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Government End-of-Life in Action

Monday, August 24, 2009

Among the biggest of the straw-man arguments being levelled against opponents of President Obama’s comprehensive healthcare reform is that we either believe that “death panels” will be making life and death decisions about each individual geriatric on their 50th birthday, or that we are peddling this notion to the gullible submoronic elderly who then raise [...]

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Time Magazine Editor: We’re Journalists, We’ll Decide

Friday, April 18, 2008

Black Five comments on Time Magazine’s decision to run a “global warming” cover modeling Iwo Jima. Hasn’t gone over all that well with veterans.  The real diamond in the dirt is a comment made by Time managing editor Richard Stengel regarding the role of the press in reporting the news.

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CBS News Scary Non-Story: 1 in 5 Vets Suffer Mental Illness

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Ok, the fact that 18.5% of all veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan is troubling; we owe these young men and women every possible remedy we can give them, given the sacrifices they have made on our behalf.  I’m not downplaying that at all.
But let’s take a look at the CBS story and their angle:

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Government Criminally Inept at Veteran’s Healthcare – Let’s Put Them in Charge of Everybody’s

Thursday, April 10, 2008

If you need an example of how well the government manages healthcare, read Marie Cocco of the Washington Post and her indictment of the care that our soldiers have gotten from the VA.
It has been more than a year since The Washington Post reported on nightmarish conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and recounted the [...]

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