Crossroads of Civilization
Posted in Culture on Jan 20th, 2010
I may as well throw in my two cents here, especially as I am on record as predicting that health care reform (HCR) would not pass. My reasoning was based on two facts. One, health care has become our largest industry. The monied interests do not want health care reform to pass. There is too [...]
Posted in Commerce, Community, Culture, Ethics, Family, Law & Legislation, Lifestyle, Media, Mind, Nation, Penny, Politics, Public, Self, War, World on Jan 16th, 2010
This post has no commentary or opinion. It is all fact. It is very bare-bones material I am researching to compile into a nonfiction book, American Gestapo, that will be a follow-up to my last book, fiction-based-on-fact, Soft News. I would like to preface my report by saying I spent more than two years living [...]
Posted in Community, Culture, Ethics, Nation, Public, Steve S., War, World on Jan 15th, 2010
When I was a Corpsman, I made fun of Marines and they made fun of me. However, if the time came, I would have risked my life for one of them and I knew they would do the same. Honor and integrity are intrinsic to the Corps. Generals Krulak (ex-Commandant of the Corps)and Hoar (past [...]
They’re crawling out of the proverbial woodwork: the desperate doomsaying Chicken Littles. The sky is falling, the sky is falling. I have read countless blog posts in the last year that have preyed upon peoples’ worst fears. As a moderate and an Independent, I’ve seen it bleed out of the left and the right. But lately, the rhetoric [...]