The presumptive GOP candidate for President of the United States (POTUS) has verbally stumbled more than a few times this election cycle. Perhaps a senior citizen’s impatience with others, forged from years of experience, powers these mistakes. Blunders of age though, cannot satisfactorily explain the extent of these public gaffes. Maybe we are witness to […]
In practice it works something like this… somewhere known falsehoods sprout up as if out of nowhere (perhaps it is said, Barack Obama is a radical Muslim or, the Earth is flat, as examples). It necessarily follows that once one meticulously researches these claims, such bold given statements are demonstrably shown to be largely, if […]
There’s something insidious about email from an anonymous source which cajoles a course of action, uninvited — that is bad enough, but when the pitch is passed innocuously by family or friend, the treachery carves even deeper. Specifically, over the Thanksgiving break the following message arrived from a friendly source: What a simple way to […]
An email chain letter circulated recently, fomenting anger toward some of the poorest, least politically represented in our midst — brown-skinned immigrants. The expressed outrage berated “illegal immigrants” — to use a Republican wedge-issue talking point. Real statistics were cited, based on ambiguous demographic descriptions — something like: “uninsured Hispanic immigrants with uncertain immigration status”, […]
I wrote recently about Bush and his critique of the State Children’s Health Insurance Programs (S-CHIP). A successful program which bridges the gap for children without health care insurance and has the support of fair-minded organizations, such as the American Academy of Pediatrics. SCHIPs also runs more efficiently than Medicare programs which allow private pay […]
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