Anita Dunn -- Obama confidant and Director of Communications

This is truly one for the books.  Anita Dunn, in her capacity as Director of Communications for the Obama administration, broke into the news this past week by taking on the Fox News Channel for it's alleged biased reporting. On You Tube giving a talk before a high school student body told assembled teenagers that her favorite "philosophers" were Chairman Mao and Sister Teresa,  an odd couple to be admired by anyone. . As she explained, Dunn admires Mao because when he asked by a news agency reporter in China in 1946 how he thought he could possibly win a war against the  Chang Kai Shek who controlled the army and all other levers of power, responded that essentially because he just knew he could and that's that just the way it was. Never mind she admires for any reason the greatest mass murderer in the history of mankind, a man responsible for between 50 and 100 million deaths in his crusade to fashion a China in the communist mold. Wow! Here's an advisor as close to Obama as anyone who unashamedly admires a mass murderer. What's next? Add Dunn to the list of radicals Obama has brought into this administration. Should'nt we all fear for the Republic at this point?

Healthcare debate -- pros and cons

This healthcare debate has come down to an issue of how much government do we want in our lives. Those who want the government to take over and run healthcare in the US see in the models of Canada, France and the UK benign governmental programs that benefit all citizens and drive down the cost of healthcare for everyone. They start from the premise that healthcare is a "right" that fits in with the other rights granted US citizens by birth through the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Others, myself included, see in this expression of healthcare as a right, a governmental usurpation of our right as individuals to decide what is in our best interest concerning healthcare. An example highlights the difference in these two positions. Under Obamacare each citizen will be required to purchase an insurance policy that will mandate what we must have as basic coverage. For sake of argument let's say I don't want or need prenatal and postnatal coverage, nor do I want or need annual physicals for family members and even for myself (who's to say I need an annual physical rather than a a biannual or so one?). But it's in the plan, I pay for this coverage whether I want it, or need it, because the government decides I must. Freedom of choice? Gone. So what's next? Freedom to bear arms? Freedom of speech? Freedom of travel? And so forth.