American Values Alliance | Practical voice for progressive valuesAmerican Values Alliance | Practical voice for progressive valuesAs many of you know, CNN will be launching its series "Black in America" on 23 July with its Black Women and Familes program. The second day will focus on Black men.
I've been resisting the rush to eulogize Senator Ted Kennedy, who was diagnosed with a malignant glioma of the left parietal lobe today. He's down, but not out (remember: this is Ted Kennedy, ya'll). But what I will say is that his decades of service continue to challenge us all to work toward, instead of talk about, the things that matter most.
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In this morning's New York Times, Paul Krugman analyzes John McCain's health care plan, and finds it--how does one say this delicately--lacking.
Interesting article on NPR:
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Recently, the Indianapolis Star, New York Times, Indianapolis Business Journal and Wall Street Journal have noted the activities at WellPoint. Most noteworthy is the decline in its stock value following a disappointing earnings prediction from management. It has lost approximately 50% of its value in the last several months.
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control released a study that found that a staggering 3.2 million teenage girls have a sexually transmitted disease--that's 25% of girls between the ages of 13 and 19, kids.
'Space Odyssey' Author Clarke Dies at 90 -
Writer Arthur C. Clarke has died in Sri Lanka. He was 90.
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While I'm busily putting together the text and audio from today's event to share with you, I thought I'd start with an open thread for those of you who were in attendance to post your thoughts and observations from the Barack Obama Town Hall Meeting.
More to follow!
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And now, in a dispatch from the ever-protective "nanny state" advocates, comes this bill recently submitted in the Mississippi legislature:
A story in the business section of this morning's Indianapolis Star provides a good clue.
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Earth's Shadow to Swallow Moon in Total Eclipse -
If you have clear skies in your neighborhood Wednesday night, you'll be in for a celestial treat. The Earth will pass between the sun and the moon, creating a full lunar eclipse.
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Though we like to ignore the elephant in the room, global climate change effects us in Indiana. In addition to our tendency towards obesity (we tied Michigan for 9th most obese state), high smoking rates and low academic attainment, we're a polluter.
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Have you lost track of the SCHIP battle?
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I apologize for the long absence from the healthcare blogosphere. It has been a couple of months since you have heard from me.
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The answer is no. The question refers to the record $227 million spent by health care lobbyists in the first half of 2007, as reported in the The Times of Trenton ( N.J.) on Sept 19. What it can buy is perpetuation of the corrupt practice of buying influence under the guise of free speech. It would be bad enough if the money were buying influence for some relatively benign commercial interest, but spending millions to continue the health care status quo is another matter. Health care cost and availability are our greatest unsolved domestic problems. What should be a right of citizenship is in America a commodity to be bought and sold like any other.
The lobbying is led by the greediest lobby in the country, PhRMA, the pharmaceutical consortium led by former U.S. representative Billy Tauzin of Louisiana.He didn't wait long for his reward. He earns $2 million per year in the job he took a couple of milliseconds after leaving congress where he crafted the " Medicare Modernization Act" in 2003. Please recall that one feature of that act was a prohibition against Medicare using its purchasing power to get the best prices from the drug companies.
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