Archive for November, 2009

Tesh Morgan was five years old when she chanced to meet another five year old somewhere between the Cola-cheen and a broken piece of sidewalk. This particular sidewalk chunk was the place children stopped to visit, drink a warm cola and share some candy pieces if they had candy. Tesh was already well into her [...]

“All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable. If one were to tell me that this was a bad government because it taxed certain foreign commodities brought to its ports, it is most probable [...]

While Americans suffer from a variety of sickness (oh no…not a pandemic?) and no insurance (a club of 47 million and climbing), the Senate and the Congress-all Mighty may agree to “talk about it, talk about” and maybe talk some more…Great! Now we have a “not agreement” to  procedural approval to begin a debate on Health [...]

From Florida’s West Coast: Among the many financial issues we face, we also have the results of a greedy and shady and a shadow of our strange and disfunctional state government. Republican and the absolute power of money from private and federal dollars, prior to the Economical Bubble burst, has left Florida’s financial future similar to the slash and burn Civil [...]

•70 percent of doctors treating Medicare patients flunked an exam on their knowledge of prescribing for older adults. •The majority of physicians who were asked to take the exam refused, often giving as their reason that they had a “lack of interest in the subject.” •48 percent of patients taking three or more drugs were [...]

The First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects the right to freedom of religion and freedom of expression from government interference. Freedom of expression consists of the rights to freedom of speech, press, assembly and to petition the government for a redress of grievances, and the implied rights of association and belief. The Supreme [...]