Month: September 2009

A Look at the Midterms

The Hill produces a piece from a familiar genre. It’s the ‘nervous centrist Democrats think Pelosi is too liberal’ genre. In the first midterm of a new presidency, history tells us that the president’s...

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The Morality of Health Care Reform, Pt. 4

…[Q]uality care shouldn’t depend on your financial resources, or the type of job you have, or the medical condition you face. Every American should be able to get the same treatment that U.S. senators are entitled...

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Conditions Set to Start ME Peace Negotiations

. CNN’S AMANPOUR: Israeli and Palestinian Negotiators Interviewed on Prospects for Middle East Peace Terje Rød-Larsen, President, International Peace Institute: My pleasure, Christiane. AMANPOUR: I just want to go...

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Gays Are the New Socialists

According to Iowa’s Republican Rep. Steve King, not only does gay marriage threaten “opposite sex” marriage (copyright acknowledgment to Carrie “I would have been Miss Universe except that gays hate...

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We Love You, Bruce

Happy 60th birthday, Bruce. One soft infested summer, me and Terry became friends Trying in vain to breathe the fire we was born in Catching rides to the outskirts, tying faith between our teeth Sleeping in that old abandoned...

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