O’Malley keeps shooting his foot
Since the beginning of July, Governor Martin O’Malley has made nationwide news in a number of ways, but not necessarily with the headlines he may have preferred. First we had the Change Maryland tax...
View ArticleWCRC meeting – June 2013
We hadn’t met in two months, but probably received enough information to make up for the difference in Monday night’s meeting. After the usual preliminaries, we stopped for a special presentation. Two...
View ArticleFostering dependence
While many are attending a barbecue with family and friends or watching a fireworks show, there are big goings-on afoot in the world. I could have wrote on the demise of the Obama-backed Morsi...
View Article‘Death with Dignity’: compassion or dispatch?
By Cathy Keim “Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even...
View ArticleSome thoughts I have on Trumpcare
I don’t quite think I have to reintroduce myself to all of you, but it truly has been a long time since I sat down and wrote a piece for the consumption of my readers. (Editing Cathy’s last piece and...
View ArticleA few thoughts on the prospects to “repeal and replace” Andy Harris (and...
The other day I noticed on social media that our Congressman, Andy Harris, had put up a post explaining his vote for Trumpcare 2.0, the “repeal and replace” bill for Obamacare. (Most people refer to it...
View ArticleDLGWGTW: September 24, 2017
In the spirit of “don’t let good writing go to waste,” this is a roundup of some of my recent social media comments that I’m going to make a regular Sunday evening feature. (Maybe not every week but...
View ArticleDLGWGTW: October 29, 2017
In the spirit of “don’t let good writing go to waste,” this is a roundup of some of my recent social media comments. I’m one of those people who likes to take my free education to a number of...
View ArticleOdds and ends number 85
Here’s another in my long-running series of things from my e-mail box and elsewhere that deserve a mention but not a full post. Generally I shoot for three sentences to two paragraphs for each, but...
View ArticleHow much will it cost? (Part two of a multi-part series)
I really didn’t mean to take so long between part one of this series and part two, but because the second item on the Ben Jealous for Governor issue list is health care – and there’s a claim out there...
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