Posted in Education, Health Care, Opinions in the Shorts, tagged Buying Habits, Car Buying, Education, Health Care Debate, Noble Peace Prize, President Obama, School Calendar, School year, Year-round school on October 16, 2009 | 6 Comments »
On a Longer School Year
President Obama and others want to lengthen the school year by 40 days. Although I favor such a move as part of educational reform, let me pose these questions.
Should the Feds mandate something that is primarily controlled by state and local entities?
How much the public and the travel industry will fight [...]
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Posted in Health Care, Politics, tagged Democrats, Fact Check, Fact Checks, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Howard Dean, John Boehner, Michael Steele, Nancy Pelosi, President Obama, Republicans on September 9, 2009 | 7 Comments »
President Obama addresses the nation and a joint session of Congress tonight about health care reform. I recently saw a poll showing 25% of Americans want Congress to start over health care legislation. So I ask “Why?” – Just so we can return to the same point of partisanship? So we can retrace Speaker Pelosi’s [...]
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Posted in Health Care, Opinions in the Shorts, Politics, tagged Bernie Sanders, Democrats, Economy, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Pam Am Bomber, Pete Rose, President Obama, Republicans, Roy Blunt, Social Security Reduction on August 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
On Pete‘ Anniversary
Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of MLB’s banishment of Pete Rose from baseball. It must be the reason for the uptick of readings of this archived post.
On More Misinformation
As I stated in this recent post, health care debacle continues to be an ever-flowing fountain of misinformation. Here are a couple of more.
Rep Roy [...]
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Posted in Health Care, Politics, tagged Dan Lungren, Democrats, Fact Check, Health Care, Health Care Debate, Health Care Reform, Investor's Business Daily, John Boehner, Liberty Council, Paul Krugman, PolitiFact, PolitiFact Check, President Obama, Republicans, Russ Carnahan, Sara Palin on August 18, 2009 | 6 Comments »
The majority of Americans, those in the spectrum between the town hall cranks and automatic-accepting Democratic partisans, want accurate, useful information. With this in mind, why is the public confused about health care reform? Why has the discussion of this important issue turned away from meaningful dialogue?
Whether watching town hall meetings, listening to our elected [...]
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Some have wondered why I haven’t written much about the health care issue currently being negotiated in Congress. Here’s my 7-point explanation.
This issue is both complex and important, thus requires serious study.
The White House has been vigorously pushing its agenda since taking office. I’ve tried to keep in touch with topics, but I can’t keep [...]
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