Israel, Sparta and the Law of Large Numbers
Our troubled world needs historical perspectives. Sparta offers a good perspective. The Spartans were ferocious and well-disciplined fighters. Some know that 300 Spartan fighters were the core of a...
View ArticleLies, Delusions, & Hypocrisy- we better get started
We've got a lot of problems. Some are worsening. We can't leave things up to the Prez who says - "We must win in Iraq for the security of Western civilization". Iraq is a big problem: a. We never...
View ArticleOur loss of mythical power and another front porch campaign
Michael Vlahos, no leftist, tells us how much America has lost in the post 9/11 debacle: The world assumed that American power was totipotent- when we projected our shock and awe into Iraq with such...
View ArticleHealth Care HellHole
My friend AR is 63 years old, divorced and in a hole. Always overweight, like her parents and brother, she had a big stroke 3 years ago, which left one side of her body poorly functional. Her mental...
View ArticleThe time for talk has passed, Senator Feingold
Senator Russ Feingold, a respected and decent man, wants to censure the President (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/7/22/1077/74921). Only one President has been censured in 200 plus years and that...
View ArticleNANCY B. LOUSY meet Prof. Gen. DAVID BETRAY.US
Words are tools, which may be misused. You can’t run an organization without words. Corporations spend lots of money trying to find convincing mission statements, and so do politicians. The US of A...
View ArticleDemocratic Candidates I. Some inconvenient truths
Stock markets are crashing around the world. We are in a serious recession. Look at food prices and then look at the Government inflation index. Food prices have been rising like hot air balloons,...
View ArticleTilting against Insurance
Things can go wrong after you get health insurance The doctor-insurer interface is harsh, it wastes time & money Insurers are often penny wise and pound foolish, including public programsI review...
View ArticlePride in our country and earmarks
What American actions are you proud of? What American actions are you ashamed of? Can we hope to get out of this mess without facing up to Congressional corruption? Why aren't the Presidential...
View ArticleThe Red Phone Ad promotes militarism and McCain
Many diaries have touched on Clinton's red phone ad. The media responded (they are much more interested in ads than discussion of complex issues). It surely influenced some voters. Ads distort reality,...
View ArticleCompare and contrast: The Iraq War and the Mass. Health Plan
(As seen from the inside of the healthcare system, a slightly different version will appear at kevinmd.com/blog)Paul Krugman’s health care columns, the archimedes movement and repairing the healthcare...
View ArticleThe three ring circus of US healthcare reform
The poet Juvenal wrote, “We Romans have forgotten our civic duties; the People who once approved everything, military command, high civic offices, legions, now hold back and anxiously hope for only two...
View ArticleStop, look and listen
We’ve lost our bearings. We snap to attention when the party of steel yanks our chain with reports of Islamic threats or its fresh new face. I mean Gov. Palin, drill, kill and block. Drill everywhere,...
View ArticleThe plunge protection team and the truth about the "free market"
We humans are easily seduced by abstract, feel good ideas. The free market is an abstract idea, like the social contract or a personal God. Nobody has ever seen one. We've known for centuries that...
View ArticleGas prices down, gasoline problems up again
Energy policy; we must break the cycles of transient piety Oil prices have bounced from very high to very low. Most Americans are pleased because they now pay less than two dollars a gallon for gas....
View ArticleThe Daschle Problem and the importance of trust
We have big but not insoluble problems. They can’t be solved in a top down fashion. Will the public cooperate in sacrifice and life style change if they don’t trust the government and the secretary of...
View ArticleA Marathon Not a Sprint, compare the opinions about the Geithner plan
These are dangerous times. People are losing their jobs and their homes; a few people have threatened bankers. Kos diarists have taught me a lot, especially Bondad and Jerome a Paris. Each had a recent...
View ArticleAs California goes, so goes the nation
I. The politics of fear, distrust and deceptionI live in California; We have problems, but I will stay. California is a failed state; I don’t think that new faces (new governor) can resolve our...
View ArticleSHAME ON YOU, Senator Grassley
I Faxed this letter to Grassley's Washington office, 202-224-6020You have said some stupid things lately.1. You claim to be worried about death panels and healthcare reform. You know that’s not true....
View ArticleBarack Obama and John Quincy Adams
Which President spoke seven languages and was later called Old Man Eloquent?Like Obama, President JQ Adams was opposed by violent men who put private property above all elseObama resembles John Quincy...
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