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• A Failed Government Program, The Do Not Call Registry

  

  How many of you remember the days when you received numerous unsolicited faxes and telemarketing calls? I will bet that you are still receiving them. Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2014 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Legalizing Recreational Use of Marijuana

  

  This past week, a front page headline in the Las Cruces Newspaper reported a trend towards passing legislation that would legalize recreational use of... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2014 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Immigration Reform in the USA; What is Really Needed

  

  The strength of USA has been a direct result of the number of people who have emigrated here over the past century. The diversity this emigration has provided... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Purpose of Education; the Responsibility of Government, Unions, Teachers,...

  

  Having spent the past few days trying to do what I do not expect Congressman to do, I have been trying to digest all 844 pages before writing about it. So far, ... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• This Weeks’ Senate Rules Change:”The Nuclear Option”

  

  For the past several months, we have heard the media evaluating whether an act will pass in the Senate, based upon its chance of having two thirds of the... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Sharing of Ideas. An Opportunity Not to Be Wasted

  

  When someone sits down to start writing a Blog, they usually do it with the hope that what they are writing will be read by someone. When I started out this Blo... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Obama’s Unaffordable Care Act

  

  The focus of political attention today is on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its trials and tribulations. Once again, the Republicans are trying to get it... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Labeling of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) Foods

  

  Yesterday, while driving home listening to FOX NEWS, I heard a story that forced me to research the facts. It was a story about the need to get genetically... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Lost “War on Drugs”

  Many years ago a wise man said “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it”. The war on drugs has been a repeat of the failure of the... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Solution for Our “Do Nothing” Congress; the Rediscovery of Compromise-...

  

  For the past six years congress has been doing nothing but fighting.  Our President does not understand how to bring members of Congress together. Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Like Children in a Sandbox, the President and Congress Have Not Learned How to...

  

  Our childish legislators, from the Congress to the White House have not yet learned how to get along. The President  is making out as if it is new for bills on... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Obamacare/Affordable Health Care Act: Now It’s the Democrats That Need to Move...

  

  A few days ago, the Reactionary Republicans needed to be chided. It was time for them to stop trying to do the impossible; repealing Obamacare.  It was time... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Obamacare/The Affordable Care Act. Time for the Republicans to Give up the...

  It is time for the conservative Republicans to stop beating their collective heads against the wall and do something constructive about the Affordable Care... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What Price Public Safety?

  

  When I was a child, my mother was afraid for my safety. As a result, I never received roller skates or a bicycle. I still do not ride a bicycle very well, as I... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Aftermath of the George Zimmerman Trial

  

  It is over, and the verdict is in. Zimmerman was found not guilty of manslaughter, nor second degree murder.  One would like to think that this will bring... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Crash of Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 at San Francisco International Airport

  

  Yesterday’s crash of Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 is not too difficult to understand, now that certain data has been revealed. Most pilots will explain this as a... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Veterans Administration, Way Behind Processing Claims

  

  A recent report documented that the Veterans Administration has a backlog of 600,000 disability claims of which 450,000 are more than 125 days in arrears. Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Latest Big Lie Justified by Fear, Losing Our Privacy is Worthwhile to Preven...

  

  Recent statements from NSA sources have suggested that the Prism database of all of our Facebook, phone calls, and Google searches that is being compiled by the... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Thank God For Edward Snowden!

  

  The US government has been invading our privacy, and the Federal Courts have allowed it! If it were not for Edward Snowden, we the people would never have... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• His Royal Highness, The President of the United States

  

  Our form of government seems to have undergone a fundamental change over these past twenty years. The Founding Fathers pictured a Representative Democracy of... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY