Now that Obama is starting to lead "mainstream" Democrats to endorse a single-payer medical system, we will have to campaign to ensure it isn't watered down into something much less.

I propose this watchword: if it still offers private insurance companies a role, it doesn't go far enough. Those companies are already scamming patients by leaving large expenses uncovered.

Doctors and hospitals should not be allowed to bill patients directly for any part of the care covered by the system, except system-approved co-pays, and those should exist only for outpatient care.

Duke Energy was very slow in removing the coal ash from an insecure waste dump next to a coal plant that shut in 2013. As a result, the ash was still around for Hurricane Florence to wash pollution out of it.

Justice Department Attempts to Suppress Evidence That the Border Patrol Targeted Humanitarian Volunteers.

PISSI has reshaped itself into a guerrilla force; the Iraqi army is unable to fight it effectively.

PISSI gets support from some of the Sunnis, who generally feel repressed by the majority Shi'ites. Their experience with being ruled by PISSI was worse than the Iraqi state, but now that the Iraqi state rules them again and PISSI does not, they seem to be forgetting that lesson.

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