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Unemployment Fuels The Foreclosure Crisis
The country’s growing unemployment is overtaking subprime mortgages as the main driver of foreclosures, according to bankers and economists, threatening to send even higher the number of borrowers who will lose their homes and making the foreclosure crisis far more complicated to unwind.
Economists estimate that 1.8 million borrowers will lose their homes this year, up [...]
Some Key Democrats Say Public Option is Essential to Health-Care Reform
Several leading Democrats voiced concern Monday about an apparent White House shift on health-care reform, objecting to signals from senior administration officials that they would abandon the idea of a government-run insurance plan if it lacked the backing to pass Congress.
In the Senate, where negotiations are now focused, John D. Rockefeller IV (W.Va.) said [...]
A DISTURBING AND UNAMERICAN TREND: Man Carrying Assault Weapon Attends Obama Protest
EDITOR’S NOTE: It is our privilege as U. S. citizens not to agree with Mr. Obama, but Americans carrying assault weapons to a Presidential event, even though it may be a legal and constitutional right is disrespectful to our country, the president and to the men and women who have perished serving in its [...]
New York Times Op-Ed: Barack Obama – Why We Need Health Care Reform
OUR nation is now engaged in a great debate about the future of health care in America. And over the past few weeks, much of the media attention has been focused on the loudest voices. What we haven’t heard are the voices of the millions upon millions of Americans who quietly struggle every day with [...]
New York Times Op-Ed: Your Baby Is Smarter Than You Think
GENERATIONS of psychologists and philosophers have believed that babies and young children were basically defective adults — irrational, egocentric and unable to think logically. The philosopher John Locke saw a baby’s mind as a blank slate, and the psychologist William James thought they lived in a “blooming, buzzing confusion.” Even today, a cursory look at [...]
Atlanta Protest of Health-Care Overhaul Draws Thousands
Several thousand people turned out in Centennial Park on Saturday to demonstrate opposition to President Barack Obama’s effort to overhaul the health-care system.
Protesters carried signs saying, “Obamacare Makes Me Sick!” or “Socialized Medicine Hotline: 1-800-YOU-DEAD.”
“What we’ve got today is an assault on liberty that is larger than anything we have ever seen,” said former U.S. [...]
Tennessee’s Public Health Care ‘TennCare’ Almost Bankrupts The State
In 1994, Tennessee launched an ambitious public insurance program to cover its uninsured. The plan, TennCare, fulfilled that mission but nearly bankrupted the state in the process.
As originally envisioned, the Tennessee plan expanded Medicaid, the government health-care program for the poor, to cover people who couldn’t afford insurance or who had been denied coverage by [...]
Chances Dim for a Public Option in Health-Overhaul Plan
The Obama administration gave its strongest signal yet that it would be willing to compromise on plans to expand the government’s direct role in health-insurance coverage as it fights a growing crescendo of opposition to its effort to overhaul health care.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Sunday that a new, government-run health-insurance program [...]
WHITE HOUSE STARTING TO BUCKLE ON HEALTH CARE: Sebelius Says ‘Public Insurance’ Option Not Essential
President Barack Obama’s health secretary is suggesting the White House is ready to accept nonprofit insurance cooperatives instead of a government-run public option in a health overhaul plan. A Republican senator says that is worth looking at.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says Obama still believes there should be choice and competition” in the [...]
TIME TO TURN YOUR TELEVISION OFF: O’Reilly Vs Olbermann. Olbermann Losing Viewers
Editor’s Note: In the opinion on this humble scribe, both gentlemen have gone off the ‘deep end’.
Two weeks of vitriolic exchanges between cable news hosts Bill OReilly and Keith Olbermann have amped up viewership for Fox News as efforts by corporate executives to strike a détente fell apart.
Fox News Bill OReilly and MSNBCs Keith Olbermann, [...]
