Left, Right & Center: ObamaCare, No to Afghanistan, and 9/11 Eight Years On

A truly substantive discussion of Swiss and Massachusetts models for health care, and personal and political reactions to the Obama speech to the Joint Session of Congress this week are top of the list. This one is not to be missed.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said she will not support any increase in troops to go to Afghanistan. What's a President on the verge of a quagmire to do?

And on the eighth anniversary of 9/11, is the country any safer? Is terrorism on the wane? Or did we blow all the global goodwill and sympathy with our follow-up actions around the world?

Comments

[Lloyd Cata]

Ignorance is a large part of the foundation for many of the challenges facing mankind all over the world. A nation that can keep its people ignorant; unschooled, ill-fed, and homeless, really cannot defend the rights of others for rights they are not providing to their own people. This breeds conspiracy dogma. It is becoming much easier for the liars to be exposed. Instant world-wide communications has been making steady progress in educating and and peeling back the curtain of ignorance. The only advantage for those liars is mass media. The balance of power in the world today between truth and lies rests with the mass media empires around the world. Indeed the internet and other mass communication means have changed the entire playing field for those who are producing lies and fiction to be consumed by the people as truth. However this is still a new medium and people are just beginning to use it as a weapon in defense of freedom. That I am able to send these words is testament to this fact.
So there we have 9/11. Both sides using fiction, lies, and ignorance to deceive their people. There are no winners here. Only losers on both sides and they are the people who lost their lives, loved ones, and livelihoods in a tragedy produced and directed by extremism, stupidity, and ignorance, on both sides. The American people expect better, but that expectation has been clearly unrealized.

[policyhack]

Hilarious health reform ad by Scrubs stars . . . worth watching.

http://axisofreason.com/2009/09/09/health-reform-worries/