I fail to understand why with a solid majority they were unable to get past their own agendas and essentially cut the President off at the knees. What a disgrace. I did not elect a King, I realize this democracy does not allow that, but if I could have I would have given that much power to the President just so he can wade through the morass and get the people’s business done.

Instead I have to listen to all the doctors I work with celebrate what they see as the demise of the healthcare reform bill, even as I cancel another patient who even though she has insurance, can’t afford the tremendous deductible for her diagnostic procedure. In his book The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin refers to people who have “made peace with servitude.” It would appear we have been so bamboozled by the 24 hour news cycle and their mission of dissecting every minute, irrelevant and many times inflammatory detail of what passes for news, that we have assumed they must know more that we do and have entrusted them with our most sacred ability, to think for ourselves. I’m just totally disgusted.

It's inflammatory and arguable (if a viable fetus can be considered a baby). But is it civil? I would say it is not and that people on one side of a political argument have an obligation to be civil.

Your policy while appropriate and suitable runs counter to the standards used by mani stream media like O'Reilly (no relation) and Glenn Beck.

As a professor of journalism are you interested in exploring the nature of contemporary MSM news and opinion and whether it is civil or inflammatory as compared to blogs and 'civilian' opinion?

Yr. Unrepentant Obedient Servant,
Etc., etc.

Add some red paint and it would look like "American Gothic Reenactment Gone Horribly Wrong".