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Blog Action Day: Where there is health there is hope

(image from www.villagehealthworks.org)
Today, just in time for midnight, I’d like shout out to blog action day. What’s blog action day? From the blog action day website:
Today thousands of bloggers will unite to discuss a single issue - poverty. We aim to raise awareness, initiate action and to shake the web!

For my part, I’d like to [...]


Conservatives Warn Voters that Obama is a Mudblood!

 
In recent weeks, several prominent conservatives have challenged Illinoise Senator Barack Obama’s “Full-Blooded” Americanism. Their apparent argument: only an American who was raised in America by 100% American parents is able to fully understand what it means to be American. Peggy Noonan writes in the Wall Street Journal,
Hillary Clinton is not Barack Obama’s problem. America [...]


Archimedes Movement: “What do we actually do?”

The interim steering committee of the Archimedes Movement has been hard at work defining an operating structure for our Movement. For the last few days they have been busy gathering feedback from chapter leaders and other Archimedes members, and discussing the merits of many comments and concerns. Several times I have heard people express concern [...]


Barackappella: Our a cappella version of the Obama Yes We Can song

On Friday the 29th, leap day, some members of my a cappella group and I did a benefit show called Barackappella at my college in Portland, Oregon. It was so much fun, I wanted to share the story with you.
I support Barack Obama. I am very happy about the phenomenal voter turn out [...]


Clinton vs Obama on Healthcare: Expanding Access To A Broken System Does Not Fix The System

The New York Times, whose editors endorsed Hillary Clinton for President, recently published an interesting op-ed strongly favoring Clinton’s health care plan over Obama’s. I think the article’s greatest failing is that it seems to imply that Clinton’s plan is affordable. In reality the Obama and Clinton plans, if enacted as proposed, would send us [...]


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