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Archive for September 21, 2009
Does The Race Card create Racism?
Sep 21st
I’ll never forget the first time someone called me a racist. I was in eleventh grade at my high school in Los Angeles. It was another kid in my class that I had just met. He gave me some attitude, and I asked what his problem was. He simply said I was a racist. I was totally taken back, and when I asked what gave him that impression, his only answer was that I was a racist because I was white.
Until then, I had never thought about whether or not I was a racist. I had never considered skin color More >
Obamacare & The Public Option
Sep 21st
OK, it is time to start writing here, and what better place to start!
I’ve been watching this debate for months now, and I honestly cannot believe my eyes and ears. I won’t sit here and tell you that we don’t have major problems in the delivery of our health care, but as we learned by electing Obama, ‘CHANGE’ is just change… not necessarily ‘GOOD CHANGE’. Where do you think we got the term ‘from the frying pan into the fire’, anyway?
I spend a great deal of time in one of the glorious ’socialized medicine’ countries: Italy. So let’s look at it More >
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