Washington Post columnist correctly notes that OECD nations provide equal or better health care but at a fraction of the cost paid by the US. But he then ignores the obvious conclusion — that we should adopt one of their proven systems — and instead claims that an unproven and unlikely scheme using vouchers to private insurers would work.

The main way that the US can insulate itself from the crisis in Europe is through continuing the fiscal state of emergency in the country, as the only ballast for growth. Unfortunately, we have a dysfunctional Congress, so the only way to realistically do this is to not slip backwards and turn fiscal policy negative by allowing several measures to expire at the end of 2012.

As the Euro crisis remains unsolved, Europe is slipping into recession. The elites’ prescription for this, sadly, is more austerity. All we’re hearing are trial balloons about the IMF rescuing Italy, which have since been shot down. But that would be the ECB funding the IMF, in all likelihood, which it hasn’t agreed to do.

Barney Frank (D. MA) announced today that he will not seek reelection in 2012.

The important conservative paper, the New Hampshire Union Leader, has decided to endorse Newt Gingrich in the Republican presidential primary. But Mitt Romney still holds a large lead in New Hampshire, according to recent polls.

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A report by Bloomberg reveals that the Federal Reserve under Ben Bernanke and Tim Geithner (at the New York Fed) secretly loaned over seven trillions dollars to arguably insolvent banks and financial institutions to keep them afloat, while concealing the scope of the lending from Congress and even member of the Treasury Department charged with allocating TARP bailouts.

Between the next in a series of Thanksgiving and post-Thanksgiving meals, the point of which I have now forgotten, I could not get around to the computator. This is probably the longest I’ve gone without blogging in eight years, let’s see if I remember how to do it.

The coffee’s freshly ground, a wonderful selection of teas and the sticky buns are homemade. “The United States regards Pakistan as a ‘free-fire zone’ in which it can violate the country’s sovereignty at will.” Stop the War Coalition’s John Rees discusses the latest incident of NATO airstrikes in Pakistan, which killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. We [...]

Herman Cain was once — as hard as it is to believe — was once the front-runner for the GOP nomination. And considering that his biggest accomplishment was dropping hints while conducting job interviews that is quite a fact, in and of itself.

But there’s a reason he had the right-stuff for the Right-wing and that was his comfort with saying two completely contradictory things in adjoining sentences.