<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:lang="en"><title>Latest entries from news-opinion.blog-city.com</title><rights>Copyright 2009 news-opinion.blog-city.com</rights><subtitle></subtitle><author><name></name></author><updated>2009-06-12T08:52:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/index.rss"/><id>tag:news-opinion.blog-city.com,2009:1</id><entry><id>tag:news-opinion.blog-city.com,2008-04-04:links.412094386</id><title>HOMELAND KILLING FIELDS</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/homeland_killing_fields.htm"><![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;]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/homeland_killing_fields.htm"/><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><author><name>Bryce Babcock</name></author><updated>2008-04-04T03:37:00Z</updated><published>2008-04-04T03:37:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:news-opinion.blog-city.com,2008-04-01:links.412093856</id><title>SINGLE-PAYER IS THE SINGLE-ANSWER</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/singlepayer_is_the_singleanswer.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/singlepayer_is_the_singleanswer.htm"/><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><author><name>Bryce Babcock</name></author><updated>2008-04-01T18:46:00Z</updated><published>2008-04-01T18:46:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:news-opinion.blog-city.com,2008-03-28:links.412093054</id><title>A CANCER ON U.S. ECONOMY</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/a_cancer_on_us_economy.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/a_cancer_on_us_economy.htm"/><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><author><name>Bryce Babcock</name></author><updated>2008-03-28T18:50:00Z</updated><published>2008-03-28T18:50:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:news-opinion.blog-city.com,2008-03-25:links.412092406</id><title>DONE IN YOUR NAME &amp; MINE</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/done_in_your_name__mine.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/done_in_your_name__mine.htm"/><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><author><name>Bryce Babcock</name></author><updated>2008-03-25T19:42:00Z</updated><published>2008-03-25T19:42:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:news-opinion.blog-city.com,2008-03-25:links.412092469</id><title>FATHER KNEW BEST</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/father_knew_best.htm"><![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.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/father_knew_best.htm"/><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><author><name>Bryce Babcock</name></author><updated>2008-03-25T15:25:00Z</updated><published>2008-03-25T15:25:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:news-opinion.blog-city.com,2008-03-24:links.412092134</id><title>LANDSCAPE WITHOUT MAPS</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/landscape_without_maps.htm"><![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,]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/landscape_without_maps.htm"/><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><author><name>Bryce Babcock</name></author><updated>2008-03-24T17:26:00Z</updated><published>2008-03-24T17:26:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:news-opinion.blog-city.com,2008-03-23:links.412091953</id><title>TIMES THAT TRY MEN&apos;S SOULS</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/times_that_try_mens_souls.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/times_that_try_mens_souls.htm"/><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><author><name>Bryce Babcock</name></author><updated>2008-03-23T20:08:00Z</updated><published>2008-03-23T20:08:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:news-opinion.blog-city.com,2008-03-23:links.412091811</id><title>ANOTHER MEDIA BLACKOUT</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/another_media_blackout.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/another_media_blackout.htm"/><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><author><name>Bryce Babcock</name></author><updated>2008-03-23T02:17:00Z</updated><published>2008-03-23T02:17:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:news-opinion.blog-city.com,2008-03-17:links.412090655</id><title>GRASSROOTS FOR SINGLE-PAYER</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/grassroots_for_singlepayer.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/grassroots_for_singlepayer.htm"/><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><author><name>Bryce Babcock</name></author><updated>2008-03-17T18:26:00Z</updated><published>2008-03-17T18:26:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:news-opinion.blog-city.com,2008-03-10:links.412089292</id><title>MANDATES FOR FAILURE</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/mandates_for_failure.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/mandates_for_failure.htm"/><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><author><name>Bryce Babcock</name></author><updated>2008-03-10T22:18:00Z</updated><published>2008-03-10T22:18:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:news-opinion.blog-city.com,2008-03-04:links.412087966</id><title>THE 65% SOLUTION</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/the_65_solution.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/the_65_solution.htm"/><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><author><name>Bryce Babcock</name></author><updated>2008-03-04T17:59:00Z</updated><published>2008-03-04T17:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:news-opinion.blog-city.com,2008-03-03:links.412087659</id><title>THE 2% SOLUTION</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/the_2_solution.htm"><![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.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/the_2_solution.htm"/><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><author><name>Bryce Babcock</name></author><updated>2008-03-03T16:55:00Z</updated><published>2008-03-03T16:55:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:news-opinion.blog-city.com,2008-03-01:links.412087344</id><title>VIVE CA CHANGE!</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/vive_ca_change.htm"><![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.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/vive_ca_change.htm"/><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><author><name>Bryce Babcock</name></author><updated>2008-03-01T23:36:00Z</updated><published>2008-03-01T23:36:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:news-opinion.blog-city.com,2008-02-29:links.412087128</id><title>THE SURGE: RECIPE FOR DISASTER</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/the_surge_recipe_for_disaster.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/the_surge_recipe_for_disaster.htm"/><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><author><name>Bryce Babcock</name></author><updated>2008-02-29T20:22:00Z</updated><published>2008-02-29T20:22:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:news-opinion.blog-city.com,2008-02-28:links.412086943</id><title>AN ISSUE THE DEBATES IGNORE</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/an_issue_the_debates_ignore.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/an_issue_the_debates_ignore.htm"/><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><author><name>Bryce Babcock</name></author><updated>2008-02-28T19:21:00Z</updated><published>2008-02-28T19:21:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:news-opinion.blog-city.com,2008-02-19:links.412084943</id><title>TURNING FLIPS INTO A FLOP</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/turning_flips_into_a_flop.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/turning_flips_into_a_flop.htm"/><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><author><name>Bryce Babcock</name></author><updated>2008-02-19T22:50:00Z</updated><published>2008-02-19T22:50:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:news-opinion.blog-city.com,2008-02-18:links.412084645</id><title>OUR FORGOTTEN &quot;WAR&quot;</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/our_forgotten_war.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/our_forgotten_war.htm"/><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><author><name>Bryce Babcock</name></author><updated>2008-02-18T23:50:00Z</updated><published>2008-02-18T23:50:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:news-opinion.blog-city.com,2008-02-14:links.412083603</id><title>A TROUBLING TREND</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/a_troubling_trend.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/a_troubling_trend.htm"/><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><author><name>Bryce Babcock</name></author><updated>2008-02-14T17:34:00Z</updated><published>2008-02-14T17:34:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:news-opinion.blog-city.com,2008-02-05:links.412081520</id><title>DARING TO RECLAIM A DREAM</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/daring_to_reclaim_a_dream.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/daring_to_reclaim_a_dream.htm"/><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><author><name>Bryce Babcock</name></author><updated>2008-02-05T17:48:00Z</updated><published>2008-02-05T17:48:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:news-opinion.blog-city.com,2008-01-31:links.412080420</id><title>A CRY IN THE WILDERNESS</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/a_cry_in_the_wilderness.htm"><![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,]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/a_cry_in_the_wilderness.htm"/><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><author><name>Bryce Babcock</name></author><updated>2008-01-31T17:42:00Z</updated><published>2008-01-31T17:42:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:news-opinion.blog-city.com,2008-01-29:links.412079948</id><title>AN EVENING HIGH AND LOW</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/an_evening_high_and_low.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/an_evening_high_and_low.htm"/><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><author><name>Bryce Babcock</name></author><updated>2008-01-29T17:41:00Z</updated><published>2008-01-29T17:41:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:news-opinion.blog-city.com,2008-01-23:links.412078617</id><title>SPEARS&apos; FAMILY VALUES</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/spears_family_values.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/spears_family_values.htm"/><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><author><name>Bryce Babcock</name></author><updated>2008-01-23T17:38:00Z</updated><published>2008-01-23T17:38:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:news-opinion.blog-city.com,2008-01-22:links.412078325</id><title>NO COMPROMISO!!</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/no_compromiso.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/no_compromiso.htm"/><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><author><name>Bryce Babcock</name></author><updated>2008-01-22T19:21:00Z</updated><published>2008-01-22T19:21:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:news-opinion.blog-city.com,2008-01-21:links.412078093</id><title>SEEKING HOPE OUT OF DESPAIR</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/seeking_hope_out_of_despair.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/seeking_hope_out_of_despair.htm"/><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><author><name>Bryce Babcock</name></author><updated>2008-01-21T21:17:00Z</updated><published>2008-01-21T21:17:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:news-opinion.blog-city.com,2008-01-08:links.412074945</id><title>GOODBYE JOE, HELLO JOHN</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/goodbye_joe_hello_john.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://news-opinion.blog-city.com/goodbye_joe_hello_john.htm"/><dc:creator>Bryce Babcock</dc:creator><author><name>Bryce Babcock</name></author><updated>2008-01-08T00:45:00Z</updated><published>2008-01-08T00:45:00Z</published></entry></feed>