Spengler on Iran's Future -- Bleak and Desparate
M. Simon points to an Asia Times piece about Iran by "Spengler."...efforts to isolate Iran from the cultural degradation of the American "great Satan" have produced social pathologies worse than those...
View ArticleA Look at the Af/Pak Adventure
This short piece by Carlo Cristofori in Counter Punch looks at the Afghan/Pakistan/Pashtun/Taliban Conflict through a different lens than most. Simply stated, the Pashtuns predate either of the two...
View ArticleLa Raza Fights Racism
Via Group News Blog we have this. I'm doing the same as Maggi Jochild, copying the message in toto.The nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court was an historic and proud moment for...
View ArticleSingle Payer Alone is Not the Best Option
Maggie Mahar changed my mind about the single-payer option.I still have a bad attitude about private insurance, but not as bad as it was.We have no way of knowing who will be the majority leaders in...
View ArticleSusan Boyles -- "Memories" Semi-Final & "I Have a Deam" Final
This time the video is widely available.This woman's gentle influence is a blessing to behold. Despite a clear rough opening she made a graceful recovery and finished well. And the judges were for the...
View ArticleDr. George Tiller (1941-2009)
Dr. George Tiller was assassinated yesterday at the church where he and his wife attended. He was one of a handful of physicians known to provide what has come to be called "late term abortions."...
View ArticleArt against the Iraq war - Bitter Fruits
This is from Leila Abu-Saba's blog. Laura McCallum, a sculptor and teacher in Brooklyn, NY, began a project six years ago to draw a tiny image in honor of each American killed in the Iraq war. The...
View ArticleHealth Care Fantasy -- The Public Option
When I studied the actual plans for health care reform in the Congressional pipeline I was disappointed. It is clear that the insurance industry is so firmly entrenched in Washington politics that any...
View ArticleLaunch! Healogica--Clinical Trials Recrutiment service
Ever wonder how people getting treated by "experimental" drugs or procedures get selected?I often wonder, should I become stricken with some arcane condition, how I would find out ALL my options,...
View ArticleWhippin' Up the Base Until it Forms Stiff Peaks
No way to capture the full experience of visiting this blog.It's like taking your grandchildren to Chuck-E-Cheese.You'll never know what it's like til you do it. And don't skip the comments thread.
View ArticleMedPAC -- Technocrats only a Policy Wonk can Love
Like children at an Easter egg hunt, our elected representatives have been looking for the bestest egg of all, the one with real chocolate candy instead of one or two gummy bears. After sniffing around...
View ArticleGlimpses of Peter Oakley (geriatric 1927)
The recent experience of Susan Boyle's overnight explosive success was overwhelming and last I heard she is convalescing somewhere, on the edge of a nervous breakdown. I was reminded of Peter Oakley...
View ArticleGreg Djerejian on Obama's Cairo Speech
Belgravia Dispatch emerges from an extended hiatus for a don't-miss commentary. Djerejian is a very smart man with diplomacy in his DNA. If he says something is okay I feel better already. And Obama...
View ArticleMark Lynch on the Cairo Speech
The Aardvark has been on my blogroll for a long time.He is a man of many words but also very smart. When he says something is worth quoting, believe it.Israelis and Palestinians. I'm still struggling...
View ArticleIran's Presidential Election is Next Week
Results of next week's presidential election are important to US-Iran relations and determining what Washington's next moves will be in that part of the world. Although Iran's form of government is not...
View ArticleLooking at Lebanon After Yesterday's Elections
Lebanese politics is a form of representative democracy, but nothing like what Americans imagine when they read those words. I have been following events in that part of the world since before I...
View ArticleHealth Care Insurance Commentary
Found at Old Jews Telling Jokes...►This is a dirty joke, so those who are offended by dirty jokes should skip this video.◄
View ArticleCanadian Health Care Myths
Via Common Deams/ Denver Post / Ron BeasleyAs America comes to grips with the reality that changes are desperately needed within its health care infrastructure, it might prove useful to first debunk...
View ArticleHiatus
Blogging will be light until June 23.I have too many care giving assignments to do more than read comments and stay current.
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