Author Archives: Patrick

In late October, early November I was selected as part of a group of listeners to be part of the pre-release team for Hugh Hewitt’s new book, The Happiest Life. Shortly before Thanksgiving I received a PDF copy and I promptly began to devour the book. For those who read this blog you know that […]

In late October, early November I was selected as part of a group of listeners to be part of the pre-release team for Hugh Hewitt’s new book, The Happiest Life. Shortly before Thanksgiving I received a PDF copy and I promptly began to devour the book. For those who read this blog you know that […]

It would appear those charges of erroneous charges from the Healthcare website are not just coming from the Federal Healthcare.gov site.  State run exchanges are having their own problems as well. Reports of erroneous WA health exchange debits | kgw.com Portland As pointed out earlier these charges were already happening to people who used the Federal […]

According to Breitbart and the Washington Times under the new Congressional Budget deal military retirees will see a cut in their retirement.  This cut specifically effects those veterans between the age of 40 and 62.  The reasoning behind this 22 years of retirees is because as stated in the Washington Times article “For those in the […]

The Independent reports, Fox News Host Megyn Kelly told viewers it is a ‘fact’ that both Jesus and Santa Claus are white.: Oh Megyn Kelly that was just not the smartest thing you have ever said.  I hope you apologize for it soon. Santa Claus or Saint Nicholas is based on a few historical figures and […]

Later I will look for video from today’s testimony by the Honorable Secretary Sibelius, but let me start at the outset that as the post states.  She didn’t purger herself. Amid the rising cost to the consumer in terms of healthcare particularly in the increase of cost of healthcare premiums see my previous post concerning […]

Yesterday I wrote about the potential for a bailout of the insurance companies because the new model as forced by the Affordable Care Act may prove to be unsustainable.  This morning FOX News covered the conversation again.     Real people are concerned about this very potential risk.  So much so, that a recent story […]

On October 18th I wrote a post on the troubles of the Affordable Care Act going beyond just the website woes everybody was experiencing.  3.  People who do get insurance apparently aren’t getting the right coverage, think they got coverage, or in some cases get coverage for three plans thinking they got coverage for one […]

Many of those close to me will already be aware of this, but I do not buy into the claims of global climate change.  At least not in terms of it being related to human creation, nor do I see the evidence to suggest things will be catastrophic over time. That said, I recently drove […]

Thanks Giving is perhaps my most favorite Holiday.  Unlike Christmas which has moved to the very commercial and in many ways moved on, at least in the United States, from celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, Thanks Giving remains very true to its origins. Like July 4th, Thanks Giving is an uniquely American Holiday.  This […]