All Life Is Problem Solving

In an earlier post on fixing Obama’s message machine, I argued that his primary problem was one of content. The vague public option and insurance exchange idea associated with the plan isn’t something that people easily understand. And progressive cadres that do understand it don’t love it because many of them see “Medicare for All” […]

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The Health Insurance companies and other opponents of government-funded health care have been trying to overcome the statistical evidence of the superiority of public systems by spreading “Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt” using horror stories and, of course, outright lies about the failures of health care in other nations having such systems. Those of us who […]

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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Today, leading Civil Liberties and Human Rights Groups met with President Obama to talk about the recent actions of the Administration in seeming to support Bush Administration policies and his continued reluctance to support investigations and prosecutions for War Crimes. Reportedly, the President […]

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President Obama has now released the Justice Department “torture memos,” providing legal opinions approving the use of interrogation procedures that many other observers and legal authorities view as clear instances of torture. In releasing the memos, the President has implemented his commitment to transparency in Government. But, at the same time, in asserting that his […]

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In “Democracy and Spreading Knowledge Transparently,” I wrote about President Obama’s tendency to exclude certain policy alternatives in explaining his thinking to us. In his world-wide Town Hall event, he showed another variant on the theme of lack of knowledge transparency in his public communications. This time the subject was Marijuana Prohibition and his reply […]

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