“In the midst of a Democratic convention that is high on psychodrama and necessarily low on wonkish detail, it hardly seems fair to throw around a word like ‘entitlements.’ Besides, Republicans are set to commandeer the media spotlight with their own convention next week, and they can be expected to use the E-word once or twice, probably with modifiers to make it sound dirty. … So it is worth pausing during these orchestrated partisan celebrations to look afresh at entitlements. There is no more recent evidence of their enduring value than the latest report from the Census Bureau on the number of Americans who are doing without health insurance.” [editor’s note: And then this goes on to repeat the oft-debunked (and clearly fraudulent) BS about “47 million Americans don’t have health insurance,” and then endorsing more “employment-based insurance” … which makes this whole piece a sham - SAT] (08/28/08)