Back with more topics than I’ve ever squeezed into 10 minutes or less, “Consider This!” is back with a new episode. A friend of mine posted a graphic of Sen. Bernie Sanders with a  quote from him extolling the results of Social Security, with the tag, “Social Security has done exactly what it was designed [...]

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If you ever saw the movie “LaStrada”, there is a quick glimpse of a retarded child with a huge head. I can’t remember why it is in the film, which is sad enough without it:: probably for shock value.But when I worked at a retarded institution, we had one such child, actually a man: Tommy. [...]

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One week from today on November 16, the first international event will be held at the brand new Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. The COTA is the first purpose-built Formula One track in the U.S., so its opening has been highly anticipated for several years. The F1 event officially begins with practice day [...]

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If I am voting against the President, it is not racism but because he is going out of his way to persecute the Catholic church: The problem? The week after taking office, the President removed conscience rights regulations from the federal regulations. This means that the only thing standing between Catholics and Muslims from being [...]

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In the Thursday, October 18, 2012, segment of Dr. Phil show, Cherokee Nation Attorney Christi Nemmo refused to admit 2-year old Veronica had only a drop of Cherokee blood, but she also doesn’t deny it. She doesn’t answer the question because she knows people would be horrified. She tries to make the argument that it’s not about how a child looks or how much blood the child has, but that they have a right to be part of the Cherokee tribe.

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Ninety-five years ago, a bunch of ignorant hoi polloi went out into the fields of a small rural town to see a predicted miracle, and the big city MSM was there to laugh at them and to record how the fools would respond when they found nothing happened. Whoops: (photo Via Tea at Trianon) Yes, [...]

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The true story of an American Indian who realized just how much tribal and federal government policies were destroying his extended family. Roland grew up watching members of his family die of alcoholism, child abuse, suicide, and violence on the reservation. Like many others, he blamed all the problems on “white people.” Beth Ward grew [...]

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There are a lot of blog-posts trying to bash the LDS church as not being “Christian”, usually to encourage Evangelical voters to vote against him. As a Catholic, I am old enough to remember when a similar stealth campaign was done against John Kennedy. The more things change the more they stay the same. I [...]

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Another big “story” in the news, saying that a big shot Harvard professor has found proof that Jesus was married. And if you believe that one, here is a copy of an ancient papyrus that I’d like to sell to you: this one is from the ancient book of LOLCATBIBLEexodux 32 What? There was no [...]

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Everything in the news seems to be hyperventillation about politics.  What is worse, it seems to be about trivia that have little or nothing to do with the world wide economic problems, or about trying to fix them. (e.g. a friend on facebook dissing Ryan’s marathon speed instead of the details of his budget). So [...]

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(And by "Obama’s budget", I mean the one unanimously rejected even by his own party.) What are those "draconian cuts" that Paul Ryan has proposed in his budget? Is he really going to throw Granny off the cliff with his changes to Medicare? The Independent Voter Network has an interactive graph where you can see [...]

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That’s the title of an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about the results of a new study on how school vouchers affect their recipients. President Barack Obama last month signed an executive order promising to "improve outcomes and advance educational opportunities for African Americans." The order instructs federal agencies to "promote, encourage, and undertake [...]

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There is a big kerfuffle about some asinine politician whose naive comments on sexual assault are being spun to prove there is a “war on women”. I made quite a few clinical comments on several web pages,(wonder how many of them were printed) but as a woman doc who has done quite a few “rape” [...]

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Yesterday, I posted this tongue in cheek cartoon from the Cheezburger site about the Republicans on my personal blog: : Yup. Non emotional dour Vulcans are the new Republicans. But at a time when the economy is in trouble, is letting someone who can logically analyze the details of a complicate budget bill have a [...]

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Something of a brouhaha got started recently around a statement by Chick-fil-a CEO Dan Cathy. The company invests in Christian growth and ministry through its WinShape Foundation (WinShape.com). The name comes from the idea of shaping people to be winners. It began as a college scholarship and expanded to a foster care program, an international [...]

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This morning I rose and read the “sermon of the day” before I went to church, and sure enough, another highfalutin sermon on the Good Samaritan. For those who are not Christian, this is one of Jesus’ stories about a man beaten by robbers who was helped by a passerby who belonged to a rival [...]

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This report from an Iranian blog on Global Voices, says they have such a chicken shortage the price of .chickens have soared. So someone decided to censor films and TV programs that show…chickens (!) Against a backdrop of lengthening food queues, Esmail Ahmadi-Moghaddam, the head of Iran’s law enforcement forces, has warned that films depicting [...]

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The most famous death from “friendly fire” was the accidental shooting of Stonewall Jackson by one of his own men in May 1863. His death had serious consequences, since he no longer was there to be Lee’s “eyes and ears” when, a few weeks later, the Confederate patrol looking for shoes stumbled on to the [...]

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Lots of  hyperbole and finger-pointing in the news this week about the Health Care bill, so  let’s look at a few facts. One: While you weren’t looking, medicine has morphed into big business. The days when your friendly family doc could throw away the bill and give you free medicine are long gone. If I [...]

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A true story of an American tribal member who, after coming to know Jesus Christ, realized just how much liberal policies within tribal and federal government were hurting his extended family. Roland grew up watching members of his family die of alcoholism, child abuse, suicide, and violence on the reservation. Like many others, he blamed all the problems on “white people.”

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I think  those who live and work in the US for x number of years without papers should get an amnesty, as was done by Reagan, and I support the targeted amnesty by Clinton for refugees from countries where their lives were in danger if returned, but the blanket amnesty by President Obama for illegal [...]

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This year’s presidential campaign has been going on forever, and it still has five months to go. But silly season is here: The dog days of summer are still to come, but we already see the campaign going to the dogs. First, we had Romney putting his carsick dog on the top of the car, [...]

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Yes, Children, he says it would have been okay for Sarah to kill Trig and sex with animals is okay too (as long as it is not cruel). But never mind: Being green means never to say you are sorry. So Peter Singer has been rewarded by being given a major government award by Australia, [...]

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Yes, contest fans. You too can win a free trip to New York City, and a dinner with the President, the first lady, a snotty British editoress from Vogue magazine (what, no good American gay fashion editor to tell us what to wear?) and someone named Sarah Jessica Parker (who is so thin it looks [...]

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Please Pray for a town that honors God: Should a school district be ‘turned in’ for daring to mention the name of Jesus Christ at graduation? A person close to me was aghast that Jesus Christ was prayed to at a High School Senior’s graduation – which included both an invocation and a benediction. He told [...]

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Okay, parents. Your 13 year old makes a decision that he wants to do something that has a 2 percent chance to be fatal. Do you 1) Forbid him to do it. 2) Try to talk him out of this but if he refuses to listen to your concerns, allow him to do it anyway [...]

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Should folks name a high school after a man who supported Eugenics? No, say the Canadian Metis blogger, ex-politician, and all around troublemaker Mrs. Gay Caswell on her blog. So who is she complaining about now? A Canadian bigshot who implemented socialized medicine in that country. Complains Mrs C: He followed the Regina Manifesto, a [...]

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As we rapidly approach vacation season, I would like to offer a little tourist information about my hometown of Austin and the nearby Texas Hill Country. This candid insider’s viewpoint includes a few places and activities of interest, including a few details traditional sources may accidentally on purpose neglect to mention. You can find the [...]

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I loathe presidential election years. Let me count the ways. 1. Everything is subject to partisan spin. If pollen triggers hay fever, flaks din that the other party did it. The media echoes the act. (The story of O is getting an extra loud yodel!) Worse yet, so do boots on the ground. Hitherto charming [...]

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What hath Drudge wrought? Or maybe I should say Breitbart: Heh…Wonder why the press didn’t find this five years ago. America’s watchdog seems to be at sleep at the wheel, and the fact that a two bit blogger found this public photo in at least two places suggests a major problem with mainstream American news [...]

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