When I went to interview Jim and Cynthia Rice Tuesday about the government-run health care legislation President Barack Obama signed into law Tuesday and the fears they hold about it, I expected to be able to write one good story, produce one good video and then move on. After publishing the story and the video, [...]
Entries from March 2010
‘ObamaCare’ is a Life Issue
March 26th, 2010 · No Comments
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Soldier’s Family Given 30 Minutes to Say Goodbye
March 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments
EDITOR’S NOTE: Below, I share a message that Scott and Vicki Behenna sent today to supporters of their son, Army Ranger 1st Lt. Michael Behenna, in conjunction with the one-year anniversary of his wrongful conviction, sentencing and imprisonment by an Army court-martial panel: To the thousands of supporters of Michael Behenna, Most of you are [...]
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‘I Wouldn’t Want to Wish This Upon Anybody’
March 25th, 2010 · 9 Comments
When Cynthia Rice told me, “I wouldn’t want to wish this upon anybody, especially with all the complications,” she was referring to the long and challenging road she and Jim, her husband of 16 years, have traveled prior to and following his successful liver transplant operation March 21, 2006. After speaking with her at their [...]
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Industry Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions
March 25th, 2010 · No Comments
Greenhouse gas emissions from the U.S. oil and natural gas industry declined more than 48 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent from 2007 to 2008, a reduction comparable to taking 9.7 million cars off the roads, an American Petroleum Institute-sponsored study estimates. Among the factors contributing to the reduction is more than $58 billion [...]
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More Than 4 Million Families Face Foreclosure
March 24th, 2010 · No Comments
Waves of hope and change continue to beat on the nation’s shores. One area where President Barack Obama’s failure to manage the economy is apparent is in the housing market where more than 4 million families now face foreclosure, according to ForeclosureListings.com. Comparing data from February 2010 to January 2010 shows that Texas has witnessed [...]
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President Barack Obama Signs Health Care Bill
March 23rd, 2010 · 4 Comments
I visited the White House web site today, saw the image (below) and, immediately, “sucker punch” came to my mind. As much as I would like to do so, however, I cannot accurately use that term to describe President Barack Obama’s signing of health care legislation today. After all, we had plenty of warning? According [...]
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Study: Blue-Collar, Minority Workers Hardest Hit
March 23rd, 2010 · 3 Comments
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t President Barack Obama supposed to be the savior of the “little guy”? And wasn’t he supposed to be the guy who would help blue-collar workers and minorities in their struggle against “The Man”? According to a recently-released study from Northeastern University in Boston, the Community-Organizer-in-Chief failed miserably during [...]
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