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Friday, December 28th, 2007

A Call for Patient-Centered Healthcare

As Americans, we spend more on health care than any other nation and get less. Why is this the case?
Just for a second, I’d like to ask you to tune out all that you’ve heard about health care and to think like an insurance company. I used to work for an insurance company and here’s […]

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

GOP to Christians: We Want Your Votes, Not Your Values Part II

While researching the Huckabee coverage, I thought I remembered seeing a brief blurb in the news a while back in which a senior Whitehouse official called the evangelical Christians nutjobs.
Digging further, I found out that David Kuo, a former Bush speech-writer, wrote about this in his book Tempting Faith.
Kuo’s basic premise for his book is […]

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

GOP to Christians: We Want Your Votes, Not Your Values

The Republican race for President has certainly taken an interesting turn recently. As Rudy Guiliani’s campaign sinks faster than the Titanic or the “Straight Talk Express,” Mike Huckabee is now the GOP front runner.
Yet many stalwarts of the Republican right have come out against Huckabee.
Ann Coulter recently said that Huckabee is the “Republican Jimmy Carter.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CUf37hR48U

Rich […]

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

Historic Messages: Ben Franklin

Here’s a selection of a few Benjamin Franklin (the original self-made man) quotes from Bartleby’s and his Autobiography to remind us of some of his thoughts on America.
Liberty
“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Historical Review of Pennsylvania
“This will be the best security for […]

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

Taking From the Poor, Giving to the Rich

Here’s an interesting post from Jared Bernstein on the growing economic gap between rich and poor.Compiled from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) statistics, here’s some highlights:

$400 billion was transferred from the bottom 95% to the top 5%.
The share of income held by the top 1% has climbed from 9% in 1979 to 18% in 2005.
By […]

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

Dear Democrats: Here’s How to Fight in the Budget Fight

Today, the inevitable happened. Congress caved in to virtually all of President Bush’s budget requests.
Previously, I warned that the Democrats had painted themselves into a corner because they only see two alternatives: fund the war or cut funding altogether. And they’re afraid to cut funding for the war because of the political backlash. This lesson […]

Monday, December 10th, 2007

MOTWA: Barack Obama

The big winner of this week’s Message of the Week Award is Barack Obama and not just because Oprah Winfrey endorsed him. Obama wins because he found an answer to the experience question that rings true with Americans: it’s not about experience, it’s about judgment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNhEQWEFegA

Since summer, Obama has been tackling the experience issue by pointing […]

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Rebuilding the Middle

Feeling the end of a Republican administration that has gone out of its way to help big business, lobbyists are rushing to pass last minute legislation to receive as many handouts as possible.
Large broadcasters want to be able to own more stations and media outlets, trucking companies want their drivers to be able to work […]