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FEATURED CONTRIBUTOR: JEAN H. CARD, WRITER
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Recent Articles by Jean H. Card
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12/29/2009"No" is the new "Yes"
I love it. The Democrats’ current anti-Republican message is that Republicans are the “Party of No” – that they are “obstructionist” and therefore the bad
12/9/2009The Dilemma of Opposing a Mandate
As a libertarian-leaning conservative, the idea of having the government require me and all other Americans to have health insurance gives me creeps. It feels
11/17/2009Call Lorne Michaels
So. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is being questioned about financing a study investigating “whether adolescents who consume alcohol and/or carry firearms, and/or whose
11/4/2009Just. Four. Hours.
I’d love to give U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi a pop quiz this week. Here’s how it would go: In four hours, you can:
There’s only one thing anyone really needs to know about big health insurance companies when it comes to health-care reform: they don’t want competition. Period.
8/27/2009Racist?
I was glad to see John Stossel, in this blog entry, examine the issue of whether President Obama’s critics are racist. This is a tough
In his radio address on July 25th, President Obama highlighted a few key points to show he “cares” about small business. They were the same
1) His dad was a milk truck driver – meaning he is not a country club republican. 2) He balanced his state’s budget last
There was a time when many asked why the right had so much vitriol when it came to a woman named Hillary Rodham Clinton. Those
6/4/2009The Health Care Analogy
Analogies help us understand and appreciate that which is almost beyond words, beyond adequate description. That which is complicated. A good comparison, simile or metaphor
5/13/2009Give Nuclear a Chance
The production of nuclear energy does not emit carbon – the supposed bogey-element causing climate change. Yet talk of nuclear energy is markedly absent from
5/5/2009If you liked HMOs...
The Obama administration is saying that controlling costs is a priority for their health-care reform plans, and they seem to think that government could help
Thanks to decades of government
As I watched the spot-on parody of all-things “economy” and “bailout” on a recent South Park episode (see preview scenes and/or
3/29/2009The Health Care Come-On
American taxpayers, right now, are a little bit like a young woman who regrets going a bit “too far” with the wrong guy. As we
3/19/2009Are we calling it BonusGate yet?
Are we calling it BonusGate yet? Ugly, ugly stuff. Will the taxpayers ever know justice? So far, we’ve only gotten half-truths, lies, avoidance and finger
3/12/2009Hey! Feds! Get off of my cloud.
Submitted by ASO member: Jean Card Here’s a bit of inspiring news for anyone who is feeling a little bit smothered by
2/23/2009I'm just not that into you.
I’m just not that into you. I’m weary of reading about all the provisions in the stimulus/spending bill. It makes my stomach
2/11/2009Tax Cuts: Not the Problem
Okay. I have an issue with the ongoing implication by the president that it was tax cuts that got us “where we are today.” Here’s
When I read this article, I was shocked by the behavior of these college students. Perhaps the most disturbing part is that the conservative students
Check out this editorial from the Wall Street Journal on the so-called stimulus package: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123310466514522309.html I don’t know about you, but reading
1/28/2009The rest of the sentence
It's hard to believe that our right to free speech is being threatened in this country, isn't it? In fact, part of what worries me
1/23/2009Small Business First
You know the old saying "women and children first" – used on sinking ships? I’ve got a new one for these very tough and unpredictable
I will be the first to say, straight up, that I like Barack Obama. He seems like a genuinely thoughtful, good person. I am hopeful
Americans love the phrase “right to privacy.” We like our privacy, and rightly so. It’s an important part of being free – free from scrutiny,
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Name: Jean H. Card Location: Alexandria, VA Interests: Good wine, good friends, politics/policy, cats and dogs Causes: Small Business, free Tibet, free speech, freedom Background: Jean Card has been a professional writer in Washington, D.C. for more than a dozen years. After serving for several years as the top writer for one of the country’s top business associations, she spent half a dozen years as a cabinet-level speechwriter (at the Departments of Justice, Treasury and Labor) and then as a communications consultant with a boutique PR firm. Today, she is freelance writing and consulting, full-time. Jean is a native of Vermont and a graduate of Middlebury College. She lives and writes in Alexandria, VA with her husband and two rather poorly-behaved cats.
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