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TIME Magazine Story Highlights Moral Crisis in Vieques
By
Eric Sapp
What would you do if you found out that people in your neighborhood had a 30% higher cancer rate, 25% higher infant mortality rate, and 95% higher cirrhosis of the liver rate than the surrounding area? Then you found out that hair sample surveys of your neighbors showed that 34% of the population have toxic…
Building on the Hopeful Aspects of Obama’s Health Care Speech and Helping Him Get Beyond His Internal Contradictions
By
Michael Lerner
Media analyses of President Obama’s health care speech were divided on whether he had indicated serious support for a public option or had, instead, cleverly tossed a bone of “recognition” to the progressives while simultaneously demanding that they drop their insistence that the health care reform undercut insurance company profits. The confusion, for once, is…
Note to Ed Schultz: It is the Apocalypse, Friend
By
Diana Butler Bass
Yesterday, Ed Schultz posed a question on both his radio program and his MSNBC show: Where is the religious community on health care? Ed, a Christian who admits he is not a regular churchgoer, sees the issue in pretty simple terms. Jesus healed the sick. For free. Period. Why aren’t churches out on the front…
Slow Words
By
Diana Butler Bass
People often ask me why I don’t blog more often in the crucible of the news cycle when an issue is “hot.” My friends and editors are always trying to get me to speed up–as I tend to be slow with my words. Last week, for example, I was quiet as the war of words…
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