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    Why I think there is a deep-state conspiracy to demonize single-payer healthcare

    What if everything you thought about single payer was wrong? What if the reason we don't have it and there's so much opposition to it is not because of the greed of the insurance companies, corruption, or the influence of private interests at all? This is what most progressives believe is...
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    Strict gun laws aren't so much about reducing gun violence but putting gun owners in their place

    I don't think the main purpose of passing gun laws is to reduce gun deaths, or even to reduce crime. To me, it's a beneficial side effect. I see the main purpose of strict gun laws as "sending a message" to gun owners that their right to own a firearm is not absolute, that they are not...
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    People who say that the wall won't work because the Great Wall of China didn't work aren't thinking

    I've noticed some people mostly from the left who mention that since the Great Wall of China didn't prevent the Mongol invasion, walls don't work, and so we shouldn't build a wall on the southern border. Well, let's look at this claim more carefully. Was the Great Wall of China worth building...
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    Analysis of Prop 8, an initiative in CA restricting the amount dialysis providers

    In California, Proposition 8, which would have required for profit dialysis providers to limit their profits to 115% of the costs of direct patient care, was defeated. Interest groups spent over $100 million campaigning against the proposed initiative. It is a defeat for patients' rights groups...
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    I think the Atomwaffen SS or other extreme right groups sent the pipe bombs

    The question that is on everyone's mind the last few days is who is behind the sending of the pipe bombs to Democratic officials. Certainly, whoever sent them wants us to think about this and point the finger at Trump supporters. But let's analyze the bomber's motives at a deeper level...
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    Rebuttal to President Trump's claims that Medicare for all would turn us into Venezuela

    I just listened to President Trump say we'd become like Venezuela if we extend Medicare to everyone. Would taxes have to be raised by so much that our economy would collapse or be severely weakened? First of all, America not only "survived" a 90% marginal tax rate throughout the 1950s, we...
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