Once again lobbyists for the health insurance industry have gotten their way.
It is impossible to miss or ignore all of the commercials on television touting the Medicare plus plans. They go by many different names but are basically plans that claim to offer seniors more services than traditional Medicare plans. They usually offer some dental [...]

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Are you getting a little dizzy? I think Hank Paulson was sober at his little press conference but I could be mistaken. Sober or stoned, it doesn’t really matter. He will hold another press conference as soon as he hears another ’solution.’
The ‘Smartest Man in Washington’ has changed his mind again. Of course that doesn’t [...]

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We have before us the potential of America. We should not expect its full realization but we hope to see a substantial step forward.
Before going any further, I must congratulate Senator John McCain for his concession speech. The campaign was not something of which to be proud but that speech went a long way to [...]

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We’ve been sitting around stunned by the financial crisis. What to do? We don’t trust the experts, and rightly so. They lurch from one answer to another. There is little confidence that they are doing anything more than thrashing around, grasping at straws.
Actually, since their starting point is their religious belief in a simplistic and [...]

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Perhaps I should begin with an apology to Samuel Morse for using his famous quotation as the title of this post. I really can’t blame God for the yo-yo to the left.
All of my copies of the Bible contain a short, simple, easily understood statement. It can be found at 1 John 4:8. it says, [...]

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Old Alan is quoted as saying, “I still do not fully understand why it happened.” Really?
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Poor old Alan, formerly the architect of America’s prosperity, is now the fall guy. There he was being grilled by Representative Henry Waxman and his crew. There he was being treated as just a [...]

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On David Letterman’s show Thursday night John McCain apologized to Joe the Plumber for destroying his privacy. That was nice.
Out on the campaign trail the next day John McCain (yes, the very same one) went on a rant about how terrible it was that Barack Obama had violated Joe’s privacy. That wasn’t nice. Then John [...]

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Being laid up with bronchitis isn’t pleasant. Thousands of thoughts race through my mind. Although I haven’t fully recovered, I just couldn’t wait. The absurdity of our present situation is so obvious. The lack of understanding of why it happened is not.
The only thing that has relieved my misery has been laughing at the idiot [...]

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How have they lied to thee? Let me count the ways. There may be a problem when I run out of fingers and toes. (memo to self: check w/Dan in re e)
Well, an easy one is pork. McCain claims never to have voted for pork. True, he’s been a bit stingy in that regard but [...]

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How many mothers are there in this country? 50 million? 70 million? 90 million? Last night Joe Biden legitimized single fathers. It’s about time. Thank you, Joe.
After the death of my first wife, I was a single father for nine years. I now hear a constant drumbeat that Sarah Palin is qualified for president for [...]

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