Archive for November, 2009

In addition to giving thanks and stuffing ourselves with turkey, Thanksgiving means football, lots and lots of football. The games were a lot of fun, excepting the Lions’ loss to the Packers. But something else annoyed me: a stupid ad that was supposed to be about a new government program designed to help kids stay [...]

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. I hope you have a wonderful day with your friends and family. Today we are going to my parents’ house where we’ll have Thanksgiving dinner with them.
Although we are experiencing an economic upheaval there is still much to be thankful for. I am thankful for the unconditional love [...]

This is far worse than the “Do you have your papers?” and “Round up the usual suspects” that communist dictatorships favored. Police in Britain are arresting people for the purpose of gaining access to their DNA, one of the biggest of big brother tactics. It goes to show that overzealous big government will go [...]

Britain’s NHS, as all government run health care systems, continuously struggles financially, which means that it, like all government run health care systems, is always looking for ways to save money. One of the strategies it employs is to postpone at what age it will cover certain procedures or tests for its citizens. For example, [...]

The House passed – although barely – a massive $1.8 trillion health care bill that would put the health care of millions of Americans who are currently in private insurance plans in the hands of the US government. Democrats like to complain about how awful it is to have to deal with an insurance company, [...]

Yesterday’s breaking news about Major Nidal Malik Hasan mowing down 13 soldiers and wounding 31 more was nothing short of shocking. Hasan, a Muslim, was born here in the US and joined the military before 9/11. He went to Virginia Tech and was in ROTC. He was a psychiatrist at Walter Reed Hospital before [...]