Health Insurance Isn’t

 

For all our sakes, stop calling it insurance.  It isn’t, and thinking of it as insurance has got us into a heap of trouble.   

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It Takes Two

 It takes TWO starkly different ideas for real change and real choice within a society.  [...]

Mommas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Report on the Government’s Financial Reforms

If you do, they will almost certainly disgrace your family.

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Better Relations with Iran Require Change in U.S. Thinking and Policy

Although Obama wants to negotiate with Iran, he still shares Bush's unrealistic concept of where he wants Iran to go.

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Obama’s Other Controversial Church

While John McCain was being tortured as a prisoner of war in Hanoi, First Unitarian Church of Honolulu was sheltering deserters and AWOLs recruited by flirty fishing coeds from a Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) group known as "The Resistance."

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Duly Noted

Not Europe but bureaucratic centralism was rejected. Is the real Europe to centralize power or to protect its member nations? Demonstrated good will can be taken as a sign of weakness. Some see the reactive push that responds to their shove as aggression. Ahmadinejad's election and nuclear issues. Who colonized whom? Too big to fail, [...]

The Real Crisis is Obamacare

If the "health" of the U.S. dollar is not restored, nothing else will matter very much.

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How Newt Gingrich Sabotaged The “Gingrich Revolution”

At a June 8 Republican Congressional Campaign fundraiser, keynote speaker Newt Gingrich showed once again how to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

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If Only Israel Wasn’t Jewish

The Palestinians will not be satisfied until the state of Palestine supplants the State of Israel and every last Jew is gone.

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A New Political Strategy for Conservatives

Want to save the Republican Party?  Become a Democrat.

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Would You Invest in the New GM?

The only thing less efficient than government is…labor unions!

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Some Reflections on “Torture”

Unless we decide to incorporate its immorality into the very definition of torture — a move that appears suspiciously like cheating — there doesn't seem to be any a priori reason for condemning all kinds and instances of torture.

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Why the Steepening Yield Curve?

Investors are beginning to look ahead, anticipating surging inflation.

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Was the Cairo Speech Lost in Translation?

Better to inquire what went on in the back rooms of Cairo and Riyadh than to overanalyze the President's Cairo speech too much.

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Never Waste A Crisis – Manufacture One

A conspiracy theory on what to do with a crisis if you are a power hungry liberal politician 

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Our New President’s Three Top Priorities: Government Cures for Problems Caused by Government

The liberal solution is always more government.

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Duly Noted

Is "avoid America" the intended message? Replace the market. But with what? The pursuit of happiness: at whose expense? Who needs good government? Do government jobs make one wiser and nicer? Is all violence "bad?" Patience, tolerance and crimes.

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Weather Malarkey

Weather satellites have been reporting a cooling Earth since 1998.

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The Hits Just Keep on Coming

The State of Connecticut continues its attack on the Catholic Church.

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Sotomayor Qualifications: Why Bother With The Constitution?

Certainly this self-described "wise latina" will reach the correct conclusion more often than any grizzled old white male.

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The Myth of Low Cost Obama Care

Health care in Canada and Great Britain is not better than ours in terms of quality of care and in fact does not approach equivalence with ours.

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Poll Shows Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose Closing Guantanamo Bay

President Obama remains popular even as his policies are opposed by a majority of Americans.

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Heterosexual Pride Month

Heterosexuals add to our cultural diversity and deserve at least a month to celebrate their contributions to society.

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Potential Catastrophe on the Horizon for the United States Congress

The executive branch has corrupted the legislative power through dramatic growth and usurped the people through the imposition of taxes and extreme debt.

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300: Will Randy Johnson Be The Last Member Of This Exclusive Club?

Of the 24 pitchers who presently have 300 or more wins, nine of them attained this total since 1982.

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