Thursday, October 28, 2004
Weekend Reading
Vote and Vote Often Edition
Wow, this is it folks, the last weekend before the election. So many unknowns. It could go either way and could even be a tie. Egad. He's your weekend reading to help sooth your nerves.
The incompetent or the incoherent
YOU might have thought that, three years after a devastating terrorist attack on American soil, a period which has featured two wars, radical political and economic legislation, and an adjustment to one of the biggest stockmarket crashes in history, the campaign for the presidency would be an especially elevated and notable affair.
http://economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3329802
Electoral College is an invention of compromise
It's often stated that the framers of the Constitution gave us the Electoral College because they were leery of too much democracy or because they worried about offending the small states.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5049620.html
Mandatory Health Insurance Now!
In an ABC News/Washington Post poll last fall, 62 percent of the respondents favored a universal, government-run medical insurance program. Such surveys reflect a widespread frustration with a health care system that is too expensive, too uncertain, and too complicated.
http://www.reason.com/0411/fe.rb.mandatory.shtml
Wow, this is it folks, the last weekend before the election. So many unknowns. It could go either way and could even be a tie. Egad. He's your weekend reading to help sooth your nerves.
The incompetent or the incoherent
YOU might have thought that, three years after a devastating terrorist attack on American soil, a period which has featured two wars, radical political and economic legislation, and an adjustment to one of the biggest stockmarket crashes in history, the campaign for the presidency would be an especially elevated and notable affair.
http://economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3329802
Electoral College is an invention of compromise
It's often stated that the framers of the Constitution gave us the Electoral College because they were leery of too much democracy or because they worried about offending the small states.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5049620.html
Mandatory Health Insurance Now!
In an ABC News/Washington Post poll last fall, 62 percent of the respondents favored a universal, government-run medical insurance program. Such surveys reflect a widespread frustration with a health care system that is too expensive, too uncertain, and too complicated.
http://www.reason.com/0411/fe.rb.mandatory.shtml
