My Take
Blog URL http://www.ldjackson.net
Tags Current Events, Politics, Economy, President, Congress, Domestic Issues, World News, US News
I write mostly about current events, politics, and breaking news stories. I started blogging for Mike Huckabee and it has expanded from there.
Latest Blog Posts
- Gun control and health care reform on Nov 23, 2009 in 2nd Amendment Centers for Disease Control Cokie Roberts Health Care Reform National Institute of Health NPR President Obama
My readers (all three of you) are probably going to think I am way behind the times with this story, but I think it bears mentioning. Imagine my surprise as I was listening to NPR this morning and one of the commentators said something about how heal...
- Health Care Reform: The Road Ahead on Nov 23, 2009 in Ben Nelson Blanche Lincoln Cadillac coverage Health Care Reform Joe Lieberman Mary Landrieu Olympia Snowe Public Option Susan Collins Trigger option
Now that the Senate has voted to vote on health care reform they can finally get to crafting a version of the measure that may actually pass. Even given the close vote in the House on their final measure it would be surprising if they chose not to ag...
- Senate votes to send health care reform to floor debate on Nov 22, 2009 in Blanche Lincoln Democratic Harry Reid Health Care Reform Mary Landrieu President Obama Republican United States Senate
After ten hours of floor speeches and debate, the United States Senate is set to vote at 8:00 PM EST to send it’s version of health care reform to the Senate floor for debate. For a while, it looked as if they may fall two votes short of the 60...
- Terrorist trials in New York – Revisited on Nov 21, 2009 in Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali Eric Holder Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi New York Osama Bin Laden President Obama Ramzi Binalshibh September 11 2001 Waleed bin Attash
Just over a week ago, United States Attorney General Eric Holder announced that he would be bringing five of the suspects in the 9/11 attacks to New York to stand trial in federal civilian court. These suspects are Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Waleed bin...
- Catholic bishops set to collide with health care reform over abortion on Nov 20, 2009 in Abortion Catholic Bishops Catholic Church Harry Reid Heath Care Reform House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops United States Senate
One of the reasons Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was able to scrape her version of health care reform by earlier this month was because of concessions she made to the moderates in her party, concerning abortion. Those concessions were due, in lar...
- No to child pornography on Nov 20, 2009 in Featured 1st Amendment Child Pornography Ernie Allen Larry Flynt National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Pornography Universal Youth Day
This post is a bit unusual, in that I came to write it as part of a blog campaign. It is something I normally do not participate in, but I felt this warranted an exception. Today is Universal Youth Day and it is fitting that bloggers across the world...
- New Cervical Cancer Test Guidelines on Nov 20, 2009 in American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Cancer Cervical cancer Health Care Reform HPV Vaccine Mammogram Pap test
Are women under attack? That seems to be the question hanging in the air after the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists issued new guidelines for Pap smear testing right on the heels of the new mammography guidelines issued earlier thi...
