Definition of American Culture Finally Includes Black America

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Tuesday December 16, 2008 · 3:59 PM PST

2008/12/16 · 15:59

You might not realize it from my blog, but my undergraduate work was not in economics, public policy or statistics. I did my undergraduate work in American History. I primarily studied the history of race and slavery in America. I did my undergraduate thesis on Coalition Politics and Civil Rights in Atlanta, Georgia.

Consequently, my early support for Barack Obama for President (which began precisely one minute after he walked off the convention stage in 2004) was derived from my deep seated belief that an African-American President could both unite the narrative of America with the narrative of Black America and provide incentives to African-Americans to embrace the American system as efficacious. Thus, the election of a Black president could at once affect white America's attitude toward the socioeconomic disadvantage of blacks and black America's attitude that they had no role to play in the American dream. In other words, that the election of a black President would mean that the bootstrapping American dream was finally approaching reality.

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Sunday December 07, 2008 · 1:03 PM PST

2008/12/07 · 13:03

As some of you may remember, I blogged about statistical analysis done at angry bear a few weeks back. For a lay interpretation of the statistics, review my post here. The analysis results showed a statistically significant relationship between health and public health expenditures. Contrastly, private health expenditures had no effect on health.

In my post interpreting the results, I mentioned that Americans actually receive less health services than Canadians under their public system with a ratio of .71:1. That is to say that every Americans receives .71 health services for every health service recieved by a Canadian (per the highly reputable Victor Fuch's Future of Health Policy). This statistic seems to run counter to the conservative counter argument that Canadian's have to wait in long lines for health services and that is something worth paying much more to avoid.

Ezra Klein explains why:

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Friday December 05, 2008 · 7:58 AM PST

2008/12/05 · 07:58

I have been blogging for a while now, but I am a relative rookie diarist here at KOS. I wanted to take a moment to say that I have enjoyed blogging here, enjoyed reading your blogs, and I have appreciated your comments. I was especially honored by last night's diary rescue. Thank you all very much for your comments, its good to know there are others out there who care deeply about an important subject matter.

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Thursday December 04, 2008 · 7:50 AM PST

2008/12/04 · 07:50

Warning: Policy Wonkish post below.

I have been meaning to blog about this NYT article on the recession and America's safety net for quite some time:

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Tuesday December 02, 2008 · 10:04 PM PST

2008/12/02 · 22:04

President Obama will run huge deficits in the coming years. This is a necessary response to a desperate economy. However, those of us concerned with equity must beware how the United States goes about repaying this debt in the future. Roughly 45% of the debt is owned by the federal government itself. A lesser observer may claim that a practical response would be to let the government default on the debt it owns itself. We must not let this happen.

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Wednesday November 26, 2008 · 7:45 AM PST

2008/11/26 · 07:45

EVERYONE should review this post and these numbers. The regression results are consistent with the facts that free-market health care results in adverse selection in insurance, moral hazard, and fails to price externalities.

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Tuesday November 18, 2008 · 6:30 AM PST

2008/11/18 · 06:30

Fellow web-wise wonks, fellow netroots nerds, Barack Obama has something that Bill Clinton did not: you. You know whats coming; Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Matt Drudge will attempt to drive the media narrative with attacks on President Obama and Congressional Democrats. They will seek destroy the majority and presidency we have worked so hard to regain with falsehoods about our policies and our motives, character attacks, and false scandals.

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