Author: The Voice In The Wilderness

Outrageous charges from for profit hospital The link details the financial dilemma of a teacher with a horrendous bill despite “good” public school insurance. Look at the 2,000% markup on the stents and the overall...

I was reading about the budget bill today and a fragment of memory from my schoolboy days came to me. I looked it up. The part I had remembered was “Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or...

Driving home today, SiriusXM 70’s on 7 played Fleetwood Mac’s “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow”, Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign theme song.  I was a foot soldier in that campaign and it...

Illinois House overrides Rauner vetoes of income tax increase, budget.   The Illinois Senate had already overridden the veto with Republicans joining to avoid Illinois bonds receiving a junk rating. “If I decide to...

  Thanks to  Cassiodorus, formerly of dkos, now at caucus99percent. When you talk about impeachment, just think about jumping out of the frying pan.