President Obama pulled a fast one last week. While the public was entranced by trivial stories on Hollywood celebrities gone mad, or repeated laments about the oil spill, the President appointed Dr. Donald Berwick as head of Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). His appointment is a triumph for “scientific medicine”, […]

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It was the usual lively discussion, the panel consisted of Simon and Jan Barrett, TJ Hart, Peter Hyatt, Dave Knechel, and Denny Griffin. With this amount of fire power, there will be an explosion! I guess we should start including the same rider that Discovery Channel uses with Mythbusters “Don’t try this at home. EVER”. […]

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“Settler arrested on suspicion of killing Palestinian youth” http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/settler-arrested-on-suspicion-of-killing-palestinian-youth-1.301272 I have a number of email friends in Israel and a list which reports pros and cons of events there: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Israel_Palestine The recent cordial meeting between Obama and Netanyahu: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38101443/ns/politics-white_house/ probably reflects what both know about that once Zionist state — that it is made up […]

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The Supreme Court decision removing local and state restrictions on the possession of hand guns has opened the door to G-d knows what crimes, accidental deaths, suicides. During the past week we have had two serious assaults in our ordinarily crime free Riverside Park on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. With the addition of […]

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Review of the CD In a time where jazz seems to be in a perpetual state of confusion there are some things you can still relies on.  There are a hand full of Jazz artist that no matter what state of the music business is in, they are guaranteed to give you a good product […]

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