Don Quixokie

The passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or Obamacare has created or uncovered a huge shortage of primary care physicians. Ominous, yes? There is a vast opportunity hidden in this crisis. Conservatives have made much about doctors claiming that they'd rather give up their practice than operate under Obamacare. If the burdens of Obamacare is so onerous to physicians, then that can be remedied with subsidies made directly to doctors who participate rather than insurance middle men. That's for the short term. The fact is that the Federal government has an unmatched ability to promote specific industries and make fertile specific fields of endeavor, witness the World War 2 and post-World War deficit promotion of manufacturing which created the greatest economic expansion the world had ever known. For the long term, America needs an investment on the scale of the GI Bill for education for future primary care physicians. The GI Bill, no less that the government's inve...

Dear Mr President and Staff You are wrong about the Green on Blue attacks being a strategy of desperation. Suicide attacks are a strategy of desperation. Green on Blue attacks are a strategy of pure genius and effectiveness. A winning strategy. If American troops cannot tell friend from foe, all that is left is either a steady march of attrition or indiscriminate bloodshed. Am I cheering for the Taliban and al Qaeda? HELL NO! But "not letting the Taliban win" is NOT a strategy. Just how much goodwill will we generate destroying villages in order to save them in the Graveyard of Empires? If a foreign power had invaded and occupied America for over ten years and taken it upon themselves to refashion our political instutitions in their image, what would brave American patriots do? Has ANYONE asked that question? Fuck timelines, we need to leave Afghanistan NOW!