Category Archives: Politics

Hillary’s “Mandatory” Health Care

By Rick | Published: September 17, 2007
Look out, Hillary is at it again with her socialized medicine kick. Not good. According to CNN, “Clinton’s package would also require insurers to provide coverage for anyone who applies for it and would also bar insurance companies from charging people with greater health care costs more for their premiums.” Whoa Nelly. How the heck are we [...]
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Security in the Post 9/11 Arena

By Kerry | Published: August 26, 2007
http://www.schneier.com/blog/ This guy, Bruce Schneier, has some interesting takes on the TSA and Homeland Security in gerneral. Some pretty good reads. He does an interview with Kip Hawley, Head of the TSA.  
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Why the sunsetting of the tax breaks in 2008 scares the hell out of me.

By Rick | Published: August 22, 2007
Here we go. It’s time for an election and we have a Democratic congress with the possibility of a Democratic president. Why does this scare me? Simply because every Democratic candidate has announced plans to raise taxes. All of these nice tax breaks that we received in 2001 and 2003 are going to sunset in [...]
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Exactly how hard is it to obtain Australian citizenship?

By Rick | Published: May 23, 2007
I am not saying that I am about to move to Australia but I really admire some of the Australian officials and the fact that they had the courage to come out and publicly comment on what most Australians are thinking. As far as I am concerned if you are going to immigrate to this or [...]
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You should all go read Chuck’s post.

By Rick | Published: May 17, 2007
Although I am certainly no advocate of the war in Iraq I do think that now that we are there we should finish the job. The thing that bugs me the most is that the far left press refuses to print any positive news about the situation in Iraq. The soldiers are doing an outstanding [...]
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An article on Iraq by Orson Scott Card.

By Rick | Published: March 27, 2006
Most of you know my opinions about the military (staunch supporter) and on Iraq (if we are there, let’s stay until the job is done). Orson Scott Card has posted an interesting (and supportive) take on the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan. http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2006-01-15-1.html Manly
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What is Grassley thinking?

By Rick | Published: November 3, 2005
I am amazed that Chuck Grassley has suddenly become socialist.  I read an article today in which old Chuckie states that he thinks that oil companies have "a responsibility to help less fortunate Americans cope with the cost of heating fuels".  What?  Where does this come from?  Just because oil companies made big profits doesn’t [...]
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Hurricane SPIN, let’s just blame everyone else but ourselves…

By Rick | Published: September 13, 2005
I have about had it with Louisiana/New Orleans government officials blaming the tragedy of Katrina on everyone but themselves.  Now that the facts are emerging regarding existing disaster plans for New Orleans I think we all can figure out who needs to catch the blame here. Why then, does the media continue to try and deflect [...]
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Social Security Privatization

By Rick | Published: December 20, 2004
The comments below are from  Michael Kinsley who is an editorial editor for the LA times.  I just wanted to repost his comments here because it basically sums up the way I feel about this issue.  The whole social security debate is meaningless to me.  Everyone talks about privatization vs. current system.  What we need [...]
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Taxes, Taxes, Taxes…

By Rick | Published: November 5, 2004
As I listen to President Bush talk about tax reform I really wonder if this will ever happen.Do you think that special interests (Tax lawyers, accountants, etc) will allow this to take place? Why would we need an accountant to do our taxes if there were a flat tax with virtually no deductions? How about a [...]
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Thanks to all who voted for Bush.

By Rick | Published: November 3, 2004
Thanks to everyone who got out and voted for Bush. I am proud of the fact that we have shown that Republicans can also be stirred into action by a hotly contested race. We are not an apathetic bunch despite what many think. So… No one “stole” this one (as if the last one was [...]
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Just a little something about John Kerry…

By Rick | Published: October 5, 2004
This is something I found on the net. I thought it was extremely interesting. Sorry to all you Poodle fans out there but I am voting for GWB (as if you didn’t already know that if you have read any of my other posts). Manly ———–CUT HERE———– JOB APPLICATION NAME: John Kerry RESIDENCE: 7 mansions, including Washington, DC, [...]
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