Have the flu? Thank the State
By Michael Hussey02/23/2005
I have the flu today, thank you. By all accounts, this is turning out to be one of the worst flu seasons on record. Even the King of Pop has the flu! Michael Jackson claims he is being persecuted by the State, but little does he know about the silent persecution against the health of all Americans being perpetrated by the government medicine bureaucracies.
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FDA Takes Its Medicine
By Terry Turner02/16/2005
Months after top Food and Drug Administration scientists accused the agency of slow or no response to dangerous drugs it approved, the FDA is finally getting around to setting up a drug safety panel. The Drug Safety Oversight Board watch for dangers that crop up after a drug is approved and on the market -- problems their current review panels miss.
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Why Mr. Bush Focuses on Social Security, Not The Deficit
By Jeff Myhre02/09/2005
While Mr. Bush is hawking his Social Security changes, some in the GOP are trying to get him to focus on tax policy and fixing the budget deficit. While their hearts are in the right place, Mr. Bush and his staff know full well that they have a much better chance of creating a legacy in Social Security reform (deform?) than in balancing the budget and fixing the American tax code.
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Terrorism, Sex, Ivy League, and Anorexia
By Alexander Rai02/05/2005
When one looks up into the skies today one no longer traces the clouds with the stencil of imagination. When one sees a dead squirrel in the highway today with its skull crushed and its brains splayed and battered like a crushed rotten melon, no, one does not feel moved by the sympathies of flesh. One observes these things not as phenomenon but as things that happen, and happen often.
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Prince Harry, Democracy, and the power of the Swastika
By Alexander Rai02/05/2005
The January 13th issue of “The Sun” news gazette publicized what is currently being touted as a scandal all across Europe, and has drawn considerable attention of the North American media. On the front page of “The Sun” Prince Harry was shown wearing a Swastika emblazoned armband and decked in the fineries of Nazi regalia at a friend’s costume party.
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Bush's Masterful Social Security Strategery
By Stephen Macklin02/04/2005
President Bush has a plan for reforming Social Security a plan for making it happen, and it would seem a plan for making the Democrats look really bad while he does it. It is a masterpiece of political strategy that will ensure that reform happens and the Republicans hold onto the reins of power after he is out of office.
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Will the Real Howard Dean Please Stand Up?
By Kit Robinson02/04/2005
It's all over but the count. With Frost out of the race and Labor non-committal, the vote crunchers have all but crowned Dean DNC chair. Congratulations are apparently in order. But with those comes questions about the actual nature of a Dean Chairmanship. Questions such as which Howard, exactly, will be in evidence as he labors to revitalize the sagging fortunes of the Democrats: Dean the governor or Dean the presidential candidate?
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