Vidi, vici, veni — I saw, I conquered, I came
Posted in Life, News, Politics, Rants, opinion on Nov 17th, 2009
The other day while out driving, I was monitoring the Neal Boortz show, looking for ranty blogging fodder. And, as is almost always the case, I found what I was looking for. Because it was Veteran’s Day, he was relating anecdotes with that theme in mind. He told a story about a man attacked by [...]
Listening to the Neal Boortz show the other night, I heard him ragging on liberals who have decided to boycott Whole Foods because of an editorial Whole Foods CEO John Mackey wrote in the Wall Street Journal where he stated that “universal healthcare is no more a right than food or shelter.” Boortz believes the [...]
Posted in Politics, Social Issues, opinion on Jun 25th, 2009
The other day, I had the misfortune to listen to Neal Boortz ranting about health care reform. Boortz believes that even employer-provided health insurance should be cut to the bone and not cover any type of routine medical care; that it should be reserved solely for complications from routine medical matters and catastrophic health problems. [...]
Posted in People, Politics, Rants, opinion on Jun 22nd, 2009
As part of my habit of monitoring right wing talk radio as a method of knowing one’s opposition, I regularly tune in to the Neal Boortz show. As anyone who has read my blog regularly knows, I can’t stand the guy. He labels himself a libertarian conservative and his philosophy could be characterized as objectivism [...]
Posted in People, Politics, Social Issues, opinion on Jun 7th, 2009
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” –John Kenneth Galbraith They’ll have us living for the benefit of our fellow man instead of us living for our own individual benefit! –Neal Boortz, in reference to liberals and [...]
While listening to Neil Boortz the other day, he stated quite categorically that “Health care isn’t a right, it’s a privilege”. I don’t know about you, but I was brought up to believe that an essential tenet of morality is that anyone who is sick or injured deserves medical treatment, no matter who they are [...]
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