My health-care plan

If one can get passed the partisan, pro-Republican candor, her plea for sanity is a good one.

(By the way, the original meaning of the term Republican, properly understood, means to be Constitutional and pass rights to the states and to the most local level. This centralized, leftist/Statist, Washington D.C.-centric situation that we endure is not what the Framers had in mind when they struggled over the Constitution. I submit that, if Leftist's true intentions were known--that of power at the Federal level and incremental growth in government, re: Woodrow Wilson, FDR, et al--they would have been voted out long ago. It didn't just start since the 'Free-love' days; it was long before that. *sigh* But alas, it was meant to be, I suppose.)

My health-care plan

Digging post holes

As I notice the culture around me and it's incessant quest to explain the world around us, I am at once encouraged and frustrated.

The Art of Persuasion: How to get no one to agree with you

When talking with others and discussing any issue of merit and/or importance, there is usually a back and forth that goes on between people. For centuries these discourses have usually been peaceful and respectful, following certain unspoken rules of civility (of course, not all the time, but then those would often end in murder).

My Birthday Present

Last week, I had a birthday (which coincided with the day I started this blog). Now, the older I get, the less I really wish to commemorate anything having to do with 'my' day. However, when I get cherished