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‘None Of The Above’ Is A Valid Vote

November 1, 2010

Rather than throwing away their vote, voters have a difficult choice this election year between the lesser of the two evils. Not happy with the same old approach to politics as usual, voting for the opposition candidate–usually a Republican–seems the only way to send a message to our elected officials. Throw the bums out is [...]

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The Problem With Reassuring That The Recovery Is In Full Swing Is…

April 29, 2010

The media blitz is going full throttle with ads of GMC’s CEO Ed Whitacre walking through a plant pronouncing that GMC has paid back its’ loan part of the bailout, namely $6.7 billion, however the taxpayer is still on the hook for $43 billion in stock options; the reporting of the minor dip in shares [...]

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Is H1N1 Obama’s Katrina?

October 22, 2009

Fox News has depicted the H1N1 vaccine and the peak of the influenza as ships passing in the night. The fact of the matter is the H1N1 vaccine will not be available for most of us, at least in this first go around, to make a measurable difference, since the spread of the disease has [...]

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Distribution of H1N1 Vaccine: A Real Test Of Government’s Access To Health Care?

October 16, 2009

As Congress is moving toward reforming the current health care system, the H1N1 pandemic offers a real time test of the efficacy of a government run system. For example, the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus has an enrolled student body of approximately 10,000+ students . Primarily a commuter campus, students health care coverage is [...]

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Mild Cases Of H1N1 Raising Havoc!

October 13, 2009

As one who has experience firsthand the ravages of the flu this season, all I can say is that there is no way to adequately prepare your family against an outbreak of this size, notwithstanding a pandemic. Not to be critical of the local public health officials and medical personnel, the current situation on many [...]

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90 Days Until Christmas…

September 25, 2009

Television shopping networks are promoting the Holiday season as a way to recover from a lackluster Fall season, which was promoted early to recover from a disappointing Back-To-School promos, which were advertised in early summer to boost poor Summer Sales. Recovery? Maybe for the big wigs sitting behind their corporate desks while patting their lobbyists [...]

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“There Is No Cause For Alarm If Proper Precautions Are Observed.” Rupert Blue, U.S. Surgeon General 1918. Threat of [H1N1] “Cause for Concern, But Not Alarm.” Barack Obama, U.S. President, 2009.

September 24, 2009

J.M. Barry, (2009) writing in Nature [459: 324-5] on Pandemics: Avoiding The Mistakes of 1918 lists as a major mistake by the government in addressing the 1918 pandemic was the communication strategy of reassurance. J.M. Barry points out that in 1918 “This communication strategy of either reassurance or silence had its effect. Its effect was [...]

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John Edwards Slides The Bar for Ethics In Politics Further Down

September 20, 2009

Any political theme song nowadays should include the lyrics “I’m sorry…so sorry” with the latest revelations about the former Democratic Vice President Candidate and U.S. Senator John Edwards. This is not only a personal tragedy for Elizabeth Edwards and her family, but for the nation as well. It lends credence to the popular saying to trust no [...]

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Jack Bauer Need Not Apply To Obama’s CIA

September 19, 2009

There are so many things wrong with the current investigation launched by Attorney General Eric Holder into the activities of the CIA following 9/11 that it is difficult to know where to begin. First of all, I don’t know if you can be politically correct when you are in a state of war and it is even more [...]

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The Answer Is Blowing In The Wind

September 18, 2009

The death of Mary Travers of Peter, Paul & Mary marks ,once again, for many of us baby boomers, the passing of an era when citizens disenfranchised from involvement in the political system, organized en masse to change their government’s wrongheaded policy and course of action. You may ask yourself why we note the passing [...]

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