Posted on August 14th, 2008 by A Broad in Holland
There are plenty of legitimate problems with the American heath care system. Medical insurance companies are bogging doctors down with truckloads of paperwork and ensnaring them in a Gordian knot of red tape. Malpractice insurance is dramatically cutting into their profits, pushing a lot of them to retire or to leave private practice. As doctors become scarce, burdens are shifting to overworked, […]
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Posted on August 13th, 2008 by A Broad in Holland
Russia invaded Georgia, perhaps with Georgian provocation. Who’s to blame? Why, the United States, naturally.
I don’t expect the sport of ‘Merikkka! bashing to fade in popularity any time soon, but I do wonder that there are people who take this kind of drivel seriously.
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Posted on June 2nd, 2008 by A Broad in Holland
Some of our NATO allies are worse than useless.
Die Spiegel has a long, 5 part article on the “unwinnable war” in Afghanistan. It’s typical MSM defeatism, but I had to post on it because of its sheer audacity. The first part is entitled “The Third World War: Why NATO Troops Can’t Deliver Peace in Afghanistan.”
I guess […]
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Posted on January 24th, 2008 by A Broad in Holland
Can you imagine a world where most MSM journalists had even an elementary grasp of the sciences and the ethics to do thirty seconds of research in order to get the story right?
Yesterday, JAMA published an article on type II diabetes - more specifically, on the use of therapeutic gastric banding to treat type II […]
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Posted on January 24th, 2008 by A Broad in Holland
Browsing through The Guardian today, I came across these links to photojournalism commentaries extolling Cuban healthcare and slamming healthcare in the US. The galleries contrast pictures of smiling, healthy Cubans with fat, despondant Americans being treated in livestock barns, and argues that Cuban healthcare is better than American.
Consider this quote:
Michael Moore’s documentary, Sicko, holds up […]
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Posted on January 24th, 2008 by A Broad in Holland
The IHT ran a story Monday encouraging enthusiasts to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro before it’s destroyed by the global warming boogieman.
Says the author:
I had wanted to climb to the roof of Africa before climate change erased its ice fields and the romance of its iconic Snows of Kilimanjaro image.
He takes a momentary turn away from alarmism […]
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