In the 90’s it wasn’t unusual for USC/ County doctors or doctors in training, to deliver as many as 36 babies in one 24 hour period. Today County’s maternity ward sees only five deliveries a day. Why? Because the poor and needy are now having their babies at Los Angeles’ more posh hospitals like Cedars Sinai in Beverly Hills, St. John’s in Santa Monica and even Good Samaritan near downtown.
This is why government health care hurts.
A ray of light? British and American researchers have reported in recent months that a small sample of mice, afflicted with breast cancer disease, responded 100% to a new vaccine developed to combat breast cancer. More in depth studies will be required, but the early results are significant because ALL of the sick mice injected with the vaccine, responded. Read here.
With so many hopes, so many hearts, and so many families at stake, any breakthrough in breast cancer is welcome. More private and public monies are devoted to breast cancer research in the United States than any other form of cancer. Yet, some medical researchers are sensitive about the attention and the enormous, high-profile fund raising campaigns which continue to fuel breast cancer research and wish the wealth would be spread around a bit.
Why so much support? It’s your mother. Your wife. Your sister. Your daughter. Your next door neighbor. With two million breast cancer survivors today, there are also lot of advocates out there.
There’s a story in just how much money is being raised for breast cancer research. Take a look at this piece by MSNBC on the subject:
“In the world of cancer charities and government funding, breast cancer is queen. The top four breast cancer charities take in a combined annual revenue of roughly $256 million according to their tax returns. The largest breast cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, had a total revenue of $161,974,711 for the year ending March 31, 2007 according to its tax return.
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) devoted $572.4 million researching breast cancer in 2007. Other National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for breast cancer boosted the total spent on the disease to $705 million. Plus, the Department of Defense operates its own breast cancer research outfit at a cost of another $138 million in fiscal 2008.”
Much is spent, but because of the complexity of breast cancers, the recent announcement of a possibly vital vaccine is the first hint of a remedy despite decades of committed study. What happens to other cancer research projects when one highly-profiled form of the disease captures the lion’s share of research dollars?
Read on, in this interesting investigative piece offered by MSNBC on “The Politics of Breast Cancer.”
What other form of cancer tops the donation list? Prostate Cancer. While you may not be invited to many galas benefitting Prostate Cancer, that disease follows right behind breast cancer in the number dollars devoted to its cure. Interestingly, treatments for prostate cancer have moved along at light speed.
The consequences of the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico will affect your checkbook, your kitchen table, and the nation’s already depressed economy. President Obama proved once again this week that his public speaking skills can’t cover his utter lack of leadership. What the American people wanted to hear was how and when the well will be capped and the mess cleaned up. What we got were platitudes, and worse, a litany of policies that won’t fix the problem and will throw a sucker punch to the belly of our flagging economy. American families should prepare.
This week, perhaps one of the most talented crops of conservative women ever is bursting through the glass ceiling of American politics and taking the national stage. Ebay CEO Meg Whitman and former Hewlett Packard Chairman, Carly Fiorina, have rocked political history books by topping the ticket as a conservative duo in one of the country’s most influential, and liberal states.
In Nevada, Sharon Angle left former newswoman and longtime Nevada Republican Party chair, Sue Lowden, astonished, as she won by a wide margin and now will challenge Senator Harry Reid.
THANK YOU TO OUR SERVICE FAMILIES.
FLY THE FLAG.
Many will remember Ginny Thomas sitting at the side of her husband Clarence Thomas during his contentious Senate Confirmation Hearing in 1991. She recalls that experience as a “refining fire where you really found out who your friends were.” Since that time, Mrs. Thomas has long been involved in conservative education and advocacy at the Heritage Foundation, and Hillsdale College. This year she is taking center stage to promote preservation of constitutional principles on the internet with the creation of “Liberty Central.” (www.libertycentral.org) This is the first time that the wife of a sitting U.S. Justice has taken a front seat in an organization that is expressly challenging the policies of the White House and Congress.
A $100,000 reward is being offered by Family Security Matters.org of The Kitchen Cabinet Coalition, for information leading to the apprehension and conviction of the individuals who seized the Mojave Desert War Memorial earlier this week.
A generous, and outraged donor, an anonymous U.S. Military wounded veteran and recipient of the Silver Star Medal has contributed the reward money to Family Security Matters, and its President Carol Taber is overseeing the public effort to bring the criminals involved in the theft, to justice.
“We are confident that our donor’s generosity will help to bring the criminals to justice and that the message rings loud and clear: we will never allow such a vile crime that defiles the memory our nation’s war dead to stand. Not now, not ever.” said Carol Taber in announcing the reward money.
This April 15th is a sorry day for women who are clinging to what little is left in their paychecks after taxes. A single mother trying to make a home for herself and her 7-year old son told me this week that when tax day is over, she will have given 40% of her income to federal and state governments.
The heartbreak is that our tax dollars are being absorbed in interest, and are doing nothing to lift the 12 trillion dollar debt that is now hanging around the necks of our children. Many will never be able to afford a home. Some of our daughters won’t ever be able to consider staying at home with their children. College tuition may simply be out of reach. Presidential-aspirant, Mitt Romney, claims that today’s 18-year olds can expect to pay DOUBLE in taxes what American workers pay today.
With all of this in mind, passing Obamacare is just like giving someone a bottle of water when a tsunami is coming. It’s nothing more than a distraction from the real economic hurt that is looming.
The outcome of a week in Washington? The Kitchen Cabinet has been invited to be part of a joint event with Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin.
This coming April 7th, Sarah Palin will come to Minnesota for a special event supporting the re-election of Pelosi-target, Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. Palin is stumping for exactly ONE U.S. Congressman this year…and that’s Bachmann. The wagons are circling for Michele because House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has pledged to sink unprecedented dollars into opposition candidates to remove Bachmann from Capitol Hill. It seems some politicians don’t like conservative women who read the small print……
Congresswoman Bachmann caught the vision and the value of creating a coalition of conservative women across the nation, and generously invited The Kitchen Cabinet to capitalize on the Palin visit, especially because Sean Hannity has announced that he will broadcast live from Minnesota when the two conservative stars join forces in April.
Mark your calendars! Leaders of all of the major U.S. conservative women’s organizations are being invited to attend what is rapidly becoming a creation of a 2010 Summit for Conservative Women and the formation of the first women’s Kitchen Cabinet.
In this critical election year, could there be anything more valuable than to unite all of the concerned women throughout the country, organize their votes and their pocketbooks and increase their influence?
Stay Tuned.
