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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Sarah Palin is still making headlines, and her book “Going Rogue” is now a best seller.
Much of what I have read about her and the book seems to be viewed through the “inner beltway” mindset, by those who automatically hate those of a different political persuasion. All of these opinions try to calculate how the […]

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Chris Gacek of the Family Research Council gave the GOP a stern warning via his October ’07 essay in Politico –  “Lou Dobbs Voters Will Decide ‘08”.  Of course, the arrogant GOP Hierarchy paid little-to-no attention.  Hence, they were punished severely on 11/4/08 by this massive block of former/traditional GOP voters now estimated by Rasmussen […]

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Ah, a British paper just pooh poohed the British victory at the Battle of Agincourt, saying that Prince Hal was not outnumbered 4 to 1, merely outnumbered 2 to 1.
Actually, the author misses the point, which is that the elite knights of France got slowed down by the mud and were massacred by ordinary British […]

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Using a slight of hand and having his propaganda mill obscure what has been done, the Democrats and the Obama administration are planning to fund abortion in their health care bill.
The original “compromise” on abortion was a slight of hand that would force people to pay for abortion coverage themselves, similar to the way you […]

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If I were to be asked why I am leery of the President’s Health Care bill, I Could tell you in one phrase:
It’s the bioethics, stupid.
You see, few lay people read bioethics journals, and so the public is blissfully unaware how many philosophers in academia are busy writing  “quality of life” formulas that will decide […]

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Yes, the Academy of Family Physicians has been hijacked by the Democratic party to push their health care bill.
My latest email tells me:
We are closer than ever to achieving significant health care reform in America. Unfortunately, propaganda and misunderstanding about pending legislation threaten to derail its success.
“We” are closer? That implies that all Family physicians […]

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Does Huntsman’s Road Through Beijing Lead To The Obama White House?
When President Barack Obama rang up Utah’s moderate Republican Governor Jon Huntsman a while back to feel him out about joining a Democratic administration, insiders say the first question out of his mouth went something like this: “So, are you going to run against me […]

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If you are wondering about Puffball Palin’s comments about the so called “death” panels, you should be aware that there have been calculations proposed by many “bioethicists” to limit care according to one’s quality of life.
Here is how the UK does it:

The basic idea of a QALY is straightforward. It takes one year of perfect […]

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There is a big rush to pass a “Health Care Bill” in Congress.
Why the big rush to pass one in the midst of an economic recession I’m not sure. The New York Times points out that it is a thoroughly partisan bill.
And I’ve read that there has been a lot of discussion with hospitals and […]

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Many currently say that John McCain made a “dreadful mistake” by choosing Sarah as his running mate.  He did.  But not for the reasons one hears being bantered about by the MSM and other political punditry (both right and left).  They and the GOP Hierarchy have already proclaimed Sarah as a loser and have tossed […]

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Americans grow up, finish their schooling, get their own cars, their own places to live, go for an easy to get credit card or two, develop a credit history, eventually get married, raise a family, get a bigger place to live and if they haven’t already, at that point many start abusing their credit.
Problem is, […]

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Today’s Manila Bulletin has it’s usual supplement from the New York Times, and the headline blares:
A Nuclear Free Vision.
In the Depths of the cold war, in 1983, a senior at Colombia University wrote…about the vision of a “nuclear free world”.
It seems that President Obama was promoting nuclear disarmament in the 1980’s.
That in itself is strange […]

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All weekend, when I surf the web I’ve been reading various interpretations on why Sarah Palin has resigned.
Since I live in the Philippines, and am a registered Democrat in the US, it’s not my fight.
Yet what I see is that those who ridicule her seem to be in two camps.
One is the left wing Democrats, […]

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Martin Luther King once wished that we could be judged by not by the colour of our skin but by our personal achievements.
I’m old enough to remember my own medical school had a (unacknowledged) quota for Jewish students (ten percent of the class), blacks and Asians (one or two token students), and up to a […]

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Whew. President Obama’s first 100 days are behind us. Give-him-a-break time is over. Snark on. For the last three months, going to the newsstand has been like being waylaid by someone’s doting mother armed with a load of photo albums. “This is Barack giving a speech,” gushes Mom. “Here he is giving another. And in […]

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I wasn’t too surprised that Proposition 8,which defended traditional marriage, passed in California because of the large number of Black and Hispanic Democrats who voted against it.
Their votes were actually about how people traditionally live together, and the place of marriage in society, but fifty years after the sexual revolution, one doubts that the mainstream […]

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My grandkids are into Facebook, and most people in the US know how the anti war opposition used Facebook and other internet social sites to help catapult Senator Obama to win the US elections last year.
But using Facebook groups for political purposes is not limited to the US.
Here in the Philippines, we have a big […]

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To those out there desperately trying to paste together scraps of enthusiasm by singing the poetic praises of VP Dick Cheney, please don’t expect the average conservative out in flyover country  to join your little Republican booster club.     Certainly, there is not much to disagree with in what the former VP says.  No doubt, we’re […]

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I seethed in anger last March, when Nancy Pelosi helped to jiggle the votes for the Democratic convention so that the super-delegates and the caucuses would be able to nullify the popular votes in the primaries.
This enabled the hard left, who had hijacked a lot of the caucuses, to have their candidate Barack Obama win, […]

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Thanks to an (as it turned out) ill-timed trip planned months in advance, The Stiletto has not yet seen the new “Star Trek” prequel (maybe this week). In the meantime, The Stiletto is reading everything she can about the movie and has noticed that, for some reason, most articles include details about the writers’ childhoods […]

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You may be thinking that I am talking about the female servicemember, but I am actually talking about her counterpart, the military spouse (of which approximately 93 percent are still women).   According to the Rand Corporation, the research organization often used to conduct studies for the Department of Defense, although military spouses often have more […]

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I am aghast that the so called “catholic Democrats” are dismissing Professor Glendon as a conservative.
Actually, she is not a conservative. Even the New York Times noted that she is considered one of the founders of the Communitarian movement, a group that has long been associated with the Democratic party.
So, what is a communitarian?
Well, in […]

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I suspect the present day witch-hunt against those who “tortured” has more to do with politics than reality. Why? Because I’m old enough to remember the laments of the Church committee hearings back in the 1970’s.
Those hearings resulted in the CIA pulling back from the “hands-on” dirty work of spying, relying more on electronic surveillance […]

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Well Conservatives have been waiting around patiently for a leader to rise to the surface of the Republican Party.   Someone that would speak out boldly and radically in defense of our Nation, the Constitution and Conservatism.  Yes we need impetuous radicals in the Republican Party, too,  to counter the multitude of progressive radicals in the […]

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a timely rant…..by Darvin Dowdy
Do you hear it?  A resounding Death Knell  ( link1 ) for the Republican Party?  Has the cloaked Grim Reaper  ( link2 ) cast its shadow  of doom over the Conservative Movement?   The slow cadence of the funeral dirge has already begun as the procession  moves toward the two gravesites. 
But wait.  […]

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In these stressful times you might find yourself having trouble dropping off to sleep.  So many things to worry about, you know?  Well if you are in need of a good sedative tonight but are wanting to avoid heavy medication, may I recommend, hot off the presses, the “Republican Road to Recovery”.   Gingerly presented, courtesy […]

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