We’re Fighting With Roxanne

The Sensible Horizon is endorsing Roxanne Conlin (D-IA) in her U.S. Senate race against Chuck Grassley (R-IA)!!!
Below is a copy of a Letter to the Editor I just sent the Grinnell College newspaper, the Scarlett and Black. It elucidates this sensible and important choice:
Sometimes rare opportunities emerge, big and small, to catalyze a transformational change; [...]

The Moral Argument Against Health Care Reform.

Depending on who you ask, the Democrat’s health care reform efforts fall somewhere on the political spectrum between “dead” for at least another generation and “at the two-yard line” of reaching a final deal. I tend to believe reality falls somewhere much closer to the later sentiment than the former. On January 30, for example, [...]

Massachusetts and Health Care: The Fight Must Go On…

You can take a great deal of meaning out of the result of yesterday’s Massachusetts special election in many different ways. For someone of my leanings, most of it is pretty grim. One thing would be false to infer, however, is that it was a failed referendum on health care reform. In the grand scheme of things, I really don’t see this election as a “game-changer” so to say. True reform of the system to cut costs is something that cannot be achieved through legislation alone, and remains unaffected by Scott Brown’s victory.

A Beautiful Disaster

It doesn’t take a genius to realize that Haiti will need more than a little push from the outside world if they ever are to sustainably climb out of poverty. But out past efforts at providing aid for development have failed. Thus, I hope that we take the opportunity that this tragedy has provided to rethink our approach to tackling global poverty. It’s high time for some new ideas.

Stimulus Saves 1.5-2 Million Jobs

For all the criticism Obama has been getting lately, evidence suggests his stimulus package has saved nearly 2 million jobs and spurred a substantial part of the economic growth we’ve experienced during the last 2 quarters.