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Most Americans know more “things that ain’t so” about the U.S. Health Care System than any other subject. Economist Tsung-Mei Cheng’s tongue-in-cheek The Universal Law of Health Care Systems sheds some light on this anomaly: 1) No matter how good the health care is in a particular country, people will complain about it; 2) No [...]
There is no question that Mitt Romney is rich. If you had any doubts before, by now you know that Romney is very wealthy because he’s freely admitted it (and even bragged about it) many times. There’s nothing wrong with being rich. Most Americans dream of being rich someday. We admire the “rich and famous.” Some [...]
I would like to think that all is not lost for the Republican Party and that last November’s disastrous election will not really mark the end of their influence. This country needs all the checks and balances available to it, especially in Congress, but unless the GOP changes course it is likely to find itself irrelevant for years to come.
Mr. President, you must explain clearly and forthrightly that a financially secure future for middle-class families and for the entire nation depends on reforming health care and controlling its runaway costs…
What do we do about the new Health Care Law? Accept the Law as currently written? Tweak it to improve it? Repeal it? If repealed, with what do we replace it?
Why doesn’t the United States of America have it’s own national church? Italy has the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church, Greece and Russia have their Orthodox churches, and of course, there is most obvious example of them all – the Church of England. How come we don’t have a church of our own? The [...]
As Baucus read his statement you could practically hear the air escaping from the Health Care Reform movement so earnestly promoted and supported by President Obama and progressive Democrats.
The day after Kennedy’s election, Mr. Phillips gave our high school journalism class a very sober and thoughtful warning about the disastrous course our country was taking.
Life is never dull in the spring in Alaska – and you probably thought that all the big-time, sexy high-jinks only happened in places like New York and California.
The things Craig has heard from people he’s encountered convince him that very few people know the truth about either Alaska’s governor or ANWR.
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