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It is baffling that the American public has been so effectively stampeded into near-total dependence on a shoddy, crude and ineffective system of health care, paying an extremely high price for drug and surgical interventions.

Did you know that our health care system is the third leading cause of death in the United States?  In a year 2000 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Barbara Starfield, M.D., wrote that physician error, medication error, and adverse events from drugs or surgery cause 225,400 deaths per year, making this the third leading cause of death, after heart disease and cancer.  Why would anyone let themselves be put at the mercy of a hospital, when most chronic illnesses are preventable?  (Answer: Because they don’t know any better.) Continue reading →

Obesity is America’s number one health problem. It commonly leads to diabetes, Type 2, heart disease, kidney disease, and sometimes cancer.

It alone is growing so fast that it will bankrupt our health care system by 2017 or sooner.

If obesity is driving up health care costs, what can we do about it? Ask doctors to charge less? Force the drug companies provide free diabetes medicines and diet pills to obese people? Ask the insurance companies to provide their services for free? Continue reading →

Adrienne watched a government commercial on TV  to “help restore America” and asked me to look into it. It is http://serve.gov/ and turns out to be a site that offers one a chance to either pledge one’s time and money to any one of many government or privately sponsored projects or register a project of your own.  As I read it over, an idea popped into my head, so I created a project! It is now registered on the site.
The organization is We the People
Its intent? “We the People in order to save our Union are working to see the Constitution and Bill of Rights returned, intact and functioning, to the Halls of the United States Government.”
I’m not sure where I (or we) go from here, but I thought it would be a neat idea to form an organization on the government’s own website that deals with one of the greatest problems We the People face.

Apparently it also creates a blog for We the People. Anyone interested in signing on, please send me an e-mail. It would be great if it caught on and many people signed on to the project! The potential membership is around 200 million. I’m not exactly sure about how one works one of these sites, but we’ll figure it out as we go. Comments are sure welcome. We could really have some fun with this, or perhaps even accomplish something.

So, if it sounds interesting, let me know at theplace@wavecable.com

Don’t pledge any money! This is just an idea, but wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could come up with something we could deliver that would make our alleged representatives aware that We the People want our Constitution back?

The reason that European nations have better health is not because they have “free” access to doctors occasionally.  It is because–for the most part–they don’t eat the crazy American fast food diet.  Europeans eat real food.  They often walk rather than drive to places they need to go, because they live in walkable cities–not in a suburb linked to their place of work by an hourlong drive to go ten or twenty miles.

Health care is our American obsession because we refuse to do the things that are conducive to health(eat more vegetables and fruit, less meat and dairy products, more whole grain products, less liquor and beer, fewer sweets and soft drinks, cut out tobacco entirely, and get regular daily exercise), so we need a backup plan to pay for the expensive medical repairs we’re sure to need. Continue reading →

For those of you who have been following the saga of our letters to Obama, I must report!

Today, (July 11th) we received a hand addressed envelope from the White House addressed to Adrienne and me. Inside was a 4″ by 6″ form card. Continue reading →

Imagine that one day in the not to distant future you answer a knock on your door and find that the Police are there to arrest you for a crime that you haven’t committed, but someone has identified you as having the potential to commit that crime some time in the future. Sounds like 1984 Science fiction doesn’t it. But what if it was actually happening right then and there? What would you do? More appropriately, would there be anything you could do? Or are you one of those who loudly state “That could never happen here?” Continue reading →

There is always some reason that they will try to convince you not to believe what you feel in your gut. They will try to bamboozle you
– Barack Obama

I admit I was swept up in the national euphoria of President Obama’s election. I really believed that something would be done about the economic crisis, our unjust “War on Terror”, and the creeping fascism these wars have engendered. But by now it should be clear that President Obama has no plans to change anything. Continue reading →

Below is an essay which Thomas Paine wrote on June 8th, the 200th anniversary of his death.  He generously approached me to inquire as to whether I would be willing to transcribe it for readers worldwide who might benefit from his posthumous words of wisdom.  He, and therefore I, shall be forever indebted to you if you shall take the time to read (2,000 words) and consider it for publication or to, otherwise, share with your friends and colleagues.

It is Monday, 8 June 2009, two hundred years to the day since my miserable death, though I should add that while death was, indeed, miserable it was a swim in the sea compared with my life as it finally turned out.  However, I have been dead for too long to want to harp on those wretched final years of my life—the assassination of my character, of my person, the unspeakable hypocrisy of it all, my freefall from grace and renown, the poverty, ill health, my seeking refuge in a bottle.  But if there remains even one son or daughter of Liberty and Democracy in this present day—that is, the person to and for whom I write, as opposed to those who celebrate the cartoon Tom Paine, never thinking to read my works or to carry forth the struggle—then I should think that such a son or daughter of Liberty is unlikely to protest my assuming the privilege of penning this brief posthumous account.

If not a single such person remains who is, in word and deed, committed to Liberty and Democracy—the only fit state for a human being who wishes to live as a whole person and who refuses to be infantilised—then rather than to assume the privilege, if there’s none worthy to grant it, I shall steal it back as rightfully my own. Continue reading →

I recently had the honor of appearing on AntiWar Radio with Scott Horton in my role with the Tenth Amendment Center.  Here’s the overview:

Michael Boldin of the 10th Amendment Center discusses how the doctrine of enumerated powers has become quaint, how the Constitution provides persuasive talking points for a strictly limited government for those otherwise undisposed, why activist priorities should be on limiting federal power as it is the most expansive and potentially destructive and how the states are, in some cases, resisting federal laws and asserting their own.

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Dear President Obama,

I, like many millions of Americans, voted for you in the last general election in the hope that your promise of change would be the change that we had longed for during the previous eight years.

Powerlessly, we watched our nation being run into the ground by a runaway despotic regime. We saw wars begun under false pretenses, which have cost millions of lives and trillions of dollars; we saw our natural resources being despoiled by greedy profiteers; we’ve seen our small businesses and small farms being destroyed by bureaucratic intrusions into every aspect of their lives and businesses, apparently for the enrichment of the big megabusiness cartels.

We’ve seen most of the jobs that gave America a healthy middle-class outsourced to nations where people will work twelve hours or more for a dollar or two a day, or for a cup or two of rice to feed their family. 
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