The Arab Spring is Not Blossoming
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 7th, 2011 4:30 am by HL
The Arab Spring is Not Blossoming
Vouchercare Is Not Medicare
Paul Krugman, New York Times
What’s in a name? A lot, the National Republican Congressional Committee obviously believes. Last week, the committee sent a letter demanding that a TV station stop running an ad declaring that the House Republican budget plan would “end Medicare.” This, the letter insisted, was a false claim: the plan would simply install a “new, sustainable version of Medicare.”But Comcast, the station’s owner, rejected the demand — and rightly so. For Republicans are indeed seeking to dismantle Medicare as we know it, replacing it with a…