The Christian Science Monitor has a multi-part series on the Insurance Reform Bill.

I personally wish this was health reform instead of insurance reform.

Looks like small businesses wont be closing because of this.

Looks like a lot of people that can't afford insurance might get it without being fined after all.

I am going to keep reading.

I have been trying to get a Manifesto put together. It seems that I take ideas from the Libertarians, Democrats, and even the original conservative Republicans.

Here are some political thoughts running around my head. I am trying to think in specific solutions so that those who would be interested in me running for office would know where I stand. I ( Read more... )

BY DANIEL MOTTOLA

Though plans by various Texas utilities to build 19 new coal-fired power plants have drawn widespread criticism for increases in smog, ozone, fine particle, and mercury pollution they'll pump into the air, most acrimonious is the plants' contribution to climate change - the impending catastrophe caused by fossil-fuel combustion ( Read more... )

I posted this as a response to bitpig 's journal, but I thought I would share here as well.

A few things that bother me about prop 2.
I still believe that what happens between two consenting adults is their own business, not mine. Can we REALLY be the judges on what love is?
I will always vote no on anything that takes away civil liberties.

Now ( Read more... )