CommonSense2 May, 2012 – Issue # 51
I’m writing this newsletter at noon on May 1st. Our hits are lighting up like a flashing pinball machine as you, our loyal readers, come back to see our new…
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“These Are a Few of My Favorite Things”
While rambling around the internet you see many thought-provoking visuals or posters. Here are some of my favorites:
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REMEMBERING JACK LEWIS
When I think of you even as a scrawny kid in Londonderry razzing the British in a street rally there is always the crown of the sun a few inches…
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Affordable Care Act? An Oxymoron!
Single payer advocates have traditionally sought help from Liberals and Democrats when attempting to effect universal, publicly financed and privately delivered healthcare legislation. Thus, with the election of President Obama…
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Spearing a Tax Deduction
On a bright Monday morning, a day before tax returns were due, I bumped into my ersatz friend Marshbaum who was placing a change container at the Gas-High Mini-mart on…
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How Do We Improve Public Schools?
Take Away Their Funding, Terrorize Teachers, and Send Kids Somewhere Else (According to Lawmakers) Elizabeth Walters, a proud graduate of Central Columbia High School in Bloomsburg, PA, Smith College, and…
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The Velvet Glove Over the Iron Fist
“As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that…
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The VA Monologues
“I don’t want to shock anyone here, have people dashing out of the room; but the VA is a socialized health care system. [So] that’s socialized medicine in the…
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The Big Picture – What Can We Do?
In Part 1 of this series, we examined how our “leaders” and “experts” ignored the warning signs of an impending economic storm and ended up with huge trade deficits, growing…
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What Will SCOTUS Do? You Be the Judge
In late March the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) entertained arguments for and against the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) passed into law two years earlier….
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