Hobbes on Healthcare: Are We A Commonwealth?

***  Sorry about the length and/or lack of quotes on Hobbes.  I am home for break and I didn’t bring my book, and this was not meant to be a long entry, but instead something short about the debate.  Then I started flowing and  it turned into something much more.  It contains a bunch of [...]

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Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nancy Pelosi

 As I was reading Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail, I couldn’t help but think of the protests and rallies that have been going on across the United States throughout the summer, the Tea Parties and health care protestors. These Tea Parties, which protest the expansion of government and higher rates of taxation, [...]

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