Posts Tagged "Dana Milbank"
Bullies and Victims Make Us All Losers
With approval ratings firmly ensconced in the single-digits, it is no surprise that Americans are fed-up with Congress. In the announcing of his retirement, long-time member Barney Frank of Massachusetts has become emblematic of the corrosive morass the People’s House has become and his persona a reflection of the daily battles in which our media and elected officials engage. In his latest column, the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank, details the gruff bully Frank embodied as the caustic Democratic power on the House Financial Services Committee. I have always wondered – what came first the bad attitude or the harsh treatment? All one has to do is read Karl...
Read MoreWhat Obesity Tells Us About Our Leadership and Our Lives
With First Lady Michelle Obama’s spotlight honed on the issues of childhood obesity, access to healthy food choices and exercise as an issue of “national security,” perhaps we should ask why this continues to be an issue plaguing Americans. Not only is the United States home to the greatest number of obese people, the second most obese nation, Mexico, has 20 percent fewer overweight citizens and the majority of European countries have one-third the number of its citizens who are overweight. (OECD Health Data) How is it that a country with a multi-billion dollar health care budget has so many unhealthy people? Perhaps that is why our health care spending is so...
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