Collecting My Thoughts

Childhood Obesity Demonstration Project of Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA). CHIPRA provides $25 mil...

Triclosan is a synthetic chemical with broad antimicrobial activity that has been used extensively in consumer products, including personal ...

I never thought our plan for creating a family (adoption) had much to do with anyone's health or taxes except our own. Fast forward 40+ ...

The Obama administration has gone to a great deal of effort to destroy the livelihood of many well-off, well-educated, talented people--for ...

A Lebanese man charged with sorcery and sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia is scheduled to be beheaded on Friday, the man's lawyer said ...

Joe Wagenhals has been out clicking the Nikon. He went a little south of here and found some fabulous red bud trees in bloom. http://jwagen...

"It was in late 2008, under President Bush, that a threatened financial meltdown triggered some hasty and dangerous Washington policy d...

Arli Klassen MCC Executive Director Dear Ms. Klassen, Today I received the Spring 2010 "A Common Place," featuring stories about m...

It is now known that government workers earn higher wages and have better benefits than private sector workers in the same or similar positi...

Because I knew the March 24/31 issue of JAMA contained that dreaded article that we need 60 minutes a day of exercise to maintain a normal ...

Apparently, the President hasn't explained clearly enough the bill no one wanted, read, or understood. Two weeks after President Barack ...

Michelle Malkin, after filling in "American" in place of race says: "So, what makes the Obama census campaign different from ...

"American health care is an accidental system. Private coverage - the type most Americans have - has its origins in the wage controls o...

This account of Glenn Beck cautioning his listeners about the "social justice" scams in the name of the Gospel is pretty much a l...

All sorts of people are losing their jobs--not so much from the recession, although that's part of it--but from the hostile, unfriendly,...

The coal mine tragedy in West Virginia is in the news. It is already morphing from a story of anxious relatives, grieving co-workers and co...

Imagine the unintended consequences! Be sure to read the comments about Enviropig. "The “Enviropig” has been genetically modified in s...

Here's a handy, dandy website from my alma mater, the University of Illinois. Or rather the Extension. Stain Solutions which is set to ...

For some reason, they are racist haters and homophobes. How dare the Tea Party stand on the Constitution! When James Carville said it after...

You don't have to be a genius, or a math whiz or believe in conspiracies to figure out why the media plays up the problems in the Roman ...