Phoenix, Az Traveling Companion: James Garcia Events: Dream Act Vigil at John McCain’s office; preview of James Garcia’s Play, The Eagle and the Serpent; interview with U.S. Senate candidate Rodney Glassman His name is Michael. He didn’t tell me his last name, and I didn’t ask, because he is undocumented. I’ve always thought that “undocumented” [...]
The FDA yesterday imposed some fairly strong restrictions on the use of the controversial diabetes drug Avandia. The handling of the matter by Obama’s FDA chief, Margaret Hamburg, and her deputy, Joshua Sharfstein, offers one take on the administration’s approach to regulation and it’s not black and white. Those interested in the debate over federal [...]
A year ago she was well on her way to being a flash-in-the-pan also-ran. Today, she’s the Republican Party’s Queen Bee. A look at Sarah Palin’s comeback.
Phoenix, Az. Event: John McGraw gets a job Road trip regulars may remember that last week I wrote about John McGraw who’d been laid off for 19 months and working feverishly to land a new job. He had sent out 4-5000 resumes globally and received 2300 rejections. Today, he emailed this: Hope the road trip [...]
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I was going to write a post about how unworkable the health care plan in the GOP’s new “Pledge to America” is. But Jonathan Cohn already did it so well, I see no need to repeat. Click here to read Cohn’s explanation of how the Republican plan to cover pre-existing conditions is pretty much bogus. [...]
Why does the new House Republican campaign platform’s call for immediate discretionary spending cuts feature a clause promising “common-sense exceptions for seniors, veterans and our troops”? “Seniors” is an awfully broad swath of society to place off-limits, particularly given that quite a few American seniors retire into affluence. (And what about children? No common-sense exceptions [...]
My timing was impeccable: Last month I wrote a story for Time.com about the modest role health care seemed to be playing in the midterm elections. My thesis was that, although Obamacare was far from a winning issue for Democrats, it hardly promised to be the political debacle that Republicans gleefully predicted when Obama signed [...]
