Big debate about “Obamacare”

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article about health care reform that is, of course, the big topic now. It comes from the founder of Whole Foods. While he says he is not attacking Obamacare, a few people think he should have kept his mouth shut.

What do you think?

• Constitutional Ignorance There's a lot to the US Constitution.  The men who wrote it were very smart in the way they worded it.  They had the foresight to include checks and balances, through the separation of powers among the various branches of government and defined what each branch can, and more importantly,......
• What does single-payer mean? /caption] It is one of history’s greatest ironies that had Richard Nixon not run afoul of the Watergate scandal, Americans might long ago have obtained universal health care. But thanks to Watergate, Nixon found himself on the path to impeachment and resigned his office. His “sweeping new program” for “comprehsive......
• What is the Middle Class Task Force and Who is on it? I never knew until today that the Obama Administration, in his/their infinite wisdom, created The Middle Class Task Force.  According to the White House the Middle Class Task Force’s main initiative is to, [raise]the living standards of middle-class, working families in America. With specific goals of, Expanding education and......
• Why is Peter Catalano Spamming Twitter about MonaVie? This is a little of an unusual topic for me to write on, but I was just looking on Twitter to see what people are saying about MonaVie. It turns out that Peter Catalano has a monopoly on almost everything on Twitter. I counted 7 Twitter accounts pushing MonaVie that......
• Obama At House Republican Retreat In Baltimore: FULL VIDEO, TEXT [/caption] Video of President Obama's remarks to the House Republican retreat in Baltimore on Friday, Jan. 29, 2010 and Q&A With GOP Lawmakers: Complete transcript of Obama's remarks as recorded by the White House: 12:10 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Please, everybody be......

What Glenn Beck understands and How to Get 10 million Watch Dogs

Glenn Beck notices that there are problems, that there are issues in this country.

What

he doesn’t get is that he can’t direct the battle as some mighty general. Selecting which

battles are to be fought by the top will not be successful.

This free course explains what will be successful and why it will work.

• Glenn Beck Is A Loser /caption] Fox News channel's wacky, cartoonish ranter, Glenn Beck, just can't quit releasing crazy tirades, and advertisers on his show just can't keep from quitting on him. His latest hate rant Obama is a racist lost him deep-pocketed accounts, Geico, Lawyers.com, Progressive Insurance, Procter & Gamble, SC Johnson, Men's......
• linklings, October 12, 2007 If you have children you'll appreciate this, if not bear with me. For the last three nights my son has woken up around 2 am wailing, and he calms down immediately if either my wife or I go into the room. At the slightest creak or whisper when we stand......
• Carole Caldwell Graebner Remembered Carole Caldwell Graebner passed away at the age of sixty five following a brief but courageous battle with cancer on November 19, 2008. Carole Caldwell Graebner served as a chair of the United States Tennis Association's Fed Cup Committee. Graebner was born on June 24 in 1943 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,......
• Secret of Grounding Remaining grounded, sort of like an electrical circuit. It’s a very broad topic. Every world tradition has spoken of it and its necessity in one form or another. Honestly if you aren't pursuing "spiritual practices", there is a tendency in life to get scattered. To get seriously out of touch......
• Windows Mobile, iPhone, Android - Marketplace Comparison Detailed comparison between Windows Mobile Marketplace, Apple's iPhone AppStore and Android Market from developer point of view. By: Predrag Tomasevic (Click for bigger image) Introduction The article you are about to read is my compilation of thoughts on three currently most popular and talked about mobile platforms, sparked by whole......

Glenn Beck’s finally starting to “Get it”.

Glenn’s newest

article shows some insight into the current problems we have and the solutions. It has

taken him quite a while, but I am glad that he is figuring it out now.

• Who's To Blame For The Binge Drinking Culture?  This post on binge drinking was originally written and published on 24/02/2008 on my old site, 'The God Is You', and may conflict with my current philosophy.   I WAS LISTENING to the Jeremy Vine show on Radio 2 on Thursday - a show I both love AND hate. I......
• Amor Amor Perfume Review This is a review of the Amor Amor perfume; a perfume intended for women and designed by Cacharel in Paris. The Amor Amor perfume was designed by the design house of Cacharel in Paris, and it was originally introduced in the year 2003. The Amor Amor perfume offers a truly......
• Athlete Profiles: Andre Agassi Andre Agassi has become a fixture in the tennis world, and thanks to a series of high profile relationships, sponsorship deals and a great will to win, he has become an indelible fixture of pop culture as well. His gold medal win in the Olympics, and the sheer number of......
• Personal Finance Review - Egg on My Face Edition Sometimes there's just not enough wood in the world to knock on. I found this out the hard way earlier this week. It took less than a week for my post about the 2001 Patriots to come back and haunt me. For those living in closet, or not interested in......

Rugged Individualism

We in the United States often talk about Rugged Individualism–this strangely-definable characteristic of doing everything your way–all by yourself.

The truth is, those that we know and admire–the famous ones in America–are not rugged individualists. They all work together with teams to accomplish things.

Note, I didn’t say “parties”. I said, “teams”.

This site is about empowering you to use the power of teams to change your world for the better.

• The Most Influential Martial Artist The World Has Ever Seen! Image by Toban Black via Flickr I believe it is safe to say that Bruce Lee has done more for martial arts in his short life than any other martial artist to date. Before he came onto the scene, nobody in America really knew what kung fu was. So......
• Florida at the Sugar Bowl On January 1, 2010 at 8:30 p.m. Eastern time, the Florida Gators, the SEC Eastern Division Champs, will meet the Cincinnati Bearcats, the Big East winners, at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. The University of Florida Gators have played in the Sugar Bowl 7 times before, with......
• New Copenhagen Accord a Sham YOLANDI GROENEWALD | COPENHAGEN, DENMARK The new Copenhagen accord, hammered out late on Friday night, is a sham -- leading climate change observers said. South Africa took centre stage in the accord as one of five countries to broker it, together with the US. The European Union has also......
• The Top Five Ski Resorts Reviewed /caption]If you're a passionate skier or a travel nut, you might have the ambitious goal of actually seeking out and visiting the top five ski destinations in the world. But if you're a more casual skier, this article is for you: here you'll read about hte top five ski resorts......
• The Greenback Buy-Back Plan: Why The Rising US Dollar is the World's Biggest Hoax Still not convinced that there is central bank intervention in the markets or that the markets aren't really "free" anyway? Here's the most direct example you're going to find. Toronto's Financial Post analyst Jacqueline Thorpe reports - just now, in August 2008, - that back over one weekend in March......