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After more than a year of public debate, political maneuvering, and daily media attention, the issue of healthcare in America remains unresolved. As the entire, frustrating, process drags on it reveals not only how difficult it is to find a solution to providing healthcare coverage for every American but it also exposes with glaring clarity the realties of who and what we are as a society. Those realities explain the difficulty in finding a solution.
The single overriding reality is that Ameri ...
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Warning, this column is X-Rated
Sex sells. Just ask the folks who produce Viagra or Internet pornography. The more lurid or unusual the sexual behavior, the greater is the interest. The media predictably goes into hyper drive over the sexual escapades of celebrities like Tiger Wood ...
Caught in an eddy of political flotsom
President Obama’s first State of the Union address was impressive in its eloquence, confrontational force, and stern sincerity. He faced his critics head on, chastised them and challenged them to help find solutions to the nation’s pending problems. ...
Live unfree and die anyway
Here we go again. Another wanna-be martyr has attempted to bring down a U.S. airliner. For reasons that appear to include faulty materials or his own ineptitude, this servant of god failed to murder a plane load of infidels. Nevertheless, the predict ...
A Christmas Complaint
Scrooge had it right; Christmas is a humbug, a poor excuse to empty one’s pockets every December 25th. Christmas has become a burden of expectation and obligation; a flurry of shopping, setting up a tree, and sending out cards. For children, it can b ...
1,2,3, WHAT ARE WE FIGHTING FOR?
Defending his decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan, President Obama argues that Afghanistan is not Vietnam. While those two countries are very different places, both are alike in that they share the dubious distinction as having been venues for America’s display of obstinate military maundering.
The University of California, Inc.
As expected, the University of California’s Board of Regents has raised tuition fees by 32%. Such a steep increase in the price of anything usually triggers a certain incredulity as to its justification. Oil companies were widely suspected of price gouging when fuel prices quickly spiked by 50% last year. How can anything suddenly cost so much more?
- So much for gun control
- Engineering a better city
- No. 1 in arms and in debt
- You are growing sleepy, very sleepy
- Color Them Gone
- A Matter of Priorities
- What This Says About Us
- Reaching Record Levels Ridiculousness
- National Health Care- Oh the Horror
- The land of the relatively free
- The two sides of self interest
- Abortion is pro-life
- An epidemic of cerebral sclerosis
- Wildfires and a Cloud of Political Smoke
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