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Unfortunately, the Republicans love to come up with tags for Democrats that are designed to get the public to run away scared. In the 1950s it was "communists". Unfortunately for them, Joseph McCarthy took things too far and that label eventually was useless. In the 1980s and early 1990s it was "liberal." That was enough to get people running. However, the term liberal doesn't have the same oomph that it once had. So, the current...

The long-awaited Senate Finance Committee version of health care reform (photo at left), better known as the Baucus Bill because he is about the only person who likes it, was finally released yesterday, raising the question--this is what we waited so long for? But then again, I guess something this completely and thoroughly bad can't be written overnight. Rome wasn't built in a day and neither was the landfill where this particular piece of...

Part of the argument against the public option is that the private insurance companies won't be able to compete and will be driven out of business. My response to that is "GOOD." And CIGNA should be the first to go:If for just 5 minutes we could get the Republicans to stop saying "No," and the Blue Dog Democrats to stop counting campaign contributions from their insurance company masters, they might be able see what this...

As a sideline to Scott's earlier blog, it turns out some of those aerial photos of the protesters that descended upon Washington, D.C. this weekend might be fake.  At least one is.  The photograph shown here was touted by Say Anything, a conservative blog, as reasonable justification for the claim of 1,000,000 attendees.    A sharp reader on the site posted the following photograph, proving that the above picture was taken before the National Museum of the American...

Since it looks like it's going to be a rainy weekend in the Houston area, there should be some entertainment on the TeeVee as an assortment of whiners, complainers, sore losers, and general all-around Obama haters converge on Washington, D.C. for a Saturday demonstration. The Wall Street Journal has an account of 54 people making the 17-hour bus ride from Tallahassee, Florida as an example of what can be expected:"Conservative activists (depicted above) from around...

Sign at a Joe Wilson town hall meeting:And what the hell is that on his head?...

In my opinion, the most important segments of President Obama's address to Congress on Wednesday came towards the end when he spoke about the letter he received from Ted Kennedy:"He repeated the truth that health care is decisive for our future prosperity, but he also reminded me that "it concerns more than material things." "What we face," he wrote, "is above all a moral issue; at stake are not just the details of policy, but...

No one knows what President Obama will propose in his address on health care reform to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night, but by reading a few of the tea leaves one word is starting to emerge-- "trigger." And I'm not talking about Roy Rogers' horse. From the New York Times:"With Congressional Republicans standing almost unanimously in opposition to the Democratic approach, the target now for Mr. Obama is primarily a handful of...

Estimates are that approximately 18,000 Americans die every year because they don't have health insurance, six times the number who died on September 11, 2001. Now ask yourself, if America suffered six terrorist attacks on the scope of 9/11 in one year, that's one every other month, what would be the response from the politicians in Washington, D.C.?Would they be saying we need to slow down and be sure we take the proper action? Would...

This past summer, the legislature had a choice to make in education. Those of us that coached UIL sports wanted the legislature to approve a switch allowing districts to give credit to athletes in all eight semesters of high school. Currently, students are only required to take three semesters of physical education. Instead, the state upped the requirements for science and math so that students have take both all four years of high school. As...