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Stephen Hawking’s Health Care

August 17th, 2009

As reported in the Canadian National Post, a recent editorial in Investor’s Business Daily titled “How House Bill Runs Over Grandma” stated: People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the UK, where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless. One problem: Hawking is [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Hawking, health care, NHS
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Challenging the Premise

August 17th, 2009

Its time — way past time — for us to stop focusing on the details and the cost of the Obama administrations proposals and start challenging the very premise. The premise that government should be allowed to run roughshod over individuals and over the free-market.

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: excessive government, health care
Categories: Life, News, Politics | Comments (11) | Home

The GOP’s Misplaced Rage

August 16th, 2009

From Bruce Bartlett, a well-known conservative economist: Where is the evidence that everything would be better if Republicans were in charge? Does anyone believe the economy would be growing faster or that unemployment would be lower today if John McCain had won the election? I know of no economist who holds that view. The economy [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Bush, Obama, partisanship, politicians
Categories: Economics, Politics | Comments (4) | Home

Health Care Debate Debacle

August 15th, 2009

As I watch the continuing health care reform debate, I have to wonder if the nation has lost its collective mind. Opponents behave in public in ways they would never tolerate from their teenaged children. They’re often poorly informed but inflamed by talk radio extremists and well-orchestrated opposition campaigns that freely mix disinformation with valid [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Democrats, health care, press, Republicans
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The People’s Voice

August 14th, 2009

The question of what is proper etiquette when attending “town hall” meetings has become one of our most vexing questions. Evidently other, more demanding matters are laid aside until we can get everyone’s “comfort zone” tuned in. During my childhood years in rural Alabama I attended many Grange meetings, which were basically the town hall [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: Obama, Specter, town hall
Categories: Economics, News, Politics | Comments (2) | Home

Falmouth Town Hall Meeting

August 14th, 2009

By Dr. Joe Vitale I live on Cape Cod, and yesterday I went to a town hall meeting in Falmouth. I heard about the meeting about an hour before it was scheduled. It seemed to me that the meeting was not advertised very well so that the attendance would be quite small. They were successful [...]

Articles written by Guest Author
Tags: health care, John Kerry, town hall
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The Senator from Looney Tunes

August 13th, 2009

Good grief! Now this from Henry Payne’s Sketchbook in The Detroit News: Michigan just experienced its coldest July on record; global temperatures haven’t risen in more than a decade; Great Lakes water levels have resumed their 30-year cyclical rise (contrary to a decade of media scare stories that they were drying up due to global warming), and [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: global warming, Stabenow
Categories: Humor, News, Politics | Comments (2) | Home

Hillary’s Cross to Bear

August 13th, 2009

Michael Falcone notes in Poll: Higher marks for Bill Clinton at Politico.com that according to a recent Rasmussen poll, Bill Clinton has a 58 percent public approval rating, while Hillary Clinton has a 53 percent positive rating. A lot has been written and there’s been lots of comment on the juxtaposition of Bill’s trip to North [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton
Categories: Humor, News, Politics | Comments (8) | Home

Paglia on Health Care

August 12th, 2009

Obama’s healthcare horror by Camille Paglia is subtitled “Heads should roll — beginning with Nancy Pelosi’s!” Paglia’s monthly column at Salon.com is always refreshing and thought-provoking. She’s a committed Democrat, a liberal, and a strong Obama supporter. But that doesn’t stop her from telling the truth as she sees it without regard to whose ox is being gored. [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Gates, Obama, Paglia, Palin, Pelosi
Categories: Arts, Humor, Life, Politics | Comments (0) | Home

Specter Hectored at Town Hall

August 12th, 2009

It was an unhappy Arlen Specter who left the town-hall-style meeting in Lebanon, Pennsylvania yesterday. He did all he could to keep the meeting orderly: he had his staff rent a small auditorium at the Harrisburg Area Community College that seated 250 people, but over 1,000 showed up; he limited the questioners to the first [...]

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: health care, Specter, town hall
Categories: Life, News, Politics | Comments (8) | Home

Recruiting for Peace

August 11th, 2009

Suel D. Jones is on an unusual mission. The 60-ish Vietnam vet, who hails from Texas and has a hideaway cabin in Alaska, wants to create a Veterans For Peace chapter in Hanoi. “I already got 10 members,” Jones said last week as he talked up his latest campaign, while hawking copies of his memoir, [...]

Articles written by Jan Barry
Tags: antiwar, IVAW, MFSO, VFP
Categories: Military, News, Politics | Comments (4) | Home

E-mail to flag@whitehouse.gov

August 11th, 2009

Thanks for giving real Americans this forum to express their displeasure with the proposed healthcare legislation — even though that was not your original intent. I’m sure this e-mail will do no more than add another item to your “trash folder” but I feel better about going directly to the government and snitching on myself rather than have someone turn me in for telling the truth.

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: health care, Hoyer, Obamacare, Pelosi
Categories: Life, News, Politics | Comments (3) | Home

Cruelty and Oppression in Islam

August 10th, 2009

I read a report in the The Jerusalem Post a few weeks ago that really got my attention, and I just came across it again. Headlined I wed Iranian girls before execution, it highlights, once again, the cruel and primitive nature of Islam, at least as it’s practiced in Iran and by far too many Muslims [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Iran, Islam, Muslims
Categories: Life, News, Politics | Comments (4) | Home

How Low Can the Bar Go?

August 8th, 2009

Since President Obama moved into the oval office the national debt has skyrocketed; unemployment is at a record high in many places; there is legislation pending that, by all indications, will eventually bankrupt the government (technically it already qualifies for bankruptcy) as well as the free-market; a judicial activist has just been appointed to the Supreme Court; the government is in the process of spending $3 billion to buy old cars and then, this morning, a story lead in the Washington Post informs me that: “Dow and S&P Close at New ’09 Highs.”

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: economy, green, unemployment
Categories: Economics, News, Politics | Comments (7) | Home

The Great Compromise

August 7th, 2009

Joel Achenbach in Senators From Nowhere in The Washington Post: The six senators pushing for a compromise deal on health care — and meeting [on August 6] with President Obama — apparently aren’t going to be spending a lot of time meeting constituents in “town hall” gatherings back home. This is because they come from states without [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Great Compromise, representation, Senate
Categories: History, Politics | Comments (7) | Home

Coming To Pass?

August 6th, 2009

Several years ago I read the Richard Adams novel, Watership Down. It enjoyed a lengthy period on the best-seller list and became required reading in many schools. The book heralded the lives of a group of young rabbits in search of a better life. The story runs the gamut of happy and sad events as [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: freedom, Watership Down
Categories: Arts, Life, Politics | Comments (4) | Home

Partisan Confirmation

August 6th, 2009

Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by the Senate today. The vote was 68 to 31. Senator Ted Kennedy was not present to vote because he suffers from brain cancer and was too ill to attend. All 31 votes against her confirmation came from Republicans. Of 40 Republican senators, [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: confirmation, partisanship, Sotomayor
Categories: News, Politics | Comments (5) | Home

The Gone Series

August 5th, 2009

I just started a new series of books called the Gone series by Michael Grant. There are two books in the series right now, but it’s going to be a six-book series. The first one is called Gone. The second book is called Hunger. In Gone, all the adults and anyone over 14 years old just [...]

Articles written by Amber
Tags: gone, hunger, michael grant
Categories: Arts, Life | Comments (6) | Home

A Tax By Any Other Name Still Stinks

August 5th, 2009

President Obama is a firm and strong believer in large government and total control. It is imperative that everyone understand what Obama believes and where that belief system will lead the United States.

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: business, health care, Obama, taxes
Categories: Economics, News, Politics | Comments (7) | Home

Clunkers and Taxes

August 5th, 2009

According to Brian’s test I’m a Centrist and not a hard-right conservative after all. Nonetheless, I truly dislike most politicians, especially the liberals. They are parasites growing rich and fat at the expense of all of us. Now they even want to destroy my old car because it ain’t “green.” To hell with ‘em. My [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: clunker, taxes
Categories: Economics, News, Politics | Comments (7) | Home

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