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  • Obama Administration: Horse Trading For Healthcare Control

    November 8, 2009

    • Nancy Pelosi couldn’t have announced the new House healthcare reform bill, the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962), with any more pomp and circumstance. It was certainly more impressive than the Senate’s mouse-like rollout, apparently intended to avoid rubbing salt in the Baucus “bipartisanship” wound. H.R. 3962 is definitely a major milestone in attempting to reform our ...
  • Sketch Comedy: Obama and the AARP

    July 28, 2009

    • Feeling a bit lazy today, I've decided to try something new, my very own political cartoon. I call this one, "Obama on the Road: What He Hopes Will Happen at the AARP"What do you think for a quick, rough sketch? More? Or keep the day job? :)J.E. Braun is the author of Paranoia, a 9/11 survivor's tale. 10% of profits from sales of Paranoia will be donated to the Twin Towers Orphan Fund ...
  • Kindle-ized, Globalized, Public Intellectualized, and Excised

    June 17, 2008

    • I'm being Kindle-ized by Amazon.com., so my agent recently informed me.  The good news is that my first book, The Eighth Promise, will be downloadable in about six weeks from their site into the Kindle book pod. The bad news is that the royalty per digital sale is much less than for a real book sale.  I suppose the selection of The Eighth Promise confirms what I've suspected -- that after a ...