What do Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis and Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee have in common? Policies that come back to bite their ass. All good intentions aside, any attempt to grant “Second Chance” to convicted felons is ‘Russian Roulette” at best and guaranteed political suicide, always. The touchy feely era is over in this country. Mental [...]
The status quo for health insurers is minimalist investment in customers, maximum investment into political influence. Greasy palms are the face of public health insurance in congress. Genuine discussion about cost effectiveness and practical application take a back seat to the fears of equity in overall health of this country’s population.
Surprise for organ donors: unexpected [...]
All the debate about the launching of “Public Option” Health Care seems to focus on those who actually HAVE health care. Those with jobs, where their employer has pre-selected an insurance package, are being convinced their employer will dump that insurance forcing them to take the “Public Option”. OK! Perhaps that
will happen with small [...]
It appears Cuomo has managed to get the bonuses documents from Arrogant Incompetent Giant that Treasury Secretary Geithner was clueless about. Or so he says. Congress should make AIG give back every freaking dollar and close their doors. The backward logic of retaining any employee to help fix the screw up they created and then [...]
In September 2008, when Hank Paulson was running around the capital with is 3 page memo on how to save Wall Street and yelling the sky is falling, Congress never bothered to connect the corporate dots of greed. It obviously never dawned on any of our over paid, pandering members of Congress to ask specific [...]
Ranking: Texas is 46th this year; it was 37th in 2007.
Strengths: Strengths include a low prevalence of smoking at 19.3 percent of the population, a low prevalence of binge drinking at 15.0 percent of the population, a low rate of cancer deaths at 186.3 deaths per 100,000 population and a moderate infant mortality rate at [...]
Brits and Americans being hunted for sport! Death toll mounts. More people are looking to Obama with hopeful responses. Obama’s hands are tied until January 20 next year. He is sending representatives already, but cannot say or do anything until he is sworn in. At least he is doing what he can behind the scenes. [...]
A DREAM COME TRUE WOULD BE TO SEE CHENEY, GONZALES, BUSH, RUMSFELD AND THE WHOLE GANG INSIDE THEIR OWN CREATION.
Premier of Iraq Is Quietly Firing Fraud Monitors
By JAMES GLANZ and RIYADH MOHAMMED
BAGHDAD — The government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is systematically dismissing Iraqi oversight officials, who were installed to fight corruption in Iraqi ministries by order of the American occupation administration, which had hoped to bring Western standards of accountability to the [...]
“Preemption, rather than reaction” summarizes the Bush doctrine which congealed in the wake of a conservative and national backlash against the weakening of the United State’s power and security in the world.
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