Archive for June, 2009
Overlooked Savings from Single-Payer Healthcare
Ask any Republican, “If you could pass a tax cut that saved the average American $10-$30,000 a year and the average corporation millions of dollars a year, would you do it?” What do you think their answer would be? It’s harder to argue against a “Single-Payer” healthcare system when you phrase it in those terms, […]
June 29, 2009
Posted in: General, Healthcare, myth busting, Politics
Quick update.
Hello all. Often, I wish I could update this blog a dozen times a day like “Think Progress”, “DailyKOS” or “Crooks & Liars”, ad infinitum. But those sites all have a staff of writers and contributors providing content that I just don’t have. So I must be satisfied with weekly Op/Ed’s (if holidays don’t get in the […]
June 25, 2009
Posted in: General, Politics, Seems Obvious to Me
Iran’s Stolen Election Reminds Us Bush Gone But Not Forgotten
It’s Deja Vu all over again. Despite long lines at the polls that extended well into the night, Iranian election officials declared that current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had won reelection in a landslide only hours after the polls closed, carrying not only 2/3rds of the vote in a race pollsters said was a dead heat, […]
June 15, 2009
Posted in: Politics
Bush wanted to try Gitmo detainees in U.S. courts (video)
After reading another of Liz Cheney’s ridiculous assertions during her most recent “don’t convict my Daddy” tour, this time denying that President Bush ever suggested putting Gitmo detainees on trial in a U.S. Court of Law, I decided to hunt for video of the comment myself. Since the stated objective of our YouTube page is […]
June 11, 2009
Posted in: myth busting, Politics
Petition: Censure Senator Inhofe (UPDATED)
I‘m sure you’ve noticed that Republican hate-speech has become more and more strident in recent weeks. Here is a sampling of just the past few weeks: o Former Vice President Dick Cheney claimed “Obama policies make U.S. less safe“. o Newt Gingrich: “I think people should be afraid” (regarding Obama’s policies and the closure […]
June 6, 2009
Posted in: General, Politics, Rants
Health Insurance costs are killing the car companies.
Sometime today, General Motors (GM) is expected to declare bankruptcy, joining fellow U.S. automaker Chrysler, who should announce its emergence from the bankruptcy declared barely one month ago as it is bought out by Italian automaker Fiat. Ford, the third of the “Big Three”, in what I believe was a shrewd marketing ploy more than […]
June 1, 2009
Posted in: Healthcare, Politics
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