Benen: John Brennan, President Obama’s senior counterterrorism adviser, offered a rather forceful response to Republican criticism of the Abdulmutallab case, and GOP demands that the attempted terrorist be treated as an enemy combatant. Brennan said...

Another good article by Ezra Klein, this one from 2006 in Slate. A couple of paragraphs from the article: … The best attempt to synthesize the academic literature on medical malpractice is Tom Baker’s The Medical Malpractice Myth, published last...

Interesting that the GOP is going to the healthcare summit to trot out their ideas—when, as Ezra Klein points out, their ideas are already in the legislation: At this point, I don’t think it’s well understood how many of the GOP’s central health-care...

I just had an informative comment posted by Neville, but then he claimed that Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security account for 54% of the Federal budget. That is untrue. Take a look at this chart: As explained at the link, the 2009 Fiscal Year saw...

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