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Our Drugs Cure the World, But That Can Change

Jimmie | March 18, 2009 | Comments (0)

Will our push toward more government control of the pharmaceutical market lead to fewer life-saving, innovative drugs? Duane Lester thinks so and he’s written a pretty good defense of his position. I recommend it highly. He begins by pointing out that, once upon a time, Europe led the world in drug development. Now we lead [...]

Fool Us Once, Shame On Us. Fool Us A Dozen Times, You’re Barack Obama.

Jimmie | March 15, 2009 | Comments (1)

You might remember during the Presidential campaign that John McCain proposed a fairly bold health care plan that would have involved a tax on the employer-based portion of your health care benefits. Barack Obama attacked it almost immediately with a commercial that was patently dishonest. He excoriated John McCain for being “so radical, so out [...]

He’s the One They Call Dr. Feelgood.

Jimmie | January 6, 2009 | Comments (1)

*sigh* President-elect Barack Obama has offered the job of surgeon general to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the neurosurgeon and correspondent for CNN and CBS, according to two sources with knowledge of the situation. Well, at least the guy knows something about medicine, which is more than anyone can say about the guy whom the President-elect wants [...]

A Loving Message to America’s Schoolchildren from a Canadian Friend

Jimmie | December 3, 2008 | Comments (2)

Can we make Wendy Sullivan our Secretary of Education now? It’s kind of a shame, though, that she (a Canadian, as you’ll find out) had to be the one to defend the Pledge of Alliegance to an American public school teacher. An entertaining excerpt: Due to the lack of decent television programming in my country, [...]

Who Will Control Your Life – You or Them?

Jimmie | November 23, 2008 | Comments (1)

Pam Meister looks at the growing Nanny State and asks a couple questions: Certainly there is a problem here in America when it comes to diet and exercise. Thanks to modern technology, we not only have an overabundance of inexpensive food, but we’ve become a largely sedentary society. The obvious good comes with a price [...]

Change You Can Believe In, Straight from the Chicago Political Machine.

Jimmie | November 5, 2008 | Comments (1)

For a guy who has promised a new way of running a government, he’s sure sticking to the old ways pretty closely. President-Elect Barack Obama Offers White House Chief of Staff Job to Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., ABC News Has Learned [8:31 a.m. ET] Rahm Emanuel is currently a member of the House who represents [...]

Are You Selfish? Barack Obama Says You Are.

Jimmie | November 1, 2008 | Comments (2)

I’m going to mostly let this statement from Barack Obama speak for itself, though I do have three questions for you to ponder (via Hot Air). “The point is, though, that — and it’s not just charity, it’s not just that I want to help the middle class and working people who are trying to [...]

Congress Votes to Keep Your Health Care Really Expensive

Jimmie | July 16, 2008 | Comments (0)

Congress voted to override President Bush’s veto of the latest Medicare bill, which pretty much ensures that you’re going to be paying through the nose for your healthcare. The main point of contention between Congress and the President was over a section of the bill that would have reduced Medicare payments to doctors by a [...]