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A Few Good Things from Yesterday’s Votes

Ohio voters rejected issue 2. This overturns a law passed by the Republican legislature which took away collective bargaining. Mississippi is arguably the most conservative state in the union. They rejected a law that was going to make a zygote a person. If you can’t pass a law like this in Mississippi, this issue may be dead for another generation. Russell Pearce, the architect of Arizona’s immigration law, was voted out of office in a recall election. Locally, Buncombe County voted to support  AB Tech, barely.

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Just a couple of things – Sunday

Two years ago, Democrats were toying with the idea of expanding the coverage of medical healthcare to those who didn’t have it. They were looking to end the ability of insurance companies to simply drop people because they were too expensive. Congressmen had town halls and faced extremely angry and belligerent constituents. Now that Republicans have voted to end Medicare where is that same type of public anger and outrage? We must remember that Republicans have been trying to end Medicare for over 40 years. In spite of Senator John Ensign resigning, the Senate ethics committee continues its investigation. Republicans were

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What's going on – News Roundup

Wednesday Evening News Roundup Politicians continue to amaze me. It seems to me that politicians have the ability to smile and promise one thing while knowing that they are going to do nothing. Just two days ago, Joe Lieberman (laughingly called an Independent from Connecticut) supported waterboarding. Now it seems that he’s changed his mind. Waterboarding may indeed be a bad thing. Can someone explain to me why Connecticut reelected Joe Lieberman? Marcy Wheeler has done the homework that we would’ve expected most newspapers would do. She has read all four torture memos and synthesized that information with what is known

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Errington C. Thompson, MD

Dr. Thompson is a surgeon, scholar, full-time sports fan and part-time political activist. He is active in a number of community projects and initiatives. Through medicine, he strives to improve the physical health of all he treats.

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