Political Sparks

Where’s the Charity in Force?

December 22, 2009 · 5 Comments

Recently I had the opportunity to converse with an old friend on the topic of Charity. My friend informed me that from his perspective, in order to live my religion and be charitable, I should be a proponent of Government mandated and controlled health care. From his perspective this is understandable as it is a basic Christian tenet to take care of the poor and needy. Isn’t that all that is happening when the government injects itself into the health care industry? Aren’t we just making sure that those who don’t currently have health insurance are insured, so they don’t have to live in fear? Isn’t it the charitable, and therefore, the Christian thing to do? After some additional study I submit this paper as an answer to all individuals who believe, specifically, that government should play a role in providing health care to Americans, and generally, that government... [Read the full story]

K's Law

Gun Control Reduces Crime??

July 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Gun Control Legislation promises to reduce gun crime, after all, if there are less guns in peoples possession there should be less gun crimes right? Wrong. This weeks ‘K’s Law’ will explore the how and the why Gun Control Legislation does the EXACT OPPOSITE of reducing gun crime. There is a difference between armed criminals and armed law-abiding citizens. The key distinction is the term “law-abiding”. A criminal doesn’t care what laws are on the books about guns. If he wants a gun, he’ll get one regardless of the law. “But thats why we need gun laws to make it harder for criminals to buy guns!” The reality is criminals don’t buy their guns from “law-abiding” businesses either. They buy them from other criminals who thumb their nose at the law. All gun control laws do is discourage “law-abiding” citizens from... [Read the full story]

International

Nuclear Proliferation and You

October 3, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Nestled inbetween the frantic debate sessions surrounding the 700 Billion Dollar Wall Street Bail-Out bill, there was additional legislation that was making it’s way through the senate. Having already passed the House with an 298-117 vote last saturday, the senate was set to debate and then pass the culmination of over two years of talks between India and the United States. The treaty that in the end passed the US Senate with a 86-13 vote, sends mixed signals to our allies and enemies around the world. This treaty allows for the selling and sharing with India much of our Nuclear Power Generation technology that is traditionally not permitted to be transported outside the US, unless it is going to a country with which we have a similar relationship. This treaty will go a long way to helping India maintain and expand its technological marketplace which is placing an ever larger strain... [Read the full story]

National

Why is Greenspan “Shocked”?

November 3, 2008 · Leave a Comment

On October 23rd, in a financial witch hunt, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform questioned Allen Greenspan, the former chairman of the federal reserve, on the current market crisis. Greenspan is quoted as saying that he “found a flaw” in his professed ideology that the free-market is best left to regulate itself. And that he was “partially” wrong in his opposition to regulation in the derivatives market, expecting that institutions would protect shareholders and there investments. He then went on to advocate increased regulation in the securities market. While it is disconcerting at the least to hear the former fed chairman make these sort of retractions on the decisions with which he has been supposedly “guiding” the fed with. It is even more troubling that individuals will read some of the results of this witch hunt and believe the... [Read the full story]

Editorial

ObamaCare and Me

August 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment

By Zane F Pollard, MD I have been sitting quietly on the sidelines watching all of this national debate on healthcare. It is time for me to bring some clarity to the table by explaining many of the problems from the perspective of a doctor. First off, the government has involved very few of us physicians in the healthcare debate. While the American Medical Association has come out in favor of the plan, it is vital to remember that the AMA only represents 17% of the American physician workforce. I have taken care of Medicaid patients for 35 years while representing the only pediatric ophthalmology group left in Atlanta, Georgia that accepts Medicaid. For example, in the past 6 months I have cared for three young children on Medicaid who had corneal ulcers. This is a potentially blinding situation because if the cornea perforates from the infection, almost surely blindness will occur. In... [Read the full story]

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