Shakespeare and the current Republican Party do not exactly fit within the same imagery. We do not see Sarah Palin quoting Shakespeare, something that might not surprise us to hear from either the President or the Vice President. The point is that we have long, long since reduced our expectations of erudition or even fiscally [...]
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What’s in a Name? Republicans Are Now the Neoconservative Obstructionist Party
October 31st, 2009 · Comments Off · General, Health Care, Media, Politics
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Three Senators Vote No On Real Health Care Reform. Toss Them Out!
September 29th, 2009 · Comments Off · General
In the Senate Finance Committe hearings on health care today, Senators Baucus of Montana, Kent Conrad of North Dakota, and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas voted against the mildest form of public option. There is no other conclusion than that they are against real health care reform. Every knowledgeable commentator, reporter, and any objective consultant will [...]
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Republicans Must Stop Hate Speech…Or Become the Racist Party
September 29th, 2009 · Comments Off · Culture, General
The Internet and cable television have had an explosive effect upon mass media communications. People who were barely noticable years ago, in small isolated markets both geographically and categorically now have achieved what many of them seek–notoriety. Apparently simple minds have simple objectives. People like Bill O’Reilly, a gossip columnist, who now pretends to authority on political matters. [...]
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What Ever Happened to the Real Republican Party?
September 16th, 2009 · Comments Off · General
It is so interesting, this Neoconservative Republican Party has quite probably fallen to its lowest ebb…perhaps…in its history. The disgusting and moronic tea party placards and vile, ignorant shouting and screaming at government officials, hardly reflects the image of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Ulysses S. Grant or Dwight D. Eisenhower. Nor does [...]
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Why Tea Party Participants Are Nobodies, Like Most Americans
September 12th, 2009 · Comments Off · General
We are seeing a lot of people with signs running around Washington, D.C. complaining about Nancy Pelosi and President Obama, calling them liars, asking for their “freedom” back, complaining about taxes (even though, of all industrialized nations, we have the lowest taxes in the world) and spewing out hate speech of all kinds. Who are [...]
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Franken, Reagan, Health Care Reform And Our Debt to Unions
September 5th, 2009 · Comments Off · General
Every American must support health care reform as if your life depended on it, because it does. From the man in his late 40s with a family who is laid off to a young person in the workforce but not quite making enough money to cover her health insurance, to the divorced women with children [...]
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The Truth About Health Care Reform–What It Means to You.
August 4th, 2009 · Comments Off · General, Health Care, Politics
One More Time….! You will not lose your Medicare Coverage. Medicare will stay the same. You will not see costs go up, either in the private sector or with the new public option. If anything, they will go down and probably go down dramatically. There will be no rationing. Don’t tell me why this must [...]
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Is Lou Dobbs, Like Other Republicans, Simply a Thinly-Veiled Racist?
August 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off · Culture, General, Media
After watching a few of the Lou Dobbs interviews and commentary lately, it is pretty clear that he has some serious problems with immigration. Dobbs has long been an advocate, as many are, for much stronger immigration policies. As a result, many people, Hispanics especially, began to fire back at him about racism. But was [...]
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The Economy, Unemployment, Foreclosures, Projections, Health Care and–Some–Good News.
July 30th, 2009 · Comments Off · Economics, General
A few items on the economy. Some people want to know where it is going. Here’s what we know about the economy, housing, mortgages, foreclosures, unemployment and health care…because that is a big part of making an economic comeback. Economic Status and Projections Starting with the overall economic condition, the Federal Reserve says that it [...]
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Obama & Health Care: the New York Times Reports the…Facts?
July 23rd, 2009 · 6 Comments · General, Health Care, Media, Politics
It may be time for much greater changes than simply transforming health care. We may be looking at a political and social climate that requires a sea-change in our entire society. The New York Times, one of the last several bastions of democratic free speech, honesty and truth has capitulated to the endless badgering of [...]
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Health Care Wars, Part III: It’s All About the Money.
July 14th, 2009 · Comments Off · General
In an earlier post, “Democrat or Republican, Here’s How to See Health Care” we examined health care from a company’s perspective. Let’s suppose you decided to start a health care company. A “for-profit” company rather than a non-profit. So, we looked at that in probably the most benign way possible. From a relatively simple operation, [...]
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Towards a New Populism for the United States
July 4th, 2009 · Comments Off · Culture, General, Politics
Everything hardens in the cold–butter, plastic, even skin. In a system begun 233 years ago with the urge to be free of oppression and to create a system of government that would eliminate the possibility of oppression, the politics of administering such a system were fluid. Those systems have now hardened into two opposing philosophies [...]
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Democrat or Republican, Here’s How to See Health Care.
June 30th, 2009 · Comments Off · Culture, Economics, General, Health Care, Politics
Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, if you are now or ever have been or ever will be a patient, here is how you should look at health care. You should look at it from the perspective of the private health insurance company. You’ll see. They’re not bad guys, generally speaking. If I [...]
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Don’t Let Obstructionists Like Grassley, Roberts and Issacson Bury Health Care in Amendments!
June 29th, 2009 · Comments Off · Economics, General, Health Care, Politics
We all know what happens when the Republicans get on the phone with lobbyists. The best laid plans of Presidents and Senators gang oft agley. This time it is the most urgent matter of our time and the guy you need to threaten with being tossed out of office is Chuck Grassley of Iowa. This [...]
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Family Doctors Want Public Health Care Option.
June 25th, 2009 · Comments Off · General, Health Care
The American Academy of Family Physicians are those, who with some other primary care physicians, such as osteopaths, comprise the roughly 300,000 first providers in the country. On the AAFP web site, an article by James Arvantes, notes that: “The AAFP has long assailed the U.S. health care system as a nonsystem of uncoordinated, fragmented [...]
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