There has been a great deal of outrage lately about the conditions in our veterans hospitals and about the general care of those who have given their time and various parts of their bodies and minds to defend this country in
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Watching the news for the last week or so, one would deduct that those on the tube and in the papers had all been born in the last four weeks. For those of us who actually existed before 911, the
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As if to prove that the last thing we need in the health care industry is insurance companies and to give us one more reason to want a single payer system, we are now faced with the latest insurance scam.
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Over eight million people have signed up for Obamacare and many of them are the young people needed to
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It’s time for this country to understand the problems that low wages cause all of us and even more important for those who make more, to understand how those same low wages will eventually lower their profits and hurt the
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If you are one of those people who have had it up to your eyeballs with the way politicians in general but especially how the Republicans have come to use every opportunity, apropos or not, to try to make political hay
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As I watch the Republican party, a political group devoid of constructive governing ideas or sensible election policies, lashing out like a mad dog, snapping at everything and everyone that is unlucky enough to get within range of their festering,
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For those of you who are trying, and how could it be anything but unsuccessfully, to understand just what the hell it is, that congress does – I sympathize but offer no hope. We exist in a country that is desperately in
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There is a lot of noise being made about the botched execution in Oklahoma last week. William Boardman give it a whole column in Reader Supported News, accusing the state of committing an atrocity and talking about how they have
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I’ve noticed lately that the number of people advocating violence to achieve their goals has increased at a truly alarming rate. What’s really disturbing is that it seems equally in play, both on the Right and on the Left.
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