Study: Most Get Mediocre Health Care
by Angry White LiberalHere’s yet another argument for a single, centralized, and nationalized health care system.
Startling research from the biggest study ever of U.S. health care quality suggests that Americans _ rich, poor, black, white _ get roughly equal treatment, but it’s woefully mediocre for all.
“This study shows that health care has equal-opportunity defects,” said Dr. Donald Berwick, who runs the nonprofit Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Cambridge, Mass.
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Mormon in Legal Gay Marriage Faces Cutoff
by Angry White LiberalIsn’t a gay Mormon an oxymoron?
A gay man who is a lifetime member of the Mormon church could be facing disciplinary action and excommunication after legally marrying his partner in Canada.
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Witness Describes Prison Gang Killings
by Angry White LiberalHere’s an interesting twist: Literate gangsters.
When Smith was initiated to the gang, he was told to read a number of books, including works by Aristotle, Plato, Friedrich Nietzsche and Niccolo Machiavelli.
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FBI Took Photos of Antiwar Activists in 2002
An FBI report from November 2002 indicates that an agent photographed members of the Thomas Merton Center as they handed out leaflets opposing the impending war in Iraq. The report called the group a “left-wing organization advocating, among many political causes, pacifism.”
The same memo notes that one of the leaflet distributors “appeared to be of Middle Eastern descent” but that no other participants appeared to be from the Middle East.
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