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GUILT TRIP: moralizing arguments about healthcare reform getting you down?

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

For a well reasoned analysis of why Congress’s current rush towards government take over of our health care system is a bad economic move and loaded with deception,  follow this link to an excellent article in the Wall Street Journal by Robert J. Samuelson:
“The campaign to pass Obama’s health-care plan has assumed a false, though [...]

WAY TOO MUCH FUN:wind chill and warmth for Christmas by Jean Snow VanOrden

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

They came from Houston, Texas; Portland, Oregon; Iwakuni, Japan, to gather for a momentous summit.  No, it wasn’t an international consortium collecting to consider the wisdom of the latest bailout. It was the gathering of my scattered family, one and all, for a Christmas together for the first time in many years.  Something far more [...]