H Paul Garland

I lived in South Louisiana for several years. It is my experience that in general the residents of Louisiana, both white and black, are a li...

It appears fairly likely that some kind of health care reform is going to pass Congress and be signed by the President. The real question is...

The political situation in America is getting a little bit overheated. Paul Krugman says, " Something is going very wrong in the heads...

Today’s papers say that the H1N1 flu virus that so many have been worried about has now killed 2,837 people since it has been identified, bu...

When my aunt died, she was ready and then some. Her practically life-long husband had died a few years earlier, her legs had now given out, ...

The religion that my parents raised me under has some rather odd ideas. To really get it you need to have “faith.” I have visited Jerusale...

For several weeks now I have been having the most negative sort of dreams each night. Not exactly nightmares. More like reality dreams showi...

This is one of his best: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/opinion/31krugman.html - - - - - - -- - - -

Creepy Dick Cheney. Not only does this guy famously get drunk and then go hunting, shooting a friend in the face in his alcohol induced haze...

There is an article in The Washington Post today which says that the Republican National Committee “suggested in a recent fundraising appeal...

Parts 1 and 2 of President Obama's eulogy at Senator Edward Kennedy's funeral service.

Just like Paul Krugman, each week when the New Yorker magazine arrives I go through it page by page. - Reading the cartoons. I find that sev...

I look forward to Friday evening because the Bill Moyers Journal comes on PBS. Last night his show was about Maggie Mahar and her book entit...

Dishonesty and scare tactics have run rampant in the recent discussions about extending health care benefits to the 50 million people in Ame...

A silo mentality is one where inside of a large organization there are separate departments which not only do not effectively communicate wi...

Ted Kennedy was the only one of the Kennedy brothers who got a chance to prepare for his death. Joe died when the airplane he was piloting ...

On the latest episode of the science fiction show Warehouse 13 one of the guys said something that I had to write down. It sort of describes...

Carlos Leon, the retired former chief of police for El Paso, Texas was seriously injured this morning in a traffic accident while riding a m...

The death of Senator Edward Kennedy has gotten me to thinking about the destructive effects of the drug called alcohol. - I have also been n...

Ted Kennedy died last night from brain cancer. He was a good man who lived a good life (for the most part). Even though Chappaquiddick took ...