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Congressman Paul’s unfortunate newsletters should not blind us to the deeper message of his candidacy.
Archive for the ‘Intellectual disability’ Category
November 22nd, 2011
Category: Intellectual disability
h/t Mike Sheehan. (By the way, I support related charities here and here and here.)
November 1st, 2011
If you look up the term “anti-charismatic” in the new Oxford English multimedia dictionary, you get the left-side video in this Bloggingheads video. My friend Don Taylor, who teaches public policy at Duke, benefits from the comparison. Oh yeah. his terrific book “Balancing The Budget is a Progressive Priority” is available here.
June 22nd, 2011
Category: Intellectual disability, Medicaid
During the current fiscal crisis, red states are cutting services to intellectually disabled Americans and their families.
June 14th, 2011
My essay on the vaccine-autism controversy came out today in Democracy. If you don’t read Democracy, you should. The list of luminaries on the masthead is quite impressive. I’m grateful to Michael Tomasky and Elbert Ventura for the opportunity to publish in such a terrific place, and for the careful editing. RBC readers know that [...]
January 6th, 2011
Category: Intellectual disability
It’s good to see sane talk about end-of-life care and about the nonlink between vaccines and autism. Yet every day, critically ill patients, families of children with autism, and others have genuine experiences that lead them to distrust and dislike medical authority. As long as this is the reality, there will be a market niche in which peddlers of paranoia and flim-flam will flourish.
December 25th, 2010
Category: Intellectual disability
Seventh-grader Mike Sabath made this video. Pretty amazing, and for a good cause.
December 11th, 2010
Category: Intellectual disability, Palin
Sarah Palin is everywhere from Time Magazine to the Wall Street Journal to Dancing with the Stars. Yet when it comes to disability policies of critical importance to millions of families facing similar challenges to those facing her, she remains MIA.
November 25th, 2010
Category: Intellectual disability, Personal moment
More so than myself, my wife Veronica and her brother Vincent are attached to cherished holiday rituals. Since my in-laws have both passed away, we carry on these rituals in our home. These rituals provide much joy and not a little sadness. “I lived with Mom,” Vincent remarked out of nowhere. “She died. Now I [...]
October 28th, 2010
Category: Intellectual disability
More human consequences of the state budget crisis
