October 12, 2009, 10:14PM
When you consider the report on how many people die due to lack of health insurance, what percentage of those die because the health insurance companies refuse necessary treatment? If even one insured person dies who is insured but who does not receive the necessary care, why is it that the company is not liable? The truth is that every insurance company issuing health care insurance has made decisions that have resulted in deaths. Should we not treat these companies as criminal enterprises instead of having congressmen who are being supported financially by them make laws that benefit them? Should the congressmen who have accepted money from them be also considered as criminals?
July 1, 2009, 9:08PM
She hasn't had a show on MSNBC since June 25th, a week ago... Did she leave in protest over being pre-empted by Michael Jackson specials?
December 29, 2008, 12:51PM
It appears that the new president elect is doing what he seems to have perfected, dodging. Is this what we have to look forward to the next 4 years?
September 25, 2008, 12:45PM
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June 26, 2008, 10:43AM
Recently, Barack Obama said that he disagreed with the supreme court decision banning capital punishment for child rape. I know this is an emotional issue, but the real question for me is what is Barack's stand on capital punishment. That he disagreed with this decision says to me that he stands with previous administrations that support capital punishment. According to available data we along with China execute more people than any other nations on the earth. If Barack really wants to lead, to take us in a new direction he is going to have to develop some backbone and stand up for important issues instead of figuring out what the audience wants to hear and spouting positions that are done solely to mollify the electorate. These kinds of stands are extremely disappointing and represent "politics as usual". Is he going to exercise moral leadership or is he going to be just another follower of the failed policies of the past?
May 13, 2008, 3:07PM
I was sent this somewhat depressing article from WaPo this morning. I guess we were all hoping that this kind of thing was a thing of the past....
Racist Incidents Give Some Obama Campaigners Pause
May 7, 2008, 10:40AM
One story that hasn't gotten any traction is the question of why it is that Obama supporters are supporting their candidate so well financially and Hillary's supporters are not. There is a strong polarity here and it would be interesting to see what is going on here. Also of interest would be a break down of McCain financial support. He was struggling for a long time until he secured the party's nomination, then the big money poured in. Be interesting to see where it's coming from.
May 3, 2008, 12:54PM
It was discovered recently that the "McCain family Recipes" posted on the McCain website were in fact lifted verbatim from the food network. A tempest in a teapot for sure, but in the aftermath of the flap, a staffer was fired for doing this. Clearly, John and Cindy McCain knew from the start that these were not family recipes because they did not provide them to the staffer in question. So they knew, assuming that they had knowledge of their own web site that the whole thing was a lie to begin with. It is clear that in Washington and in the broader American culture, lying is the business of the day. There is in the whole culture a confusion of truth with PR. The media culture that has honed the art of creating illusion is in fact a culture of lying. Truth has nothing to do with it.
The recent media flap about Hillary and Bill's lie about the events surrounding Hillary's trip to Bosnia underscores again, the pervasiveness of the Culture of Lying. In an AP news article, the headline is "Clinton misstates wife's Bosnia Tale". Note the word "misstates". They didn't say lie. Look around and see how often the word "lie" is used in the media. People "misstate" things, they even "misspeak" at times. They never lie. The word "lie" has been effectively expunged from the national vocabulary. If there is no word for an untruth, there are no untruths and if there are no untruths, there are no truths. It is all a game to see whose propaganda is more effective. The truth is what you can get away with. No wonder the American people have lost their way. We have a culture of national secrecy so extreme, that even the people elected to represent us really have no idea what is really going on. To conceal their own inability to find the truth, they perpetuate the culture of lying.
