While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have FOCUSED more heavily on the need for spending RESTRAINT and entitlement reform - PRIMARILY to preserve and PROTECT the future of the Medicare PROGRAM. Overlooked in all of this is the future of Medicaid.
Read MoreOne already feels LIKE an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but TOURING to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of PRINTING INFORMATION on paper and shipping it AROUND the country.
Read MoreI had hoped that foreboding economic CIRCUMSTANCES would have caused the ultra-rich to think not just of themselves and increasing their own personal affluence. UNFORTUNATELY, however, too MANY of them lack concern, and WITHOUT this concern, the divisive imbalance will only worsen with recession.
Read MoreWhen bureaucrats talk about increasing our 'access' to X, y or z, what they're really TALKING about is increasing exponentially their control over our lives. As it is with the GOVERNMENT health care takeover, so it is with the newly approved government PLAN to 'increase' INTERNET 'access.'
Read MoreUnfortunately, the cyber threat to 'the grid' is only one means of eviscerating the soft underbelly of AMERICAN society. Another which has been getting increasing attention could be delivered via the KIND of nuclear-armed ballistic missile that Iran and North KOREA have been developing: a strategic electro-magnetic PULSE attack.
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