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Did you hear the one about the British dental patient who, using a pair of pliers, removed fourteen of his own teeth? He would have kept going, but the Tooth Fairy made him stop…
The extractions were no joke, just the most sensational tidbit in yet another story about problems with socialized [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Health Insurance Debate at 2:26 PM UTC
The news just keeps getting better and better. By all accounts, the much maligned surge is working. Car bombings, civilian deaths, coalition soldiers killed and wounded are all down. The killing and capturing of al-Qaeda fighters are up, in no small part due to Iraqi citizens who seem to have finally figured out [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as War in Iraq at 12:45 PM UTC
Conservatives like to poke fun at what has become a standard liberal ploy, positing proposed policies as crisis solutions. To my knowledge the Clintons invented this gambit, couching HillaryCare in the garb of emergency legislation. To a joint session of Congress on September 22, 1993, President Clinton outlined Mrs. Clinton’s bold plan, [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Politics at 12:54 PM UTC
The current brouhaha surrounding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program offers a revealing glimpse into the state of political dialogue in America. Reading the typical newspaper leaves the impression that the forces of evil, incarnate in President Bush, are arrayed against angels of light, commonly known as Democrats and moderate Republicans. The President’s [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Health Insurance Debate, Politics at 3:33 PM UTC
Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards has "unveiled an aggressive plan for combating HIV/AIDS in the United States and abroad," the Cox News Service article began. Mr. Edwards declared the effort "a moral imperative" and proposes to spend fifty billion dollars over the next five years battling HIV/AIDS abroad. Mercifully and [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Health Insurance Debate, Politics at 6:17 PM UTC
The Great Immigration Debate remains at full throttle. Never far from the minds of Americans is the ever-present urgency of doing something about the twelve to twenty million illegal aliens now here. Add to that the concern over the hundreds or thousands more entering our country each day, and the disquiet often boils [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Politics at 7:21 PM UTC
In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, politicians and pundits alike expressed confidence we would prevail against terrorist enemies. Our superior intelligence was the oft-cited source of assured victory. Vice President Dick Cheney said the hijackers had destroyed buildings they couldn’t build with technology they couldn’t invent. Ann Coulter wrote "if our enemies were [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Politics at 1:37 PM UTC