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Music Monday-Lynyrd Skynyrd "That Ain\'t My America"
Twenty years ago, the Berlin wall fell. Germany, one of our allies, asked our president to join in their celebration of freedom. He could not find the time in his schedule to be there. That Ain't My America. The House of Representa...
Pelosi\'s Health Care Bill and Vending Machines
Image via Wikipedia Seriously. Is there any end to the nanny state mentality of idiots like Nancy Pelosi? I don't think there is anybody who does not think some reform of the health care system is needed. You keep hearing how premiu...
Baucus Bill Passes First Hurdle
Image via Wikipedia Do you remember George Carlin and his seven words you can never say on television? It starts off, "There are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are 7 you can't say on television. What a ratio that is! 399,993.....
Barack Obama's Health Care Speech
I debated about whether or not to post anything regarding President Obama’s health care speech last night. In fact, I actually had another posting scheduled for this morning, but I have rescheduled it for another day. There were a few things he s...
Obama To Address Joint Session of Congress
President Obama has decided to address a joint session of Congress next week to lay out what he wants to see in a health care bill. I can hardly wait. During the State of the Union Speech in January during the last address to both houses of Congres...
Democrats, The Media, and The Health Care Debate
Image by genetew via FlickrPresident Obama and his fellow Democrat leaders, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, et al are quick to declare that the Republican Party are absent in the health care reform debate. According to them, they are the "party of no" or ...
Nate Beeler: How Liberals Can Break The Blue Dogs
OK. This cartoon is wrong on a lot of levels, but it made me laugh. Is this the "Chicago Way" I keep hearing about? ...
Candy or Food?
Image by clevercupcakes via FlickrI got my first job when I was 15 years old. It was for a local convenience store. For all but 4 or 5 of the 33 years since that first job, I have been involved in some way, shape, or form in the retail food industr...
Health Care Thoughts
Image via WikipediaLike a lot of Americans, I have been thinking a lot about health care. Without a doubt, there are aspects of the current system that need to be fixed. The question is how to go about fixing things. Polls show that the majority o...
Nate Beeler: In Defense of Dissent on Health Care
I saw this on the Washington Examiner website this morning. I think Nate Beeler hit the nail on the head. You can put me in the camp of Thomas Jefferson. ...
Health Care Again
I wish I would have seen this prior to my post yesterday on my thoughts that the proposed payroll tax on employers that did not offer health insurance was a possible ploy to get businesses to drop health insurance coverage because it was cheaper to p...
Health Care Reform Payroll Tax
Let’s talk a little bit about the health care debate. For now, I want to focus on one aspect of the proposals going through the House and Senate, and that is the proposed payroll tax on businesses that do not provide health insurance to their empl...
