In a recent Facebook discussion, a (Iiberal) commenter asked me how I would address certain issues or public policy methods that liberals find unassailable. Here you go. Do you support heavily subsidized daycare? Do you support a $15 minimum wage? Do you support universal healthcare?...
As a former vaccine skeptic, I can tell you why many people are suspicious: 1. Overly-aggressive timing The *timing* of some vaccines seems unnecessary. For example, Hep-b vaccines are recommended AT BIRTH in the US – not because infants are likely to contract it, but...
Because Christians are most often harping about immoral sex, and say little about the joys of sex within marriage, they are often viewed as “against sex.” David Wayne at jollyblogger makes a very good point when he writes Somehow, those of us who want to...
Solving the healthcare problem won’t be easy, for a couple of reasons. First, we don’t have a model that allows us to properly contain costs while providing adequate care. Secondly, and more importantly, there is shared responsibility between the spheres of government. I believe that...
The first approach one should take to treating depression is that of treating physical causes. By addressing these, you can eliminate them as causes and move on to emotional and spiritual issues. How are your diet and your sleep? You need to improve these first...
I don’t often curse, especially in print, but can I just say that the current administration’s health care and climate plans are the height of idiocy! Especially since these crises are largely manufactured, and not real. The health care ‘crisis’…
Much of the talk surrounding the health care reform debate has been misunderstandings, misinformation, exaggerations and occasionally out right lies. Despite what many want to say, both sides have engaged in all of these and most continue to do so. It is not too difficult...
