. What’s wrong with that?”

Krugman keeps talking sense about health care reform. None of this helps when Republicans keep making shit up and believing outright lies, but oh well.

Texas BOE Removes Jefferson From History Standard : Dispatches from the Culture Wars

Conservatives hate Thomas Jefferson. In Texas, they are removing his name from a list of the great minds that formed the basis of our nation.

In short, Republicans hate the Declaration of Independence.

More on their crazy rewriting of history.

Seriously, let these folks be as dumb as they want to be. We hate to stop them from poisoning our children’s minds, however.