Open Thread (7/3/2008)

Health Care and Health Insurance--this morning on NPR there was an interesting story giving some facts about health care/insurance in countries not included in the previous discussion--UK, Netherlands, German, France, and Switzerland. You can view the information at  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91972152

Again this morning, but on C-SPAN, there was a 30 minute conversation with Amy Myers Jaffe, a senior researcher in the James Baker Institute, Rice U. She is accepted as an expert on the oil situation and was one of the individuals who testified before Congress two weeks ago. This segment can be viewed at  http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dprogram&record=565408178

Both of these will add information to the previous discussions and clarify/correct some of the misinformation posted and arguments made.

Pattsi Petrie

Earth Justice is running radio ads to lobby Tim Johnson to vote for the Clean Water Restoration act.

For over 35 years, the Clean Water Act has protected our rivers, lakes, streams and wetlands from pollution and destruction. But an organized attempt by developers and polluters to weaken the Clean Water Act has created confusion over what waters should be protected.

Did this issue go to the Supreme Court?  I remember some disagreement about the federal gov'ts jurisdiction over non-navigable waterways.  How can Congress pass a bill to give them the right to regulate something outside their Constitutional control?  (Gosh, that's a dumb question, isn't it?)

...a senior researcher in the James Baker Institute, Rice U.

Go Owls!

McLean County Pundit has a whole new look

It is a nice clean look.

Should congress find Bush guilty of a crime retro actively would be the question? If the story is true.