The LATimes has an article about outsourcing medical transcription to Manila. I have no problem with that. Waiting three days for the notes to get on the chart usually means you have to not only dictate everything but write it all out in longhand too, since you need the information right away.. But the part [...]

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The London Times reports an imminent attack by Israel on Iran: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1079092.html Such would be a disaster — with ramifications both immediate and for decades to come. The air route to Iran for Israel is over Iraq — in the face of U.S. airpower there. Can Obama deter this madness? What a job he has [...]

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It was another lively hour of talk in radio, our panel consisted of Simon and Jan Barrett, Ms. Pickles, Denny Griffin, and ace reporter on the ground TJ Hart from Sky 97.3 out of Gainsville Florida. Many think that the Haleigh Cummings story is already a ‘cold case’, that is wrong, it is far from [...]

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I was having a pleasant chat with my brother this afternoon — he is a brilliant scientist now retired. Our political views are more or less polar opposites which shows independence of mind, but makes political talk a bit hazardous. Our ‘little’ sister tiptoes around us with such subjects. It is fascinating to see that [...]

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One of the several vast mistakes that Dwight Eisenhower (a man who meant well) made during his presidency was to launch a system of national highways rather than expanding our rail systems (as the Europeans were doing). The trucking industry in those days had more political clout than the railroad companies. The costs have been [...]

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Lost your job? Your health care insurance? Your retirement funds? Your home values, or your home itself? Stop being a damned crybaby! Remember what former Texas senator Phil Gramm said recently: “We have sort of become a nation of whiners. You just hear this constant whining.” Gramm doesn’t seem to have much to whine about, [...]

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Today’s New York Times has an article on the plight of the Rohingya people from western Burma, who are now refugees in Indonesia. Unless one follows Amnesty International, one might not know about this Muslim tribe in mostly Buddhist Burma who has been prosecuted by their present day government as unwelcome outsiders. As a result, [...]

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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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