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Guest AuthorOctober 22, 2013

It was a milestone: My two-and-a-half year old wanted ice cream, and my nearly four-year-old told her, “Sorry, it is all gone.” This was the first recognition from her that Brett and I, as parents, don’t possess magical powers to make things materialize on demand. But my relief was short-lived. “Mommy, can you go to […]

Guest AuthorOctober 22, 2013

If you read the recent headlines or listened to the talking heads about the outcome of the recent shutdown battle, you’d think that Ted Cruz is not only the most unpopular politician in America, but is actually on his way to becoming the greatest political pariah since Benedict Arnold. Talk about pure political vilification: Cruz […]

Daniel TilsonOctober 20, 2013

Although Florida’s Republican U.S. House contingent voted 10-6 against ending the shutdown and raising the debt ceiling, a cooler overall collection of bipartisan heads prevailed last week in averting national default and reopening the American government. The full House vote was 285 in favor of raising the debt ceiling and ending the shutdown, and 144 […]

Guest AuthorOctober 7, 2013

The central tenet of the Affordable Care Act — health insurance for almost all — kicked in at the same instant that the government shutdown began last week. It was one of those conjunctions of American history that bleed with irony, like the waning days of the Civil War when Jefferson Davis drafted slaves to […]

Guest AuthorOctober 3, 2013

Our beautiful 237-year experiment in democracy has brought us to a difficult crossroad. Either we are going to continue to lurch from financial crisis to financial crisis or someone in Washington, D.C., is going to have to get over their childish temper tantrums. At this point in time I’m ready to declare a pox on […]

Julie DelegalOctober 3, 2013

“How did conservatives get this radical?” That’s the title of a recent New York Times Opinionator blog — one that’s chock-full of cutting-edge voter psychology research. The older, more basic poli-psych concepts, however, like normativism, humanism, religiosity, and punitivism might shed light on some of today’s conservative voters and politicians. These ideas shed light, for […]

Daniel TilsonSeptember 30, 2013

GOP government shutdown shenanigans aside, the launch of Affordable Care Act health insurance exchanges this week shows that Florida is lurching along on the rocky road to health-care reform. It’s high time Floridians understood that the congressional melodrama in DC has little to do with actually blocking health reform and everything to do with conservative […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 20, 2013

Many Americans believe today that the federal government has become too big, too invasive and too unwieldy. Indeed if you are one of those citizens who thought some of the questions asked during the 2010 Census were a bit too nosy, just wait until you meet the next wave of folks who may come knocking on […]

Daniel TilsonSeptember 17, 2013

In a move some will see as vain, in vain, or both, Gov. Rick Scott Monday sent a letter to U.S. congressional leaders sounding the identity-theft alarm that only opponents of Obamacare seem to find in any way alarming. The letter addressed to Republican House Speaker John Boehner and Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 17, 2013

I remember watching in disbelief as Anderson Cooper grilled Rep. Debbie Wasserman Shultz in a live interview, pointing out that her facts were all wrong. Cooper called Wasserman Shultz out for misquoting the LA Times in a fundraising letter. She had wrongly suggested that Mitt Romney endorsed the GOP’s platform plank on abortion. The truth, […]

Tag: obamacare

Karen Cyphers: Ice cream, apples and the botched Obamacare rollout

Steve Kurlander: The incorrigible Ted Cruz and his visionary rebranding of the GOP

Daniel Tilson: Holding Florida congressional shutdown supporters accountable

Pierre Tristam: The Medicare generation’s immoral war on Obamacare

Barney Bishop: A pox on both political parties

Julie Delegal: The politics of personal resentment

Daniel Tilson: New ‘public option’ at heart of health reform: Pressure

Bob McClure: Wary of the knocking navigators

Daniel Tilson: Scott ups anti-Obamacare ante with letter to Congress

Karen Cyphers: Public disapproval of Obamacare reflects flawed plan