Recent Entries

• The State of Healthcare Insurance in the United States

  March 31, 2019

  At present, the court fight over the inappropriately named "Affordable Care Act" has taken a new direction.  A court in Texas has declared that the ACA is, in its entirety, unConstitutional.  It seems that the most likely basis for this claim is that the Supreme Court narrowly declared that the A...

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• I’ll Be Back

  December 2, 2017

  I AM NOT SURE WHAT IS GOING ON HERE.  When I first got in, there was no obvious way to get to my old diary, nor to get to the diaries of ODers that I knew.  I just now figure out how to title this entry.  I think I'll try to add an image, then…

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• The Fantasticks

  November 11, 2013

       Try To Remember!  It was a time not long ago ... half a century at most.  We had come a long way since then, it seemed.  Much of the problems that had come to us from the distant past had been dealt with, it seemed.      When I was a callow fellow...

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• Reconstruction Era II

  October 29, 2013

       At the end of the American Civil War, a group in Congress calling themselves the Radical Republicans sought to punish the members of the Confederacy for trying to maintain a system of slavery.  Put another way, they sought the radical transformation of the Southern U...

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• Sebelius Thrust Into Firestorm on Exchanges

  October 22, 2013

   The first, and perhaps most painful, call for Kathleen Sebelius to resign as President Obama’s health secretary came this month from an old family friend: Senator Pat Roberts, Republican of Kansas, who once boasted of a “special relationship” with Ms. Sebelius, forged when...

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• Hate Mongering In The Media

  October 8, 2013

  From the usual suspects: MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, Washington Post, Politico, plus Carl Bernstein, Tina Brown and Brian Williams.    The Top 8 Nastiest Liberal Media Quotes Blaming the GOP for the Shutdown 8. MSNBC’s Ball: GOP Taking Government ‘Hostage’ and Thr...

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• Abuse Of Social Media

  October 2, 2013

       Here is the latest bullshit going around social networks such as Facebook.  It is a phony "letter" that appears as an entry made by someone that you know, and directed toward some poor individuals who will be helped by Obamacare in ways that would not otherwise ...

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• Democrats Shut Down Federal Government

  September 30, 2013

   On Friday, September 20, 2013, the House of Representatives passed legislation to keep the government running – funding Medicare, Social Security, veterans benefits, and more – while removing funding for the president's health care law, which is driving up costs and hurting our ...

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• Electricity From Coal

  September 30, 2013

       It has become clear that, until Barack Hussein Obama is ejected from the White House (through impeachment, resignation or the passage of time), the electricity producing industry that creates its product at the lowest cost will be hampered in its attempts at expanding its...

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