Travis, I know you try hard if you are gleaning only 20 or 30 posts out of 150 per day, but...it might be better if you did post them all at once but do it in a single post. Here is an example...
http://www.reason.com/news/show/135216.html Fat Load A slimmer America won't save taxpayers money. http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2576 Commentary Was Rummy Really Wrong? August 3, 2009 Ivan Eland http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/the_obama_resistance_grows.html August 05, 2009 The Obama Resistance Grows By Lee Cary Spontaneous, uncoordinated, passionate -- citizen resistance to Obama socialism grows by the day. http://www.creators.com/opinion/thomas-sowell.html?columnsName=tso Care Versus Control I have just provided a link to the article and the headline so if the reader wishes to read it, I have made it one click away. An alternative would be as follows.... http://www.reason.com/news/show/135216.html Fat Load A slimmer America won't save taxpayers money. Jacob Sullum | August 5, 2009 Lately President Obama has begun calling his plan to reinvent America's health care system "insurance reform." Yet the version of the plan moving through the Senate also includes restaurant menu reform (a mandate requiring the conspicuous posting of calorie counts) as well as grocery reform, transportation reform, and recreation reform (money to build farmers' markets, bike paths, sidewalks, and jungle gyms).These provisions are all aimed at making Americans thinner, on the theory that doing so will reduce medical spending. It won't. Even if it did, we should be wary of a political theory that says taxpayer-funded health care makes everyone's personal habits everyone else's business. There are reasons to be skeptical that the anti-obesity provisions in the Affordable Health Choices Act will have a noticeable impact on Americans' waistlines. The same research that nutritional nags cite in support of menu mandates indicates that even in restaurants like Subway, where the clientele is unusually diet-conscious, most consumers prefer to avoid calorie counts, enjoying their food in blissful ignorance. http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2576 Commentary Was Rummy Really Wrong? August 3, 2009 Ivan Eland In his new book, By His Own Rules: The Ambitions, Successes, and Ultimate Failures of Donald Rumsfeld, Bradley Graham argues that although ideology and arrogance played a role in the fiasco of invading and occupying Iraq, Donald Rumsfeld’s concept of transforming the military into a leaner, more deadly force also played a role. Not only did Rumsfeld take advantage of 9/11 to justify the invasion of Iraq, but he also used it as a cudgel to attempt to transform the U.S. military. Taking advantage of a crisis to try to institute policy changes is an age-old Washington ploy. The Afghan War seemed to validate Rumsfeld’s new concept, but it wrecked on the shoals of the insurgency in Iraq. Traditionally in wars, U.S. air power had supported U.S. ground forces. Rumsfeld believed that the improved firepower and accuracy of munitions delivered by air had made the Army less important. Now the U.S. could rely on indigenous ground forces to hold the enemy in place (being essentially an anvil), while U.S. airpower was used as a hammer to defeat opposing forces. Yet Rumsfeld did not invent this concept. During the Clinton administration, this same model was used successfully against Serbia in the war over Kosovo in 1999. The concept’s initial success after 9/11, using the ground forces of the opposition Northern Alliance against the forces of the Taliban government in Afghanistan, seemed to enshrine Rumsfeld in the military hall of fame. Iraq was to prove the undoing of Rumsfeld’s vision, however. Again seeming to be validated was his concept of using a small number of troops on the ground to hold the enemy forces—with a more formidable Iraqi foe and no significant indigenous opposition forces to use, U.S. ground forces were substituted for the home-grown ones—so that they could be pummeled with airpower. Saddam Hussein’s forces were quickly routed and Baghdad and the rest of Iraq occupied. http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/the_obama_resistance_grows.html August 05, 2009 The Obama Resistance Grows By Lee Cary Spontaneous, uncoordinated, passionate -- citizen resistance to Obama socialism grows by the day. America is no stranger to resistance. The nation was born from citizen resistance that had mixed support among the colonists. About one in five was loyal to the King. Some of the bitterest fighting in the American Revolution was between Loyalists and Patriots. And all of it was between Americans in the Civil War. We know how to resist. ...The internet has shortened the gestation period for resistance. Nearly every day a new video surfaces on the web showing an angry crowd of ordinary citizens talking back to their member of Congress, or to some Cabinet person, as the pol morphs from confident and officious to stunned and stupefied. (Obama's czars, on the other hand, like their Russian predecessors, never face public scrutiny. They butterfly float in an ether world of inbreed wonkishness in search of purpose, doing who knows what. Hopefully, little.) http://www.creators.com/opinion/thomas-sowell.html?columnsName=tso Care Versus Control As someone who was once rushed to a hospital in the middle of the night, because of taking a medication that millions of people take every day without the slightest problem, I have a special horror of life and death medical decisions being made by bureaucrats in Washington, about patients they have never laid eyes on. On another occasion, I was told by a doctor that I would have died if I had not gotten to him in time, after an allergic reaction to eating one of the most healthful foods around. On still another occasion, I was treated with a medication that causes many people big problems and was urged to come back to the hospital immediately if I had a really bad reaction. But I had no reaction at all, went home, felt fine and slept soundly through the night. My point is that everybody is different. Millions of children eat peanut butter sandwiches every day but some children can die from eating peanut butter. Some vaccines and medications that save many lives can also kill some people. Are decisions made by doctors who have treated the same patient for years to be over-ruled by bureaucrats sitting in front of computer screens in Washington, following guidelines drawn up with the idea of "bringing down the cost of medical care"? Now I have provided the link, plus the first couple of paragraphs to catch the reader's attention as to why I chose this article. Either way, you put all of the links to all of the articles in a single post and you could title it, TRAVIS' DAILY BEST #1 And then each day add a number. What do you say, my friend? Some of us appreciate having links to good sites and articles, but if we could skim over the first line or the first couple of paragraphs we would be able to see if we wanted to dive into the entire article. Richard --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
