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Health care reform at a glance. Not pretty.

Posted on 25. Mar, 2010 by scott.

We can’t afford to have another Social Security system or another Medicare/Medicaid system.

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Iran’s leaders are nuts!

Posted on 22. Mar, 2010 by scott.

Let me quote from Surah 2 verse 256 — “There is no compulsion in religion.”

How clear is that?

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Natural gas — priced for growth.

Posted on 17. Mar, 2010 by scott.

Man would I love to tell Saudi Arabia, Iran, Russia and Venezuela that we don’t need their oil anymore

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China — foe or faux?

Posted on 13. Mar, 2010 by scott.

I don’t want our relationship with China to be adversarial but it sure as heck can’t be apathetic.

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Poverty — try it sometime.

Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by scott.

Thank God we live in this great country. Count your blessings and then share a few.

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The Iraq experiment

Posted on 07. Mar, 2010 by scott.

America’s Iraq war cost must be measured in the future success of Iraqi democracy and a peaceful and safe Iraq population.

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Unemployment #’s are unexpectedly encouraging.

Posted on 05. Mar, 2010 by scott.

Uncertainty as to what the government is going to do remains the biggest hurdle in the road to economic and employment recovery.

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Obama finally gets it right. Really.

Posted on 02. Mar, 2010 by scott.

You’ve made this program appealing and easy. That doesn’t sound like something government would typically create.

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Obama on healthcare — an acrid summit.

Posted on 25. Feb, 2010 by scott.

When I could, today, I watched live, the Obama healthcare summit.
Surprisingly there were many good ideas bounced around–none of them new.  Not so surprisingly, there was a lot of acrimony on both sides of the aisle.  Obama had the repubs sitting on his left and the dems on his right, in what I guess was [...]

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Toyoda on Toyota.

Posted on 24. Feb, 2010 by scott.

Nothing like a little product scare to bring out the thespians in congress.

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