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    Health Care Reform or Obstruction. Whom Should You Trust?

    March 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Health Care, Politics

    On the question of health care, in the absence of actually looking it up yourself, it all comes down to: whom do you believe?
    Do you believe the Democrats who have created the health care plan? One could assume that they created it as something for which they will be praised. They certainly realize that [...]

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    Republicans Panic, Call Voters: Be Afraid of Health Care Reform!

    March 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Health Care, Politics

    “Hello, this is Congresswoman Judy Biggert. I’m calling to warn you about Medicare…”
    How lucky am I? My Congresswoman, Judy Biggert was taking the time to call me personally about the dangers of Medicare. She called poor-little-old-me to ask if I wanted to join in on a conference call about health care reform.
    She is [...]

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    Who Created the Recession and Who Can End It

    March 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Economics, Health Care, Politics, jobs

    Jobs, jobs, jobs. It is the mantra of the Liberals. It may also be the mantra of anyone who is out of work and would like to simply earn a living. Seems too much for the Neoconservative Neanderthals to understand.
    There is one thing that the Liberals and Progressives must lodge firmly in their consciousness [...]

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    Beware the Ides of March and Neocon Budget Scare Tactics

    March 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Economics, Politics

    We are going through one of those periods right now where the Neocon anti-middle class propaganda machine is cranking out trash day and night. The result of course is that the weirdos crawl out into the daylight where you can see them and read their illiterate scrawling in every electronic blip on the Internet.
    Of [...]

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    Unemployment, Job Creation, and Back-of-the-Envelope Economics

    March 10th, 2010 · No Comments · General, Health Care, Politics, jobs

    Do you want a job? Do you need a job or know anyone who does? Do you think that there are fewer jobs than are necessary for the workforce right now?
    Sounds stupid, doesn’t it? Sounds ridiculous. Apparently not to Senators John Kyl of Arizona and Sentor Jim Bunning of Kentucky. Bunning held up unemployment insurance [...]

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    Profile of a Neoconservative: How Neocons Think and Vote.

    March 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Media, Politics, jobs, wars and militarism

    Peter Roskam was elected in 2006 to fill the seat of Rep. Henry Hyde, who retired and died. Roskam is a typical Neoconservative Republican…e.g., a Neocon. He had been a member of the Illinois State House of Representatives. He was in favor of cutting taxes. (Not very controversial.) He was in favor of preventing [...]

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    Are You an American or Are You a Neocon?

    March 5th, 2010 · No Comments · General, Politics

    The actions of John Kyl and Jim Bunning recently bring into sharp focus, as Dr. Paul Krugman, the Nobel Laureate has said, the differences between the two most prominent political parties. But it goes beyond that.
    When are you a citizen of a country? If I move to France to live, am I automatically a [...]

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    More Idiotic Propaganda From the GOP Lunatic Fringe

    March 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Health Care, Media, Politics

    The Republicans have lost the battle against health care for their supporters in the health insurance industry. With no more stalling options, they are trying to use propaganda to scare and distract Americans about the federal government. Most of it is just gibberish.
    Be assured of one thing. We are in no [...]

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    The Communist Fallacy

    March 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Media, Politics

    You might want to take everything you know about our country and have a second look.
    We all used to participate in the defense of our country. Now we have young people, mostly poor, trying to get ahead, who risk their lives for a college education while others, not risking their lives, go to college [...]

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    Torts, Filibusters, Health Care Reform and Disastrous Supreme Court Decisions

    March 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Courts and the Law, Health Care, Politics

    We are now well into this session of Congress. The Senate has already begun a pace of filibusters that will exceed that of the last session, which was already double the highest number ever. It is very clear. The Neoconservatives are committed not to the constituents who elected them but to large industrial corporations, [...]

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    The Next American Revolution

    February 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Economics, Health Care, Media, Politics, wars and militarism

    It is time for all Americans to stop what they are doing and think about the future. Your future has already been mapped out for you by a relatively small percentage of Americans, who want to eliminate the middle class. The Neoconservatives, on a mission for the very wealthy and huge international corporations, have the [...]

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    Do Americans Really Want Health Care Reform?

    February 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Health Care, Politics

    We have spent an entire year listening to politicians talk about health care, argue health care, debate health care and even do their best to obstruct health care. When Senator John McCain and then Senator Barack Obama were campaigning on the issue of health care 76%, over three-quarters of all Americans surveyed said that they [...]

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    The Grim State of the Nation

    February 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Economics, Health Care, Politics, energy, jobs

    As we are about to enter the third month of 2010, the nation is in its worst financial and economic condition since, perhaps, 1939. We have large-scale unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcies, homelessness, hunger, lack of living essentials, and many working families with huge credit card debt. The Neoconservative Republicans who control the Republican Party, have [...]

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    Health Industry Greed and Democratic Reform

    February 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Economics, Health Care, Politics

    It was the best of times, it was the worst of times….
    Yes, indeed. It was the best of times for the health care industry in 2009. And the worst of times for their customers. And it continues in 2010.
    Let’s get right to it.
    Wellpoint, UnitedHealth Group, Cigna, Aetna and Humana…the top five health insurers, earned [...]

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    Beck at CPAC: Libertarian…maybe; Populist…definitely not!

    February 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Politics

    Glenn Beck made a splendid keynote speech at the CPAC Conference. He was in rare form as are many speakers with great imagination who place no importance on the veracity of their words.
    He did, however, do something unusual and to some probably dramatic, although not impressive to those who have beaten addictions. It is [...]

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