The Courage to Lead and Persuade
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:06:47 -0700
« Today: Wine & Cheese Happy Hour to Benefit Elace Comunitario | Main Right on time comes another excellent analysis by Glenn Greenwald of what's ailing our political system. My post yesterday on pushing Dem leaders to advocate strongly on behalf of marriage equality segues nicely into Greenwald's commentary. He dissects the courageous and politically perilous campaign just begun by Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) to call attention to the horrors of the drug war and our for-profi
CARING ENOUGH
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:26:00 -0700
"an estimated 990,000 people died of malaria in 1995 – over 2700 deaths per day, or 2 deaths per minute."As I've written about in the past, malaria is the single most lethal sickness on earth, it kills more children than any other source in the world. Malaria is the world's biggest killer in the last x years, particularly in Africa aside from old age. Worldwide, 350 to 500 million people get malaria per year, and a million or more die each year. Here are some stats courtesy the CDC:Forty-one
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