Thanks for finding this note, i stand corrected!

My number came from an article i read right sfter the London Tube bombing a few years ago. Perhaps that article was referring to London doctors? I'll look into it this evening when i have more time.

That is really interesting!

Setting up ethical dilemmas for doctors while paying them less... Perhaps that's why 85% of the doctors now practicing in the UK were trained outside of the European Union.

All the more reason our GOP candidates would be well-served by paying a few well-timed visits on big anniversary dates...

The idea wasn't to say "what happened on any April 1", rather, April 1 from 150 years ago... a "nice round number".

The arguments in favor of justifying this unprecedented change in the Commerce Clause were not at all compelling - even NPR agreed to that! Really, what is the limit to such an expansion?

My layman's read of the transcript is that, believe it or not, Justice Ginsburg is no longer the farthest to the left of the Supreme Court. Of the four on the left, she's the only one who showed up with a logical mind; she won't sacrifice her reputation.

Going out on a limb here: Justice Ginsburg writes her own opinion on this: it'll be 5 - 1 -3. The simple reason is that she won't want her good name associated with the incredibly lousy legal arguments presented by the General. Further, I'll predict she'll write to throw out this law while appealing to Congress to write a Health Care Tax bill similar to Social Security and Medicare to fund a Single Payer system... or imply something along those lines, using some European example.

There is a contingent in the populace that this bill is not Socialist enough... she'll represent that perspective in her opinion, be it supporting or dissenting.

It's time we start bringing High Def video cameras w/ a tripod or monopod to get some reasonable quality footage, and start videotaping these events, editing them to resemble regular TV "News" reportage, and then post them on line where they can be linked to by websites like this one.

I have attended a few Tea Party events here in the Bay Area in the last few months, but sadly, I failed to bring my video camera. Next time i won't forget...

Yes, i did indeed send this to Anna Eshoo. Will post her response if she ever gets around to replying.

I've also sent a similar post to the Menlo Park Almanac after one of my neighbors thought it worthy...

Please correct me if I incorrectly paraphrase a part of "Road to Serfdom", but it seems to me that Hayek might re-phrase this debate: The original "Liberal" of the 19th Century, who believed in individual liberty as the highest value and ended Slavery in the British empire and then in the US, may be a subset of  the modern "Conservative."

Unfortunately as he described it, in the 20th Century, the Socialist movement "invaded" the Liberal movement, then dropped the "Socialist" moniker (perhaps because of coincidental association with certain German, Soviet, and Chinese movements from that era.)

So... instead of comparing "Liberals" to "Conservatives", we should call today's "Liberals" by what they really are: "Socialists."

Nancy Pelosi isn't a "Liberal Democrat": she's a "Socialist Democrat". Let's start calling her that!

If the West continues to lose its way, historians may find the apogee of the original, worldwide Liberal movement to have been the period between the US Civil War and WWI / Lenin's Revolution. With a few notable exceptions, the general worldwide trend over the last 100 years has been away from individual liberty and responsibility and a return to state-led serfdom.

Call me a softie, but just about any scene from Sound of Music... but particularly "Climb every mountain"...

The true story of one man's recognition of Hitler's evil and his successful escape with family, combined w/ some of the best music put on film.

All 5 boys in our family threw newspapers, cut lawns, and shoveled snow starting at the age of 12. I sold the most newspapers in our region, earning me an all-expense trip to see Nixon's 2nd inauguration (and becoming the first sibling to ride in an airplane). We used to cheer when the temperature dipped below 0F, because then we received extra "points", which were eventually used to buy my first 10-speed bike, a Schwinn Continental.

During one winter, we ran out of regular customers and rode our bikes to find houses whose driveways hadn't yet been shoveled. We left hand-written notes on some doors that said, "If you'd like to have your driveway shoveled while you are vacationing in Hawaii, please give us a call". Weeks later, two called, and we had guessed exactly where they were! They became our best customers. Many years later, after graduating from college, i learned that one of them, Norman Strunk, was President of the US Savings and Loan Association. I found this out when he offered me a job as an Examiner, which I turned down, but younger brother later accepted, his 1st real job

It seems the Islamic conversion of Europe is more a symptom of European decay, rather than a primary driving force. The biggest driving force behind Western decay, in my view, is the destruction of the pre-WWII currency, ie, gold-back, hard money policy. The ability to effortlessly devalue money (FDR devalued the US dollar 65% overnight, from $20.67 to $35 /oz) allowed politicians to finance WWII. Instead of taking the difficult medicine that politicians drank after the US Civil War and returning the dollar to a stable standard, this powerful weapon was not sheathed after WWII hostilities ended. Instead it was used to finance the Welfare State. The ability to politically devalue currency is the most powerful of intoxicants and corrupts to the core of society. This is the primary cause of European demise; until it is fixed, the hole will just keep getting deeper.