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Blog Entries by Marty Kaplan from 01/2010

Mercury Is Poison

| Posted 01.04.2010 | Politics
Read More: Mercury Insurance, Health Insurance, Preexisting Condition, Car Insurance, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News

If you want a preview of what health insurers may do if they're forced to cover people with pre-existing medical conditions, have a look at what Mercury Insurance wants to do to drivers with pre-existing driving conditions.

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Thank You, Norman Lear

| Posted 01.19.2010 | Entertainment
Read More: Maude, Norman-Lear-Center, All in the Family, Entertainment, Norman Lear, Entertainment News

The Norman Lear Center gets its name from a man whose belief in the power of entertainment to degrade and to do good, to demagogue and to uplift, to be both gloriously silly and urgently relevant, made him an industry pioneer.

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Why Are Republicans Better Storytellers?

| Posted 01.21.2010 | Politics
Read More: Big Business, Climate Change, Democrats, Big Government, Health Care, Republicans, Politics News

Democrats may have the facts on their side, and things may well be too complex to explain with slogans, but that doesn't mean that locating events on a simple story line is beneath the dignity of educated people.

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