Archive for the 'Political Ponderings' Category

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 [...]

OBAMA’S WORLD: one nation under a secular paternal entity by Jean Snow VanOrden

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

In the late 90’s we lived for two years in the small village of Dryden N.Y.   Upstate New York was a great new school for our western sensibilities.  Unlike our ignorant vision of New York as a densely populated city of skyscrapers and concrete canyons,  upstate is a green velvet panorama of picturesque villages, orchards, [...]

Politics and Madness

Friday, November 14th, 2008

“A social scientist who understands human nature will not dismiss the vital roles of free choice, voluntary cooperation and moral integrity – as liberals do,…A political leader who understands human nature will not ignore individual differences in talent, drive, personal appeal and work ethic, and then try to impose economic and social equality on the [...]

ITS THE END OF THE UNIVERSE!! by Jean Snow VanOrden

Friday, November 7th, 2008

When things are tense,  news is stressful, and life is just getting way too serious;  my quiet, fairly unexpressive son stabs the sky with both fists, his arms held high in a salute to futility and says,  “Its the End of the Universe!”  Immediately, the gathered family is swept up in a wave of relieved [...]