MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'american history'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:40:57 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4696607&cid=t_197426_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FGaYv4vnKj9A%2F By David BoazIn this week’s Britannica column, I look at the claims being made for the budget cuts in the weekend deal: “The largest annual spending cut in our history,” President Obama said. Speaker of the House John Boehner called it the “largest real dollar spending cut in American history.” Saturday’s front-page, upper-right headline in the Washington Post proclaimed: BIGGEST CUTS IN U.S. HISTORY The story went on to say that Obama “said the cuts would be painful but necessary.” NPR’s Andrea Seabrook reported, “The Republicans got big, big cuts.” And are they? Please. It’s a cut of $38 billion in a budget of $3,819 billion. That’s 1 percent. That’s a rounding error in federal budgeting…. That same budget table shows that federal spending fell f... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4696607 Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:20:24 +0100 4696607 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4241706&cid=t_197426_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FS8Y9lgcbXxs%2F By Neal McCluskeyOver on the Think Progress blog, Ian Millhiser accuses Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) of never having read the Constitution. His grounds for the accusation? Coburn, citing Jefferson, doesn’t think that the Constitution gives the federal government authority to provide such things as Pell Grants and student loans. Writes Millhiser: Sen. Coburn might want to try actually read the Constitution before he pretends to know what it allows. Article I provides that “[t]he Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States,” a grant of power that unambiguously empowers Congress to raise funds and spend them on programs that are broadly beneficial to America... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4241706 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:58:04 +0100 4241706 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4190130&cid=t_197426_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F6mRrN-Dbd6I%2F By Neal McCluskeyLast week, Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA) published a call in The Hill for a much bigger federal role in elementary and secondary education. His plans are loaded with flaws too numerous to dissect here, so I’ll just highlight one, depressing thing about his piece: his bizarro constitutional history. Follow Honda’s narrative and you’d think for most of our history the feds stayed out of education because of the Articles of Confederation, and a jerky little state called Rhode Island: Inequity in education has historical roots. At its inception, the Federal Government lacked the capacity and the authority to take responsibility for public education. Before the Constitution was drafted, the 13 colonies operated under the Articles of Confederation, created by the S... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4190130 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:51:38 +0100 4190130 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4133834&cid=t_197426_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F11%2F02%2Fthomas-bornemann-ed-d-on-the-26th-annual-carter-symposium-on-mental-health-policy%2F Psych Central will again be partnering with The Carter Center to bring you media coverage of the 26th Annual Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy. This year’s symposium focuses on the unique challenges for mental health care and community reintegration faced by National Guard and reserve veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. The event will also be webcast live on The Carter Center’s website. Recently, I had the pleasure to sit down with Thomas H. Bornemann, Ed.D., the Director of the Carter Center Mental Health Program to talk to him about this year’s symposium agenda. John M. Grohol, Psy.D.:  So talk to me a little bit about the theme of this year’s symposium. I understand it has to do with policy surrounding helping vets gets access to mental health c... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4133834 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:03:05 +0100 4133834 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3721742&cid=t_197426_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fkids-reenact-the-american-revolution-ridiculously-cute-video-of-the-day%2F Sometimes we get so caught up in all the fireworks, hot dogs, and beer that we forget about the true meaning of the Fourth of July: Absurdly adorable children. Oh, and the American Revolution. Yet somehow, we thought our forefathers would be taller. Post from: BlissTree Kids Reenact the American Revolution: Ridiculously Cute Video of the Day (Source: Breastfeeding 1-2-3) Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3721742 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:05:40 +0100 3721742 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1705067&cid=t_197426_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F08%2F13%2Fthe-blame-frame-abstract%2F Situationist Contributors Jon Hanson and Kathleen Hanson recently posted their article, “The Blame Frame: Justifying (Racial) Injustice in America” (Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Vol. 41, 2006) on SSRN. Here is the abstract. * * * This Article attempts to elucidate how our forebears, who were presumably as devoted to justice and liberty in their times as we are in ours, failed to condemn behaviors that are today widely viewed as patently oppressive, unfair, and even evil. Our argument unfolds in several Parts. Part II summarizes evidence from social psychology and related fields that helps explain how people who imagine themselves fair and just routinely blame the victims of inequities and excuse the perpetrators or passive observers through blame frames. Bec... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1705067 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:30:03 +0100 1705067