Dr. Rafal, Part-time Conservative Nut, Fulltime Doctor Makes Fool of Himself - Making the Case for Socializing the legal system. Lawyers, Judges and Prosecutors.
Health-care Reform is constitutional. No where in the constitution of the U.S. does it mention medicine, television, telephones or X-ray machines, but we regulate all those things because....1. The commerce clause. 2. Common sense. The Founding fathers wrote the Constitution at a time when there were no transistors, electricity, or even steam engines. They left it up to future generations to make wise decisions about policy decisions like health-care - something that many modern Americans would consider something necessary for the "common good".
Conservative media take note: Reagan preached tax cut gospel to America’s students
Putting aside possible ulterior motives, the conservative freak-out over President Obama’s planned speech to students urging them to stay in school and work hard is due to fears that Obama will use his platform as an opportunity to push his agenda on unsuspecting students. Ironically, that’s exactly what President Reagan did two decades ago.
On November 14, 1988, Reagan addressed and took questions from students from four area middle schools in the Old Executive Office Building. According to press secretary Marlin Fitzwater, the speech was broadcast live and rebroadcast by C-Span, and Instructional Television Network fed the program “t o schools nationwide on three different days.” Much of Reagan’s speech that day covered the American “vision of self-government” and the need “to keep faith with the unfinished vision of the greatness and wonder of America” but in the middle of the speech, the president went off on a tangent about the importance of low taxes:
