Readers write – Find a reasonable health-care bill
Readers write Find a reasonable health-care bill Below is my recollection of a conversation between the hosts and guests of the “Morning Joe” show on May 9. It caught my attention especially because it seems to be in sync with my wife’s, Carol’s, letter last week...
Readers Write – The center needs to hold
The center needs to hold Have you ever heard of a box plot? It is a visual display to help see the middle of any grouping by actually putting a box around the middle of the group. If we had 100 data points listed in order, the center box would include the points from...
Readers Write – Care for others
Care for others We pride ourselves on being a Christian nation, at least in the principles and morals that we use to conduct our lives. I do not mean that we are all Christians but I do believe that all legitimate religions and those who claim to be spiritual profess...
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Readers write – Change Takes Work
Readers write Change takes work A few years ago, I decided I needed to change my kitchen. I wanted to open it up so that traffic would flow easily, especially when we were entertaining. I spent several months looking at other kitchen plans and asking people what they...
Finding truth about health care
A lie told often enough becomes the truth. Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert found we process information in two steps. First, we accept information as true, then we interrogate whether it may actually be false. We often don’t have the time or energy/resources to take...
Proposed GOP Heathcare
Proposed GOP Heathcare Currently the United States is the only industrialized nation in the world which does not provide health insurance to all its citizens. Fast forward to the current GOP healthplan and President...
Letters to the Daily Standard
March 14 2017 Letter to Editor, The Daily Standard, Celina Ohio Mark Twain famously said, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." Statistics can deceive or enlighten and our ability to reason determines which. Defending the GOP proposed...
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