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I’ll give you a trigger option: demolish Washington and return power to the people and the local governments where it belongs.
“Any real change requires the inclusion of a strong public option to promote competition and bring down costs,” she said in a news release. “If a vigorous public option is not included, it would be [...]

In a family legacy where my grandparents just celebrated their 60th anniversary and both of our parents at about their 30th, we are celebrating our first milestone on the way to 60 with 5 years today!
In the past 5 years - we’ve grown in life experiences. We’ve grown the size of our family. We’ve grown [...]

I’m intrigued by history and plagued by a desire to understand all the facts. Plagued because it proves an impossible task. I want to start at the beginning and move forward, but history isn’t as neat as that. I also suffer from limitations of memory. Just reading, the facts fade too quickly from mind. I [...]

I found interesting a recent NPR podcast with James Morone, author of The Heart of Power. The interview is framed as a positive discussion on the need for national health care. But without hearing the  orgasmic pleasure in their voices over the idea of government control; looking only at sections of the transcript one would [...]

I keep seeing quotes like this:
“Inside, the audience included a small group of New Haven, Conn., firefighters, including Frank Ricci, whose reverse discrimination claim was rejected by Sotomayor’s appeals court panel. The Supreme Court subsequently reversed that panel’s ruling.”
Discrimination is treating someone as inferior over something like race or gender. Reverse means to turn around [...]

We are blessed to have a garden apartment. And by “garden” I mean a 30×20 or so concrete slab. When we moved in there were edging blocks inartistically stacked in a square, minus a few made into a BBQ pit - that’s about all we had to work with. I hate renting because I’m not [...]

My wife thinks Ann Coulter goes a bit far on her rhetoric when talking about abortion so I’ll add that warning… but I think this is an absolutely classic illustration of liberal absurdity.   Read her article 49 Million to Five or here’s the recap of the important parts. My paraphrasing in italics and square [...]

Today we moved into our new office in Brooklyn, bringing the opportunity to reminisce…
So what is it like to commute by subway?
I walked a few blocks to the nearest station - you are always a few blocks from the nearest station in New York. I swiped my card and waited no more than 5 minutes [...]

I’ve lightly abridged this article from (http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10153)
[In his first 100 days Obama's] made a running start toward transforming the federal government’s role in the economy and — if such a thing is even possible — further expanding the president’s role in American life.
On the bright side, though, at least this president has a sense of [...]

From Christmas until mid March we had the use of a car and as we’ve been locked in about a 3 mile radius for 2 1/2 years we took advantage of the opportunity to take weekend trips to explore the northeast. Or as I like to call it, we implemented the Rose stimulus package.
Sleepy Hollow

Mystic, [...]