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HillaryCare: It’s Baaack!

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Hillary Clinton wants to put a heath care chicken in every pot. You can buy it anywhere you want. It can be served in a variety of ways. Individuals with health problems and no health coverage (pre-existing conditions) will not be penalized with higher premiums. The best part of all, it will be affordable (virtually free).
All we have to do is repeal the Bush tax cuts.

Is that chicken frying, or do I smell a rat?

What is wrong with this picture? Read the rest of this entry »

Written by Jane Chastain

September 20th, 2007 at 1:00 am

Posted in Healthcare

What Makes Fred Run?

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Fred Thompson’s presidential campaign has progressed at a glacier-like pace.As the other candidates are hitting their stride, Fred is just climbing into the starting blocks. So, is he indecisive, lazy (as some have claimed) or smart like a fox?

Must he now run at breakneck speed to catch the front-runners at the finish line?

The answer should be obvious by now: Why run when you can cover more ground with a walk.

The real question in my mind is not whether the 65-year-old Thompson is capable of running, but why someone in his position would want to run. Read the rest of this entry »

Written by Jane Chastain

September 13th, 2007 at 12:00 am

Posted in Presidential Race

Congress attacks Mom’s Apple Pie

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Mom’s apple pie is an important symbol of America.What is more American than mom’s apple pie? It’s the technology that made it possible for mom to make it and bake it with ease.

It’s not the apple pie that is in the gun sites of this Congress; it is the symbol of what has made America, America – good old American ingenuity. It is that ingenuity that made the United States an industrial world power. Read the rest of this entry »

Written by Jane Chastain

September 6th, 2007 at 1:00 am

Posted in Industry, Patent System

Geriatric Generals

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The last thing we need is 535 ‘generals’ in Congress telling our troops how to win this fight. Sen. James Inhofe, R.-Okla.

Sen. John Warner’s call for a symbolic troop reduction in Iraq is an indication that perhaps we should consider a mandatory retirement age for members of Congress. Read the rest of this entry »

Written by Jane Chastain

August 30th, 2007 at 1:00 am

Posted in Congress, Iraq, Military

Flash! Hillary’s a Girl

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For 15 years, I have stood up against the right-wing machine and I’ve come out stronger. So if you want a winner who knows how to take them on, I’m your girl.

She didn’t say that,

was my first reaction to the shocking line delivered by Hillary Rodham Clinton at the AFL-CIO Democratic Presidential Forum earlier this month. It was a poke in the eye to her Wellesley classmates and an insult to the feminist sisterhood with whom she has stood toe-to-toe since she shed her Goldwater Girl ideology back in the ’60s. Read the rest of this entry »

Written by Jane Chastain

August 23rd, 2007 at 1:00 am