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What Does Universal Healthcare Mean?

A Canadian Physician’s Experience of the Current Healthcare System in America
I am near the end of another busy shift in a major Canadian emergency department. The nurse in charge asks me to see two women in the minor care area - a daughter and her elderly mother. Both of them are in tears and pale […]

Obama’s Hollow “Judgment” and Empty Record

Read Joe Wilson: Obama’s Hollow “Judgment” and Empty Record. Needless to say, we all know Wilson speaks from experience on the lead up to Iraq:

A Sea Change?

During the last debate, Hillary mentioned the “Sea Change” that would occur with a woman president. She didn’t elaborate . . . not wanting to ignite the political gender hot potato . . . but she did talk of a change in everything from the people who are selected for leadership to little girls knowing […]

At This Point, “Double Standard” Is Ridiculous Understatement

The Web’s most popular liberal forum is on fire because of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s 60 Minutes interview about the rumor that Sen. Obama is a Muslim. Obama was careful to say, when it was his turn, that the rumor is offensive to Muslims because of its presumption. Clinton said she “takes him (Obama) at his […]

Registering Workers!

My idea of the right way of practicing bipartisan politics is for the left to come up with proposals that the right hates, but will hate voting against more than they hate the bill that they’re forced to support. Here is a proposal that seems to me to have some merit on several levels, and […]

NAFTA Questions for Obama

Taylor Marsh notes today that Union officials in Ohio has some questions for Barack Obama in the wake of the CTV story about Obama and NAFTA. Taylor says, “Evidently, the CTV story out of Canada, especially the part where they name a top Obama aide, has some union officials wanting answers from Senator Obama.”  
Taylor received the following […]

Barack The Uniter’s Thin Record and His Cabinet Plans

Barack Obama has made plenty of claims about being the great “uniter” but his record on working across the aisle is relatively “thin“.
We know that “Hillary Clinton has been trying to make a point about Barack Obama that deserves one last careful look before Tuesday’s probably decisive Democratic primaries.” David Ignatius clarifies “If Obama truly intends […]

Hillary’s Green Agenda

As the sound-bites and gotchas from the earliest presidential debates have been repeated over and over by the media in this election cycle, many critical and complex topics have gotten at best cursory treatment. One such topic is the environment: the crises we’re facing, the accomplishments of the candidates, and the plans that they have […]