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You Can Put $150,000 Worth of Clothes and Makeup on a Horribly Unqualified VP Candidate, but….
Posted by Nick Anthis on October 22, 2008 Today we learned that the Republican Party spent an almost unfathomable $150,000 in the month of September alone on clothes and makeup for Sarah “Joe Sixpack” Palin. This is a breathtaking figure, and the irony is certainly delicious. However, I can’t escape the feeling that something here is still missing. Now, if only I could…
Obama and McCain Highlight Health Care Plans in NEJM
Posted by Nick Anthis on October 9, 2008 I was excited when I saw that The New England Journal of Medicine had today published summaries by Obama and McCain of their health care plans, expecting something quite detailed to appeal to a highly critical expert audience. However, their summaries were still as general and vague as ever. Regardless, these new write-ups are still…
Barack Obama: Health Care Is a Right
Posted by Nick Anthis on October 8, 2008 When I think back to the presidential debate last night, one moment stands out in my mind more than any other. And, no, it wasn’t McCain calling Obama “that one“. It was the discussion following Tom Brokaw’s question “Is health care in America a privilege, a right, or a responsibility?” Health care came up several…
Economists Overwhelmingly Agree that Obama Is Stronger on the Economy
Posted by Nick Anthis on October 5, 2008 Recent polls have shown that voters trust Obama over McCain in addressing the economy by a margin of about 10-15%. But, what do the experts think? The Economist conducted its own poll of economists (appropriately), and found that they agreed that Obama is the stronger candidate when it comes to the economy–but by a much…
Obama on Science and Technology
Posted by Nick Anthis on September 1, 2008 On Saturday, ScienceDebate 2008 and Scientists and Engineers for America (SEA) announced that Barack Obama answered a fourteen-part questionnaire that they put together along with several other scientifically oriented organizations. Major props to ScienceDebate, SEA, and these other organizations for making this happen and to Barack Obama for thoroughly answering these fourteen questions. I’d encourage…
Being a POW Does Not Automatically Qualify You to Be President
Posted by Nick Anthis on July 1, 2008 Am I taking crazy pills, or do people honestly believe that saying that being a prisoner of war doesn’t automatically qualify you to be president is the same as attacking someone’s service record? Because, this latest media flare-up over Wesley Clark’s remarks is getting exceedingly absurd. John McCain went through hell in Vietnam, and he…
Obama’s Support of Corn Ethanol Unlikely to Change
Posted by Nick Anthis on June 23, 2008 I’ve been pretty open here about my support of Barack Obama’s bid for the presidency, but one issue I certainly disagree with him on is his support of corn ethanol subsidies. Unfortunately, it looks like that this is one issue he’s unlikely to improve on, as The New York Times reports today that ties to…
McCain’s Own Agents of Intolerance
Posted by Nick Anthis on May 4, 2008 As the media circus over Jeremiah Wright continues, it should give us pause that the media hasn’t decided to focus on John McCain and his embrace of a wide range of religious bigots. Although McCain once called these men “agents of intolerance” in 2000, he has since done a total flip-flop and openly embraced them…
The Gas Tax Suspension: Political Pandering of the Worst Kind
Posted by Nick Anthis on May 3, 2008 This morning, I had to wake up to another article about John McCain’s and Hillary Clinton’s proposal to temporarily waive the gas tax this summer. That’s it. I’m just going to have to come out and say it: this is a really, really, really stupid idea. Period. I’m not an economist–far from it–but you don’t…
John McCain Embraces Scientifically-Disproved Vaccine/Autism Link
Posted by Nick Anthis on March 3, 2008 Via the ABC News blog Political Punch comes news that senator and Republican presidential candidate John McCain has taken a strong stance on the discredited link between vaccination and autism… a stance contrary to scientific consensus. Here’s what Jake Tapper wrote: At a town hall meeting Friday in Texas, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., declared that…