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Why the US Health System is SO Superior to Nationalized Care

JeffJ — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:23:15 -0500

Interesting statistics:

A recent "Investor's Business Daily" article provided very interesting statistics from a survey by the United Nations International Health Organization.

One reason why the Obama Administration is so Incompetent

JeffJ — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:19:45 -0500

The percentage of each past president's cabinet who had worked in the private business sector prior to their appointment to the c abinet. You know what the private business sector is… a real life business, not a government job. Here are the percentages.

Obama's Postmodern Vision

JeffJ — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:40:21 -0500

There has been for months a popular parlor game of tallying instances in which President Obama seems to have either ignored or simply bypassed federal law. But what started out as a way of exposing occasional hypocrisy is now getting a little scary.

Most recently, President Obama made several recess appointments -- a tactic that as a senator he once criticized -- even though Congress was not in recess.

Benedetto: Obama Dodging the Press

jeffj — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 07:30:33 -0500

Richard Benedetto: Over the past five months, the Republican presidential candidates participated in 13 debates where they fielded dozens of penetrating questions on every major issue facing the nation, and some not so major ... plus some uncomfortable questions about their pasts and their personal lives. Yet, during all that time, the man they hope to defeat next November has rarely been asked by news reporters about many of these issues. Since August, President Obama has held only one formal White House news conference.

Our Legal System is Seriously Broken

jeffj — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:22:15 -0500

In the current issue of Commentary, there is a symposium of 43 knowledgeable people who discuss whether they are optimistic or pessimistic about America. In the current edition of The New Criterion, the eminent British historian Andrew Roberts, now a U.S. resident, assesses similar points in a lead essay about how benign America has been as the superpower, and how keenly it will be missed if superseded in that role by China.

Nowhere in either interesting section of either magazine is the appalling state of the U.S. justice system mentioned as symbolic or indicative of the country's problems