Healthcare’s foreign invasion By Kate Tulenko, Saturday, Apr 28, 2012 02:00 PM CDT … Approximately 15 percent of all healthcare workers and 25 percent of all physicians in the United States were born and educated elsewhere. This means that 1.5 million healthcare jobs are “insourced,” occupied by foreign-born, foreign-trained workers brought into the United States …
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Apr 29 2012
Funereal pieties
Christopher Hitchens made a cogent case for war – but he was still wrong By Patrick Cockburn, Sunday 29 April 2012 … There was a telling omission from the range of topics mentioned at the memorial for Christopher Hitchens at the Cooper Union in New York on 20 April. The 30 people who spoke, mostly …
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Apr 27 2012
Catholic Church’s best ambassador
After Vatican’s rebuke of nuns, time to hear Mary’s voice By Lisa Miller, April 26, 2012 … Imagine the fury of the men of Galilee when a young, unmarried girl showed up in their village pregnant. They must have talked about punishments. Stoning — a legitimate penalty, condoned by Deuteronomy — would have been appropriate, although …
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Apr 27 2012
I like to loathe people
The “Daily Show” guide to my enemies By Michael Rubens, Friday, Apr 27, 2012 06:00 PM CDT … For two years I was a field producer for “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.” The field producer is the person who guides the creation of the pre-taped segments, the ones where the correspondent travels somewhere to …
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Apr 27 2012
Indistinguishable from the lunatic fringe
Satanazis III: Night of the Satanazis By Fred Clark, April 25, 2012 … Don’t imagine you’re safe just because Pat Robertson, Demon Hunter, is on the job. Sure, Robertson’s Age-Defying Shakes give him the strength to leg-press 1,000 pounds, but that won’t be enough when the Satanic baby-killers and the Nazis join forces to create …
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Apr 27 2012
Our crime was looking like the people
We Japanese Americans must not forget our wartime internment By George Takei, Friday 27 April 2012 15.15 EDT … Seventy years ago, US soldiers bearing bayoneted rifles came marching up to the front door of our family’s home in Los Angeles, ordering us out. Our crime was looking like the people who had bombed Pearl …
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Apr 27 2012
Third-rate wingnut talkshow host
This supremely Republican supreme court By Scott Lemieux, Friday 27 April 2012 15.41 EDT … The 2008 elections represented a decisive repudiation of the policies of George W Bush and the Republican party. Yet, conservative Republicans still control the supreme court – and this fact may effectively nullify the results of the 2008 election in …
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