Here in the Philippines, thanks to Wikileaks, we know that not only American money is behind our “Reproductive Health Bill”, but that the American State Department is pressuring our president to pass the bill.
Heaven knows that the Philippines does need access to cheaper Birth control, but it’s not as if it’s not available: they sell […]

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Joe Biden’s visit to China has gotten little respect in the US press, who seem to despise his “everyday man” approach to things and who trumpet his verbal gaffes without noticing his common touch is something desperately needed by the elitist Obama administration.
During his trip to China, he visited an ordinary Chinese restaurant and ate […]

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The president is taking a much needed vacation, this time to Martha’s Vineyard.
So what does the Washington Post have for a headline this morning?
As rebels close in on Tripoli, Obama getting updates on Martha’s Vineyard
Why yes.
Martha’s Vineyard isn’t exactly in the middle of nowhere, and they do have internet connections, an airfield and a […]

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While the economy collapses, the Middle East is on fire, and our beloved President seems to be as unable to communicate with the American people as the previous president, the news stories are full of a tweeting congressman.
Jokes are easy to make about the problem, especially since the congressman’s name is easily mispronounced to resemble […]

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Well, this year’s Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally got some publicity today when Sarah Palin and family accompanied them as private citizens. As the mother of an Iraqi veteran, she is entitled to this.
Most of the half million attending the rally seemed pleased.
So of course most of the press coverage was about Andrea Mitchell finding the […]

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Back in the “good old days”, a lot of states had “literacy tests” for voters. If you didn’t pass them, you couldn’t vote.
Of course, it was a scam: the real reason for the testing was to eliminate black voters, and the fight to remove the laws was part of the civil rights movement to allow […]

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Thirty years ago, I helped arrange an outpatient dialysis program on a remote Indian reservation.
Tell you the truth, the hospital was substandard, the staffing was short, and the administration pressured the docs not to transfer patients out to better facilities because our “contract health” funds were limited.
But the tribe saw dialysis, which could be arranged […]

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In a previous post, I joked that if the Governor of Wisconsin wanted to fire all his teachers, he could hire a lot of qualified Filipino teachers to replace them.
Yet this is not quite a joke: The cut backs in US medical training have resulted in the active importation of foreign medical graduates to fill […]

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Clinton once had a line “It’s the economy, stupid”, and one longs for someone to teach economics to the present administration.
I was always a union supporter, and many of my family and friends belonged to unions. But you know what happened to a lot of textile jobs in the northern states in 1950’s and 1960’s? […]

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When I heard that there had been a Native American prayer at the memorial ceremony in Tucson, I was not surprised.
When I lived on Indian Reservations, we commonly had such prayers at most ceremonies or meeting. But for memorial services, we often also had Christian clergy (usually either Anglican or Catholic) give a prayer. Tribes […]

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Years ago, when the “right wing militia” were being made into the “enemy” by the press, some local good old boys drinking at a bar began talking against the government. This was common at the time, but in this case, a visitor played on them to entice them into a scheme to bomb a local […]

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The headline sounds ominous.

American Medical News More evidence for why health system reform happened: a House study found a rapidly rising rate of denials for individual coverage.
amednews: Coverage denials by 4 […]

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This was supposed to be a “post” racial presidency. Why is our leadership fanning these flames?

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With all the hyperbolic political rhetoric in the blogosphere, one wonders if the American people are indeed “having a temper tantrum”.
Or maybe the patience of the American people with political correctness is now finished.
Example one: After years of the American public watching news reports of suicide bombings,  or lashing raped women, destroying Hindu temples and […]

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In April, 2008, the press was hailing the brilliance of Barack Obama, and dissing the much more experienced Hillary Clinton for not dropping out of the race, even though the race was close and several primaries were still due to be held.
So, when in early April, stories started percolating on right wing blogs and YOUTUBE […]

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I had originally intended the subheading of this piece to be called, “Why Fox News Should Change its Motto From “Fair & Balanced” to “Remember the Maine,” due to having recently debunked a handful of their “news stories.” My original criticism of Fox News was going to be its poor journalism at times, which […]

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Did Hillary Clinton actually win the Democratic nomination in 2008, but lost the caucus vote because of intimidation by Obama’s minions?
That’s what an up and coming film is claiming.
A film is floating around with interviews with many people who claim intimidation, vote stealing, and other shenanigans aimed at winning  the small caucus votes resulted in […]

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The ads are all over the blogs.
Google ads telling us about the glory of President Obama.

Impressive, isn’t it?
“We’ll look at new Presidential orders, policies on the economy, alternative energy and foreign affairs, and his use of the new media” proclaims the ads proudly.
Uh, what’s that little thing at the end of the ad?
blogs.america.gov/obama

Hmm…according to Wikipedia, […]

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In the olden days, we learned in school the folly of King Canute who sat on the seashore and ordered the tide to stop coming in, but all that happened was that he got wet.
The real story
Canute had learned that his flattering courtiers claimed he was “So great, he could command the tides […]

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Yes, no longer will the Democratic party have to support private bloggers to promote his political agenda at their site.
We now have pro Obama propaganda articles at a new “blog” at America.gov, a website connected with the State Department.
Yes, your taxpayer dollars are now paying for such propaganda such as a gushing article on the […]

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Surfing the channels between brownouts, I chanced onto Bloomberg TV, where several historians, including Doris Kearns Goodwin, were discussing the dire rise of hate groups.
Essentially, Ms. Goodwin started making parallels of President Obama to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. She then invoked the concept that there was a “covenant” of the American people with the government, […]

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I confess. I had a 15 minute fling with Barack Obama in presidential primary time. When cringing at the memory, I remind myself that when I voted O the only real alternative for folks registered D was Return Of The Clintons. Oh nooo Mrs. Bill! That real estate is so yesterday. (Speaking of Whitewater, you […]

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My fellow Family docs: Did you know that you are now officially part of the Obama organizing machine?
In the AAFP news:
Physicians need to be closely involved as the recently enacted health care reform legislation begins to take effect, according to AAFP President Lori Heim, M.D., of Vass, N.C. “It is the implementation of […]

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I have many ethical problems with the Obama Health Care bill.
But the real story that is being ignored about Obama’s health care bill is that it kowtows to big insurance and big drug companies, who stand to make a killing from the bill.
Reuter’s review of “winners and loser” should give you pause: hospitals and drug […]

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I wrote about the President’s photo op with a bunch of people in white coats, pointing out that few MD’s wear white coats nowadays.
But who are those folks in the white coats? Individuals, or do they represent large organizations?
Well, this AP photo has some names.
Dr. Roland Goertz
That name sounds familiar, and sure enough, he is […]

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Since I am retired, and since before I retired I worked for the Federal Government as a physician, I am both in favor of a way to get medical care to those who truly can’t afford it, yet worrying that the result will be that all medical clinics and hospitals will resemble the Federal facilities […]

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In Psychiatry, there used to be something called a Rorschach test.. where they show you ink blots and ask you what they look like.
The idea is that one would “project” one’s ideas and worries into the object, and you could get an idea what was on their mind.
Sort of the equivalent in religious people seeing […]

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Back in the 1970’s, Jimmy Carter was unlucky. He seemed to have a tin ear and do nothing right, and so Teddy Kennedy decided to rescue the party and run against him. Americans who saw the huge increase in gasoline prices, a sour economy, inflation that ate their savings, and mortgage rates of 12 percent, […]

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There are a lot of Democrats like myself who will wonder why the Democratic party is using what they know is an obscene word, instead of bringing up the very real issues of the election.If you who aren’t familiar with the gay community, the word “teabagging” is a euphemism for a practice that normal Grandmoms […]

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An Open Letter to Rush Limbaugh:
Rush, since I can never get through and have no time to sit and dial, redial, etc. This will have to suffice.  Slim chance that you’ll ever read it but maybe some caring person will forward it to you.    They do you an extreme disservice if they do not.
Lets […]

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