Interrogation tactics more severe than we suspected

Recently declassified documents into “enhanced interrogation techniques” used in the war on terror have people from opposing political viewpoints equally angered.
President Obama recently released part of a 2004 CIA inspector general’s report into interrogation methods. Critics of the Bush administration have escalated their calls for prosecutions of those who authorized what they are calling torture. [...]

Group to discuss single-payer health care

Have some thoughts on how a single-payer system would impact our health care industry? The DuPage County Green Party will hold a panel discussion on this issue at the Downers Grove Public Library, 1050 Curtiss St., at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 27.
This is part of the group’s Social Justice Forum. I not a fan of [...]

Cash for Clunkers program has more drawbacks to it than it does benefits

I have to give my good buddy Dave Diersen of Wheaton his props for correctly pointing out the utter wastefulness of the Cash for Clunkers program.
Diersen has been all over this aspect of the federal plan to stimulate car sales. On his Web site, GOPUSA Illinois, he said that cars could be given to poor [...]

Want to improve your chances of living? Get rid of your health insurance

The DuPage County Green Party held a rally with U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich from Ohio regarding health care held last weekend in Aurora.
Here is part of what the press release said: “In the U.S., 22,000 people die every year due to lack of health care.” I’m going out on a limb to predict that most [...]