As long-time readers know, my daughter (Ms. Dancer) is a competitive dancer. She has competed in world, national and regional competitions. Like all kids competing at her level, she discovered early on that even if she outdanced the competition, she could still lose because the judges liked the look of the other dancer, their hair, [...]
Howard Dean is on the campaign trail. He wants to “kill the bill” (a line right out of the teafolks’ protest signs) and use budget reconciliation to revive the public option. Through the furor of the past day I am clearer about the public option. It has very little to do with cost controls and [...]
Image via Wikipedia I am about to lay my cards all on the table here with regard to health care reform, tell you exactly what I think and have thought for the past 10 months of this debate. But first, I just want to say that Joe Lieberman could possibly be the worst excuse for [...]