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Friday, April 15, 2011

April 17, 2011 commemorates the 50th anniversary of America’s disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.

During 1960, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower watched with trepidation the establishment of an authoritarian regime in Cuba unfriendly to the United States, only 90 miles from American shores, virtually in America’s own backyard.

Keyword(s): Bay of Pigs, Castro, CIA, Cuba, Cuban Revolution, invasion, JFK, Khrushchev, missile crisis, Soviets


Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Evidence mounts that Jared Loughner, the 22-year-old disturbed individual accused of the attempted assassination of blue dog, conservative Democrat, U.S Representative Gabrielle Giffords; the cold-blooded killing of five other citizens, including an innocent 9-year-old student and a conservative judge; and the wounding of fourteen people --- should have been under psychiatric treatment.

Keyword(s): gun control, guns, mass shootings, mental health, public health, public policy


Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Now that the Republicans with Tea Party assistance have won the House of Representatives by a landslide, we are hearing a lot of cries from the Democrats and their minions in the media about the need for ending "gridlock" and establishing bipartisan consensus!

Keyword(s): politics, socialism


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