Campaign Bombshell: McCain suspends campaign, wants debate on hold

Republican Nominee John McCain said he has suspended his campaign in order to face this “historic” crisis facing our economy.
Senator Barack Obama came on CNN live from Clearwater, Florida at 4:40 and announced that he called Senator John McCain this morning to talk about the crisis and about the possibilities of issuing a joint statement.
John [...]

John McCain’s Campaign can’t Take the Heat

Remember a few years ago when John McCain would spend hours at a time sitting on the “Straight Talk Express,” explaining his policies in detail, answering whatever questions reporters had? McCain had a great relationship with the press–they loved him and he loved them back, when they would press him, he would answer and press [...]

Joe Biden; your next Vice President

So it’s somewhat official. Joe Biden is Obama’s running mate.
CNN just confirmed around 12:45am EST that Joe Biden will be Barack Obama’s running mate. The official text that most of the country and the world is waiting for is supposed to go out in the early morning.
As of 12:51am Barackobama.com has no official word on [...]

Analysis that Doesn’t Really Matter: The Veepstakes

We’ve seen over and over again that it would be too difficult for the media (especially the cable TV “news”) to feature significant substance, so instead they focus on water cooler chatter. Big surprise. The topic that’s been swirling around ever since the Obama/Clinton saga ended has been who Sens. Obama and McCain would choose [...]

Should American Airlines be American owned?

I’m not talking about selling AA to a foreign investor, I’m talking straight up communism.
Should we nationalize the airlines? Now you’ve probably heard all the news on CNN or in the New York Times about how airlines are losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year. The only reason they’re staying afloat is because of [...]

The Health Care Headache: A Sickening Paradox

Too much? or Too little? The American health care system has often been called “a paradox of excess and deprivation” (Enthoven and Kronick, 1989) and we’ve yet to find a middle ground. Some people are uninsured, not properly insured, and/or have medicaid/medicare coverage that physicians simply won’t take.
Picture the pregnant woman who cannot find a [...]

The Health Care Headache: What About Us Doctors?

There have been many health care ideas and policies thrown around since about the middle of the 20th century, yet through all the debating and discussion, it seems that most of the nations of the world have chosen to go about medical regulation in their own way. I think a microcosm of the different health [...]