By Chad on 10/26/2011
…in fact, in some cases they would make things worse. There’s a lot of anger at Congress right now, from both sides of the aisle, and I share in a lot of that. However, there’s a number of proposed reforms circulating out there on Facebook and on the rest of the web that sound really [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged campaign finance, Congress, economy, Medicaid, reform, Social Security, TANF, term limits, U.S. House, U.S. Senate, voting reform |
By Chad on 1/24/2010
I just read an interesting reflection on the religious overtones of the tragic earthquake in Haiti and the rather evil-sounding pronouncement by Pat Robertson on the “causes.” It got me thinking about the presence of God in the midst of this kind of disaster, and I felt like sharing. This verse sums up a lot [...]
Posted in Religion |
By Chad on 12/21/2009
Yes, it’s a shit sandwich compared to the filet mignon we might have had in a perfect world, but it is much better than the status quo. It will give coverage to millions of currently-uninsured people, get a handle on out-of-control Medicare cost growth, stop the most egregious abuses of the insurance companies (by eliminating [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged 538, Harry Reid, health care, Lieberman, Medicare, Nate Silver, Obama, Paul Krugman, U.S. Senate |
By Chad on 5/8/2009
…and I don’t know whether to despise him or move him to #1 on my all-time heroes list. Note: don’t read any further if you haven’t seen Star Trek yet!
Posted in Movies | Tagged Alex Kurtzman, Enterprise, J.J. Abrams, Roberto Orci, Star Trek |
By Chad on 11/5/2008
I’m giddy with excitement over our new President-Elect, but some of my friends on Facebook are really bumming me out. I’m sure some of them actually think we’re in the End Times now that Obama was won. I truly do sympathize – I am Pro-Life, and I do care about ending abortion. But a political [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Bush, education, global warming, lunatic fringe, McCain, Obama, Politics, republicans, Science, talk radio, William F. Buckley |
By Chad on 10/28/2008
I’m sick and tired of being accused by every knee-jerk “conservative” that we Obama supporters are only voting for him because he’s black, or because we like socialism, or because we just want “change,” but we don’t care what that change entails. Get this straight: we know exactly what kind of change we are voting [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Bush, change, diplomacy, economy, health care, Iran, McCain, Obama, Russia |
By Chad on 10/12/2008
You know, I don’t care if the President is the smartest guy in the room. I don’t even care if he (or she) is in the top 5. But he damn sure needs to be smart enough to hire smart people, and he sure as hell needs to be smart enough to understand what they [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged elitism, McCain, Obama, Palin, Politics |