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Back when the people of Iran were busy protesting their election being stolen, I found out about a program called “TOR”. Webpage here. The Tor software is a program you can run on your computer that helps keep you safe on the Internet. Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of […]
“So JFK is going to be the new president. Right? Not so fast. Some goober decides to drive up to the Kennedy compound with dynamite in his car….” I have a long memory, so I’m still unwilling to bet that Mitt Romney will win or keep the Republican nomination, much less the election. I know […]
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 […]
I once lived under a dictatorship, so we rarely believed what the government run media told us. Because of the censorship of the media, rumors tended to spread wildly and so to find out what was going on, we relied on word of mouth from other missionaries, and every night we listened to the BBC’s […]
Anti Catholicism has a long history in the US, an inheritance from England, where the religious wars for and against the regency of Queen Elizabeth led to Catholics being demonized as evil. ( Elizabeth was inconveniently conceived before her mother married, and many folks said her mother never married the king at all, so this […]
I had to laugh. Jane Fonda is among the fainting feminists who want Rush Limbaugh removed from the airways for insulting a woman. Well, she has a point. Technically, the word to describe those of either or both sexes who have sexual relations outside of marriage is “fornicator”, and this is not illegal in the […]
It is written in oh so politically correct language, but it should set off alarm bells. A US government appointed ethicist at the National Institutes of Health just wrote an article in the Journal of Medical ethics (which can be read at the British Medical Journal website)Â proposing the handicapped should be killed for organ […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 major insurers rise nearly 50% :: Oct. 25, 2010 … American Medical Preexisting conditions were used to reject more than 651,000 applicants […]
This was supposed to be a “post†racial presidency. Why is our leadership fanning these flames?
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 […]
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 […]
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 then […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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