The Republican Party is holding their national meeting this winter. This is standard fare for both parties, and these meetings are generally taken up by electing and appointing various people, tweaking the platform in small ways, and generally being an excuse for party leaders to get together and schmooze each other once in awhile.
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Whatever you think about the mammogram debate right now, the evidence indicates that the mammography tests are broken. The stats that are floating around right now are this: if 1900 women received regular breast cancer screenings during their 40s, exactly one of them would discover a curable cancer that would have otherwise killed them. [...]

Did you know that, according to Doug Hoffman, the conservative candidate for the 23rd Congressional District special election, ACORN stole the election from him?
Never mind that the NY 23rd is a rural district that contains no city larger than 60,000 people–and that ACORN is an alliance of organizations that advocate on behalf of low income [...]

If about 10% of medicare claims are fraudulent, what’s gonna happen with the taxpayer supported public option?
This isn’t just because its government run - private insurance deals with this too. There’s an interesting trade off here. On one hand, private insurance has a bad reputation because of its denials of service. [...]

You want to know what bad journalism looks like? Read the article “Free Speech Rights Prevented Probe into Hasan Emails, Investigators Say“, currently the headline article on Foxnews.com. A few days ago I lambasted Fox & Friends for jumping to a quick conclusion that political correctness concerns prevented the military from taking preemptive [...]

Abortion is a complicated issue. Even the most ardent pro-choice advocates have to deal with the fine line between abortion and infanticide, while the most ardent pro-life advocates have to deal with the fine lines between abortion, contraception, and miscarriage. The current debates focus on ease-of-access debates (government subsidies, parental consent, etc.) none [...]

We don’t yet know what happened yesterday at Ft. Hood. We don’t know why a psychiatrist started shooting people. We aren’t even sure that he was the only gunman involved. We don’t know what, if any, warning signs there might have been.
Oh, there is certainly speculation. There are reports that the [...]

Pundits will spend the next week or so trying to figure out the larger meaning of yesterday’s elections. Does this mean that the Democrats are in trouble for 2010? Or 2012? Will this scare moderate Democrats away from Obama’s policies? How much solace can the Democrats take from their victory in [...]