While I certainly didn’t agree with everything Bush did while in office, I think overall he was a pretty decent President. The biggest thing that annoyed me was the unbelievable spending that went on. He has kept America safe for the last seven years and I am grateful for that. I truly believe history will be much kinder to him than most have been towards him during his Presidency.
They are all a part of the list of countries where the U.S. Military is currently deployed. This is from GlobalPolicy.org. They got the information from the Department of Defense. Note the information is from about 3 years ago, but I don’t have up to date access to the DoD, and if I did the information certainly wouldn’t get posted here. Nevertheless I’m pretty sure this is a fairly accurate representation of the U.S. Military throughout the world. Read more…
Health insurance is expensive. Really expensive. Why is this? There are many problems with the system, but I am going to try and point out a few of the flaws and maybe a solution (at least partial anyway).
All American Blogger has a few ideas why government run health care will fail. Duane shares this quote is from Democrat Missouri State Representative Steve Hodges who thinks that infertility treatment should be covered by health insurance:
We spend millions upon millions of dollars trying to assist people, even in terminal situations with cancer, with a lot of different things,” said the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Steve Hodges, D-East Prairie. “To me, this is a very positive medical procedure. Nothing but good things could come out of it, and I know everything has its cost, whether it’s good or bad.
This is part of the reason why health insurance is so expensive. Policy makers around the country keep adding things to be covered that simply don’t need to be in every policy. Read more…
I woke up Friday morning and did my usual perusal of the news. With all of the action taking place in Gaza this past week I expect to see plenty of news about this. The headline that greeted me, however, was one mentioning that Obama wanted the DTV Transition to be pushed back. According to the media, and a number of U.S. senators, we cannot risk millions of Americans going dark on February 17th. This is all so silly I’m not sure where to start. Read more…
The media again tries to take something that has little to do with the actual number of unemployed people and use it to explain why the sky is falling. News reports available here and here explain that many state unemployment systems have been brought down by the massive amount of people all simultaneously trying to use the system before an approaching deadline. It’s obvious, however, that there is something else going on here. Did all of the states in these reports use the same software for managing their unemployment systems? Are these states really running systems so fragile they can’t handle a 2% uptick in traffic? Am I being unreasonable by expecting these systems to breeze through ten thousand simultaneous users? Surely they’ve been hit hard before as previous deadlines were approaching. I hope I’m wrong but it sounds to me like the media is using bad software to show people the sky is falling.
I recently read these two articles on the way colleges help market credit cards and are then given a share of the spoils and I was both unsurprised and appalled. I lament daily on the poor state of financial education in America. Granted, this is something that parents should be teaching at home I still expect, as a student and future parent, that the education will cover the things I think are important, after all I am their customer. Frankly, colleges should be ashamed of themselves for both failing to teach students one of the most important lessons students need to hear (that most parents are ill equipped to give) and at the same time exploiting the fact that they have failed to educate students on these issues. Read more…
He quotes this from Anne Hendershott in the Wall Street Journal:
Even Ted Kennedy, who gets a 100% pro-choice rating from the abortion-rights group Naral, was at one time pro-life. In fact, in 1971, a full year after New York had legalized abortion, the Massachusetts senator was still championing the rights of the unborn. In a letter to a constituent dated Aug. 3, 1971, he wrote: “When history looks back to this era it should recognize this generation as one which cared about human beings enough to halt the practice of war, to provide a decent living for every family, and to fulfill its responsibility to its children from the very moment of conception.”
I find it very interesting that Teddy was once pro-life, I hadn’t known that. Too bad he changed his stance to align with his party. Now he supports the Freedom of Choice Act. He apparently chose his politics over his faith.
The media again tries to take something that has little to do with the actual number of unemployed people and use it to explain why the sky is falling. News reports available 
