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  • Shikha Dalmia: 'Scientific' liberals should accept results of science

    Shikha Dalmia

    Published: Sat, May 11, 2013

    Those who deny that germs cause disease shouldn't call their opponents anti-science. But that's exactly what HBO comedian and germ-theory-denier Bill Maher routinely calls Republicans to hearty applause. The core trait of a scientific mind is that when its commitments clash with evidence,...

  • Shikha Dalmia: Conservative nonsense on immigration reform

    Shikha Dalmia

    Published: Thu, Apr 25, 2013

    Remember the story about the drunk who loses his car keys in the forest but looks for them under a lamp post because that's where the light is? Conservative calls to fight terrorism in the wake of the Boston attack by ditching immigration reform make just as much sense. The difference is...

  • Shikha Dalmia: Obamacare is Obama's Iraq War

    Shikha Dalmia

    Updated: Thu, Mar 28, 2013

    Not even the most ardent defenders of Obamacare -- aka the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act -- claim anymore that the law will lower health coverage costs for Americans. How, then, will it achieve universal coverage, its central goal? The short answer is, it won't. Last week, major...

  • Shikha Dalmia: Democratic obstacles to immigration reform

    Shikha Dalmia

    Published: Thu, Mar 14, 2013

    On immigration reform, Republicans are supposed to be the bad guys and Democrats the good guys. Republicans think only about their own political interests, Democrats only about poor immigrants and the country. The part about Republicans is certainly true. But the part about Democrats? Not...

  • Shikha Dalmia: Stop sequester by collecting bailout dollars

    Shikha Dalmia

    Published: Thu, Feb 28, 2013

    President Obama has been jetting around the country, warning of untold pain and suffering starting today when the sequester budget cuts kick in. But if he really buys his own gloom and doom, there is a way he can avoid major cuts for the rest of the fiscal year: Recall the outstanding Troubled...



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