When lives are at stake
When the private sector cannot or is not adequately providing a vital service, such as health care, it is the responsibility of government to step in to help those suffering among us. Lives are on the line.
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When the private sector cannot or is not adequately providing a vital service, such as health care, it is the responsibility of government to step in to help those suffering among us. Lives are on the line.
To be effective in winning the war on terror with a 'hearts and minds' strategy, the United States must end the rhetoric of 'good and evil' and 'for us or against us.' It is time for Americans, especially foreign policy decision-makers, to recognize that, if placed in different shoes, they too might have been terrorists.
Historically, the purpose of the separation of powers has been to prevent such a concentration of power in one person or group that they can impose tyranny. While the idealists among us like to believe the power of the people can check government, as James Madison wrote in Federalist 51, 'Experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.'
The revelation that Madison has the fourth-highest physician prices of all U.S. metropolitan areas is a disheartening blow to those who believe quality health care is a right for all, not a privilege of the wealthy. Health care has been pushed to the back burner in the face of war, an energy crisis and hurricane devastation, but the Government Accountability Office report should be a jarring realization to all levels of government that priorities need to expand.
Tucked in the corner of the Old Hall of the House of Representatives in the U.S. Capitol is a statue honoring perhaps the greatest politician, statesman and intellectual to hail from Wisconsin-Robert La Follette. Every day Wisconsin families visiting the U.S. Capitol stroll past \Fighting Bob"" La Follette, some are indifferent, but most recall La Follette's lasting legacy, a tradition of Wisconsin politics based upon taking power back for the people and standing up for what is right, no matter the costs.
Revolutions are usually thought to involve mass protests, military coups and violent clashes. Yet there is a different kind of revolution unique to nations with strong democratic traditions-it is a revolution from the voting booth. The last major voting-booth revolution in 1994 swept Republicans into power in the U.S. House of Representatives, but the Republicans' recent actions suggest the 2006 elections could see them swept out of power in another voting-booth revolution.
It is nearly impossible to walk a block in downtown Madison without seeing someone bobbing his or her head to the beat of an iPod. I have a message for all you iPod users-be prepared to pay more taxes than the rest of us.
The Bush administration's propaganda machine continues to unravel courtesy of \Jeff Gannon."" President Bush's hypocrisy is clear-he touts the virtues of open societies to other countries, but attempts to manipulate the media at home with people such as Mr. Gannon.
As the world is about to be destroyed by a Russian doomsday machine near the end of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 classic satire film \Dr. Strangelove,"" U.S. leaders pace about the war room to determine how mine shafts are going to be built to sustain human life. Yet, as General Turgidson frantically points out, a huge problem could occur if the Russians attempted an immediate sneak attack on U.S. mine shaft space. With their stashed-away missiles destroying U.S. mine shafts, the Russians could create a ""mine shaft gap.""