With all the buzz about national politics, please remember that everything is local as you step into that polling booth tomorrow. I am watching a series of races – local, state and national – for my area plus a few other races that have caught my eye throughout the last two or three months. Locally,… Continue reading Everything is Local
Yes, it is true. Seventy-five percent of every dollar spent on health care in this country is spent on chronic diseases. The Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease recently released a new television ad featuring Katy Segal, Phylicia Rashad, Lauren Bacall and Mary-Louise Parker along side every day women in an ad asking women to be… Continue reading Chronic Disease
I use to watch the news on illegal immigration and our borders with a disinterest. Yes, it is important on a national level. No, I didn’t think it effected me personally. My mother, who lives in the desert of southern California, and I would talk about it. It does personally effect her. Then, I started… Continue reading Borders – Ours
Three cheers for Bob Schieffer! He has moderated this last presidential debate in a manner that actually got some answers out of the candidates. He did so in a manner that did not make him the news story the next day. Next to Joe the Plumber, Schieffer should be the one who did the best… Continue reading The Final Presidential Debate of 2008
Okay, normally the goings on in the Pennsylvania 12th Congressional District are of little concern to me. I live in the New York 22nd Congressional District. Unfortunately, I do know who the congressman for the PA 12th is as Jack Murtha is in the news a lot. He has been in Washington for a while,… Continue reading Congressman Jack Murtha (D-PA) Disses Constituents
We all know that candidates will spend a lot of money to get out the vote. The question is what is going too far. This particular issue is not about a campaign that has gone too far but a newspaper. The Tennessee Tribune – middle Tennessee’s leading black newspaper – is printing the names and… Continue reading Get Out The Vote!
I know we think that title sound preposterous. I would have thought so if I hadn’t just finished reading my local paper. Please bear in mind I have two college-aged children expecting absentee ballots for the election and I live in the Town of Union. I guess I need to be a bit more truthful. … Continue reading Voter Suppression by Government?
I am going to try a new tactic. I am looking to figure out what I want to hear from the two candidates in tomorrow night’s final presidential debate. The topic is domestic policy but I have to tell you all right up front – I am sick of hearing about the economy. I live… Continue reading What do you want?
Yes, that is what this is called – Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s Rescue Plan for the Middle Class. I don’t know about you but I don’t necessarily want to be rescued at the expense of the freedoms I believe I enjoy as an American citizen. I know the big speech was yesterday so I… Continue reading Rescue for the Middle Class
I am going to be honest. By about 10 pm, I was done. Neither of these two were answering questions with any detail that had not been a sound bite for a week or more. I could not believe they could look at the 80 undecided voters on that stage with them and think they… Continue reading Presidential Debate Number Two
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