A Wall Street Journal article describes a phenomenon that many health care consumers have painfully discovered. Hospital systems buy up medical practices and other health care facilities. Then, customers learn they must pay a “facility fee” they previously did not have to pay. That adds substantially to out-of-pocket charges. (HT: […]
Month: March 2024
Two Illustrative Local Stories
There were two stories that appeared over the last couple of days that illustrate the depravity of our local institutions and particularly our local political culture. First, a Guilford County District Court Judge– Angela Foster– was suspended because her son was charged with a crime, and she reportedly attempted to […]
Blast From The Past
Fashions and tastes change. But having lived in several metro areas and attended various Baptist churches in four southern states over the last forty years, what is observed in the video below was fairly typical until relatively recently. There were no screens, guitars or drums. Typically, a music minister or […]
The Hillary/ Obama Administration
Was US Involved In Russia Terrorist Attack?
Involvement could theoretically be direct or indirect:
Spreading Greensboro Homicides To the County
The message was beyond parody. Mayor Nancy Vaughan asked during her State of the City address regarding the city’s high homicide rate, “Where is the outrage?”. She asked this after having spent many years undermining the police, playing identity group politics and hamstringing law enforcement. She and her fellow council […]
Princess Kate and King Charles
A source that seems to be credible states that Princess Kate’s cancer is pseudomyxoma peritonei. It is a cancer of the appendix that seeds and forms lesions or tumors on the lining of the abdomen. It is a rare gastrointestinal cancer. I was for the most part unfamiliar with this, […]
Matt Taibbi on Murthy v. Missouri and Covid “Misinformation”
HT: Fred