1. Assuming the figure of 47 million is correct, how can insurance coverage be provided to 15% more people with the same number of doctors, other providers and clinic hours and hospital beds without substantially increasing the cost?
2. If the answer to “1” above is “efficiency” then how [...]









Oh what a time it was, it was a time of...
Iran announces that it controls the entire nuclear production cycle.
North Korea launches a new longer range ICBM.
Pirates seize two American ships off Somalia.
... innocence, a time of confidences.


Joe Biden rarely says anything that betrays sober thought but even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Remember when Ol’ Joe said that Obama would be tested right away? Well, Kim Jong Il did.

And now, the big lies begin.

Some one needs to discuss the consequences of the childlike approach to national security by which the Obama Adminstration is imperilling the United States.







The past week saw the first manifestations of the public hangover from the false promise of “hope” and “change” that lead the Democrats to their wide margin victory last November. One of the first signs that reality is crashing down on the United States is [...]
Few states face a worse financial crisis than does Iowa, but California is one of them. Most of you reading these words know that California is quite simply broke. California can barely sell bonds. California has suspended income tax refunds-which is another way of saying the [...] 



Now, at long last we are employing a political pejorative here on the pages of TRS. This week Republican Senators Arlen Specter (Pennsylvania) and Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins (Maine) abandoned even the pretext of supporting any Republican principles by crossing the aisle and voting [...] 



