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Tuesday, August 29, 2006
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The Pew Research Center: "The relationship between religion and politics is a controversial one. While the public remains more supportive of religion's role in public life than in the 1960s, Americans are uneasy with the approaches offered by both liberals and conservatives. Fully 69% of Americans say that liberals have gone too far in keeping religion out of schools and government. But the proportion who express reservations about attempts by Christian conservatives to impose their religious values has edged up in the past year, with about half the public (49%) now expressing wariness about this."
Thanks to beSpacific for the link.
"2008 pres"
6:43:53 PM 
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Colorado Confidential: "The number of Americans without health insurance is increasing, according to new U.S. Census data released today, based on interviews with people from 100,000 U.S. households. More than 46 million people in the U.S. lacked health insurance in 2005, which is an increase of 1.3 million since 2004. That translates to 15.9 percent of the U.S. population uninsured in 2005.
"In Colorado, over the three years between 2003 and 2005, an average of 16.9 percent of people lacked health insurance. That's about 788,000 people-more than live in the city of Denver. Only 13 states had higher rates of people uninsured."
"2008 pres"
6:38:26 PM
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Here's the latest installment of the Rocky Mountain News series on immigration. From the article, "But these American children also are a symbol of controversy. Opponents of illegal immigration call them "anchor babies" - a term considered by many to be derogatory, even racist, because it implies that Hispanics are having children as a way to stay in the U.S. The thinking is that U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants help "anchor" the parents in the country and keep them from being deported. The refrain is that "anchor babies" help their parents tap into a gamut of free or low-cost social services, burdening taxpayers with millions of dollars in medical care and services. The reality is that having a child does little to help an illegal immigrant avoid deportation, achieve legal status or gain government services for themselves, experts say. But to some extent, opponents of illegal immigration are right about the medical costs. One in 10 births in Colorado is covered by emergency Medicaid, a category of federal aid specifically designed to cover medical care for those who are poor enough for Medicaid but can't prove legal status to qualify."
"2008 pres"
6:11:53 AM
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