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Selling Us Down The River

One of the key reasons that the country is experiencing such a wave of disillusionment, is that women are disillusioned with the bullying and the short-sighted policies of President Obama's democratic leadership. Washington leaders are selling us down the river. Because the majority of households in America are now led by women as breadwinners or co-breadwinners, women feel the pinch, personally. Women who work inside and outside of the home are exhausted by their 21st century responsibilities. They resent seeing Washington and Wall Street steal their hard-earned retirement. Now that the mistakes and self-interested agendas of Washington politicians are beginning to steal away the futures of the next generation too, women are getting as protective as mother lions.

Battle of the Sexes

The L.A. Times is reporting that there has been a long history of competitive conflict between California political headliners Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina. The patchy stories offered up by Times reporters Maeve Reston and Seema Mehta, try to paint a picture of sexist and stereotyped conflicts between the two accomplished former CEO's, and suggest that Whitman and Fiorina even jockeyed for position at the speaker's podium, during the 2006 National Republican Convention.

I guess Al Gore and Bill Clinton never gave a thought to choreographing their appearances at big political events? This is news?

Why Health Care Hurts

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.

Their Sacred Honor

On this Independence Day I hope you will have a moment to sit down and spend ten minutes or so reading this historical review of the 4th of July, 1776. It is fascinatingly-detailed, and reveals the temperature, the painstaking writing, the urgency and the fearlessness behind the Declaration of Independence. Never have I found an account of the day that is so thorough, or which reveals the kind of character we are so desperately in search of today.

Saying Goodbye To Our Parents

As we wrestle with the cost of health care, the state of the economy, the increasing weight of national pensions and a million other concerns about retirement, it is becoming more urgent for baby-boomers and those of us right behind them, to confront the growing profession of "extending life" for seniors, and in truth, prolonging death.

Supreme Court Musings

Creative privileges? The junior senator from Minnesota, Al Franken, was caught on video this week drawing cartoons during the apparently-draggy senate confirmation hearings for Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court. Perhaps the Senator’s days moved faster during his Saturday Night Live years…..

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Behind The Scenes

When CA Senator Barbara Boxer starts begging, "I need you to be excited - as excited as the Tea Party people are, Will you be with me?" our reaction is -- She’s joking right? 27% of Democrats in California say even they want a change in Boxer’s seat.
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The Politics Of Breast Cancer