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Thursday, November 11, 2010

Ken Jones’ “Tunes for Gun Buyback” offer may be noble but there may be more “feel good” and publicity intentions than meets the eye. And Rick Hutto, as a public servant, you should at least know better. This is a “feel good” proposal intended to be more beneficent to the giver (Jones) than the recipients (i.e., gun donors and sundry criminals and street gang members).

For starters, here are three detrimental consequences of this proposal:

Keyword(s): concealed carry, feel good, gangs, gun buy back, gun control, guns, Second Amendment


Friday, November 5, 2010

Senator-elect Marco Rubio on winning handily in a three-way race in Florida summed up the political future for the Republicans, “We make a great mistake if we believe that tonight these results are somehow an embrace of the Republican Party. What they are is a second chance.”

Absolutely. If the Republicans do not perform, they will be thrown out at the next election! So let the Republicans not make the same mistakes made in 1994.

Keyword(s): politics


Wednesday, October 27, 2010

This is a nice, short book, only 200 pages but with a good index. This book, as stated in the subtitle, indeed exposes the real Che Guevara and the useful idiots, particularly Hollywood celebrities and media personalities, who idolize him.

Keyword(s): Castro, Cuba, Cuban Revolution


Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Although I have not practiced neurosurgery for many years, I have kept abreast of health care policy and advances in medicine. Since my retirement I founded and edited a medical journal, served on the editorial board of another international surgical neurology peer-reviewed journal, and at the request of President George W. Bush I served in the Injury Research Grant Review Committee of the CDC in Atlanta. I trained at the premier Georgia trauma center, Grady Memorial Hospital, under the auspices of Emory University, and I have published on this subject.

Keyword(s): health care costs, public policy, taxation


Monday, September 20, 2010

In a recent letter to the editor printed in the Macon Telegraph 9/1/10, Joni Woolf, a Georgia author and self-described "activist with strong ties to the Democratic Party," began her letter innocently enough by stating: "I read with interest the story of Glenn Beck's march on Washington and how he and his crowd of loyal supporters want us to return to 'traditional values.' Now I'm wondering just which traditional values he wants to return to?"

Keyword(s): politics


Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Joni Woolf’s letter decrying Glenn Beck’s rally in Washington and insulting his (and millions of Americans’) call for traditional values is just about the worst series of liberal clichés that one could possibly have selected to denigrate and slander American history and American values. I don’t want to sound ad hominem, but her letter was so venomous, that it could only have been penned by a bleeding-heart, guilt-ridden, elitist-minded liberal requiring a strong response.

Keyword(s): politics


Friday, September 10, 2010

With the 2010 mid-term election behind us, we can safely say that another political tsunami swept the nation. This time the GOP ascendancy exceeded that achieved in 1994, when the Republican Party, led by the then Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, picked up 54 seats in that legislative chamber.

Keyword(s): politics


Tuesday, August 31, 2010

In Part I of this essay, we discussed the terms Liberty and Equality in accordance with Natural Rights theory and Constitutional governance, and then we summarized the ten planks of Karl Marx's 1948 Communist Manifesto. We showed how our Constitutional Republic has been eroded toward a Social[ist] Democracy by the infiltration of those Marxist planks in our polity.

Keyword(s): freedom


Wednesday, August 25, 2010

In the summer of 1787, as the Founders, led by James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, concluded the drafting of the momentous Constitution of these United States, a Philadelphia lady at the steps of Independence Hall, asked, "Mr [Ben] Franklin, what kind of government have you given us?" He retorted, "a Republic, ma'am if you can keep it."

Keyword(s): freedom


Monday, August 16, 2010

In a previous commentary, we discussed the ramifications of ObamaCare in terms of lowering the standard of American medicine, and the efforts of those in the media in preparing us for the drastic measures of rationing that will necessarily have to be put in place to sustain ObamaCare.

Keyword(s): gun control, guns, health care policy, privacy