The Fireside Post

Feature Article #1

Celebrity Medicine, The AMA, Ethics, and Health Care Reform

What is going on with medical practitioners and celebrities?  Michael Jackson is just the latest in an ever increasing list of celebrities who have died at the hands of their enabling medical doctors.  Where is the American Medical Association (AMA) on this issue?  Is the AMA the go-to-guy for advice on health care reform?
This is [...]

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Ohg Rea Tone | June 29th, 2009 | Continued

Feature Article #2

Michael Jackson, Legendary Hero or Villian

Michael Jackson is dead at age 50.  Already the hype has taken over the airways.  Even in death Jackson continues to shock the sensibilities of the entire populace, fans and foes.  Farrah Faucett died today at age 62 - no offense intended but Farrah has been bumped off the news cycle.  Michael Jackson was as [...]

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Ohg Rea Tone | June 25th, 2009 | Continued

Feature Article #3

Is Ten Percent Too Much For Health Care?

President Obama is having his fourth news conference as I type.  He is suggesting health care will cost us ten percent of our national budget if we do not gain control over costs.  Is that a bad thing?  How do we measure the health of our population against other priorities?
When President Eisenhower left office in [...]

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Ohg Rea Tone | June 23rd, 2009 | Continued

Feature Article #4

Tobacco Legislation - Save Our Children

President Obama signed legislation today placing tobacco under the authority of the Food and Drug Administration.  Well, finally!.  Nicotine is a drug; a very powerful drug.  Nicotine should be regulated, as much as heroine or cocaine or methamphetimines.
Actually, regulation is not the correct word, or correct response to nicotine.  Nicotine has an addiction rate of [...]

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Ohg Rea Tone | June 22nd, 2009 | Continued

Feature Article #5

Tehran, Iran, is not Birmingham, Alabama

Riots erupt.  The police respond.  Riot gear is employed with relish.  The authorities are determined to quell the violence - determined to stop the demonstrators.  Unwittingly - it is the authority of government that is the source of the violence.  But Tehran, Iran, is not Birmingham, Alabama.
Limited access to actual events on the ground in [...]

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Ohg Rea Tone | June 20th, 2009 | Continued

Feature Article #6

Obama Apologies - Appropriate? Or Not?

Does President Obama apologize unnecessarily for America?   President Obama faces the world with legitimate humility, humbled by the embarrassment of the past administration.  President Obama is working hard to remove the plank from our own eye before trying to remove the splinter from adversaries.   We live in a harsh and brutal world, a world of [...]

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Ohg Rea Tone | June 18th, 2009 | Continued

Feature Article #7

Confirmed As A Friend - Social Networking

Friends.  What a wonderful concept.  Everyone hopes to have at least one.  There are actually psychological studies affirming the value of friendship.  That affirmation comes with caveats - such as your friend has to actually like you for who you are.  Cyber friendships on social networking sites bring all of the joys and pitfalls of [...]

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Ohg Rea Tone | June 11th, 2009 | Continued

Feature Article #8

Of Fear, Faith, and Foreign Affairs

Fear and faith do not live in the same home.  The word ‘faith’ conjures images of peace of mind, hope for the future, for the fellowship of man.  Faith speaks to the lion lying with the lamb - and the lamb can sleep with both eyes closed.  Fear exists in a troubled mind, a troubled [...]

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Ohg Rea Tone | June 5th, 2009 | Continued

Feature Article #9

The Seven Points of Obama’s Cairo Speech

United States President Barack Obama is carrying the dove of peace.  The dove is in a cage, surrounded by the guards of ignorance, prejudice, deep anger, and fear.  President Obama would like to release the dove - but he knows he must first educate the guards.  The President is in the middle east, holding the [...]

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Ohg Rea Tone | June 4th, 2009 | Continued

Feature Article #10

Christian Sponsored Terrorism

The Associated Press has composed a list of recent abortion-related violence.  As an aside, we find their headline rather ironic - because it suggests the violence is a result of abortion.  But more important than the headline are the facts of fundamentalist Christian violence (we prefer to call this behavior Christian Terrorism).
We have written warnings [...]

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Ohg Rea Tone | June 1st, 2009 | Continued

About this Magazine

This magazine started as a conversation between a father and a son.  You will encounter some of that conversation as you look through the archives, but mostly you will find discourse about a great many subjects  that embracea  great many views about the world.  Take a look around, and see what happens when you dare [...]

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