Pierre Tristam | June 28, 2009
COMBATTING TYRANNY
A twitter is a terrible thing to waste.
Tweeting his brains out over Iran in the last few days, Marco Rubio, the former speaker of the Florida House of Representatives and current candidate for U.S. Senate, had a “feeling” that “the situation in Iran would be a little different if they had a 2nd amendment more »
Pierre Tristam | June 22, 2009
There is no health-care debate in the United States. There’s not even a debate over principles. You’d think a nation intent on overhauling a broken system that presidents going back to Harry Truman have been trying to fix would want to openly discuss what it wants – universal care? Single-payer? A private-public combination? Nationalized insurance? more »
Pierre Tristam | June 14, 2009
Last week, GM went bankrupt. Naturally, my wife, Cheryl, and I went to a GM dealership and bought a car.
Her Buick was acting up. Strange sounds, twittery squeaks, leaks all over. We took it to the dealership for a look. It turned into a $2,700 sentence, before tax. I couldn’t tell you why. Mechanics speak more »
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