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10 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Make ObamaCare’s Fai... · 0 replies · +2 points

http://clarespark.com/2012/12/14/james-pagano-md-.... An updated comment from an ER physician who has been upset since 2009 when it became clear that socialized medicine was on the way. He has much to say about the actual functioning of Medicaid.

10 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Make ObamaCare’s Fai... · 0 replies · +3 points

I have been fretting about the route to socialized medicine since 2009. It is fascinating that it took the GOP until now to make a fuss. See an updated blog by an ER doctor on my website: http://clarespark.com/2012/12/14/james-pagano-md-.... "James Pagano M.D. on healthcare chaos, updated."

10 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Is It Wrong to Root fo... · 0 replies · +1 points

An ER doctor predicts the future of much health care here: http://clarespark.com/2012/12/14/james-pagano-md-.... "James Pagano MD on health care chaos, updated." It has been very well received on my website.

10 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - The Tea Party Mindset · 0 replies · +1 points

Perhaps the Tea Party is reacting to bipartisan and deceptive progressivism, that I described here as it existed in The Nation in 1919. See http://clarespark.com/2009/09/19/populism-progres.... Populism, progressivism, and corporatist liberalism in The Nation, 1919."

10 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - The Tea Party Mindset · 0 replies · +1 points

Are we really living in a fallen world? I think not. See http://clarespark.com/2010/11/21/through-a-glass-.... "Through a Glass, Darkly." What happened to the Enlightenment?

10 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - The Tea Party Mindset · 0 replies · +1 points

I strongly object to the notion that we are a fallen world. The scientific revolution changed all that. See http://clarespark.com/2010/11/21/through-a-glass-.... "Through a Glass Darkly."

10 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Who Lost the Shutdown ... · 0 replies · +3 points

http://clarespark.com/2012/06/03/connecting-vs-co.... The moderate men (like the author of this piece) come out of Talcott Parsons's notion of moderation and the neutral state. See "Connecting vs. connecting the dots" for my contrast of communists and moderates, with classical liberalism lurking in the background as the sane alternative.

10 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Tea Party v. Establish... · 0 replies · +3 points

A sane politics begins with the history of the Progressive movement, and its moderate wing. There is a structural tension between big business and small business (the latter tend toward Tea Party politics). I wrote about that big turning point here: http://clarespark.com/2009/09/19/populism-progres.... "Populism, progressivism, and corporatist liberalism in The Nation, 1919." The future of capitalism is on the line, unless you prefer "friendly fascism" or full-throated communism, American style.

10 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Is the Shutdown Caucus... · 0 replies · +4 points

All the elderly moderate men are shrieking at the younger Republicans. I stand with youth and raising hell. McCain couldn't defeat Obama, yet he has the nerve to play the wise elder. You too Tobin. See http://clarespark.com/2013/09/25/generational-con.... "Generational conflict, Remarque, and Ted Cruz."

10 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Is Racial Equality Unc... · 0 replies · +1 points