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“Health Care Reform” vs. “Health Insurance Reform”

A few weeks ago, President Obama tried to rename his health care reform package as “health insurance reform.”   I’m thinking the idea here is that everyone in the US pretty much hates health insurance as we know it, so the idea of reforming health insurance would be highly appealing – perhaps even more appealing than [...]

Prop 8 and Sotomayer on Abortion: A Big Searching Day

Google’s servers must be on fire today with searches relating to two big judicial news stories: Proposition 8 upheld by the CA Supreme Court, and Obama’s nomination of federal appelate court judge Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court. I was curious which of these news items would get a higher volume of searches today.  [...]