Yesterday, I wrote about a bill that would treat income differently based on the job description of the person earning it.  A New York Times editorial, bravely posted without a by-line, announced "The Unemployed Held Hostage".  It described this same bill, acting as if a gun was being held to the head of every jobless person in America by those lawmakers who weren't on board with using the tax code to punish this week's unpopular crowd.

While Support for congressional health care reform has fallen to a new low (Rasmussen), there are still people who seem to want it. Today, I talked to an acquaintance still rooting for health care reform about what he believes it will look like and why he wants it.

We need universal breakfast. Parents are having children they can't afford to feed, not feeding their children even when they receive WIC vouchers and food stamps to buy the food for them, and feeding them food that the government didn't pick out. This must stop.

Read this article if you'd like to know about a another boy beaten in a Chicago neighborhood last night. To be honest, I think this is only making the news because of the pending Olympic question. It happens here all the time.

Chicago's culture breaks people up into two categories -- criminals and victims. There is a culture that associates strength and accomplishment with victimizing others. It exists in some form everywhere, but here in Chicago it is dangerously wide-spread because of the other culture -- the apologists, the victims.

The following is an open letter to my fellow Americans, and to our representatives in both houses of the legislature. I have sent this to my congresspersons and senators individually, and I post it here for the benefit of my readers. It is distributed under a Creative Commons license, so feel free to use it or pass it on with attribution.

The rallying cry for so-called health care "reform" goes something like this: Think of the uninsured! Think of the small businesses! Think of the single mothers! Think of the children! Anything must be better than what we have. This is effective only as long as we blindly accept that anything is better, making it pointless to evaluate what is really being offered.

As an uninsured, small business employed, single mother concerned for the health and well-being of her six-year-old child, I feel compelled to tell the side of the story being most ignored -- that of the people this legislation promises to help.