"Washington State for me. Rainy, green and temperate. " Half right. I grew up in eastern Washington, where one of my jobs as a kid was to make sure we were getting all the irrigation water … (View Post)

"Chuck Morse, a longstanding politician who leads the Republican minority in the state senate." According to Wikipedia, Chuck Morse is president of the New Hampshire senate, thanks to the R… (View Post)

What is not clear to me -- and, I suspect, to many others -- is how large the gap is between what Le Pen is saying now, and what she believes. That question is routine for politicians. For example, d… (View Post)

I should have added that there are many other health care systems in the US. For example, when Mitch Daniels was governor of Indiana, he brought in a program of health savings accounts for state empl… (View Post)

I would never defend the American health care systems financing, but there is understandable confusion abroad about how they operate. For example, Medicaid is a system for the poor: https://en.wikipe… (View Post)