A suggestion for the 'Super Committee'
That new "Super Committee" or "Catfood II committee" may have been set up to deadlock, but it happens to be in a great position to suggest good ideas that nobody likes and nobody wants to be the first...
View ArticleRationing health care without quite using that dreaded “R-word”
The Institute of Medicine has just released a report titled, Essential Health Benefits; Balancing Coverage and Costhttp://www.iom.edu/...A good starting point is this New York Times...
View ArticleDrug Shortages: A Gold Rush Mentality at Drug Companies
As of June, a record 246 drugs were in short supply, according to the FDA. A few were esoteric new cancer drugs that the pharmaceutical companies are having trouble producing, but most were injectable...
View ArticleLet’s abolish corporate “personhood”
The State of Mississippi just yesterday rejected ‘personhood’ for blastocysts. Now it’s time to reject personhood for corporations.Senators Tom Udall and Jeff Merkley have just sent me email asking me...
View ArticleLet’s vote out the whole Congress at one fell swoop.
Haven’t you wished we could vote to throw all the bums out, and start over? Well, let’s give ourselves that right!We need a constitutional amendment that would have another option on the ballot for...
View ArticleI just got surveyed on why I quit Bank of America
For a switch I was happy to do a telephone survey. I just got off the phone with a lady doing a survey on banks, obviously focused on Bank of America. I'd closed my accounts with them in December, and...
View ArticleRick Perry may have aborted millions of potential clones of himself in a stem...
Sure, that title is a big stretch. It's even bigger than the 'pro-life' argument equating contraception with the murder of blastocyst-Americans. But only a little bit bigger.Rick Perry deserves the...
View Article"Who is sufficiently religious to have their rights of conscience protected"
That wasn't a question. It was how Gary McCaleb, of the Alliance Defense Fund, defined the group whose religious beliefs he thought should be favored by force of law.I read it in this Associated Press...
View ArticleWhat we do and don't know about the North Korean rocket launch
Yesterday some friends speculated that Japan would try to intercept the rocket with their Patriot missiles, if it were launched. Apparently it was indeed launched, about 45 minutes ago. There's some...
View ArticleI just nominated Bradley Manning for a Presidential Citizens Medal
As one of my professors once said, "Anyone who asks a question deserves the answer." That was in the context of answers that open a can of worms, bringing up a lot more troublesome, worrisome...
View ArticleMy heart bleeds peanut butter for these prosecutors and their death penalty
To assume that race was the motive behind many of these decisions, prosecutors said, was not only wrong, but offensive. This is from a short story in the New York Times, titled "Judge Blocks Death...
View ArticleBeware of Bureaucrats Gathering Statistics
Want to get the attention of the Department of Homeland Security? OpEdNews published a "List of the Hundreds of Words Homeland Security Tracks Online" last Friday, May 26, 2012. Here's a...
View ArticleIs this why Roberts voted for Obamacare?
Maybe Justice Roberts ended up voting to uphold 'Obamacare' to prevent Clarence Thomas from casting the deciding vote in the case. Calls to impeach Justice Thomas for not recusing himself based on his...
View ArticleWhat Matters about when Romney Left Bain Capital
It's not the exact time. It's the way Romney is using it to dissociate himself from what Bain was doing while he was 'gone'.Lately there's been a lot of fuss about whether Romney left Bain in 1999 or...
View ArticleThe Next Offensive in the Bishops' War on Women?
What issue might the Catholic Church bring up next in its war on women, or sex, or whatever it is that those allegedly celibate people want to deny everyone else because for some reason they swore it...
View ArticleDon Siegelman sentencing Friday. It's time for a pardon.
The Supreme Court refused to review the conviction of Don Siegelman, even though he was convicted under a law that 113 former state attorneys general said was so unclear that any campaign contributor...
View ArticleWho'd even want to run with Romney?
Who would want to be Romney's running mate? With his recent swoon in the polls, that even Fox News can't ignore,http://www.foxnews.com/... it looks like taking the Republican nomination for Vice...
View ArticleOne petition I won’t sign
Credo Mobile is circulating an internet petition urging the House of Representatives to censure Todd Akin.http://www.credoaction.com/... I won’t sign it.
View ArticleYou DON'T WANT to get your money's worth for what you pay for health insurance.
Last night I had a dinnertime conversation with a lady whose adult son has ankylosing spondylitis. She had managed to keep him continuously insured, though it wasn't easy. His insurance (grudgingly)...
View ArticleMitt wants women "In binders and pregnant"
"Barefoot and pregnant" isn't enough any more.
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