Letter to the Centre Daily TimesI support Joanne Tosti-Vasey for state representative in the 171st District. Her educational background, organizational abilities and life experiences uniquely qualify her to take on today's important issues. Universal single-payer health care, which Tosti-Vasey supports, is highest on my list.

Universal single-payer is not socialized medicine. It is privately delivered health care funded by a single public source. The client chooses health care providers.

[Do read the comments. --lambert]

A friend sent me an email this morning:

The Administration is timing results in Iraq to best influence results in 2008 elections. They have paid members of the Iraqi Parliament to delay development of a government and have made closed-door deals with various factions. Look for gradual developments towards resolutions to be parceled out starting in March. Throughout the Spring and Summer, a variety of already scripted announcements will be unveiled and will lead to some kind of reasonably stable arrangement in Iraq. Democrats will be placed in a very difficult situation and Mike Huckabee will be the next president. Also, oil prices will drop back to $50-60 a barrel.

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