Politics
Last month when I wrote about the Pieces of the Puzzle in the Caribbean, I pointed out that there never was an actual issue about drugs. The issue from day one was the oil. The bombing of boats was designed to elicit a response from Maduro that could be used as an...
The US healthcare industry is primarily private. Even Medicare has vast private company ties. Medicare Advantage (Part C) is run by public healthcare companies. Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage (Part D) is also run by public companies. Even basic Medicare Parts...
I have been repeatedly told by those who support Mr. Trump, that his actions are what those who voted for him had wanted, and had expected. I believe this to be true. I do believe that a large fraction of any society longs for a strong leader, a father figure,...
Perhaps you heard the statement this week by Justice Clarence Thomas: "At some point we need to think about what we're doing with stare decisis. And it's not some sort of talismanic deal where you can just say 'stare decisis' and not think, turn off the brain,...
I, like many people in this country, have become concerned with the expansion of Presidential power that has accelerated in the past few months. I was taught in High School that there were three equal and separate branches of the government, and that the purpose of...
THE FDA. DAMNED IF YOU DO. DAMNED IF YOU DON’T. There is a paradox with respect to clinical trials. One day you may see an article criticizing the FDA for not approving a promising drug that is in clinical trials, because it may benefit people right away. And the...
There is a lot of information out there about how to prevent and treat viral infections. Let’s take some time to review our choices. ANTIBIOTICS First things first. Antibiotics treat bacterial infections but have no effect on viral infections. Americans often like to...
It seems so simple. A man is a man, and a woman is a woman. We know the sex of the baby immediately at birth and we write that down on the birth certificate. Done. No questions, no issues, that is the “fact”. However…. Like most things in the real world, it...
Let me begin by stating that I fall on the side of free speech. Regulating speech will never be safe. Liberals will apply a wide range of personal perspectives to attempt to restrict offensive speech. Try to think of a joke that doesn’t poke fun at or offend some...
“Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.” Ferdinand Friendly Wachenheimer was born in NYC IN 1915. He worked in Radio in the 1930’s when he changed his name to Fred Friendly and moved to television in the 1950’s working with Edward...
THE MOST PRO-BUSINESS LEGISLATION IN DECADES Lost in the political posturing about the Build-Back-Better Act currently being negotiated and expected to pass, is the fact that it is the single greatest pro-business piece of legislation considered in the past 50 years....
There is no clause in the U.S. Constitution that speaks to any form of filibuster. It is only a Senate Rule (Rule 22). And the form of ending a filibuster by a “cloture” vote dates back only to 1917. From the Senate website: The Senate tradition of unlimited debate...