Friday, December 9, 2016

Taking a break

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Friends -- I'll be taking a few day's break from ShrinkRap and invite you to check back next Wednesday, December 14th. Ralph
Thursday, December 8, 2016

Hospitals would be imperiled by "repeal and delay"

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Republicans' plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act and give themselves three years to come up with something to replace it -- the so-c...
Wednesday, December 7, 2016

SCOTUS wrestles to disentangle race and partisan politics in redistricting and voting

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Here's something important that I didn't know about redistricting the congressional map .   I had blithely assumed that neither race...
Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Two bits of good news (maybe 3) among the bad

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1.   North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory , who soared to national infamy over the state's Republican government imposing the regressive ...
Monday, December 5, 2016

Truth vs Neutrality in reporting the news

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The admirable CNN chief international correspondent, Christiane Amanpour , was given an award from the Committee to Protect Journalists at ...
Sunday, December 4, 2016

Why health care should not be a for-profit business

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Martin Shkreli made headlines last year when he bought out the pharmaceutical company that makes the anti-parasite drug Daraprim -- and ove...
Saturday, December 3, 2016

On January 20th, Trump's oath will be to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America

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Headlines for two related articles on Huffington Post that arose after Trump's remark that people who burn the American flag should be...