When Congress Cheats on Its Rules
by John Armor
We are apparently at crunch point on the efforts of President Obama, Speaker Pelosi in the House, and Majority Leader Reid in the Senate to pass by whatever means necessary the “health reform” bill. In the national debate, however, no one has asked whether the Supreme Court has [...]
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March 12, 2010
Posted by Congressman Billybob in: Commentary, Congress, Current Events, Democrat, Governance, Healthcare, Opinion, Politics
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Posted by scottqmarcus in: Diet, Health & Fitness, Healthcare, Medical, Mental Health, Nutrition
One comment Our body can’t perceive the difference between “saber-tooth tiger stress” and the “IRS is on the phone for you” stress. All it understands is that something is a kilter; we are under pressure and it reacts to deal with the [...] March 3, 2010
Posted by Minnette Coleman in: Biography & Memoir, Diet, Habit Change, Health & Fitness, Healthcare
Leave a comment She was 6 feet 1 inches and weighed 411 pounds. These figures stick to my memory because I had never met a woman so large who could move so fast and be so full of joy. I met her in the 70s when the world was still determining the worth of a woman by her [...] March 3, 2010
Posted by Muhammad Cohen in: Business, Business Management, Cancer, Congress, Current Events, Economic Crisis, Health & Fitness, Healthcare, Interview, Medical, Wellness, World Issues
Leave a comment While politicians fiddle and patients get burned, Americans’ best bet for affordable, quality medical care right now is in [...] February 22, 2010
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Commentary, Congress, Current Events, Health & Fitness, Healthcare, Medical, Opinion
One comment Making Vitamins Too Costly for Your Health By Alan Caruba At age 72 I have been taking a full range of vitamin and mineral supplements for years. Even I find it amusing to open more than a dozen bottles every morning to extract vitamins A, B, C, D and E, along with zinc, potassium, selenium, and fish [...] February 15, 2010
Posted by Bob Grant - Editor in: Accountability, Comments & Discussion, Healthcare, Question of the Day, Relationships, Social Issues
Leave a comment Do you feel a responsibility to take care of the elderly? Your relations and/or strangers? We welcome your thoughts and comments. January 27, 2010
I went to the doctor yesterday for some required blood tests. They freaked out when some level was extremely high – turns out that I have arthritis. No big shock – I could have told them that before the test. I have been getting it in my hands over the last six months. They want to [...] January 19, 2010
Posted by Muhammad Cohen in: Commentary, Communications, Current Events, Democracy, Democrat, Economic Crisis, Healthcare, Politics, Recovery, The Economy
Leave a comment After one year, President Obama has yet to defy the Nixon’s funeral rule and deliver change we can believe [...] January 9, 2010
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Commentary, Healthcare, Life Experiences, Medical, Opinion, Personal Experiences
Leave a comment The Emergency Room By Alan Caruba At age 72, I have been spared major injuries and sickness. Other than birth, I have never spent a night in a hospital, but I paid a visit a few years back for a common ailment of men of my age. I was in and out of surgery the same day. In [...] January 8, 2010
Posted by Peggy Noonan in: Commentary, Congress, Current Events, Democrat, Governance, Healthcare, Medical, Opinion, Politics, Republican
One comment The Risk of Catastrophic Victory
Passage of the health-care bill will be, for the administration, a catastrophic victory. If it is voted through in time for the State of the Union Address, as President Obama hopes, half the chamber will rise to [...] December 17, 2009
Posted by Bill Hazelgrove in: Current Events, Democracy, Health & Fitness, Healthcare, Sociology, The Pundit's Corner
One comment Joe Lieberman needs to be bitch slapped. We need Hillary or someone to get in and fight for us now. The President is too remote, too Ivy League, too government by deal. As Keith Obermann said in a piercing comment, “there is a big difference between compromise and compromised. “With the loss of the Public Option, no [...] November 27, 2009
Posted by scottqmarcus in: Commentary, Congress, Democracy, Diet, Habit Change, Health & Fitness, Healthcare, Inspiration & Motivation, Lifestyle, Medical, Nutrition, Opinion, Self-Help, Weight loss, Wellness
2 comments Quoting Cassius, “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves…” It’s easy to pronounce and pontificate about what “they” should do, it’s quite another little something to step to the platform, roll up our sleeves, and actually take action. Irrespective of legislation regarding “single payer” or “pre-existing conditions,” we must each make a difference in our own lives by establishing good health as a higher priority in day-to-day [...] November 17, 2009
Posted by Minnette Coleman in: Cancer, Family, Health & Fitness, Healthcare, Medical, Wellness, Women's Perspective
3 comments The insurance companies are trying to screw us again. By us I mean women. Well mostly women. Some men get breast cancer too. Like Richard Roundtree, the one time Ebony model who was the original “Shaft” in the movies. And like the man who was in the room next to [...] November 11, 2009
Posted by Bill Hazelgrove in: Commentary, Communications, Healthcare, Marketing, Social Aspects, Social Classes, Social Issues, Sociology, Television
2 comments You’ve seen it. You’re sitting there with your kids watching Elf or some kid movie and here they come. A middleaged couple yucking it up over some wine and before you know it they are in the bathtubs in the yard holding hands, celebrating the fact that flaccidity has been banished with CIALIS. So you [...] November 10, 2009
Posted by Bill Hazelgrove in: Current Events, Healthcare, Opinion, Politics, Recovery, The Pundit's Corner
2 comments In the depths of the Great Depression the United States government undertook the largest project in the United States to date–The Hoover Dam. Billed to provide electricity and water for the West from the Colorado river and to finally tame the Colorado so it would quit washing out farms–the dam was audacious. No one knew first [...] November 9, 2009
“I have a constitutional duty to make the right decision for my district whether or not the decision was popular.” When was the last time we heard that? It gets better. “I had to make a decision based on the needs of the people in my district…a lot of my constituents are uninsured, a lot [...] November 8, 2009
Posted by Bill Hazelgrove in: Economic Crisis, Economics, Healthcare, Opinion, Politics
Leave a comment I know a man whose job it is to call up doctors and hospitals and knock down their fees. He has a large home and shiny sports cars and acreage and stocks and bonds and his kids will go to Big Ten schools and he is very affable and is known as a man who [...] November 8, 2009
Posted by Congressman Billybob in: Accountability, Commentary, Congress, Current Events, Democrat, Healthcare, Opinion, Politics
Leave a comment Nancy Counts on Corruption November 2, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Commentary, Current Events, Economic Crisis, Energy, Environment, Healthcare, Opinion
One comment The Economic Recovery Fantasy By Alan Caruba I freely confess that I regard it as a triumph if I can balance my checkbook. My Father was a Certified Public Accountant and surely despaired of his second son (the first became a CPA!) who had no head for numbers. Like most Americans, though, I find it laughable, if not [...] October 30, 2009
Posted by Peggy Noonan in: Commentary, Current Events, Economic Crisis, Energy, Environmental Issues, Freelance Author, Healthcare, Journalism, Opinion, Politics
Leave a comment We’re Governed by Callous Children
The new economic statistics put growth at a healthy 3.5% for the third quarter. We should be dancing in the streets. No one is, because no one has any faith in these numbers. Waves of money are sloshing through the system, creating [...] October 27, 2009
Posted by Bill Hazelgrove in: Commentary, Comments & Discussion, Democracy, Governance, Healthcare, Politics, Social Issues, Sociology
4 comments We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. So if we are to take these words at their core and apply them to the year 2009 then we [...] October 26, 2009
Posted by Bill Hazelgrove in: Health & Fitness, Healthcare, Politics, Social Aspects, The Pundit's Corner
One comment Seven Million. That’s what insurance companies are spending a week to defeat this healthcare reform. Now why would that be? Is it because they are just so sure they are providing us the best healthcare out there and no other system could better serve the American public than the one where insurance companies decided who [...] October 26, 2009
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Leave a comment Speaker From The Black Lagoon Is it just me, or is Nancy Pelosi starting to look more and more like Marty Feldman? Every time I hear that grating October 22, 2009
To Health In A Handbasket By October 16, 2009
Posted by Peggy Noonan in: Commentary, Congress, Current Events, Democrat, Governance, Healthcare, Politics
Leave a comment There Is No New Frontier Here are pertinent observations from two accomplished political veterans at a forum Tuesday night at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. The question, from David Gergen, was what advice the panelists, former Reagan advisor Ken [...] October 12, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Comments & Discussion, Current Events, Foreign Affairs, Global Warming, Governance, Healthcare, Military, Opinion, Politics
Leave a comment Mr. President, Please Do NOTHING I had a strange epiphany the other day. If I were to write a letter to President Obama, it would say, “Please do nothing.” It seems to me that Obama’s forte is to do nothing much of the time. Well, not “nothing.” He is giving speeches, but those incessant, self-referencing [...] October 4, 2009
I didn’t enter this world with any specific attitude towards the medical profession, so any opinions I now hold are entirely its own work. As a child, especially as a child of the 1950s, you were used to adults paying you scant respect. For them, you as a child were merely a semi-trained adult. Consequently, they [...] October 3, 2009
Bob Ellal from this site has just written a book called ‘By These Things Men Live’ which is about his quadruple battle with cancer. That anybody should survive this recurrent battle at all is extraordinary. That s/he should do so and be a great raconteur into the bargain is even more amazing. Bob has got [...] September 30, 2009
It would certainly not be how the politicians did [...] September 28, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Comments & Discussion, Current Events, Democrat, Economic Crisis, Energy, Entertainment, Foreign Affairs, Global Warming, Governance, Healthcare, Opinion, Politics
Leave a comment All Obama, All the Time You know things are amiss when a British newspaper takes President Obama to task in an editorial titled, “Too much Obama.” America and the rest of the world have had nine months of President Obama and all the flaws that were hidden by campaign rhetoric and coverage are now on [...] September 26, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Cap and Trade, Congress, Current Events, Democrat, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Governance, Healthcare, Opinion, Politics
8 comments Liberals are Killing America By Alan Caruba It is not a new observation, but it is one that needs review and repeating every so often. Why do liberals always seem to get on the side of any issue concerning America’s future? Its sovereignty? Its financial security? Its defense? I think this question is particularly timely given the public [...] September 23, 2009
Posted by scottqmarcus in: Attitude, Diet, Habit Change, Health & Fitness, Healthcare, Inspiration & Motivation, Motivation, Personal Experiences, Self-Help, Weight loss, Wellness
2 comments From the moment she entered the jet, I could tell she did not want to be there. In addition to apologizing each time her overloaded “Big Brown Bag” banged someone in an aisle seat, she was having difficulty navigating her excessive size down the skeletal-sized aisle. I knew the other passengers were thinking, “I hope she [...] September 22, 2009
Leopards don’t change their spots. We see this with the banks. The bankers will continue giving each other bonuses and doing business as usual. Why? Because the market has not dictated they change. They received their TARP money are doing just fine thank you very much. Too late really. But this debate over health care [...] September 18, 2009
Posted by Bill Hazelgrove in: Current Events, Economic Crisis, General Topics, Healthcare, Opinion, Social Issues
3 comments It is not about healthcare by Bill Hazelgrove It is not about healthcare. It is the fear of the other. Rural whites and glenn beck runnaways have coalesced with a broad populace that has lost their credit their jobs and their homes. Swindled at the pump they believe ala cable heads there must be a villan and [...] September 17, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Cap and Trade, Current Events, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Governance, Healthcare, Opinion, Politics, The Economy
9 comments Obama: Wrong, Just Wrong What continues to astound me is how wrong the Obama administration is on so many issues. It is not unusual to disagree with some element of the White House agenda, no matter who is president, but I keep looking for something, anything, with which to agree. This is the price Americans [...] September 17, 2009
Posted by steve sangirardi in: Creative Writing, Freelance Author, Healthcare, Personal Experiences, The Writer's Corner
5 comments The Acupuncturist and the Zen Rock Garden September 16, 2009
Posted by scottqmarcus in: Diet, Habit Change, Health & Fitness, Healthcare, Lifestyle, Medical, Nutrition, Weight loss, Wellness
2 comments Due to the long lifespan of people and the rigors of the diet, studies of calorie restriction in humans are ongoing and have yet to show that people live longer. Nonetheless, thousands of individuals now follow calorie restriction diets, hoping to discover what Ponce de Leon did [...] September 16, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, African-American, Business, Cap and Trade, Congress, Current Events, Democracy, Economic Crisis, Energy, Environmental Issues, Global Warming, Governance, Healthcare, Opinion, The Economy
2 comments “Technically” We’re Out of a Recession I cannot tell you how relieved I was to hear Ben Bernake, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, announce that the United States is “technically” out of the recession. I spent much of the day waiting for my phone to ring with offers of work. Chairman Bernake did add [...] September 14, 2009
Posted by Congressman Billybob in: Congress, Current Events, Democracy, Freedom, Healthcare, Opinion, Politics, The Media
One comment A Million People Prove NPR Doesn’t Count by John Armor How many people still listen to NPR (National “People’s” Radio) and take it seriously? Apparently that list doesn’t include the editors and reporters for NPR. Two cases in point, both having to do with numbers. As I was driving up to D.C. for the Rally on [...] September 13, 2009
Posted by Tim Roux in: Book Review, Books, Cancer, Health & Fitness, Healthcare, Medical
Leave a comment Bob Ellal’s ‘By These Things Men Live’ comes with a sucker punch in the final chapter (no, he doesn’t snuff it) but I shall declare my conclusion immediately. It is exquisite. It plays towards one of my prejudices and against another. The one it plays towards is my preference for novellas. You probably know the reply of [...] September 12, 2009
This maybe the year that I get a flu vaccination. I’ve never had one and during those years when the flu was raging never caught it. My elderly mother has already had hers, my husband might get one since he ended up with the flu- a different strain I promised him- two weeks after the shot. [...] September 11, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Congress, Current Events, Democrat, Healthcare, Opinion, Politics
One comment Boring Us to Death By Alan Caruba I think President Obama and the Democrats have found a way to move hated legislation through the houses of Congress. They intend to bore us to death. Following his prime time speech to the joint session of Congress on Wednesday evening, on Sunday Obama will be featured in a segment on [...] September 11, 2009
Posted by Rfantina in: Congress, Democracy, Education, Freedom, Healthcare, Opinion, Politics
One comment On September 9, President Barack Obama addressed Congress to discuss health care. The news media has focused on that speech, giving scant attention to his address to the nation’s school children one day earlier. Despite the dire predictions of the right-wing, the republic is, regardless of that [...] September 9, 2009
OK, so the headline is taken from a joke made by the UK satirical magazine Private Eye about early developments in IVF treatment, but the saying is increasingly applying to other areas of medicine as well. Over the last 20-30 years there has been a quiet miracle in medicine. Surgeons would have you believe that it [...] September 8, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Current Events, Family, Freedom, Governance, Health & Fitness, Healthcare, Medical, Opinion, Politics, Social Issues
Leave a comment Old is not “Dead” The most troubling aspect of President Obama’s insistence on so-called healthcare reform is the way the proposed changes will harm the interests of those on Medicare or Medicaid, all 65 years and older. In the interest of “reform” it is clear that healthcare for the elderly will be rationed in terms [...] September 7, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Congress, Current Events, Democracy, Democrat, Economic Crisis, Governance, Healthcare, Opinion, Politics, Republican
Leave a comment A Very American Distrust Barack Obama has crashed headlong into a wall of distrust. If he had any understanding of American history he would know why, but his sole interest is himself and he proved that by writing not one, but two memoirs. The men who waged the American Revolution and then met in secret [...] September 6, 2009
Posted by Tina Rae Collins in: Attitude, Cancer, Creative Writing, Family, General Topics, Healthcare, Inspiration & Motivation, Lifestyle, Marriage, Mental Health, Motivation, Poetry, Relationships, Self-Help, Spirituality, Wellness, Women's Perspective
Leave a comment When time stands still September 3, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Cap and Trade, Congress, Current Events, Healthcare, Politics
Leave a comment Speak Up, Mr. President, Speak Up! I, for one, am looking forward to President Obama’s address to both houses of Congress. I thought I would have to wait for a State of the Union speech before that happened or, God forbid, that the nation would be attacked as was the case of 9/11. I am [...] September 2, 2009
Does Medicare Need Reform? On Sunday, I managed to “throw my back out”, something I do every few years; a muscle spasm that had nothing to do with lifing something heavy. Just whammo! I took some pain pills I had in the cabinet from a previous problem and on Monday morning I called my [...] September 2, 2009
Posted by AngelaPoseyArnold in: Advice, Attitude, Biography & Memoir, Family, Freedom, General Topics, Healthcare, Inspiration & Motivation, Marriage, Recovery, Relationships, Religion, Short Stories, Social Issues, Spirituality, Uncategorized
One comment On the Other Side of the Storm September 1, 2009
Posted by Antonio de la Vega in: Cancer, Education, Health & Fitness, Healthcare, Latino & Hispanic, Lifestyle, Medical, Mexico, Native American, Nature/Wildlife, Nutrition, Religion, Self-Help, Sex, Social Aspects, Social Classes, Social Issues, Sociology
Leave a comment Recientemente la Universidad Autónoma de México (U.N.A.M.) presentó el resultado de un esfuerzo monumental, consistente en la construcción de una enciclopedia multimedia especializada en la medicina tradicional [...] August 27, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Cap and Trade, Current Events, Economic Crisis, Energy, Global Warming, Governance, Healthcare, Opinion, Politics
One comment Don’t Just Stand There. Panic! I am rather tired of having to panic every other day courtesy of the U.S. government. It started with seeing the former Secretary of the Treasury sweating profusely while demanding the Congress give him a blank check for $700 billion to bail out some financial institutions that probably should [...] August 27, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Congress, Current Events, Democrat, Healthcare, Opinion, Politics
One comment Shovel Ready in America The only thing that is “shovel ready” in America today is Teddy Kennedy’s corpse and casket. Fortunately for his mortician, Kennedy had already embalmed himself. One can only pray that his brand of insane, unrealistic, and very expensive liberalism will be buried with him, but that is not likely so long [...] August 23, 2009
America’s Empire of Trust Though most Americans are unaware of it, the rest of the world is taking an active interest in the sometimes heated debate we are having regarding the alleged healthcare “reform” that is, in fact, yet another effort to push the nation further into the same socialist tentacles that have been [...] August 22, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Current Events, Environment, Environmental Issues, Global Warming, Healthcare, Opinion, Politics
Leave a comment Saturday’s Random Thoughts By Alan Caruba Nine Trillion Dollars. That is what the Obama administration now says will be the national budget deficit in ten years. Our current GDP, give or take a trillion, is fourteen trillion a year so you do the math. In seven months President Obama and his Democrat minions in Congress have plunged [...] August 21, 2009
Posted by AngelaPoseyArnold in: Accountability, Attitude, Biography & Memoir, Book Marketing Online, Books, Family, General Topics, Health & Fitness, Healthcare, Inspiration & Motivation, Marriage, Medical, Relationships, Religion, Social Aspects, Social Issues, Spirituality, Uncategorized, Wellness, Women's Perspective, Working Women, Workplace
Leave a comment By the time she arrived he had seen, diagnosed, and treated at least ten patients sometimes forgetting to charge them. Francie arrived to find her work cut out for her for the day. They worked all day sometimes without a break until dark, or until the last patient was seen whichever came [...] August 20, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Cap and Trade, Congress, Current Events, Democrat, Economic Crisis, Energy, Environment, Healthcare, Opinion, Politics
One comment Signs of Sanity I have this theory that nations go crazy from time to time. Collectively they lose their wits or, as is often the case, the people either elect or have imposed on them a complete lunatic, discovering it in slow stages as reports of various horrors make their way to the countryside. These [...] August 16, 2009
Posted by Bill Hazelgrove in: Current Events, Healthcare, Opinion, Politics, Social Issues
One comment Let’s do it for the Forty Six Million by Bill Hazelgrove Do it for the forty six million. You may have health care, you may have very good health care and you don’t want anyone fooling with it. I get it. So why be in favor of health care reform? Do it for the forty [...] August 14, 2009
RESPONSE TO A LIBERAL RELATIVE ON HEALTH CARE REFORM August 13, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Congress, Current Events, Democrat, Governance, Healthcare, Medical, Opinion, Politics
2 comments The Obamacare Abomination Not long ago I published a list of elements of the original Obamacare bill that upset a lot of people who accused me of publishing lies about it, but the original bill—now something in the area of five different versions that the Senate and House will consider on their return—was every [...] August 13, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Cap and Trade, Current Events, Democracy, Healthcare, Opinion, Politics
Leave a comment Obama: American Demagogue All during the long campaign leading to his election and inauguration, the media kept telling us what a genius Barack Obama was. He was a lecturer on the Constitution at the University of Chicago. He was in the Illinois State legislature. He had graduated from Harvard Law School and, before that, [...] August 11, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Congress, Current Events, Democrat, Freedom, Healthcare, Opinion, Politics
Leave a comment A Very American Protest The mainstream media is focused, as always, on the more dramatic aspects of the “town hall” meetings during which astonished members of Congress discover how total the disconnect between the machinations of Washington, D.C. and the rest of America is. If the Democrat politicians could recall anything from the past they [...] August 9, 2009
When One Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Alan Caruba writes a weekly column posted on the Internet site of The National Anxiety Center – he blogs daily at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com . August 7, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Cap and Trade, Current Events, Energy, Healthcare, Opinion, Politics
Leave a comment Seasoned Protesters Have you taken a close look at the protesters showing up at the town hall meetings being held by the horrified members of Congress? These folks are often quite OLD. Unlike the union or ACORN thugs that Democrats use to intimidate attendees, some of those giving their Congressman an ear-full show up in [...] August 1, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Cap and Trade, Congress, Current Events, Energy, Governance, Healthcare, Opinion
Leave a comment The Perfect Storm The term, ‘”the perfect storm”, has come to mean how circumstances and bad judgments come together to create havoc and death. I have begun to conclude that America is caught in a perfect storm. It didn’t occur overnight, but it has rapidly reached a point wherein the very life of the nation [...] July 29, 2009
Of all the things I learned from my father I think the most important and perhaps the most destructive was how to live with pain. When I was in my teens he often looked like he couldn’t handle another day on this earth and I would say: “Daddy, are you in pain?” He would always [...] July 28, 2009
Medicare is a financial failure as will be Obamacare July 25, 2009
Page after Page of Reasons to Hate Obamacare July 17, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Congress, Current Events, Healthcare, Medical, Opinion, Politics
Leave a comment Healthcare “Reform” Sanctions Torture, Death The utter insanity of our leaders in Washington, D.C. is exemplified in Vice President Joe Biden’s statement to a recent meeting of the AARP. “We have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt.” Just how does one do that? If, as Biden says, the nation is “going to [...] July 16, 2009
Your Easy Guide to Democrat Health Reform This chart, presented by GOP leaders, identifies at least 31 new federal programs, agencies, and mandates that accompany the unprecedented government takeover of health care in America. House Republican leader, John Boehner (R-OH) said, “This isn’t reform; it’s a recipe for disaster that will lead to higher health care costs, [...] July 12, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Current Events, Democracy, Economic Crisis, Energy, Environmental Issues, Governance, Healthcare, Homeland Security, Opinion, Politics
Leave a comment A “Crisis” of Governors If you can have a pride of lions and a gaggle of geese, then I suggest that the forthcoming July 17-20 meeting of the National Governors Association can be described as a “crisis” of Governors. July 10, 2009
Rolling the Vaccine Dice As a layman with no special knowledge about communicable diseases, I have nonetheless been struck by the drumbeat of scare mongering coming out of the World Health Organization and our government regarding “Swine Flu.” My reasoning is simple. Ordinary flu kills some 36,000 Americans annually and its victims are frequently [...] June 17, 2009
Death in the Control Group Something has been bothering me for a long time: the fate of people and animals who are on the wrong end of a scientific control group. Here’s a piece from the NY Times for June 17 about the loss of control in people’s lives: June 13, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Congress, Current Events, Democrat, Healthcare, Medical, Opinion, Politics
Leave a comment The Real Crisis is Obamacare President Obama has never met a crisis he didn’t love; particularly the ones that involve spending trillions of dollars. What fun it is to propose programs that involve borrowing or taxing Americans to death. On June 9, the Associated Press reported, “President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed budget rules that [...] |
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The Government Sucks at Most Things
The Government Sucks at Most Things
By Alan Caruba
On the eve before Daylight Savings Time, I managed to break a wall clock in the process of trying to grasp it to “spring ahead.” It crashed to a counter top and gave up the ghost. I then went online to Staples and 24 hours later I had [...]