50 Million People Without Health Care Await A Deadly Pandemic

I’m not talking about some third world country, I’m talking about the United States.  Approximately 50 million Americans have no health insurance and now face the prospect of being turned away from for-profit hospitals if they are in need of treatment for swine flu.  So why is that a concern?  Isn’t that also the way [...]

Read Full Post »

Is the NSA Reading My Blog?

It wasn’t long after 9/11 that the Bush administration decided that it needed better information about possible future attacks.  Clearly, if you know that an attack is coming you have a better chance of preventing it.  This logic is faultless, but in it’s inimitable style, the Bush administration was heavy handed, careless of the rights [...]

Read Full Post »

Ted Kennedy – The Last of the 1960′s Great Idealists

You had to have been there to really understand.  The 1960′s were a different time in America, as different from the time before and as they are different from our present.  The 50′s were the post World War II recovery years, led by President Eisenhower, the former Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in [...]

Read Full Post »

Let’s Circumcise Everyone!

Well, the inevitable has finally happened.  The New York Times has descended into the realm of bullshit.  Remember when it used to proudly proclaim “All the news that’s fit to print”? Actually, it still does tout that line, except that it is no longer true.  Yesterday, a “health” writer for the New York Times, Roni [...]

Read Full Post »

The Afghanistan War – Can We Win?

The U.S. military is now saying that they don’t have enough troops in Afghanistan to win the war.  This is despite the fact that President Obama has recently made a major increase in the number of troops in Afghanistan, even as we withdraw from Iraq.  The question we need to be asking ourselves about Afghanistan [...]

Read Full Post »