It might help to post this in every room in every School, College and University. HE GOT IT RIGHT Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with [...]
Archive for June 11th, 2009
11 Jun
From Wall Street to Wisconsin to Health Care For All
Does the road to health care reform run through Wisconsin? Could the shape of health reform to come be based on a Wall Street model? Maybe, if you believe the reports that the health care reform outline circulating on the hill includes a scheme for a health insurance exchange. CNN’s Money & Main St.: “What’s [...]
11 Jun
The Very Real Threat Of Extremism
RADICAL RIGHT The Very Real Threat Of Extremism Yesterday’s tragic shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, by an ”88-year-old white supremacist,” is the latest in a string of right-wing extremist attacks. The number of hate groups such as the “Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, racist skinheads and Black separatists” operating in the United [...]
11 Jun
Spelling Out Health Reform
Forbes reports that the health care reform debate is heating up, and reaching the point where people “stop being polite and start being real.” Or “tweeting real”. With a letter to Senators Kennedy and Baucus, President Obama spelled out his positions on health care reform, and ended up with another Senator firing potshots from Twitter; [...]
11 Jun
Health Care Reform Debate Starting to Take Shape
This Week in Congress Your Headlines, Your Issues, Your Opinions June 08, 2009 After months of talk, legislation reforming the nation’s health care system is beginning to emerge in Congress. What’s apparent is that one of the major sticking points as Congress begins to debate reform plans is whether to create a public health insurance [...]