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fivefeetoffury.com - 3/6/2009

Times have changed and now the poor get fat

— fivefeetoffury.com — Today's "poor" are the rich Jesus warned you about: fat, slovenly, wasteful of their money and other... people's. I prefer to call them "the broke." A lot of (really naive) people are wondering (or pretending to wonder, when they're in public) ... (more) Times have changed and now the poor get fat

The New York Times

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motherjones.com - 3/5/2009

Screwing the Poor

— motherjones.com — Karen Tumulty writes in Time this week about her brother, Pat, who was diagnosed with kidney failure... and then learned that the private insurance he'd been paying for for years wouldn't cover him. That's bad enough, but then there's this: A paradox of ... (more) Screwing the Poor

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fivethirtyeight.com - 3/9/2009

Rich and Poor Voters in 2008

— fivethirtyeight.com — I posted some maps the other day showing estimates of who would've won each state in the... recent presidential election, based on a multilevel model of state and income categories, fit to data from the 2008 Pew pre-election polls. I realized that the ... (more) Rich and Poor Voters in 2008

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Huffington Post

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Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-02/04/xin_36202060420293121678543.JPG Attorney General Eric Holder touched off a firestorm the other week when he referred to America as a " nation of cowards " on race. Many of us, of course, were predictably offended that the Attorney General of the United States would refer to this great nation in such a way. On the other hand, one has to admit that most Americans are, in fact, afraid to discuss race. This fear, however, is not irrational. In fact, avoidance of this topic is generally a prudent decision. Part of the problem was the messenger. I can't help but believe that if Bill Cosby -- who has spent a lifetime earning credibility on this ...