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Obama beware! You are making my wife mad.

She recently posted a comment on her Facebook page questioning whether we had gotten "our money's worth" out of the dollars we contributed to Obama's campaign last year. She's frustrated you aren't being more pro-active about bringing in the changes you promised, particularly in the field of health care, and that instead of reducing military spending you

The following is a letter just sent to the editor of the Des Moines Register. I will be talking more about The Family later...

Dear Sir

Senator Grassley needs calling to account for his outrageous statements addressed to senior citizens at his Iowa town hall meeting yesterday that they "have every right to fear" that the government will "pull the plug on grandma" as part of the proposed health

Like many I felt a wave of sadness at the death of Michael Jackson. It's amazing how certain iconic entertainers have come to fix themselves in our hearts, their music creating great big looping paths of emotional memory through the different stages of our lives, their passing leaving great big holes.

With Michael Jackson, I think it was more than just his music and dancing (which was pretty

Congress is in danger of being seriously out of step with a changing national consciousness over the national health care issue. According to a recent New York Times/CBS News poll, three quarters of Americans now support some kind of government run health care program to compete with private sector health insurance. It's a good sign for America, a kind of maturing of the national sensibility

There is a lot of talk of torture in the air as America comes to terms with with the legacy of the past eight years. There is also a plethora of tortured euphemisms at work as people attempt to deflect responsibility for what was done to other human beings for the sake of our own peace and security. "Enhanced interrogation methods", for example, sounds like a harmless upgrade to the normal