Barack Obama
August 29, 2009
- I grew up on Cape Cod, not far from Hyannisport. My family used to boat in the same waters as the Kennedy family, and occasionally picnicked on the same spit of sand in Lewis Bay. They were parishioners at St. Francis Xavier, in Hyannis, and we at St. Pius X, in South Yarmouth - the next parish over. Our surname was Irish, too, and our ancestors were from Co. Donegal and Co. Waterford.There ...
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August 28, 2009
- Got to give the President a big bowl of props for interrupting Obama Rama on Martha's Vineyard with his valiant effort to paint a big old smiling happy face on the side of the economy. Although in the future, he might want to come up with something a bit more reassuring than "we're losing jobs at a much slower pace." Hey everybody, did you catch that? The economy is doing less badly. ...
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August 27, 2009
- What’s wrong with the current system? Gross inefficiency, redundancy of services (generally lowering overall quality because the added programs lack adequate proficiency and don’t significantly improve access), irrational deployment of resources (i.e. too many specialists and too few primary care physicians, simultaneous physician gluts and shortages in different geographies, an ...
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August 17, 2009
- "How dare you say this is about racism!"And a pleasant Monday to you too sunshine, I thought, as I stared at my computer screen this morning, reading over the first e-mail of the day.It was from someone who had apparently seen my presentation on CNN last night, in which I explained why racism is indeed a driving force behind the outpouring of anger we've been seeing at the various ...
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August 17, 2009
- I just read an article that I thought was very well done. The article discusses the tactics the Obama administration has used to try to get the current House version of the healthcare bill passed. As you read through them, it becomes more and more apparent, at least to me, that if there was actual value - actual beneficial substance to THIS bill, these tactics would be unnecessary.A separate ...
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August 16, 2009
- It's hard not to have an ambivalent relationship with political power, no matter how modest. There's some truth to the notion that the people who most crave it are least reliable when they have it; but no more truth than there is to the idea that those who are negatively oriented to power will never have any, to their detriment. Barack Obama was such a surprise as a candidate because he broke ...
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August 14, 2009
- Normally apolitical Americans turn out in droves at town hall meetings to express their anger at the Government 'ramming through' health care reform. [ctrl-click to launch post subject video] Caption and Image Credit: nzherald.co.nz Obama Slaps Fox News As Ratings Continue To Soar Last night, Bill O'Reilly delivered his show starting opinion presentation, and it spoke "truth to ...
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August 13, 2009
- I step through the doorway and silver light settles on me like a benediction. The moon is gibbous, waning, but still casts sharply-etched shadows. Oblong and featureless, my shape seems to mirror the white face in the sky: the edges crisp while the interior is murky and undefined as if infected by some inner decay.Winking above the Peak, the three stars on the belt of Orion -- the dominant ...
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August 12, 2009
- If you get a chance, today or perhaps tomorrow, do yourself a favor. Look up some file footage, perhaps on YouTube, of Adolf Hitler, addressing his followers. I know, it doesn't sound like the best way to spend your day, or even a few minutes of it, but trust me, there's a point to the recommendation. While you watch, notice the unhinged shouting, the wild eyes, the veins on his neck, the ...
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August 12, 2009
- It took a lot of digging, listening to the right wing patriots who have been warning us all along, and very little thought on my part, but I think I’ve finally gotten to the bottom of this vast, worldwide, time travel conspiracy to take away our right to high cost health care and guns. Some of this might sound a little wacky. Bear with me.In the year 2023, the Council for Foreign Relations, ...
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