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A while back, I subscribed to news updates from NewsMax.com … so I could keep up with and try to understand the other side’s point of view. I’m afraid, however, that I’m desperately failing at…
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More Teabagger Lies about HR3200
This morning I got an email from a friend asking me to watch a video and forward it to others so they could be thusly informed about HR3200 being considered in the house. Unfortunately, he…
Health Care Reform Bullies May Be Winning
It looks like the bullies have told a sufficient number of lies for people to believe that a public option would be bad for America, that it would ration health care, that it would be…
Health Care Reform: End-of-Life Planning
Much is being written (and misrepresented) about Section 1233 of the Healthcare Reform bill currently in the House bill. This is the section of the bill that modifies the Medicare regulation and provides for medical…
Party of Nope Fails to Stymie Confirmation
Today, the Senate, in a 68-31 vote confirmed the appointment of Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonya Sotomayor. Senator Reid voted in the affirmative, and Senator Ensign as expected toed the GOP line and…
Health Care: The Continuing Saga
I sometimes wonder why I take the time to write to the members in Congress who supposedly represent ‘ME.’ It’s obvious that Rep. Heller and I are at odds with one another on most things,…
What Planet is He From?
I don’t think Mr. Ensign will be running for President of this nation any time soon, because its painfully obvious to the most casual observer that he has to have been born on some other…
Where’s the Plan?
Republicans are certainly generating a lot of wind about how the health care plan currently being considered in the Congress, saying it will cost too much, it will cause working Americans to lose their current…
And the Circus Begins
This morning marked the beginning of the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Nominee, Sonya Sotomayor, and it seems that we’re in store for some serious political theatrics. Already, just in the opening statements from a…
Conscience Rule Still on the Books
Like Barbara Coombs Lee of the Huffington Post, I cannot be silent about the fact that the Obama Administration has not yet rescinded this onerous regulation, that puts the consciences of anyone working in and…