By Ron Steinman Everyone knows the population in the United States is growing. Because of advances in medicine there are more people over sixty-five alive today than at any time in our history. But there is more to this than most realize. Be aware, change is fast coming to the geriatric population, and thus to [...]
On the advice of many Derrick Jensen’s “Endgame” has been on the ‘should read’ list for years, but somehow I have never gotten around to it. More recently a youtube clip of him reading an excerpt was brought to my attention, so I watched that, and then checked out sections of the books that are [...]
The House is expected to vote on the Senate health care reform bill and then the reconciliation bill, which includes all the fixes, sometime after 8 pm Eastern Sunday.
This afternoon the House Budget Committee reported The Reconciliation Act of 2010 to the House of Representatives by a vote of 21 yays to 16 nays. Included in the release is a Public Health Insurance Option on page 116.
Last year today was probably one of the best day in President Obama’s life, but today could not be more different. As if it isn’t enough to have to deal with the major humanitarian crisis in the aftermath of Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake,but President Obama and the Democrats have now to cope with the political seismic [...]
