Homeland Insecurity

Here we go again.  Another lunatic tries to blow up an airplane and the Department of Homeland Security once again responds in a way that can only make one wonder if they give an IQ test for employment that specifies not a minimum IQ, but a maximum IQ – maybe around 60.  This sad department [...]

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The Health Care Debacle – What It Means

Emotions have run high on both sides of the issue.  Is access to health care a right, a privilege, or a commodity?  The answer, it seems, depends upon where you stand.  Today, as the U.S. Congress continues to thrash through the process of considering the health care bill, accusations fly from both sides, with Senator [...]

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Global Warming – Fact or Fiction?

OK, let’s face it.  There can be little doubt that the Earth is warming. The northern poles are melting. Mountain glaciers in Peru are melting.  Glacier National Park in the U.S. is losing its glaciers.  The Earth is warming – but the real question that causes such controversy is this: Why? Why are we warming [...]

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China’s Success: The Triumph of Communism?

For America’s capitalists, it is the 800 pound, unacknowledged gorilla in the room.  China has the most successful economy in the world today. Despite the current worldwide economic meltdown that has caused the worst recession in America since the Great Depression, China has not had a recession.  The great engine of the Chinese economy has [...]

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Obama’s Dilemma: Jobs

Today, the national unemployment rate is at 10%.  So far, the Obama administration has spent only about $200 billion of the allocated economic stimulus money- about 1/4 of what has been appropriated. One might conclude that President Obama doesn’t have a sense of urgency about the country’s economic situation.  While the President’s attention has been [...]

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