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April 26, 2009
Should the memos have been released or not; should the advisors okaying it be investigated; should we torture if it saves American lives?
April 14, 2009
Supply-siders have it all wrong, you don't stop illegal drug trade and illegal immigration by closing the borders.
April 14, 2009
Now that the restriction on scientific research funding has been revoked, the U.S. scien-tific community, no longer hamstrung with ideology, can move full force, using the most promising means and those most likely to yield the greatest results the fastest, to dis-cover, develop, test and produce new cures for old diseases and disorder, devise revolu-tionary approaches to heal failing organs, regenerate cells, and possibly restore feeling and movement to those who have lost it.
March 15, 2009
Republican Ideologues insist on actions that they were not willing to take, when they were in complete power.
March 02, 2009
The GOP knowing that the Stimulus will not cure all ills in a month or two is positioning itself to say "I told you so!"
March 01, 2009
This financial crisis has affected us all, some more than others. My heart goes out to those who have or are about to lose their homes and or jobs, and to those who have suf-fered great losses in their retirement accounts, investments or credit standing.
The stimulus package signed recently shoul...
January 17, 2008
Imagine a family. They live in a wonderful house they inherited, but the house comes with a hefty mortgage. The family is supported by the working parent, who earns enough to not only meet all expenses, but to save money for retirement and the two teenage children´s eventual college education, and e...
November 08, 2006
Iraq is a mess. The sectarian war is escalating with each passing day, with no prospect of ebbing. The country that could be a major source of oil for the world markets is not. In fact the world markets can and do get along without Iraqi oil.
It seems that religious, political and clan feuds, and...
July 18, 2006
Why is it that we are unable to defeat the insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan? No doubt that our armed forces are enormously superior to the insurgents. Our forces are better trained and better equipped and better in every respect. Yet the insurgency continues to thrive. In fact, insurgents defeat...
June 07, 2006
A Stock Option is a commitment by a company to sell a fixed number of shares over a fixed number of years at a fixed price. Since the price is set at the time of the grant the stock option has value only if the stock price is higher at the time of exercise than grant. The intent is for those who dir...
April 02, 2006
Jobs
Critics claim that the Bush Administration has done little to create jobs. Nothing could be further from the truth. This administration, through its policies, has created millions of jobs in China and India.
George Bush doesn?t care; he thinks he is the King of the World!
Prosperity of O...
March 30, 2006
The House, Senate and White House have begun addressing the issue of undocumented (formerly known as illegal) workers. The Senate proposed to give them an opportunity to become legal workers, and even citizens. They will have to learn English, learn civics, pay back taxes, pay a fine, and abide by o...
March 15, 2006
Religion on an individual basis is very important to both the individual and society. It encourages one to lead a good life, promises rewards for doing good, and punishment for being bad. It gives comfort and hope in difficult times, and promotes humility and sharing in good times. Most importantly,...
March 10, 2006
It appears that no one is immune from reading or writing about the subject. Vouchers are nothing but a band-aid on our educational system.
If your car’s tire had a leak, you could either put air in the tire every day or so, or if you were smart you would have it fixed. If our Public School system ...
February 22, 2006
The Bush Administration has always put the interest of the Petroleum producers ahead of every other consideration. Now it is doing it again by allowing DPW a United Arab Emirates state-owned company to take over the management of several critical United States ports. What?s next, Kuwait managing air...
February 04, 2006
Having read so much about Medicare Part D, I did some calculations to determine the true cost savings to the participant in such a plan. I selected a plan with monthly premium of $32.00, $250.00 annual deductible and $17.00 co-pay for preferred brand drugs, costing an average of $70.00 retail for a ...
January 15, 2006
President Bush and his administration have repeatedly admonished us to stay the course because the terrorists are out to destroy our way of life. They cite 9/11 as the landmark act of Al Qaeda, declaring war on the American way of life, and a threat to our security.
To combat the enemies of our wa...
January 15, 2006
Following the invasion, anti-Americans in Iraq focused their attacks on Americans and their allies. Sabotage of oil pipelines, electric grid, water and sewer facilities were intended to damage America’s ability to win over the local population. The Iraqis, historically afraid of authority, stayed in...
December 19, 2005
I?ve been trying very hard to understand George W. Bush, and the reasons for his actions. He has dismissed the enormous deficits stating that tax cuts are good for the economy; he has shrugged off the absence of WMD in Iraq asserting that Sadam was a danger to the US and it was good to get rid of hi...
December 17, 2005
Today in America, many Fundamentalist Christians are on a warpath with science. They promote religion as the sole source of explanation for everything spiritual and physical. They want all decisions in our society to be driven by religious beliefs, and they expect science to follow suit. But religio...
December 16, 2005
December 25th is Christmas. It is the day Jesus was born. One would have to live in a cave in the middle of Outer Mongolia not to know that.
Whether you are Christian, Jewish, Moslem, Buddhist, agnostic, atheist, or anything else, regardless of whether you are deeply religious or non-observant, wh...
December 06, 2005
Illegal Immigrant workers. We love them. We hate them. We want them. We don’t want them. We need them. We don’t need them. The current controversy centers around those we classify as unskilled. They perform the most mundane jobs, the ones some claim “Americans won’t do!”
Businesses love them. They...
November 14, 2005
We’ve been reading a lot about the record earnings of oil companies, and listened to the executives justify them, and to consumer groups condemn their greed. Market forces brought about conditions that resulted in these huge profits. If the oil companies did anything illegal to accumulate these prof...
September 22, 2005
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina gasoline prices passed $3.00 a gallon. The rapid rise imposed a serious hardship on the consumers. But market forces played their part. Apparently $3.00 per gallon gasoline is at the threshold of pain. We began to witness conservation efforts by consumers, from carpo...
August 29, 2005
The 20th century saw significant advances in medicine, science and technology. The tools and gadgets of our everyday life, cures and vaccines for deadly diseases, better understanding of nature’s laws, space exploration and exploitation, and advances in agriculture have been the hallmarks of the 20t...
August 19, 2005
My wife and I took our 7-year-old granddaughter to the Kennedy Space Center.
Although my wife and I had been there several times, this was our granddaughter’s first visit
When we entered the Apollo Program area, my wife bragged to our granddaughter that I had participated in the Apollo Program, ...
August 11, 2005
October 4, 1957 the Soviet Union launched the world’s first man made earth satellite Sputnik. President Eisenhower’s Defense Department reacted by funding scientific work that culminated in the launching of Explorer I on January 31, 1958. President Kennedy pushed ahead, which not only landed America...
August 01, 2005
Public schools should be expected to teach children reading, writing, math, physical sciences, biological sciences, civics, health and other subjects teachers learn in college, but not religion. Honesty, respect for one another, respect for the law, and discipline (as in restraint and perseverance) ...
June 14, 2005
Recent editorials suggesting that Dr. Dean’s comments will alienate swing voters may be correct, but I believe that catering to swing voters is not the most important function of the Chairman of a political party. The Party Chairman’s responsibility is to define clearly the party’s positions on issu...
May 26, 2005
Bill Frist is looking into ways to exclude the Democratic minority from exercising any influence in matters of state, and establish One Party Rule.
If the American people had wanted one Party Rule by Republicans, then in the 2004 election we would have overwhelmingly voted for and elected only Re...
May 26, 2005
The Bush Administration solution: Sadam Hussein must be eliminated.
The conceived problem: Hussein is bad for Iraq, bad for the Middle East and bad for the USA. He has WMD, and is well on his way to developing nuclear weapons. He has links with al Qaeda.
When the UN Security Council declined t...