If someone close to you has died from cancer or if you have been diagnosed, you know all too well that curing cancer is important. Cancer changes lives in ways that can never be repaired. Keeping this in mind, were you amused or offended by the newest grab from our lame duck president for more space in the history books?
Big Government
Hardworking People Create a Big New Problem
For a long time I have been suspicious that emerging from the recession wasn’t good for everybody. It seemed like a positive thing for the president. He said it was what he wanted and still talks obsessively about bailing us out from the “worst economic crisis” since the Depression.
Tax Inequality Rhetoric Turns Prejudice Into Profit
After declaring anti-Muslim rhetoric off limits, perhaps Democrats can finally get back to work doing what they like best: spreading anti-wealth, tax inequality rhetoric. Unlike rhetoric against terrorism, tax inequality rhetoric has no limits. Isn’t summoning hatred toward America’s most well off just as prejudicial as profiling minorities?
Hospice Makes Dying Better: a Federal Benefit That Helps
My father died last Wednesday. He was a World War II veteran and a good man with an infallible moral compass. He had been sick for a long time. For those of you who have not had the experience of watching a loved one leave this world despite the best efforts of medical science, know that dying can be difficult.
Initiatives Would Give Us Power to Stop Government
Online initiatives would give the people power to stop the stupid things our government wants to do, like bringing Syrian refugees into this country.
Prison Pipeline? School Spending is a Political Scam
“Pipeline to prison” is a slogan you are going to hear many times over the next year. What it means is that no matter how much money taxpayers give to schools, kids are going from kindergarten to the big house because we aren’t paying enough.
Inclusion is a Dirty Word in New Health Exchange Bill
It started even before the first Obamacare health exchange took our money. An irresistible opportunity beckoned to turn inclusion into a dirty word. Despite all their promises, could Democrats find a way to give health care benefits to the one group they told us we would not have to pay for?
