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Healthcare Reform comes to America
[image source] After decades of trying, healthcare reform finally made it through the halls of the U.S. Congress and is headed toward the President’s desk. In the events leading up to this historic...
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Shooting Hay While the Sun Shines
We have always seen these circular bales of hay while driving between College Station and Houston but have never stopped to take a picture. We finally stopped and captured a few shots. Fields...
View ArticleThe Need to Build Something Quick
"(In point of fact, the best we have been able to do with the actual site, after almost a decade, is to create a huge, noisy, and dirty pit with almost no visible architectural progress. Perhaps...
View ArticleFor Indian-American pols, the "What are you?" test
"Indian-Americans, the fastest growing Asian group in the United States, make up a little over three million of the country’s population. But only two — Jindal and Dalip Singh Saund, A Democrat who...
View ArticleFailure to Understand
[blackbirdpie id="5397487489646593"] This astonishingly stupid tweet by Sarah Palin was followed up by David Frum’s response. [blackbirdpie id="5399657446383617"] David is right. This encapsulates the...
View ArticleWant to Govern or Just be in Power?
The fact is that one of our two great political parties has made it clear that it has no interest in making America governable, unless it’s doing the governing. And that party now controls one house of...
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The End of DADT
Barack Obama signed the DADT (Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell) Repeal bill into law today morning. This effectively ended one of the surprising remnants of discrimination in the United States Armed Forces....
View ArticleBone-Headed Immigration Policies
Meanwhile, entrepreneurship is booming in countries that compete with us. And more than half a million doctors, scientists, researchers, and engineers in the U.S. are stuck in “immigration limbo”. They...
View ArticleWhat Happens After You Die?
No matter how many sacrifices you make to Lady Death, no matter how rich the offerings you lay before her altar, she will know where to find you. When she comes, she will hold you tight, and she will...
View ArticleWatching the World Burn
Alfred Pennyworth: A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were working for the local government. They were trying to buy the loyalty of tribal leaders by bribing them with precious stones....
View ArticlePrimer on H.R. 3012
H.R. 3012 for dummies – and what you can do: This is for those of you who are in the green card process (especially from countries like India and China) Actually, it even applies to you if you plan to...
View ArticleThe Ten Commandments of The American Religion
It’s a fickle and false religion, used to replace the ideologies we (a country of immigrants) escaped. Random high priests lurk all over the Internet, ready to pounce. Below are the Ten Commandments of...
View ArticleIowa is irrelevant again…for the next three years
The Iowa caucuses for the Republican presidential nominee concluded last night with Mitt ‘flip-flop’ Romney beating Rick ‘anal seepage’ Santorum by a mere 8 votes. And believe it or not, Mitt Romney...
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Turning the Corner?
The December jobs report is good news. Very good news. Payrolls increased by 200,000 — and the growth was spread relatively evenly across the economy. Retail added 28,000 jobs. Manufacturing added...
View ArticleObamaCare upheld
While I’m loathe to calling it ObamaCare, it has been referred to as such by both parties enough so as to negate any perceived negativity that it was intended to begin with. ObamaCare or Patient...
View ArticleRelying on the middle class in another country
This is what the liberal writer Matt Taibbi invokes when, in Rolling Stone magazine, he deplores the rich for living “in a stateless global archipelago of privilege — a collection of private schools,...
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Phir Se Obama
Source: Election maps. So Obama won…again. The United States map weighted by electoral votes held by each state show the extent of his victory. Although marginally less than his 2008 victory, it was...
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The Innocent Take the Fall
News started trickling in on Friday morning about a shootout in a school. Initially, I thought it was one of those events that keep happening on a regular basis, as if that is any less disturbing. But...
View ArticleWhat prompts a change of heart in public policy issues?
This week, the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments on Proposition 8 in California that banned gay marriage. Rumors are circulating that if nothing else, the SCOTUS will not uphold Prop.8, which if...
View ArticleNot afraid of the flu?
Actual discussion: Parent "I want #Ebola vaccine for my child" Doc "There isn't one, but we have #flushot" Parent "We don't believe in that" — Dr. Dave Stukus (@AllergyKidsDoc) November 4, 2014 There’s...
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