<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest entries from news-opinion.blog-city.com</title><link>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/</link><description></description><copyright>Copyright 2008 news-opinion.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:42:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest entries from news-opinion.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>HOMELAND KILLING FIELDS</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/homeland_killing_fields.htm</guid><link>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/homeland_killing_fields.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:37:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=homeland%5Fkilling%5Ffields</comments><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Columnist Tim Rutten has it right. The U.S.A. is fast becoming one of the world&#39;s great killing fields.&nbsp; The major factor in this shameful phenomenon is the proliferation of guns. Thanks, in large part, to the National Rifle Association&#39;]]></description></item><item><title>SINGLE-PAYER IS THE SINGLE-ANSWER</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/singlepayer_is_the_singleanswer.htm</guid><link>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/singlepayer_is_the_singleanswer.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:46:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=singlepayer%5Fis%5Fthe%5Fsingleanswer</comments><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Little did I ever expect to be posting a story written for Business Week!&nbsp; And, no, this is not an April Fools joke.&nbsp; The lineup of advocates for a single-payer, not-for-profit, national healthcare insurance system for the U.S. just keeps o]]></description></item><item><title>A CANCER ON U.S. ECONOMY</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/a_cancer_on_us_economy.htm</guid><link>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/a_cancer_on_us_economy.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:50:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Fcancer%5Fon%5Fus%5Feconomy</comments><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Like John McCain, economics&nbsp;has never been a major interest of mine.&nbsp; I don&#39;t follow economic issues closely and understand only the broader workings of that institution.&nbsp;From time to time, however, some factor involving the econom]]></description></item><item><title>DONE IN YOUR NAME &amp; MINE</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/done_in_your_name__mine.htm</guid><link>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/done_in_your_name__mine.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:42:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=done%5Fin%5Fyour%5Fname%5F%5Fmine</comments><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Last Sunday I posted an article here under the title &quot;Times That Try Men&#39;s Souls&quot; about the recent &quot;Winter Soldier&quot; testimony by Iraq veterans. &nbsp;Here is another piece on the same topic.&nbsp; This was written by the intre]]></description></item><item><title>FATHER KNEW BEST</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/father_knew_best.htm</guid><link>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/father_knew_best.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:25:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=father%5Fknew%5Fbest</comments><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Robert Scheer wonders if, after Bush is back on his ranch clearing brush, he&#39;ll ever reflect on his decisions as president and wonder if he might better have listened to his father&#39;s advice?&nbsp; Personally, I think it&#39;s a moot question.]]></description></item><item><title>LANDSCAPE WITHOUT MAPS</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/landscape_without_maps.htm</guid><link>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/landscape_without_maps.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:26:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=landscape%5Fwithout%5Fmaps</comments><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The occasion of the death of the 4,000th U.S. serviceperson in Iraq has dominated the news&nbsp;over the past day. As&nbsp;lamentable as that event is, it is only part of the story of pain and suffering that has resulted from the totally unnecessary,]]></description></item><item><title>TIMES THAT TRY MEN&apos;S SOULS</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/times_that_try_mens_souls.htm</guid><link>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/times_that_try_mens_souls.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:08:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=times%5Fthat%5Ftry%5Fmens%5Fsouls</comments><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&quot;These are the times that try men&#39;s souls,&quot; wrote Thomas Paine as the first line in his 1776 pamphlet &quot;The Crisis.&quot;&nbsp; He went on to chastise &quot;the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot,&quot; who are vociferous in&nb]]></description></item><item><title>ANOTHER MEDIA BLACKOUT</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/another_media_blackout.htm</guid><link>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/another_media_blackout.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:17:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=another%5Fmedia%5Fblackout</comments><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The corporate mainstream media in the U.S. is at it again.&nbsp; News stories that they don&#39;t like, or are afraid to touch, they just ignore.&nbsp; The only people that are aware of these news stories are those of us that rely heavily on alternat]]></description></item><item><title>GRASSROOTS FOR SINGLE-PAYER</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/grassroots_for_singlepayer.htm</guid><link>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/grassroots_for_singlepayer.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:26:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=grassroots%5Ffor%5Fsinglepayer</comments><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I might as well make a real campaign out of the single-payer health insurance issue. Instead of &quot;experts&quot; or professionals of any stripe, here are two &quot;Letters to the Editor&quot; from regular people. It&#39;s encouraging to learn that]]></description></item><item><title>MANDATES FOR FAILURE</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/mandates_for_failure.htm</guid><link>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/mandates_for_failure.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:18:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=mandates%5Ffor%5Ffailure</comments><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Well, I can&#39;t seem to get this particular monkey -- or elephant -- off my back.&nbsp; I&#39;ve got two more bullets to fire on the healthcare&nbsp;issue, and actually had a third which I seem to have lost. (And I apologize for using that uncongen]]></description></item><item><title>THE 65% SOLUTION</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/the_65_solution.htm</guid><link>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/the_65_solution.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5F65%5Fsolution</comments><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Here&#39;s a &quot;quickie&quot; on the issue of single-payer healthcare insurance. This was written as a letter-to-the-editor by Ruth Livesey to&nbsp;The Morning Call of Allentown, PA.&nbsp; It&#39;s encouraging to find ordinary (I dan&#39;t mean th]]></description></item><item><title>THE 2% SOLUTION</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/the_2_solution.htm</guid><link>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/the_2_solution.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:55:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5F2%5Fsolution</comments><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Another salvo of common sense in the great healthcare debate can&#39;t hurt.&nbsp; The solution to the healthcare &quot;crisis&quot; in the U.S. is so simple, and so obvious, that the need to keep commenting about it is frustrating to say the least.]]></description></item><item><title>VIVE CA CHANGE!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/vive_ca_change.htm</guid><link>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/vive_ca_change.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:36:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=vive%5Fca%5Fchange</comments><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Today I&#39;m back on my healthcare hobby horse.&nbsp; The reason for harping on this topic as much as I have is twofold. First, it&#39;s a subject that is of vital importance; and second, after long being considered an impossible goal here in the U.]]></description></item><item><title>THE SURGE: RECIPE FOR DISASTER</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/the_surge_recipe_for_disaster.htm</guid><link>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/the_surge_recipe_for_disaster.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:22:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fsurge%5Frecipe%5Ffor%5Fdisaster</comments><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We hear an almost unbroken chorus through the mainstream media these days about &quot;the surge&quot; In Iraq and how &quot;successful&quot; it has been.&nbsp; Unfortunately,&nbsp;what we hear most is&nbsp;not the full story.&nbsp; Occasionally, ther]]></description></item><item><title>AN ISSUE THE DEBATES IGNORE</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/an_issue_the_debates_ignore.htm</guid><link>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/an_issue_the_debates_ignore.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:21:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=an%5Fissue%5Fthe%5Fdebates%5Fignore</comments><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I don&#39;t know about you, but I&#39;m getting more and more alarmed about gun violence here in the U.S.&nbsp; This country has long had an obsession with guns - part of what I call the &quot;cowboy mentality&quot; that grips an increasing number of]]></description></item><item><title>TURNING FLIPS INTO A FLOP</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/turning_flips_into_a_flop.htm</guid><link>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/turning_flips_into_a_flop.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:50:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=turning%5Fflips%5Finto%5Fa%5Fflop</comments><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This year&#39;s Republican presidential candidates has to be the weakest group of such candidates that I&#39;ve ever seen (and that goes back to 1940).&nbsp; For awhile I was encouraged because Republican voters seemed to be aware of this.&nbsp; The]]></description></item><item><title>OUR FORGOTTEN &quot;WAR&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/our_forgotten_war.htm</guid><link>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/our_forgotten_war.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:50:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=our%5Fforgotten%5Fwar</comments><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We suffer from a tendency to misuse the word &quot;war.&quot;&nbsp; My old Funk and Wagnalls defines war as &quot;An armed conflict between nations or states or between different parties in the same state.&quot;&nbsp; It would behoove us to return to]]></description></item><item><title>A TROUBLING TREND</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/a_troubling_trend.htm</guid><link>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/a_troubling_trend.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:34:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Ftroubling%5Ftrend</comments><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There&#39;s a troubling trend in the U.S. that I find extremely worrisome.&nbsp; It&#39;s the culture of violence that seems to be on the increase.&nbsp; It&#39;s not just the increase in the number of incidents that is worrisome, but where it is&nbs]]></description></item><item><title>DARING TO RECLAIM A DREAM</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/daring_to_reclaim_a_dream.htm</guid><link>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/daring_to_reclaim_a_dream.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:48:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=daring%5Fto%5Freclaim%5Fa%5Fdream</comments><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;I learned yesterday (Feb.5) that I&#39;n not permitted to vote in today&#39;s primary &quot;election&quot; here in Arizona.&nbsp; What I thought was an inalienable right, has turned out to be an alienable right.&nbsp; My wife and I are proudly]]></description></item><item><title>A CRY IN THE WILDERNESS</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/a_cry_in_the_wilderness.htm</guid><link>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/a_cry_in_the_wilderness.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:42:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Fcry%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fwilderness</comments><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Edwards&#39; Withdrawal Is&nbsp; America&#39;s LossBy Earl Ofari HutchinsonAmerica just lost its best and brightest hope for real change when John Edwards gave up the presidential ghost. Edwards did something that Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton,]]></description></item><item><title>AN EVENING HIGH AND LOW</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/an_evening_high_and_low.htm</guid><link>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/an_evening_high_and_low.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:41:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=an%5Fevening%5Fhigh%5Fand%5Flow</comments><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[First off, I have to admit that I didn&#39;t watch Bush&#39;s last (thank God) State Of the Union speech.&nbsp; I wasn&#39;t even tempted.&nbsp; I expected that it would be a reprise of the others and, from what I&#39;ve heard or read about it, I wou]]></description></item><item><title>SPEARS&apos; FAMILY VALUES</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/spears_family_values.htm</guid><link>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/spears_family_values.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:38:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=spears%5Ffamily%5Fvalues</comments><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On last December 17 I posted a blog entitled, &quot;A Faith-based Boondoggle.&quot;&nbsp; The major thrust (if you&#39;ll pardon the expression) was that sever recent studies has shown that faith-based &quot;abstinence only sex education&quot; (now t]]></description></item><item><title>NO COMPROMISO!!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/no_compromiso.htm</guid><link>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/no_compromiso.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:21:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=no%5Fcompromiso</comments><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I know I&#39;m tending to sound like a broken record, but this issue is SO important that I feel I have to keep hammering away at it.&nbsp; All the GOP presidential candidates are hopeless on the health care issue.&nbsp; (Yes, even Ron Paul. Especial]]></description></item><item><title>SEEKING HOPE OUT OF DESPAIR</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/seeking_hope_out_of_despair.htm</guid><link>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/seeking_hope_out_of_despair.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:17:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=seeking%5Fhope%5Fout%5Fof%5Fdespair</comments><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Computer problems have silenced this blog site for awhile, but I think the site is back on track now.It&#39;s hard to believe that it was forty years ago that we lived through the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy.&nbsp;&nbsp;So]]></description></item><item><title>GOODBYE JOE, HELLO JOHN</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/goodbye_joe_hello_john.htm</guid><link>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/goodbye_joe_hello_john.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:45:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=goodbye%5Fjoe%5Fhello%5Fjohn</comments><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A couple weeks ago, I wrote here urging support for Joe Biden in the Democratic nomination race.&nbsp; I didn&#39;t have any high hopes that he would be successful in his quest, but I didn&#39;t expect him to fold up his tent and&nbsp;give up&nbsp;so]]></description></item></channel></rss>