http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress Welcome to - The truth as I see it™. Dr. Bosley writes sociopolitical columns with a conservative view that is well articulated and defended, provoking thought and discussion without telling people what to think. He poses questions, while offering his personal views and reasoning for them, allowing readers to better understand his opinions as they develop their own. His advice to himself - "Writing the truth as I see it; trying not to offend those who will disagree." Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:29:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Welcome to - The truth as I see it™. Dr. Bosley writes sociopolitical columns with a conservative view that is well articulated and defended, provoking thought and discussion without telling people what to think. He poses questions, while offering his personal views and reasoning for them, allowing readers to better understand his opinions as they develop their own. His advice to himself - "Writing the truth as I see it; trying not to offend those who will disagree." Craig L. Bosley, MD no webmaster@craigbosley.com (Craig L. Bosley, MD) © copyright, Craig Bosley, 2009 The truth as I see it™ http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress © copyright, Craig Bosley, 2009 IdahoNews & Politicswebmaster@craigbosley.comCraig L. Bosley, MDIdaho42.883214-112.439686craigbosleyhttp://feedburner.google.com http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~r/craigbosley/~3/e9oc4b4M_Wc/ http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2010/03/the-supreme-court-%e2%80%93-omnipotent-and-divine/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:13:55 +0000 webmaster@craigbosley.com (Craig L. 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Bosley, MD) http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/?p=130 http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2010/01/supreme-court-constitutional-guardian-or-guardian-council/feed/ 0 congress,Law,Oliver Wendell Holmes,Separation of powers,Supreme Court,Supreme Court of the United States,United States,United States Congress,United States Constitution Does the  Supreme Court submit to the authority of the United States Constitution, as it should?  Or, is it complicit with Congress, functioning beyond its constitutional powers? In 1803, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Marshall, Does the  Supreme Court submit to the authority of the United States Constitution, as it should?  Or, is it complicit with Congress, functioning beyond its constitutional powers? In 1803, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Marshall, trying to preserve the checks and balances in the Constitution said, “To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained."  He was addressing Congress, explaining that Congress could not decide if a law it passed was constitutional, that checking power reserved for the Supreme Court. Sadly, subsequent Justices used this process of judicial review to place themselves above the Constitution, and unlike their ruling on Congress, seeing no need for checks and balances on themselves.  Is this unlimited, unchecked power constitutional? How do Judges and Justices view the United States Constitution?  Do they revere it as they should?  Do they defend it as they should?  Or do they perceive themselves superior to the Constitution, the Supreme Court becoming the American equivalent of the Iranian Guardian Council, a supreme oligarchy deciding all law? In 1920, Associate Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes may have violated the Constitution when he said, "The case before us must be considered in the light of our whole experience and not merely in that of what was said a hundred years ago.  We must consider what this country has become in deciding what (the Tenth Amendment) has reserved."  Where does the Constitution grant the Court this intuitive power?  Can a Supreme Court Justice continue to serve if he or she seeks constitutional rulings outside the Constitution? In 1949 Associate Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter insulted our intelligence when he said, "The words of the Constitution . . . are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free . . . to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life."  Should  a Justice who claims the United States Constitution is immaterial be impeached and removed from the Court? In 1992 Judge Richard Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sevnth Circuit said, "We find it reassuring to think that the courts stand between us and legislative tyranny even if a particular form of tyranny was not foreseen and expressly forbidden by the framers of the Constitution."  Could he not recall his oath was to uphold the Constitution, not to fix it? Were the framers of the Constitution so flawed they failed to foresee it not addressing all that it should, needing Judges and Justices to fill in the gaps?  No.  Fully aware of this probability, they addressed changing the Constitution in Article V, allowing us to amend it when needed. The unacceptable rub for the courts?  "We the people" must approve amendments to the Constitution.  Nowhere in it is the Supreme Court granted the power to rule based on it "reading life" rather than "reading the Constitution."  Only "we the people" decide changes.  And this is as it should be. Justices can be impeached; yet Congress continues to turn a blind eye to its constitutional responsibility to impeach Justices who fail to "hold their Office during good Behavior." The Supreme Court has become the American version of the Iranian Guardian Council, the Constitution subservient to its supreme power, just as in Iran.  The only difference?  The Iranian Council has six theologians and six jurists who each serve six year terms; we have nine near-deities who serve for life. Is it time to take back the unconstitutional powers the Justices have usurped?  Is it time to demand the Supreme Court and Congress submit to the United States Constitution?  The Justices and Congress have claimed powers not theirs.  Is there a power above the Supreme Court?  If so, what should happen? Craig L. Bosley, MD no 4:26 Does the  Supreme Court submit to the authority of the United States Constitution, as it should?  Or, is it complicit with Congress, functioning beyond its constitutional powers? 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Bosley, MD) http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/?p=129 http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2010/01/the-consitution-v-the-federal-government/feed/ 0 Articles of Confederation,British Empire,Federalist Papers,James Madison,Supreme Court,Supreme Court of the United States,Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution,United States,United States Constitution The Declaration of Independence states, “. . . these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States.”  This sentiment was reaffirmed in 1781 in the Articles of Confederation which states, “Each state retains its sovereignty, The Declaration of Independence states, “. . . these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States.”  This sentiment was reaffirmed in 1781 in the Articles of Confederation which states, “Each state retains its sovereignty, ... Craig L. Bosley, MD no 4:42 The Declaration of Independence states, “. . . these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States.”  This sentiment was reaffirmed in 1781 in the Articles of...<br/> <br/> The truth as I see it™ <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/09iz1DL_OXbSKfOPtJy0y4Rrkuc/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/09iz1DL_OXbSKfOPtJy0y4Rrkuc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/09iz1DL_OXbSKfOPtJy0y4Rrkuc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/09iz1DL_OXbSKfOPtJy0y4Rrkuc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=4eWIRP9S6GM:fNsj06aENnc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=4eWIRP9S6GM:fNsj06aENnc:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=4eWIRP9S6GM:fNsj06aENnc:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?i=4eWIRP9S6GM:fNsj06aENnc:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=4eWIRP9S6GM:fNsj06aENnc:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=4eWIRP9S6GM:fNsj06aENnc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/craigbosley/~4/4eWIRP9S6GM" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2010/01/the-consitution-v-the-federal-government/http://media.blubrry.com/craigbosley/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.craigbosley.com/podcast/20100125.mp3 http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~r/craigbosley/~3/s4v6rKop_cw/ http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2010/01/the-bill-of-prvileges/#comments Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:11:02 +0000 webmaster@craigbosley.com (Craig L. Bosley, MD) http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/?p=128 http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2010/01/the-bill-of-prvileges/feed/ 0 Bill of Rights,James Madison,McDonald v. Chicago,Second Amendment to the United States Constitution,Supreme Court,Supreme Court of the United States,United States,United States Constitution,United States Supreme Court,Washington D.C. The Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution, was ratified by three-fourths of the states in 1791. The Constitution was ratified four years earlier in 1787. Our Bill of Rights came into existence amid debate and deliber... The Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution, was ratified by three-fourths of the states in 1791. The Constitution was ratified four years earlier in 1787. Our Bill of Rights came into existence amid debate and deliberation. Many anti-federalists who supported it previously opposed ratification of the Constitution because that document did not provide many of the individual protections that would be guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. But the federalists, voiced by Alexander Hamilton, considered the Bill of Rights unnecessary, believing “the people surrender nothing” in the Constitution, and offering protections of specific rights would imply that any unmentioned rights were not protected. With obvious disagreements, the Bill of Rights, proponed by Thomas Jefferson, was introduced by James Madison during the First United States Congress in 1789.  Near-prophetically, these anti-federalists feared the Constitution created too strong a national government which was a threat to individual rights and would lead to the President becoming a King.  Thomas Jefferson offered this resigned assessment:  “Half a loaf is better than no bread.  If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.” So was born the Bill of Rights, our constitutionally guaranteed rights protecting us from the government.  And there lies the problem.  Which government?  Until the early 1900s, the Supreme Court held the view that the Bill of Rights only applied to the federal government, a fact supported by the failure of Madison to get any specific mention of state governments into the Bill of Rights. The high court did not change its interpretation until decades after ratification of the 14th Amendment in 1868. Rep. John Bingham, the framer of the 14th Amendment, argued that it applied the first eight amendments of the Bill of Rights to the states, the ninth and tenth not referring to specific individual rights. He believed the first eight amendments to the Constitution, ratified by the states, better represented the people’s wishes than case-by-case rulings of the Supreme Court. He did not want the justices arbitrarily deciding how to apply the 14th Amendment to the states, contending the needed individual “due process” protections of the 14th Amendment were already present in the first eight amendments. The Supreme Court disagreed.  Justice Felix Frankfurter said the court would decide which sections of the Bill of Rights should apply to the states by determining if abridgment of the right would “shock the conscience,” meaning the court would decide, case-by-case, if the Bill of Rights applied to the states. The first real application of the Bill of Rights to the states occurred in 1925, when the Supreme Court ruled that states must uphold the First Amendment right of “freedom of speech.”  And so started an ongoing application of parts of the Bill of Rights to the states; most cases using the “Due Process Clause” of the 14th Amendment as the basis for the new application of the Bill of Rights. The process continues today, the justices deciding our constitutional rights, injecting personal biases of what they want the Constitution to say.  The court is currently hearing the case of McDonald v. Chicago, which asks the court if the Second Amendment “right of the individual to keep and bear arms” applies to states rather than just federal enclaves like Washington, D.C. Some 218 years after the Bill of Rights was ratified, we continue going before the Supreme Court, trying to regain our rights.  We the people “plead our case,” hoping the court will return to us constitutionally guaranteed rights—constitutional rights that are to protect us as citizens of the United States, regardless of our state of residence. Perhaps I was too hard on President Clinton.  Perhaps he was truthful when he expressed confusion over “what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.”  As it turns out, Craig L. Bosley, MD no 2:20 The Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution, was ratified by three-fourths of the states in 1791. The Constitution was ratified four years earlier in 1787. 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Bosley, MD) http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/?p=127 http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2010/01/humans-are-more-important-than-hardware/feed/ 0 Airport security,American Civil Liberties Union,Ben Gurion International Airport,Christmas,Israel,Middle East,Rafi Ron,Tel Aviv,Transportation Security Administration,United States On Christmas day, a Nigerian man boarded Northwest Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit with a bomb he planned to detonate over the United States, his success prevented more by luck than skill. The President responded saying there were "human and syste... On Christmas day, a Nigerian man boarded Northwest Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit with a bomb he planned to detonate over the United States, his success prevented more by luck than skill. The President responded saying there were "human and syst... Craig L. Bosley, MD no 4:32 On Christmas day, a Nigerian man boarded Northwest Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit with a bomb he planned to detonate over the United States, his success prevented more by luck than skill. The...<br/> <br/> The truth as I see it™ <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/rjKaPWWZIHmNQVtrpADcA1J5LiA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/rjKaPWWZIHmNQVtrpADcA1J5LiA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/rjKaPWWZIHmNQVtrpADcA1J5LiA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/rjKaPWWZIHmNQVtrpADcA1J5LiA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=Wvis8WdExBs:u1r3KRg1VHk:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=Wvis8WdExBs:u1r3KRg1VHk:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=Wvis8WdExBs:u1r3KRg1VHk:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?i=Wvis8WdExBs:u1r3KRg1VHk:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=Wvis8WdExBs:u1r3KRg1VHk:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=Wvis8WdExBs:u1r3KRg1VHk:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/craigbosley/~4/Wvis8WdExBs" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2010/01/humans-are-more-important-than-hardware/http://media.blubrry.com/craigbosley/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.craigbosley.com/podcast/20100111.mp3 http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~r/craigbosley/~3/ZFe0aoTkzJQ/ http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2010/01/guns-the-constitution-and-switzerland/#comments Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:37:36 +0000 webmaster@craigbosley.com (Craig L. Bosley, MD) http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/?p=126 http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2010/01/guns-the-constitution-and-switzerland/feed/ 0 government,Gun politics,Law,second amendment,Second Amendment to the United States Constitution,Supreme Court,United States,United States Constitution,United States Supreme Court A fact regularly ignored in much of the gun debate – the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution.  In 2008, the Supreme Court revisited the constitutional meaning of the right of the individual to “keep and bear arms, A fact regularly ignored in much of the gun debate – the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution.  In 2008, the Supreme Court revisited the constitutional meaning of the right of the individual to “keep and bear arms,” and unequivocally affirmed our constitutional right of individual gun ownership. That should end the debate because a constitutional right is not the same as a governmental privilege; neither the legislature nor the Supreme Court can change a constitutional right.  Yet, gun control advocates continue discounting this reality with ongoing legislative assaults on our rights. The diatribe continues with tired and illegal arguments.  One popular “explanation” for limiting gun ownership is that the Founding Fathers intended for citizens to have muskets; therefore, anything beyond a hunting gun is not protected by the Constitution. False.  First, the Constitution makes no mention of limiting gun ownership in any way, to any type of weapon.  Second, the muskets owned by citizens of the time were the very same muskets carried by the military.  In other words, the Founding Fathers intended the citizens’ weapons to be the same as the military’s, precisely because the Second Amendment was to arm us to protect ourselves from the government, should that be needed. Another argument is that the Constitution was intended to be a living document, evolving with the times and needs, reinterpreted by the Supreme Court. False again.  There is no language in the Constitution suggesting the government or its agent, the Supreme Court, can reinterpret or change the Constitution.  The Founding Fathers clearly stated the only way to change the Constitution is via Article V, an amendment.  The Constitution is amendable, but it is not re-interpretable. Another popular false argument is that gun control reduces crime.  Even if it were true (which it is not), the government simply does not have the legal authority to take our guns. I have a proposal.  Let’s copy the Swiss.  The Swiss build shooting ranges like we build golf courses.  Those who advocate taking our guns away would cringe at the Swiss, labeling them gun nuts.  Guns are everywhere in Switzerland. Why?  Because every able-bodied male is required, at the age of 20, to attend the Swiss equivalent of military boot camp and remain in the country’s national guard until the age of 30.  During those years they keep in their home their military rifle, similar to our military M-4. And when they complete their military obligation, they have the option to keep their weapon, once the fully automatic feature is removed, making it similar to our civilian AR-15. While every able-bodied Swiss male serves in the military, less than 1 percent of United States males ages 18 to 24 serve in our nation’s armed forces, according to the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, a “project dedicated to collecting and distributing United States census data.” Moreover, the Swiss love of guns goes well beyond the military, with the government building gun ranges, sponsoring shooting competitions and holding gun training clinics for all citizens.  Only two nations have more guns per-capita than Switzerland and it has more people trained to use guns per-capita than any place in the world. And guess what?  It is one of the safest places in the world, although one could argue this does not prove a link between gun ownership and less crime because other factors could be involved.  But Switzerland is an excellent example that gun ownership does not mandate increased crime as we are continually threatened it will. And there might be an added benefit.  What if we could get Congress as excited about spending money building shooting ranges and providing the citizens with weapons as they are about spending money on water taxis and bridges to nowhere. Remember, Congress has repeatedly proven its desire to spend huge sums of money, with little concern on how the money is spent. Craig L. Bosley, MD no 4:13 A fact regularly ignored in much of the gun debate – the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution.  In 2008, the Supreme Court revisited the constitutional meaning of the right of the...<br/> <br/> The truth as I see it™ <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/QyDEIaYjZJsqXzLLs3c2F_04gsw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/QyDEIaYjZJsqXzLLs3c2F_04gsw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/QyDEIaYjZJsqXzLLs3c2F_04gsw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/QyDEIaYjZJsqXzLLs3c2F_04gsw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=ZFe0aoTkzJQ:ngtA5w6sKA8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=ZFe0aoTkzJQ:ngtA5w6sKA8:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=ZFe0aoTkzJQ:ngtA5w6sKA8:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?i=ZFe0aoTkzJQ:ngtA5w6sKA8:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=ZFe0aoTkzJQ:ngtA5w6sKA8:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=ZFe0aoTkzJQ:ngtA5w6sKA8:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/craigbosley/~4/ZFe0aoTkzJQ" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2010/01/guns-the-constitution-and-switzerland/http://media.blubrry.com/craigbosley/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.craigbosley.com/podcast/20100104.mp3 http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~r/craigbosley/~3/XjAt4YLHxfc/ http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/12/politically-correct-bad-science/#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:11:25 +0000 webmaster@craigbosley.com (Craig L. Bosley, MD) http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/?p=125 http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/12/politically-correct-bad-science/feed/ 0 DDT,Environmental Defense Fund,Environmental Protection Agency,Global warming,San Francisco,United States,United States Environmental Protection Agency,World Health Organization The accuracy of environmental science research is critical because decrees by the United States impact the world, along with the consequences of that science.  So, shouldn’t we question environmental science?  And, if that science is solid, The accuracy of environmental science research is critical because decrees by the United States impact the world, along with the consequences of that science.  So, shouldn’t we question environmental science?  And, if that science is solid, shouldn’t questioning be welcomed, rather than feared? One of the problems with  environmental science is that it can become politically influenced; leading the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and international organizations to conclusions  and rulings with too little questioning. Moreover, the likelihood of reversing an erroneous EPA ruling is slim because hell can no longer freeze over now that global warming is “fact.” But this discussion is not about global warming.  No, this is about something that happened in 1972, following decades of questionable science.  The world was saved when the EPA banned the chemical DDT.  Science triumphed over profit.  Or, did political correctness triumph over science? Just a decade before DDT was banned, the National Academy of Science said, “To only a few chemicals does man owe as great a debt as to DDT.”  It’s use had prevented over 500 million deaths from malaria.  And conveniently, the United States and most of the industrialized nations of the world did not ban DDT until they had eliminated malaria in their own countries. What happened following the EPA ruling?  Most public and private donors to Third World countries followed suit, no longer funding DDT use and effectively ending its use in most of these countries. And the cost to stop using DDT?  Only 50,000,000 lives.  What a great investment for the health of the world, especially since no American or European lives were lost.  We can sleep well knowing we rid the world of DDT — and millions of children. Guess what?  The science was bad.  The science was full of half-truths.  The science was politically motivated.  And millions died.  And millions are still dying—over 2,000,000 every year. Why was DDT banned?  Was it science or was it politics?  In the Oct. 5, 1969, Seattle Times, Charles Wurster, a senior scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund, the activist group behind the ban on DDT, summed it up nicely saying, “If the environmentalists win on DDT, they will achieve a level of authority they have never had before.  In a sense, much more is at stake than DDT.”  Impartial scientist or biased activist? DDT is not responsible for many of the evils claimed.  Of DDT and breast cancer in humans?  Research published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1997 stated that the authors found “no evidence that exposure to DDT and (its metabolite) DDE increases the risk of breast cancer.” And what about DDT and the thinning of egg shells of birds of prey, especially eagles?  In 1968, Joseph J. Hickey and Daniel W. Anderson claimed “increased eggshell fragility” in birds of prey was caused by DDT. Years later they admitted the egg extracts they studied had little or no DDT and they were now pursuing other chemicals as the cause. What happened?  What went wrong?  What is still going wrong?  The failure of the science was that it set out to prove DDT was the problem; starting with the desired conclusion and then finding only the data that supported it.  Bad science.  Biased science.  Politically motivated science. More than 20 years later, in 2006, the Wall Street Journal reported that “after 50 million preventable deaths, the World Health Organization (WHO) reversed course and endorsed widespread use of the insecticide DDT to combat malaria.”  The WHO stated, “There’s no evidence that spraying DDT in the amounts needed to kill mosquitoes imperils crops, animals, or human health.” Sadly, this was a short-lived victory.  Because of well-placed lobbyists, the WHO quietly did an about face, continuing to promote much more expensive, and much less effective, insecticide-treated nets manufactured by those well-placed lobbyists.  DDT, tremendously effective and much less expensive, Craig L. Bosley, MD no 4:50 The accuracy of environmental science research is critical because decrees by the United States impact the world, along with the consequences of that science.  So, shouldn’t we question environmental...<br/> <br/> The truth as I see it™ <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HmEPNEd4LRcPyRmELzMWVXbhXU8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HmEPNEd4LRcPyRmELzMWVXbhXU8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HmEPNEd4LRcPyRmELzMWVXbhXU8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HmEPNEd4LRcPyRmELzMWVXbhXU8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=XjAt4YLHxfc:sPW4GuQF8Ds:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=XjAt4YLHxfc:sPW4GuQF8Ds:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=XjAt4YLHxfc:sPW4GuQF8Ds:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?i=XjAt4YLHxfc:sPW4GuQF8Ds:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=XjAt4YLHxfc:sPW4GuQF8Ds:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=XjAt4YLHxfc:sPW4GuQF8Ds:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/craigbosley/~4/XjAt4YLHxfc" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/12/politically-correct-bad-science/http://media.blubrry.com/craigbosley/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.craigbosley.com/podcast/20091228.mp3 http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~r/craigbosley/~3/drwXtRZ8hd0/ http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/12/christmases-past/#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:53:55 +0000 webmaster@craigbosley.com (Craig L. Bosley, MD) http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/?p=124 http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/12/christmases-past/feed/ 0 Alarm clock,Christmas,Christmas Eve,Christmas lights,Christmas tree,holiday,Holidays,Holidays and Special Days,Kids and Teens,Marriage,People and Society,Santa Claus December 26th my wife and I celebrate our 28th anniversary.  The year we married I was a single father with a three-year-old son, whom my wife later adopted.  And, this year is the first Christmas it will be just the two of us. December 26th my wife and I celebrate our 28th anniversary.  The year we married I was a single father with a three-year-old son, whom my wife later adopted.  And, this year is the first Christmas it will be just the two of us.  After cutting down our 28th Christmas tree, we reminisced about some special Christmases past. Our son's eighth Christmas was difficult.  He was having doubts about Santa Claus.  He was too young to lose that belief and he desperately wanted his friends to be wrong. So, we called Santa Claus, aka Bob Simons.  Bob spent every Christmas as the "real" Santa.  His was not the Santa suit we dads buy; his was the expensive, perfect suit, with the perfect beard.  I told Santa our problem and asked for help.  Our alarm clock awakened us at 5am Christmas morning.  We opened the front door and there was Santa, in his best suit with a red velvet bag slung over his shoulder.  We filled the bag with presents and  then woke up our son and daughter, telling them we heard something.  Jeff crawled down the hall on his stomach, Kim following; and with bugged-out eyes, they watched Santa carefully putting out their presents.  We finally convinced Jeff he could talk with Santa without risking Santa taking his presents away.  Twenty-three years ago at 5am Christmas morning our children spent time with Santa Claus, sitting on his lap, talking with him and even pulling his beard.  They met Santa Claus.  Last year, Bob's wife Carol sent us a Christmas card with a professional photo of Bob in his best Santa's suit.  This year my wife framed one of these for each of our children.  With it, she wrote the story of the Christmas they caught Santa Claus.  Well, that Christmas was all Jeff needed; he saw the "real" Santa and that was that.  His unwavering belief continued all the way into Junior High School.  But, the teasing of other kids was again leaving doubts, until one day when he and my wife were driving home, he asked the dreaded question.  We had agreed when he asked again, we would tell the truth about Santa and what it meant.  Jeff was betrayed.  His parents were liars.  Santa was a liar.  It was so painful for both of them, my wife pulled the car over and they cried together, only interrupted with Jeff's accusations.  Christmas left him that day and he wanted nothing to do with it.  It was a fraud and his world was destroyed.  We did not know what to do for him or how to help him. That year I worked in the emergency room the day before Christmas; a beautiful day snowing into the late evening.  I came home after dark and parked in the garage.  During those years, our street was on the Christmas light tour and buses were already driving by. As I entered the house, all the lights were off and all I could hear was my wife crying.  I went upstairs, finding her sitting at the kitchen table crying.  She had no words; she just pointed to the window. I looked out the window only to sit down and hug her, tears running down my cheeks too.  The past week Jeff had hibernated in his bedroom, not talking to anyone, barely eating; but thinking. Earlier that evening, without talking to either of us, he went through the boxes of Christmas decorations, remembering a Santa suit I wore when he was very young.  He donned the suit, found a bunch of candy canes and was standing on the corner, covered with snow and handing them out to the children on the tour buses. He was Santa.  He understood.  For years to come, each Christmas eve we lost our son to the street corner, handing out candy canes.  He figured it out.  It was about people.  It was about children.  It was about giving.  It was about caring.  It was about family.  It was about believing and it was about faith.  He showed us "do unto others."  He gave us the gift of Christmas.  He helped his parents put the "Christ" back in Christmas.  Merry Christmas. Print Page (http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/20091221-Christmases-past.pdf)  Craig L. Bosley, MD no 4:16 December 26th my wife and I celebrate our 28th anniversary.  The year we married I was a single father with a three-year-old son, whom my wife later adopted.  And, this year is the first Christmas it...<br/> <br/> The truth as I see it™ <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/h2LyPuZK6plEi_EnnaHFZTGjUb8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/h2LyPuZK6plEi_EnnaHFZTGjUb8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/h2LyPuZK6plEi_EnnaHFZTGjUb8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/h2LyPuZK6plEi_EnnaHFZTGjUb8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=drwXtRZ8hd0:LRoRRjZ7SPo:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=drwXtRZ8hd0:LRoRRjZ7SPo:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=drwXtRZ8hd0:LRoRRjZ7SPo:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?i=drwXtRZ8hd0:LRoRRjZ7SPo:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=drwXtRZ8hd0:LRoRRjZ7SPo:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=drwXtRZ8hd0:LRoRRjZ7SPo:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/craigbosley/~4/drwXtRZ8hd0" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/12/christmases-past/http://media.blubrry.com/craigbosley/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.craigbosley.com/podcast/20091221.mp3 http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~r/craigbosley/~3/a6ZCZqHpgMU/ http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/12/free-market-economy/#comments Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:28:58 +0000 webmaster@craigbosley.com (Craig L. Bosley, MD) http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/?p=123 http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/12/free-market-economy/feed/ 0 congress,Executive compensation,Free market,Government debt,Minority leader of the United States House of Representatives,Money,New York City,President of the United States,Troubled Asset Relief Program,Unemployment Discussing the economy, the President said the private sector is “still nervous about whether they want to go ahead and take the risks that are inherent in a free market system.”  But, the private sector is not afraid of free markets, Discussing the economy, the President said the private sector is “still nervous about whether they want to go ahead and take the risks that are inherent in a free market system.”  But, the private sector is not afraid of free markets, it is afraid of continued government interference and fears how much more it will interfere.  The government’s job is to regulate the “playing field” of the markets, not to control and manipulate them. The government loans money to some banks, allowing others to fail.  It bails out some sectors of the economy and not others.  It pays people to buy new cars and new homes.  It bails out people who cannot pay their mortgages.  It even has a czar dictating executive compensation who has not been approved by Congress and who answers only to the President.  Free market economy or socialist economy?  If the President wants the free market to work, all he has to do is stop interfering. Before taking office, the President told us he would spend nearly a trillion dollars to prevent 3 to 4 million job losses and prevent the jobless rate from exceeding 8%.  He spent $787 billion, we have lost over 4 million jobs so far in 2009 and the unemployment rate is over 10%. That might be understandable, even explainable, if not for the administration’s logic.  If the economy improves, the stimulus obviously worked; and if the economy worsens, the stimulus obviously prevented it from worsening even more. This is called elephant logic, learned from a man who was wandering around New York City with a loaded double-barreled shotgun.  The police were called and asked him what he was doing.  He said, “This keeps the wild elephants away.”  When they informed him there were no wild elephants for thousands of miles he responded, “See, it works.”  Elephant logic. The President offered more economic insight saying, “I am convinced that the banks can be doing more than they’re doing.  We’re going to be pushing them pretty hard in the months to come.”  Further, he chastised the banks that refused government money or paid it back quickly saying, “That gives us less leverage over these banks than we might otherwise like.”  What aspect of the free market system proposes the government pressuring and leveraging the banks? The President is equally displeased that employers have adapted to smaller workforces.  Why wouldn’t they?  They have no idea what the government will do next to “fix” the free market, nor do they know when it will ever stop spending money.  The President is the reason they are tightening their belts and holding back.  If he wants them to expand, just give them back their free market and stop spending. The President also believes the $3 billion he spent on Cash for Clunkers was so successful, he now wants to pay people to weatherize their homes.  But, the new cars purchased with the Cash for Clunkers, although leading to more fuel efficient vehicles, resulted in a savings of only $375 million.  This is how to spend money in a recession? A final insult.  Excess monies from the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) are, by law, to be used to pay down the deficit.  Section 106, Part D states that excesses and monies paid back must be “paid into the general fund of the Treasury for reduction of the public debt.” But the President and Congress have other plans for the excess and returned monies.  According to the House Minority Leader, they see this money as a “slush fund,” and they will get around the law, making it “technically” legal to use the money as they choose.  Did they ever plan on any of this money being used to pay down the debt or did they always plan on using it for other pet projects? Mr. President, could the problem be that you have never built or run a business, never developed a budget of any significance and never had to meet a payroll or make a business profitable?  Mr. President, the key word in free market is “free.” Print Page (http://www.craigbosley. Craig L. Bosley, MD no 4:09 Discussing the economy, the President said the private sector is “still nervous about whether they want to go ahead and take the risks that are inherent in a free market system.”  But, the private...<br/> <br/> The truth as I see it™ <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/z-Rh6LX9VSFqVdz1Tk-p83dgevQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/z-Rh6LX9VSFqVdz1Tk-p83dgevQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/z-Rh6LX9VSFqVdz1Tk-p83dgevQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/z-Rh6LX9VSFqVdz1Tk-p83dgevQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=a6ZCZqHpgMU:jJoJfxio8xc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=a6ZCZqHpgMU:jJoJfxio8xc:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=a6ZCZqHpgMU:jJoJfxio8xc:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?i=a6ZCZqHpgMU:jJoJfxio8xc:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=a6ZCZqHpgMU:jJoJfxio8xc:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=a6ZCZqHpgMU:jJoJfxio8xc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/craigbosley/~4/a6ZCZqHpgMU" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/12/free-market-economy/http://media.blubrry.com/craigbosley/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.craigbosley.com/podcast/20091214.mp3 http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~r/craigbosley/~3/huySzU43W9A/ http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/12/what-is-public-and-what-is-private/#comments Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:21:08 +0000 webmaster@craigbosley.com (Craig L. Bosley, MD) http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/?p=122 http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/12/what-is-public-and-what-is-private/feed/ 0 Atlanta Journal-Constitution,Defamation,Freedom of speech,Mass media,Media,Newspaper,Press freedom,Richard Jewell,Thomas Jefferson,Tiger Woods Does the public have a right to know everything?  Does freedom of the press have any limits?  Is anything private?  Is everything fair game?  How might Tiger Woods answer these questions?   "Yes, no, no, yes."  Moreover, Does the public have a right to know everything?  Does freedom of the press have any limits?  Is anything private?  Is everything fair game?  How might Tiger Woods answer these questions?   "Yes, no, no, yes."  Moreover, these questions have little t... Craig L. Bosley, MD no 4:17 Does the public have a right to know everything?  Does freedom of the press have any limits?  Is anything private?  Is everything fair game?  How might Tiger Woods answer these questions?  ...<br/> <br/> The truth as I see it™ <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/UD2lM1SPASQxOM-aChZA7kbkEuI/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/UD2lM1SPASQxOM-aChZA7kbkEuI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/UD2lM1SPASQxOM-aChZA7kbkEuI/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/UD2lM1SPASQxOM-aChZA7kbkEuI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=huySzU43W9A:K2k6fI7rRbU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=huySzU43W9A:K2k6fI7rRbU:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=huySzU43W9A:K2k6fI7rRbU:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?i=huySzU43W9A:K2k6fI7rRbU:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=huySzU43W9A:K2k6fI7rRbU:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=huySzU43W9A:K2k6fI7rRbU:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/craigbosley/~4/huySzU43W9A" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/12/what-is-public-and-what-is-private/http://media.blubrry.com/craigbosley/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.craigbosley.com/podcast/20091207.mp3 http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~r/craigbosley/~3/EpkIVQrNBqQ/ http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/11/the-damnpolitician-and-the-farmer/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:39:10 +0000 webmaster@craigbosley.com (Craig L. Bosley, MD) http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/?p=121 http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/11/the-damnpolitician-and-the-farmer/feed/ 0 Hunting,Kansas,Politician,Politics,President of the United States,United States,United States Constitution,Washington,Washington DC Last week, I proponed the Founding Fathers had only two requirements to be president of the United States because they wanted to protect the people's power to choose the president.   They did not want those writing the Constitution and those later "int... Last week, I proponed the Founding Fathers had only two requirements to be president of the United States because they wanted to protect the people's power to choose the president.   They did not want those writing the Constitution and those later "interpreting" it to be able to limit our choices.  They assumed people like you and me would give time to our country and return home to live as everyone else, rather than staying in Washington becoming a member of the political aristocracy, becoming a career politician.  Perhaps one of the greatest failures of the Founding Fathers was not anticipating the career politician. When hunting pheasants in Kansas, one of my brothers was staying with a farmer he knew.  One day the farmer told him he was in his 40s before he learned that "damnpolitician" was actually two words -- and he is still suspect that it is not true. But, what if we could pick who runs for president.  What if we could pick someone more like us and less like "them?"   What if we could pick someone who is not a damnpolitician?  Who might we select? I was thinking back to where I was raised in rural Nebraska.  Fall Saturdays were reserved for pheasant hunting which meant talking with the many farmers dad knew so we could get permission to hunt on their land.  Without knowing it, I learned a lot about values, character and common sense while listening to dad and the farmers. The Founding Fathers could have demanded a certain education, certain schools, certain careers of those who would lead our country.  But they did not.  Was it because they were more interested in the very same values, character and common sense I experienced listening to dad and his friends? And what about the farm work ethic?  I cared for a retired farmer some time ago.  Explaining to him he needed to let me admit him to the hospital, he informed me he was retired and could do just as well at home.  So I asked him what he did the last few days.  He helped one neighbor unload some cattle and another put up some hay, his wife adding, "Twelve hours each day."  That is what he considered to be retired; 70 years old, ill with pneumonia, and still able to outwork me and most other men. And how do farmers treat their source of income, their land?  They rotate crops, rest the soil and take good care of the land, maintaining its productivity.  They do not just take and take and take until the land is destroyed with nothing left to give. Sadly, the government is not as smart as the farmer; it takes and takes and takes with no concern about destroying its source of income -- the taxpayer.  Imagine if we could teach a politician to treat the taxpayer with the same reverence and respect the farmer treats the land. So, what could a rural family farmer really bring to the most powerful office in the world?  Probably not an Ivy League education.  Probably not a law degree.  Probably not the proper status in society.  But a farmer would bring the character and values we sorely need in Washington, the rural common sense and seasoning in such short supply. Consider the benefits of a family farmer as president.  They do not spend money they do not have.  They save for what they need.  They run one of the most difficult businesses there is and love it. They can pull a calf, drive a tractor, set a budget, meet a payroll and balance the books while deciding what to do as they watch a hailstorm destroy their crop. And when the day's work is finally done, they sit back and say, "What a great life.  Thank God I'm an American." Maybe anyone wanting to run for the presidency should be required to spend a year on a family farm -- working, learning, seasoning.  It couldn't hurt. Print Page (http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/20091130-The-damnpolitician-and-the-farmer.pdf)  Craig L. Bosley, MD no 3:41 Last week, I proponed the Founding Fathers had only two requirements to be president of the United States because they wanted to protect the people&#8217;s power to choose the president.   They did...<br/> <br/> The truth as I see it™ <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/KSZd8stiyNDXdDgE2MXke__Vnio/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/KSZd8stiyNDXdDgE2MXke__Vnio/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/KSZd8stiyNDXdDgE2MXke__Vnio/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/KSZd8stiyNDXdDgE2MXke__Vnio/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=EpkIVQrNBqQ:RzLnVl-FeC8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=EpkIVQrNBqQ:RzLnVl-FeC8:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=EpkIVQrNBqQ:RzLnVl-FeC8:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?i=EpkIVQrNBqQ:RzLnVl-FeC8:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=EpkIVQrNBqQ:RzLnVl-FeC8:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=EpkIVQrNBqQ:RzLnVl-FeC8:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/craigbosley/~4/EpkIVQrNBqQ" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/11/the-damnpolitician-and-the-farmer/http://media.blubrry.com/craigbosley/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.craigbosley.com/podcast/20091130.mp3 http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~r/craigbosley/~3/xoUlkAgJzgA/ http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/11/to-be-president-of-the-united-states/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:10:10 +0000 webmaster@craigbosley.com (Craig L. Bosley, MD) http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/?p=120 http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/11/to-be-president-of-the-united-states/feed/ 0 Constitution,Elections,government,Natural born citizen of the United States,Politics,President of the United States,Presidential,Ronald Reagan,Thomas Jefferson,United States,United States Constitution There are only two constitutional requirements to be president of the United States of America.  You must be a natural born citizen of the United States and at least 35 years of age.  That is all that is needed for the most important job in the world. There are only two constitutional requirements to be president of the United States of America.  You must be a natural born citizen of the United States and at least 35 years of age.  That is all that is needed for the most important job in the world. ... Craig L. Bosley, MD no There are only two constitutional requirements to be president of the United States of America.  You must be a natural born citizen of the United States and at least 35 years of age.  That is all...<br/> <br/> The truth as I see it™ <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/MC-ybfnZ-WHFYOgZ9iHAfJtS8Xc/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/MC-ybfnZ-WHFYOgZ9iHAfJtS8Xc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/MC-ybfnZ-WHFYOgZ9iHAfJtS8Xc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/MC-ybfnZ-WHFYOgZ9iHAfJtS8Xc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=xoUlkAgJzgA:rOBPRqE8Ujg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=xoUlkAgJzgA:rOBPRqE8Ujg:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=xoUlkAgJzgA:rOBPRqE8Ujg:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?i=xoUlkAgJzgA:rOBPRqE8Ujg:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=xoUlkAgJzgA:rOBPRqE8Ujg:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=xoUlkAgJzgA:rOBPRqE8Ujg:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/craigbosley/~4/xoUlkAgJzgA" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/11/to-be-president-of-the-united-states/http://media.blubrry.com/craigbosley/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.craigbosley.com/podcast/20091123.mp3 http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~r/craigbosley/~3/P4qrKah_5tQ/ http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/11/robert-gibbs-is-a-verb/#comments Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:26:55 +0000 webmaster@craigbosley.com (Craig L. Bosley, MD) http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/?p=119 http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/11/robert-gibbs-is-a-verb/feed/ 0 Constitution,Executive,Marbury v. Madison,Separation of powers,Supreme Court,Thomas Jefferson,United States,United States Constitution,United States Supreme Court The most entertaining moments of this presidency are watching Robert Gibbs explain the ramblings of Vice President Biden.  With a straight face, a feigned sincerity and accompanied by the laughter of the press corps Gibbs says, The most entertaining moments of this presidency are watching Robert Gibbs explain the ramblings of Vice President Biden.  With a straight face, a feigned sincerity and accompanied by the laughter of the press corps Gibbs says, "I understand what he sa... Craig L. Bosley, MD no 4:23 The most entertaining moments of this presidency are watching Robert Gibbs explain the ramblings of Vice President Biden.  With a straight face, a feigned sincerity and accompanied by the laughter of...<br/> <br/> The truth as I see it™ <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CiIMzh7M6oR7i9xca_GjlOJpirM/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CiIMzh7M6oR7i9xca_GjlOJpirM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CiIMzh7M6oR7i9xca_GjlOJpirM/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CiIMzh7M6oR7i9xca_GjlOJpirM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=P4qrKah_5tQ:68uJX0jEGTY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=P4qrKah_5tQ:68uJX0jEGTY:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=P4qrKah_5tQ:68uJX0jEGTY:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?i=P4qrKah_5tQ:68uJX0jEGTY:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=P4qrKah_5tQ:68uJX0jEGTY:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=P4qrKah_5tQ:68uJX0jEGTY:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/craigbosley/~4/P4qrKah_5tQ" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/11/robert-gibbs-is-a-verb/http://media.blubrry.com/craigbosley/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.craigbosley.com/podcast/20091116.mp3 http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~r/craigbosley/~3/rU5_mKHj5uI/ http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/11/earn-this-earn-it-veterans-day/#comments Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:20:10 +0000 webmaster@craigbosley.com (Craig L. Bosley, MD) http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/?p=118 http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/11/earn-this-earn-it-veterans-day/feed/ 0 82nd Airborne Division,Battle of the Bulge,History,United States,United States armed forces,United States Army,United States Marine,United States of America,World War II Who are the men and women we honor each year on Veterans Day?  An anonymous person offered the following description - "A veteran is someone who at one point in life wrote a blank check made payable to the United States of America for an amount of 'up ... Who are the men and women we honor each year on Veterans Day?  An anonymous person offered the following description - "A veteran is someone who at one point in life wrote a blank check made payable to the United States of America for an amount of 'up to and including my life.'"  What makes them write this check, make this promise, show this love of country, this loyalty to country?  Could you or I write this check? The 1998 movie "Saving Private Ryan" offers us a glimpse of these values, this character.  It chronicles a squad of Army Rangers sent behind enemy lines to find Private Ryan, his family's sole surviving son.  It was based on the true story of Fritz Nilrod who lost two brothers at Normandy and whose third brother was missing in action in Burma, making him his family's sole surviving son. Per military protocol, any sole surviving son is to be removed from combat.  The Rangers saved Private Ryan, but at the cost of American lives.  He and the soldiers who died saving him showed us the same character displayed by an Airborne private during World War II's Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944-1945.  The Germans had broken through Allied lines in the Belgian Ardennes, "bulging" into France.  American forces were retreating at a rapid pace.  To bolster the manpower and improve the morale, members of the famed 82nd Airborne were sent. A lone Airborne soldier was digging a foxhole along a road as an American tank destroyer was retreating, fleeing ahead of the advancing German army.  The tank destroyer stopped where the private was digging and the private asked, "Are you looking for a safe place?"  When the tankers said yes, the Airborne soldier responded, "Just pull up behind me.  I'm the 82nd Airborne, and this is as far as the bast--s are going!" One Airborne soldier.  The German army.  No problem.  He symbolized the pride and the power of the United States of America.  Duty, honor, country. A similar event occurred during Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982.  United States Marines were sent to Lebanon as peacekeepers.  In early 1983, three Israeli tanks tried to run a road block at Rayan University Library in southern Lebanon that was manned by a unit of Marines. Marine Capt. Charles B. Johnson ran toward the lead tank, stood in the middle of the road, drew his pistol, held it at the 45 degree "ready" position and said, "If you come through, it will be over my dead body." As he escorted the tank off the road, the other two tanks tried to run the road block.  The captain jumped onto the second tank, grabbing the Israeli tank commander.  The tanks turned around. One Marine.  Three tanks.  No problem.  He symbolized the pride and the power of the United States of America.  Duty, honor, country. What did these men possess that the rest of us do not?  What do we owe them for their sacrifices, for the sacrifices of their families who live with the constant fear of opening the door to hear, "I am sorry to inform you . . . ?" And what of Private Ryan?  The movie ends with him an old man, visiting the grave of the captain who died returning him to safety.  Etched in his brain all these decades were the dying words of Captain Miller, "Earn this.  Earn it." With tears running down his cheeks, he turns to his wife pleading, "Tell me I have led a good life.  Tell me I'm a good man."  He wanted to know if he earned what those men died to give him.  Aren't we all Private Ryans? Have we earned what 30 million American veterans gave us?  Have we earned what over 650,000 Americans died to give us? Tomorrow morning look in the mirror.  "Have I earned this?  Have I earned it?"  Thirty million veterans deserve an answer.  More important, you deserve an answer. Print Page (http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/20091109-Earn-this.-Earn-it..pdf)  Craig L. Bosley, MD no 4:06 Who are the men and women we honor each year on Veterans Day?  An anonymous person offered the following description &#8211; &#8220;A veteran is someone who at one point in life wrote a blank check...<br/> <br/> The truth as I see it™ <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9-Yzg1Znr9erHptrT5oj13Z_-gs/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9-Yzg1Znr9erHptrT5oj13Z_-gs/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9-Yzg1Znr9erHptrT5oj13Z_-gs/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9-Yzg1Znr9erHptrT5oj13Z_-gs/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=rU5_mKHj5uI:oVbliGC_A68:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=rU5_mKHj5uI:oVbliGC_A68:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=rU5_mKHj5uI:oVbliGC_A68:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?i=rU5_mKHj5uI:oVbliGC_A68:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=rU5_mKHj5uI:oVbliGC_A68:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=rU5_mKHj5uI:oVbliGC_A68:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/craigbosley/~4/rU5_mKHj5uI" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/11/earn-this-earn-it-veterans-day/http://media.blubrry.com/craigbosley/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.craigbosley.com/podcast/20091109.mp3 http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~r/craigbosley/~3/hZ7PE7N2yKI/ http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/11/who-really-has-the-power/#comments Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:13:23 +0000 webmaster@craigbosley.com (Craig L. Bosley, MD) http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/?p=117 http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/11/who-really-has-the-power/feed/ 0 Alexander Hamilton,American Constitution,Federal government of the United States,Franklin D. Roosevelt,Patrick Henry,Supreme Court,United States,United States Congress,United States Constitution,United States Supreme Court "The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."                            --President Franklin Roosevelt   Did the founding fathers create a "marvelously elastic" Constit... "The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."                            --President Franklin Roosevelt   Did the founding fathers create a "marvelously elastic" Co... Craig L. Bosley, MD no 4:23 &#8220;The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.&#8221;                            &#8211;President Franklin...<br/> <br/> The truth as I see it™ <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/rEJb7owKW-cDut4lU7AQ9ISamTs/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/rEJb7owKW-cDut4lU7AQ9ISamTs/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/rEJb7owKW-cDut4lU7AQ9ISamTs/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/rEJb7owKW-cDut4lU7AQ9ISamTs/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=hZ7PE7N2yKI:ga9LLex1grg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=hZ7PE7N2yKI:ga9LLex1grg:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=hZ7PE7N2yKI:ga9LLex1grg:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?i=hZ7PE7N2yKI:ga9LLex1grg:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=hZ7PE7N2yKI:ga9LLex1grg:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=hZ7PE7N2yKI:ga9LLex1grg:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/craigbosley/~4/hZ7PE7N2yKI" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/11/who-really-has-the-power/http://media.blubrry.com/craigbosley/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.craigbosley.com/podcast/20091102.mp3 http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~r/craigbosley/~3/cVJaw_puQq8/ http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/10/who-has-the-power-government-or-we-the-people/#comments Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:50:41 +0000 webmaster@craigbosley.com (Craig L. Bosley, MD) http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/?p=116 http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/10/who-has-the-power-government-or-we-the-people/feed/ 0 Alexander Hamilton,Constitutional Convention,Federal government of the United States,Federalist,Federalist Papers,James Madison,Thomas Jefferson,United States,United States Constitution,United States Supreme Court "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."                    --James Madison, 4th U.S. "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."                    --James Madison, 4th U.S. President                    father of the United States Constitution   How does Congress constitutionally justify spending money on anything it chooses?  What happened to Article V of the Constitution which requires agreement of 2/3 of each House of Congress and approval by 3/4 of the states to change the Constitution?  In fact, why would we even need Article V if Congress has unlimited powers? The issue surrounds the meaning of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, which says in part, "to pay the Debts and provide for the common defense and general Welfare of the United States."  This statement is followed by the specific, enumerated powers granted Congress. Before the signatures were affixed and the ink dried, detractors attacked the limited, enumerated powers the founding fathers granted the federal government, arguing the "general Welfare" clause is one of the enumerated powers. Wouldn't you expect the Constitution to reflect the founding fathers' view of what a federal government should be, based on the fears of government they brought with them from Europe?  Common sense suggests "America's founding fathers feared an 'imperial presidency' when drafting the Constitution."  Although this accurately reflects the sentiments of the founding fathers, this was not written in 1776; rather it was written in 2007 by New York Times Assistant Editor Adam Cohen describing President Bush. The earliest and most vocal detractor of a limited federal government was Alexander Hamilton who demanded a strong federal government to make the "right" decisions for us because "we the people" cannot be trusted with important decisions.  He argued the "general Welfare" clause was an enumerated power of Congress and wrote about this in the Federalist Papers. These papers were written mainly by Hamilton and James Madison and are often cited as a reference for deciding the meaning of various parts of the Constitution. But you cannot use Hamilton's own writings as proof that Hamilton's beliefs were correct. Hamilton's federalist views influenced the first two presidencies, but history views Thomas Jefferson's win over Adam's try for a second term as a rejection of Hamilton's interpretation. Further, if Hamilton's interpretation was correct wouldn't you expect that he, as a member of the Constitutional Convention, had a great deal to do with the wording?   In reality, Hamilton became frustrated with the other two New York delegates and left the convention at the end of June 1787, absent for much of the remaining convention during which all the language about the "general Welfare" clause was created and debated. Did his claimed meaning of "to provide for the general Welfare" have more to do with what he wanted it to mean rather than what the representatives of the Constitutional Convention intended it to mean?  Did he, much like President Franklin Roosevelt, first decide what he wanted the powers of the federal government to be and then set about to "massage" the Constitution to fit that wish? Remember, the worst fears of the founding fathers were not only the governments they left in Europe, but also the very government they were creating. Thomas Jefferson surmised the founding fathers' intentions saying, "I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but inform their discretion." The debate persists today, but before 1936 the United States Supreme Court narrowly interpreted the "general Welfare" clause and the Constitution as a whole. President Franklin Roosevelt changed that, Craig L. Bosley, MD no 4:25 &#8220;I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their...<br/> <br/> The truth as I see it™ <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/quEqjy4SUh4P3Qmv1Wz9Fs5XWhA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/quEqjy4SUh4P3Qmv1Wz9Fs5XWhA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/quEqjy4SUh4P3Qmv1Wz9Fs5XWhA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/quEqjy4SUh4P3Qmv1Wz9Fs5XWhA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=cVJaw_puQq8:EWJeWyF0SK0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=cVJaw_puQq8:EWJeWyF0SK0:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=cVJaw_puQq8:EWJeWyF0SK0:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?i=cVJaw_puQq8:EWJeWyF0SK0:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=cVJaw_puQq8:EWJeWyF0SK0:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=cVJaw_puQq8:EWJeWyF0SK0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/craigbosley/~4/cVJaw_puQq8" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/10/who-has-the-power-government-or-we-the-people/http://media.blubrry.com/craigbosley/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.craigbosley.com/podcast/20091026.mp3 http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~r/craigbosley/~3/BRTCC1J3Q94/ http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/10/spending-the-peoples-money/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:52:06 +0000 webmaster@craigbosley.com (Craig L. Bosley, MD) http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/?p=115 http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/10/spending-the-peoples-money/feed/ 0 Barack Obama,Citizens Against Government Waste,congress,George Washington,Line-item veto,Pork barrel,Ronald Reagan,Supreme Court,Supreme Court of the United States,United States,United States Congress,United States Constitution "Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal -  with a big appetite at one end and no sense of -  responsibility at the other."                                  − Ronald Reagan  Is it an appropriate use of taxpayer money to fund a "tattoo removal vi... "Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal  with a big appetite at one end and no sense of  responsibility at the other."                                  − Ronald Reagan  Is it an appropriate use of taxpayer money to fund a "tattoo removal violence prevention program," a Sparta Teapot museum, a program to communicate with extra-terrestrials, the Pleasure Beach water taxi service, a Waterfree Urinal Conservation Initiative and a swine odor and manure management program?  Moreover, where in the Constitution is the power for Congress to spend our money this way? Is this the work of Congress?  Is this the work of the Constitution?  Is this the people's work?  There is so much pork barrel spending that an organization, Citizens Against Government Waste, devotes a book to it, the "Congressional Pig Book."  That's not a good sign. Even worse, we have become so accustomed to and accepting of this waste that when President Obama promised to cut earmarks to $7.8 billion a year, we applauded.  Think about it.  We accept wasting nearly $8 billion a year as good news. In 2009, Congress passed bills with 10,160 earmarks--10,160 ways they intentionally wasted our money by hiding it in other bills. Fittingly, Vice President Biden summed up the government's ignorance of money management when he said we have to spend money to keep from going bankrupt.  A bit different from what I was taught; it never occurring to me the way to solve debt and loss of income was to keep spending money rather than scrimping, saving and paying off debt.  It should bother us that our leaders make such ridiculous statements.  But it should really terrify us that they actually believe what they are saying. The 1996 Congress did try to do the people's work, passing a line-item veto bill, allowing the president to veto specific parts of a bill line by line.  Maintaining our system of checks and balances, the bill allowed Congress 30 days to overturn the president's veto with a simple majority vote. Congress not only preserved the balance of power, it improved it. Too good to be true?  Absolutely.  It ended up before the Supreme Court and was declared unconstitutional because it interfered with the constitutional powers of Congress.  Have members of Congress and the Supreme Court become obstacles "we the people" have to overcome to return to the constitutionally limited government our founding fathers gave us? The results of the Supreme Court supported quid pro quos and unending pork barrel spending?  In 2008 Congress wasted $17.2 billion, in 2009 $19.6 billion and in 2010 it looks like it will waste $21.7 billion.  In the five-year span from 1998 to 2003 earmarks rose 346 percent. Does Congress even have time to do the people's work?  It cannot.  It has a full-time job dealing with the 10,160 earmarks each year, 40 earmarks voted into law every day, spending over $75 million a day on them. Check your savings account.  Do you have $75 million a day to share with the government because the government has no earned income; its only source of money is us.  That is our $75 million a day we allow them to take. Harold Coffin of the San Francisco Examiner accurately summed up the values of government saying, "When George Washington threw the dollar across the Rappahannock River, he didn't realize he was establishing a precedent for government spending." Whose blame?  Whose fault?  Ours.  The voters.  We vote them into office and then refuse to vote them out.  Or, we are too busy or too unconcerned to vote at all, believing our vote cannot make a difference. We can change it.  We have the power each time we go into the voting booth or each time we decide not to vote.  Our vote does make a difference, a huge difference.  Our power.  Our choice.  Our vote.  Our fault. Print Page (http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/20091019-Spending-the-peoples-money1.pdf)  (http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png? Craig L. 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Bosley, MD) http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/?p=114 http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/10/the-entitled-generation/feed/ 0 Last week I watched a news report on a new type of life crisis.  Well, sort of.  A young reporter discussed the many difficulties facing the 25-year-olds as they finish college.  Wait a minute?  Why...<br/> <br/> The truth as I see it™ <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/c4fZob4yVoegyp_JsslECo5GofU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/c4fZob4yVoegyp_JsslECo5GofU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/c4fZob4yVoegyp_JsslECo5GofU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/c4fZob4yVoegyp_JsslECo5GofU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=lPYWE1AxqEw:fWdsBuZV7Fo:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=lPYWE1AxqEw:fWdsBuZV7Fo:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=lPYWE1AxqEw:fWdsBuZV7Fo:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?i=lPYWE1AxqEw:fWdsBuZV7Fo:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=lPYWE1AxqEw:fWdsBuZV7Fo:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=lPYWE1AxqEw:fWdsBuZV7Fo:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/craigbosley/~4/lPYWE1AxqEw" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/10/the-entitled-generation/ http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~r/craigbosley/~3/fIasAzcUzrg/ http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/10/more-jobs-larger-tax-base-fewer-entitlements/#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:08:37 +0000 webmaster@craigbosley.com (Craig L. Bosley, MD) http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/?p=113 http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/10/more-jobs-larger-tax-base-fewer-entitlements/feed/ 1 Alien,Anti-Immigration,Federation for American Immigration Reform,Heritage Foundation,Illegal immigration to the United States,immigration,Organizations,United States,Vanderbilt University The government continues wasting our money, leading us further into socialism and worse.  Our leaders refuse to understand that the free market economy works, but only if the government stops trying to help.  Nonetheless, The government continues wasting our money, leading us further into socialism and worse.  Our leaders refuse to understand that the free market economy works, but only if the government stops trying to help.  Nonetheless, government continues handing out "free" money, people little noticing that they are becoming dependent on those monies and losing the incentive to be self-sufficient. To promote the president's socialist admonition to "share the wealth," the government spends money on cash for clunkers, new home purchases, mortgage, bank and auto bailouts.  Instead of redistributing the wealth, why not spend it competently on new jobs, a larger tax base and cuts in entitlement programs? What would it take to do this?  First, honoring our laws rather than ignoring them.  Second, working to cut the size of government spending rather than spending us into oblivion.  Last, considering what is best for the people rather than what is best for the government. I saw this possibility when reading a report by Vanderbilt University professor Carol Swain, who evaluated job losses at Swift & Co. meatpacking plants.  In 2006, 1,300 illegal aliens were arrested at six Swift plants--10 percent of the company's workforce.  According to illegal alien proponents, they were just doing jobs that Americans refuse to do, proving their value to our economy. So, what happened?  Did losing 10 percent of their employees force the company out of business because no Americans were willing to do these jobs?  Isn't that what we are routinely told?  Guess what?  The company was not crippled; rather, it was back to normal operations within a few months with a full workforce. The replacement workers?  Americans were more than willing to do the jobs but they demanded and received fair wages.  And the benefits to society?  Those 1,300 illegal aliens were deported, 1,300 American workers found jobs, the costs of entitlements decreased, and because the American workers were paid more than the illegal aliens, tax revenues rose. Professor Swain saw this same pattern repeat at other companies. But, what would it cost to do this on a large scale nationwide?  Maybe it would cost more to arrest and deport illegal aliens than to just leave them alone, despite taking American jobs.  Maybe it would be cheaper to just give them all citizenship, theoretically ending the illegal alien problem. That was tried in 1986 with the Immigration Reform and Control Act that allowed a path to citizenship for 2.7 million illegal aliens.  That amnesty obviously failed to solve the problem because there are now an estimated 12 to 15 million illegal aliens in the United States. Moreover, the Heritage Foundation estimates it will cost U.S. taxpayers $2.6 trillion to legalize the current number of illegal aliens. Well, what if we did arrest and deport illegal aliens?  The Center for American Progress estimates deporting all illegal aliens would cost about $200 billion spread out over five years.  But this estimate might be high because it predicts a maximum of only 20 percent of the illegal aliens would self-deport, a number much lower than the over 50 percent seen when the Eisenhower administration mass deported illegal aliens in the 1950s. The Federation for American Immigration Reform (F.A.I.R.) estimates illegal aliens in our country cost the taxpayers $50 billion a year.  The Heritage Foundation published another study, "The Fiscal Cost of Low-Skill Households to the U.S. Taxpayer," which included many of the illegal alien families.  It estimated the yearly cost  to the taxpayers at $22,000 per household, similar to F.A.I.R.'s estimates. These organizations do have a political slant, so take the numbers with a grain of salt.  That said, these numbers suggest a net taxpayer savings of $10 billion a year for five years, followed by an ongoing savings of $50 billion a year. The bottom line?  No matter how you massage these numbers, Craig L. Bosley, MD no 4:14 The government continues wasting our money, leading us further into socialism and worse.  Our leaders refuse to understand that the free market economy works, but only if the government stops trying...<br/> <br/> The truth as I see it™ <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4BS8Ac5tosB0dEdgj8BJEMyOVLE/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4BS8Ac5tosB0dEdgj8BJEMyOVLE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4BS8Ac5tosB0dEdgj8BJEMyOVLE/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4BS8Ac5tosB0dEdgj8BJEMyOVLE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=fIasAzcUzrg:vFbhrnJRtzQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=fIasAzcUzrg:vFbhrnJRtzQ:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=fIasAzcUzrg:vFbhrnJRtzQ:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?i=fIasAzcUzrg:vFbhrnJRtzQ:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=fIasAzcUzrg:vFbhrnJRtzQ:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=fIasAzcUzrg:vFbhrnJRtzQ:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/craigbosley/~4/fIasAzcUzrg" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/10/more-jobs-larger-tax-base-fewer-entitlements/http://media.blubrry.com/craigbosley/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.craigbosley.com/podcast/20091005.mp3 http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~r/craigbosley/~3/xTqXUYV1imY/ http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/09/values-and-common-sense/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:54:02 +0000 webmaster@craigbosley.com (Craig L. Bosley, MD) http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/?p=112 http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/09/values-and-common-sense/feed/ 0 Arts,Common sense,Education,Emergency department,Fashion,Human,Literature,Peter McDermott,United States,Youth Do you ever wonder about our lost values, our disappearing common sense?  Where is our foundation, our cornerstone, showing us the values that are America?  Our foundation is crumbling and a cornerstone is hard to find. Do you ever wonder about our lost values, our disappearing common sense?  Where is our foundation, our cornerstone, showing us the values that are America?  Our foundation is crumbling and a cornerstone is hard to find.  And we have fewer anchors to look to for help understanding what we are, and what we should aspire to be. Nearly 30 years ago, I met such a man, such an anchor, although I did not realize it at the time.  Our first meeting was in the emergency department of Bannock Memorial Hospital.  He was a bit confused when I very kindly, but firmly, asked him to please read, and sign, about 500 pages of consents.  With a boisterous voice, he suggested that might be excessive; I suggested it made a great deal of sense. Through these years of our friendship, we have developed a heartfelt respect for one another.  I found myself admiring this man who could approach his work with the values of justice, mercy and grace.  Justice--getting what you deserve; mercy--not getting what you deserve; and grace--getting what you do not deserve. Moreover, he handed these out with wisdom and common sense, knowing when each of these values applied. I saw the true greatness of this man when I tried to help a young person who was in trouble.  I watched my friend work.  I was in awe.  He did not need to know all that he did about this person.  He did not have to care as he did. He had well-defined rules he could opt to follow. Why was my friend devoting this much time and attention to one person?  Why was he wasting his time listening to my arguments; why was he even tolerating my arguments?  He knew I was wrong.  He knew he was right.  But, nonetheless he listened and thought and worried about what was best for this person. His job was justice, but he saw it as more.  He saw an even greater duty.  I watched all that is good about this country's values as he diligently decided justice, mercy or grace.  Mercy was out.  This young person had committed too many wrongs.  Justice would be the safest bet.  No risk of second-guessing.  No risk of embarrassment.  No angst of interjecting a human being into the decision. His answer to this young person? "I have known and respected this man for nearly 20 years and for reasons I cannot understand, he has decided to lay his reputation on my desk for you.  You will be allowed to do what Dr. Bosley requests."  The young person changed her life.  My friend took a chance.  He changed a life.  He saved a life.  That day I witnessed grace. Many years later, working with another person in trouble, my friend gave a wonderful lesson on common sense; common sense applied in a fashion that caused me to smile with admiration.  My friend repeatedly asked this person to sit quietly and listen.  He even offered this person the opportunity of a very clear verbal education. Lacking in judgment, this person decided not to listen, instead erroneously assuming challenge was the best approach.  He could not have been more wrong. This person still learned the value of sitting quietly and listening, which he did for the remainder of his time working with my friend; although it took a novel, common sense use of duct tape over his mouth to finish the important lesson of sitting quietly and listening when told to do so. Values and common sense. My friend? Retired Judge Peter D. McDermott.  We need more Peter McDermott's in this world, more values, more common sense. When most of us retire, we will not have excelled as the judge did.  But he is a model, a goal, a reminder of what we can do.  Thankfully, we occasionally have the privilege of knowing a Peter McDermott who reminds us.  Thank you Your Honor. Print Page (http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/20090928-Values-and-common-sense.pdf)  (http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=3d91174d-3773-470e-ac1b-c102be8afd62) Craig L. Bosley, MD no 3:58 Do you ever wonder about our lost values, our disappearing common sense?  Where is our foundation, our cornerstone, showing us the values that are America?  Our foundation is crumbling and a...<br/> <br/> The truth as I see it™ <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/E_1G20X_1OgAOoYwPr3CAXuBeLQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/E_1G20X_1OgAOoYwPr3CAXuBeLQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/E_1G20X_1OgAOoYwPr3CAXuBeLQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/E_1G20X_1OgAOoYwPr3CAXuBeLQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=xTqXUYV1imY:yYZOh7A9pc4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=xTqXUYV1imY:yYZOh7A9pc4:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=xTqXUYV1imY:yYZOh7A9pc4:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?i=xTqXUYV1imY:yYZOh7A9pc4:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=xTqXUYV1imY:yYZOh7A9pc4:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=xTqXUYV1imY:yYZOh7A9pc4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/craigbosley/~4/xTqXUYV1imY" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/09/values-and-common-sense/http://media.blubrry.com/craigbosley/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.craigbosley.com/podcast/20090928.mp3 http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~r/craigbosley/~3/ylZ9riQkcZU/ http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/09/teaching-children-to-murder/#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:35:16 +0000 webmaster@craigbosley.com (Craig L. Bosley, MD) http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/?p=111 http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/09/teaching-children-to-murder/feed/ 0 Guns,Handgun,High school,Human,Littleton Colorado,Murder,Recreation,Semi-automatic firearm,Television,Video game,Video game controversy,Violence and Abuse Littleton, Colorado, 1999; Santee, California, 2001; Cold Springs, Minnesota, 2003; Jacksboro, Tennessee, 2005; Cleveland, Ohio, 2007.  These are just a few of the 60 school shootings occurring since Columbine in 1999, double previous decades. Littleton, Colorado, 1999; Santee, California, 2001; Cold Springs, Minnesota, 2003; Jacksboro, Tennessee, 2005; Cleveland, Ohio, 2007.  These are just a few of the 60 school shootings occurring since Columbine in 1999, double previous decades. The pro... Craig L. Bosley, MD no Littleton, Colorado, 1999; Santee, California, 2001; Cold Springs, Minnesota, 2003; Jacksboro, Tennessee, 2005; Cleveland, Ohio, 2007.  These are just a few of the 60 school shootings occurring since...<br/> <br/> The truth as I see it™ <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/jU9zrlhGocpc_7bO91dPAPlPBuA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/jU9zrlhGocpc_7bO91dPAPlPBuA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/jU9zrlhGocpc_7bO91dPAPlPBuA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/jU9zrlhGocpc_7bO91dPAPlPBuA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=ylZ9riQkcZU:iN5o8W8u1S4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=ylZ9riQkcZU:iN5o8W8u1S4:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=ylZ9riQkcZU:iN5o8W8u1S4:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?i=ylZ9riQkcZU:iN5o8W8u1S4:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=ylZ9riQkcZU:iN5o8W8u1S4:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=ylZ9riQkcZU:iN5o8W8u1S4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/craigbosley/~4/ylZ9riQkcZU" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/09/teaching-children-to-murder/http://media.blubrry.com/craigbosley/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.craigbosley.com/podcast/20090921.mp3 http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~r/craigbosley/~3/DiheX3jH8XM/ http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/09/our-children-violence-and-murder/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:00:00 +0000 webmaster@craigbosley.com (Craig L. Bosley, MD) http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/?p=110 http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/09/our-children-violence-and-murder/feed/ 0 Adolescence,Advertising,Anti-Gun Rights,Canada,Child,Gun Control,Gun politics,Gun violence,Murder,Roy Rogers,South Africa,United States What is happening to our children? Children with guns murdering children. Does this support the need for gun control, as advanced by the media and the politically correct, both with a fanciful capacity to not allow facts to interfere   with their opini... What is happening to our children? Children with guns murdering children. Does this support the need for gun control, as advanced by the media and the politically correct, both with a fanciful capacity to not allow facts to interfere   with their opinions? But if the data shows guns are not the cause of violence, and gun control does not work, why then have we witnessed rises in all types of school violence during the last several decades, including bullying, non-gun violence and gun violence. Maybe school violence has always been with us, just more publicized now than before. But the types of school violence we now see did not start until the late 1960s.   What happened that led to the rise in school violence? In 1972, the surgeon general offered a look at a possible cause, issuing a report on "The Impact of Television Violence." This was followed by a confirmatory article in the 1975 Journal of the American Medical Association. Think about it. We do not allow cigarette advertising on television because of the risk to children, but we freely advertise murder. By age 12, the average child has witnessed over 8,000 murders and over 100,000 acts of violence on television. Does this desensitize children to violence? Can there be a link? Ask Nike, Toyota, Budweiser and others if television influences behavior. An interesting analysis published in a 1992 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association offered a causal relationship between television and escalating child violence. The authors first pointed out   that younger children cannot distinguish fact from fantasy, "accepting the images on television as how the world really is." Moreover, as children get older, even though they learn to distinguish fact from fantasy, the "deepest impressions have already occurred." The authors then analyzed   television access and homicide rates in three countries--the United States that got television about 1945, Canada that got television about 1950, and South Africa that did not get television until 1975. The findings? Comparing the United States to South Africa, the homicide rate in the United States doubled 10 to 15 years after introducing television, while the homicide rate remained stable in South Africa. Comparing Canada to South Africa yielded the same results.   Why 10 to 15 years? If homicide was mostly an adult crime and if television exerted its most negative influence on young children who could not distinguish fact from fantasy, it would take 10 to 15 years for those children to become young adults and commit murder. Further, if the authors were correct, children would also behave differently throughout their growth years, throughout the 10 to 15 years after their introduction to television. And they did. Younger children who had been exposed to television had higher rates of bullying, followed by escalating non-gun violence in adolescence, culminating in rising homicide rates as they became young adults. Television changed lessons in life. Roy Rogers and Trigger quickly gave way to violent cartoons along with Marshal Dillon and boot hill.   Before television, if we hurt one of our friends while playing, our parents taught us it was wrong to hurt other people. But television brought different lessons to young children who blurred fantasy and reality; lessons on killing and murdering without anyone teaching them that hurting people was wrong. We parents did not think that was needed because we knew television was make-believe. Ignoring data to the contrary, we continue the myth of blaming guns. Why? Maybe we do not like looking back, accepting responsibility for allowing our children near unlimited access to television violence. Maybe we feel guilty we have not had the courage to challenge the media greed that promotes violence for profit, while hiding behind the claim of defending free speech.   Although the research nicely explains rises in most types of school violence, Craig L. Bosley, MD no 4:26 What is happening to our children? Children with guns murdering children. Does this support the need for gun control, as advanced by the media and the politically correct, both with a fanciful...<br/> <br/> The truth as I see it™ <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/rd0GCC4W5cPabFXOsnqqXjL_0Zc/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/rd0GCC4W5cPabFXOsnqqXjL_0Zc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/rd0GCC4W5cPabFXOsnqqXjL_0Zc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/rd0GCC4W5cPabFXOsnqqXjL_0Zc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=DiheX3jH8XM:pOSE5Y5_nmY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=DiheX3jH8XM:pOSE5Y5_nmY:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=DiheX3jH8XM:pOSE5Y5_nmY:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?i=DiheX3jH8XM:pOSE5Y5_nmY:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=DiheX3jH8XM:pOSE5Y5_nmY:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=DiheX3jH8XM:pOSE5Y5_nmY:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/craigbosley/~4/DiheX3jH8XM" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/09/our-children-violence-and-murder/http://media.blubrry.com/craigbosley/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.craigbosley.com/podcast/20090914.mp3 http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~r/craigbosley/~3/4TuhghDa1dA/ http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/09/move-to-the-sound-of-the-gun/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:41:38 +0000 webmaster@craigbosley.com (Craig L. Bosley, MD) http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/?p=109 http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/09/move-to-the-sound-of-the-gun/feed/ 0 Agriculture and Forestry,Business,Dave Grossman,Domestic sheep,Flight 93,Livestock,Police officer,Salt Lake City,Todd Beamer,World Trade Center "Let's roll." Response of Todd Beamer, one of the heroes of Flight 93, just before he and fellow passengers rushed the cockpit upon hearing that three other passenger planes had been used as weapons on 9/11. "Let's roll." Response of Todd Beamer, one of the heroes of Flight 93, just before he and fellow passengers rushed the cockpit upon hearing that three other passenger planes had been used as weapons on 9/11.   Have you ever watched a sheepdog working with sheep?  Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, author of the book "On Killing," discusses sheep and sheepdogs, drawing comparisons between sheep, sheepdogs and us. The sheepdog herds the sheep, keeps them where they belong, makes them follow the rules, and nips at them when needed; all a bit irritating to the sheep.  Moreover, the sheepdog is always nervous, always sniffing the air, always watching, always on the alert. Why does he act like this?  Because, unlike the sheep, the sheepdog is always looking for the wolf he knows is there, a constant reminder to the sheep that there are wolves out there who want to kill them.  Sometimes the sheep so tire of this unending reminder they wish the sheepdog would just go away. But, what happens when the wolf shows up, wanting to kill as many sheep as possible?  The sheep turn and run as fast as they can; but not the sheepdog.  He does not join the sheep in a mad dash for survival, even though he could easily outrun the sheep, leaving them on their own. No, he does not run.  Instead, he turns and faces the wolf, prepared to die protecting the sheep.  Odd behavior, especially since sheepdogs don't want to fight wolves, instinctively knowing they could die.  Yet, the sheepdog is the first to take the fight to the wolf because he's a sheepdog and that's what sheepdogs do. Lt. Col. Grossman suggests we are much like sheep and sheepdogs; neither is superior, each has value, and both are needed to make our society what it is. Remember the terrorists flying planes into the World Trade Center towers?  Most of us were thankful we were not on those flights; but a few of us wished we had been because we might have made a difference.  The few who wanted to be on those flights are sheepdogs and that's what sheepdogs do. Remember a few years ago the mass shooting at Trolley Square in Salt Lake City?  A gunman opened fire in the mall and people were running for their lives. That is, except for one man.  That man was an off-duty police officer who, rather than run, turned and moved to the sound of the gun.  Why didn't he run to safety?  Why did he risk his life?  Because he's a sheepdog and that's what sheepdogs do. Our military personnel are also sheepdogs, always looking for the wolves in the world, always alert for evil, following the words of Flavius Vegetius Renatus, who in 375 A.D. said, "Let him who desires peace prepare for war."  So, our troops, hoping for peace, prepare for war, accepting the reality there are wolves in the world and those wolves want to destroy us. Some of us sheep do not understand this constant preparation for war, erroneously believing our troops are hoping for war, hoping for the opportunity to fight, hoping for the opportunity to kill. Not so.  More than the rest of us, they understand the reality of war, the carnage of war, the lives lost in war.  No, they do not want a war.   They do not want to have to fight the wolf any more than the sheepdog does.  But, just like the sheepdog, they will fight, they will move to the sound of the gun. We are lucky we have sheep and sheepdogs because both are important.  Unfortunately, we sometimes forget the value of our sheepdogs.  Sometimes they are an irritating reminder there are people who want to destroy us,  making us wish our sheepdogs would go away.  But without sheepdogs we would perish.  Let's always appreciate them, those who move to the sound of the gun. Print Page (http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/20090907-Move-to-the-sound-of-the-gun.pdf)  (http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=8c9fb45d-bafd-4982-862b-b06bde2d98f6) Craig L. Bosley, MD no 3:54 &#8220;Let&#8217;s roll.&#8221; Response of Todd Beamer, one of the heroes of Flight 93, just before he and fellow passengers rushed the cockpit upon hearing that three other passenger planes had...<br/> <br/> The truth as I see it™ <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/btBhLjVR50VN9Yahl0Iz-FP99Fk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/btBhLjVR50VN9Yahl0Iz-FP99Fk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/btBhLjVR50VN9Yahl0Iz-FP99Fk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/btBhLjVR50VN9Yahl0Iz-FP99Fk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=4TuhghDa1dA:q0F1PBje8Vs:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=4TuhghDa1dA:q0F1PBje8Vs:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=4TuhghDa1dA:q0F1PBje8Vs:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?i=4TuhghDa1dA:q0F1PBje8Vs:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=4TuhghDa1dA:q0F1PBje8Vs:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~ff/craigbosley?a=4TuhghDa1dA:q0F1PBje8Vs:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/craigbosley?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/craigbosley/~4/4TuhghDa1dA" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/09/move-to-the-sound-of-the-gun/http://media.blubrry.com/craigbosley/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.craigbosley.com/podcast/20090907.mp3 http://feeds.craigbosley.com/~r/craigbosley/~3/6X8yZp4jnao/ http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/08/the-healthcare-agenda/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:34:09 +0000 webmaster@craigbosley.com (Craig L. Bosley, MD) http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/?p=104 http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/08/the-healthcare-agenda/feed/ 0 Health care,Health insurance,Insurance,Medicare,Nancy Pelosi,Rahm Emanuel,Social Security,United States,United States Congress,United States Constitution,White House Chief of Staff Why is the government continuing to push healthcare reform, ignoring, dismissing and disparaging anyone who disagrees?  Why have so many members of Congress refused to have town hall meetings during the August recess?  Why are they afraid to face us, Why is the government continuing to push healthcare reform, ignoring, dismissing and disparaging anyone who disagrees?  Why have so many members of Congress refused to have town hall meetings during the August recess?  Why are they afraid to face us, their employers? Even if we ignore the United States Constitution and agree that healthcare is a constitutional right, is government control the answer to the current failed healthcare system of state and federal programs, private programs and employer sponsored programs? The government is convinced it can competently run the healthcare system.  But, can it?  It runs the nearly bankrupt Social Security program, the nearly bankrupt Medicare program, and just last week admitted it underestimated the deficit by a mere $2 trillion.  Not much of a track record. And don't forget Nancy Pelosi saying, with frightening sincerity, that all new costs will be captured from the efficiencies of government management. Which is more worrisome--that she made this statement or that she might actually believe it? The government continues "doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results."  Einstein defined this as insanity. Why is government control the only option under serious consideration?  Are our leaders ignoring other options that might be better?  A healthcare expert, interviewed for an April 13, 2007, PBS report on universal healthcare, proposed a voucher system. Every citizen would get a voucher to purchase a basic healthcare plan.  The voucher would be risk adjusted for those people with medical problems whose basic plan might cost more.  Further, all private insurance companies would be required to offer the same basic plan.  Also, all government and all employer health plans would be cut out. Anyone who wanted more coverage than the basic plan provided could purchase more coverage at their own expense.  When asked about the unfairness that some people could afford more coverage than others, the expert said it is not the government's job to "provide everything that could possibly be done for everybody in the country."  What a nice, common sense understanding of the Constitution. Consider some of the benefits of this proposal.  It would allow continuity of coverage when changing jobs, when moving from state to state, and when transitioning from working to retirement. The reward?  The government is out of the healthcare business and the size of government decreases.  The risk?  Will the government agree to less control of our lives, less power over us, and less bureaucracy?  Has it ever before? Who offered these unique, heretical ideas?  Who thought of a new system rather than just patching an already troubled system?  Who dared propose less government? It was Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD, head of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health, a widely published expert on healthcare reform, and now an advisor to the president on healthcare reform.  Coincidently, he is the brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. So, why are the administration and Congress ignoring a recognized expert on healthcare reform, especially since he was hired to advise the president?  Why do they want to patch a crumbling healthcare foundation rather than create a new solid foundation on which to build a better system? Does this suggest there might be another agenda behind this massive spending, including buying control of banks and private companies?  Does this suggest why the government is bankrupting generations of future Americans? The answer may be too simple to want to believe.  Are the self-proclaimed aristocracy of Congress and the administration convinced we citizens are no longer competent to control our own lives, let alone the government? Are they keeping us divided as Republicans and Democrats, fighting with one another to prevent us from coming together to oppose the government with a united front? While we argue petty party politics, Craig L. 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Bosley, MD) http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/?p=103 http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/2009/08/can-claiming-racism-be-racist/feed/ 0 Associated Press,Bob Dylan,Henry Louis Gates,Henry Louis Gates arrest controversy,New Jersey,Police officer,Race-Ethnic-Religious Relations,Racial profiling,Racism Four police officers and two men; one black, a noted Harvard professor, and one Jewish, a famous singer --each with a recent police encounter. Returning from a trip, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates found his front door jammed. Four police officers and two men; one black, a noted Harvard professor, and one Jewish, a famous singer --each with a recent police encounter. Returning from a trip, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates found his front door jammed.  He tried to force it open and then he and his chauffeur got in through the back door.  According to Officer Figueroa's police report, a neighbor called the police saying she saw "a man wedging his shoulder into the front door as if to pry the door open."  And contrary to media reports, she did not identify the men by their race.  Further, Figueroa, the second officer on the scene, is also black. The first officer on the scene, Sgt. James Crowley, teaches a class on racial profiling and race relations, picked to do so by a former police commissioner who is black.  Sgt. Crowley was responding to a possible "crime in progress" and found two men inside the house.  Shortly thereafter, Figueroa arrived and witnessed the professor's behavior.   According to his report, professor Gates was yelling at Sgt. Crowley, calling him a racist and saying, "This is what happens to black men in America" and "You don't know who you're messing with." The encounter ended with the professor's arrest.  The next day President Obama issued a surprise summary judgment that the police "acted stupidly," this following an admission that he did not know all the facts. Although overlooked by most media, the president is a friend of professor Gates' which explains why Obama berated the police.  The next day when the president felt the backlash of his statement, rather than apologizing to the police as he should have, he said, "I unfortunately gave an impression that I was maligning Sgt. Crowley."  Is that true or was the president intentionally degrading the sergeant? The second man is Bob Dylan, a famous singer who is Jewish.  He was killing time before a concert in New Jersey and left his hotel to take a walk.  The Associated Press reported "a resident said a man was wandering around a low-income, predominately minority neighborhood." The resident called the police and a young officer arrived who had never heard of Bob Dylan.  He asked Mr. Dylan his name, what he was doing, and for some identification.  By then a second officer arrived, just as with professor Gates. Because Mr. Dylan did not have identification with him, the officers asked him to accompany them back to his hotel to verify his identity.  He willingly complied even though he had not done anything to justify this attention.  In contrast, in professor Gates' case the police believed they might be responding to a crime. We have four police officers interacting with two men who reacted differently.  Professor Gates shouted racism while Bob Dylan, a world famous singer, cooperated with the police. He did not shout, "Racism."  He did not shout, "This is how Jewish men are treated in America."  He did not shout, "You have no idea who you are messing with." I agree with the president; this is a "teaching moment."  It's just that the president missed the lesson. Who reacted racially, Sgt. Crowley or professor Gates?  Who behaved appropriately, professor Gates or Bob Dylan? Perhaps professor Gates was unable to bury past hurts and still sees racism everywhere, even when it does not exist.  Perhaps the professor's past brought him to this encounter with an attitude that the officer did not have the right to question him? Was professor Gates modeling how to ease racial tensions or was he, perhaps unknowingly, acting racist? The real lessons to consider?  Can past hurts lead to present misconceptions?  Can people of any skin color be racist? Can shouting racism when none exists be racist?  Can viewing today through the window of the past be unproductive?  Can we move forward if we spend all our time looking backward? It's worth some thought. Print Page (http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/20090824-Claiming-racism-can-be-racist.pdf)  Craig L. Bosley, MD no 3:56 Four police officers and two men; one black, a noted Harvard professor, and one Jewish, a famous singer &#8211;each with a recent police encounter. 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