Amid Protests, Alabama Medicaid Still Refuses Federal Grant Officials Won’t Budge On Anything Affecting Nursing Home Industry As I reported in my recent editorial on the subject, our government is circling the wagons to protect their nursing home boondoggle while those who want to receive care at home are left out in the cold. This … Continue reading “Amid Protests, Alabama Medicaid Still Refuses Federal Grant”
This Song Really Speaks To Me Right Now “All These Things That I’ve Done” by The Killers Leave it to Nick to express High Holy Days reflections in the form of an alt/rock song. I put “All These Things That I’ve Done” by The Killers on my MySpace profile, check it out. It is a … Continue reading “This Song Really Speaks To Me Right Now”
Some People Of Faith Uniting To Stop American Torture I apologize if I came down too harshly on Christians supporting torture in my previous post. Many sincere Christians oppose torture. Check out this article from Christianity Today magazine: 5 Reasons Torture Is Always Wrong. It gives an accurate assessment and lays out some great Biblical … Continue reading “Religious People Against Torture”
Government Sanctioned Immorality Reaching Scary Proportions Okay, we have a President of The United States of America, leader of the free world, who is pulling out all the stops to get a bill allowing more leeway on torture through Congress. This should be incredibly shocking to all of you. This post is Nick ranting about … Continue reading “Compromise On Torture?”
In An Unexpected Trend, Hispanics Becoming More Islamic As I wrote about previously, this is the religion century. Those who don’t offer clear, strong answers to life’s big questions will continue lose out to hardcore groups in churches, synagouges, and, increasingly, mosques. Today I saw even more evidence my hypothesis is true, with this fascinating … Continue reading “Islam On The Rise In America: More Latinas Becoming Muslims”
L’SHANA TOVA!!!!! Happy New Year! May you all be inscribed in the Sefer Chaim (Book of Life) and have many wonderful things and opportunities in the new year!! Nick Filed Under: Torah Insights and Religion
Background On Money Follows The Person Rebalancing Project Today, I spoke at Independent Living Center of Mobile about my new editorial on the federal Medicaid rebalancing grant and how our Governor is opposing it. But how did advocates get the feds to finally launch such a project to begin with? A new NPR report by … Continue reading “How Disability Activists Won New Federal Medicaid Grant”
A Mobile Register Letter to the Editor I’m Nick Dupree. Some of you may remember me from my public battle to stop Alabama Medicaid from ending nursing care for people on life support when they turned 21, a battle I won and received a flurry of media attention for three years ago, in the Register … Continue reading “Governor Riley Refuses New Fed. Funding For Disabled, Advocates To Rally”
Reaction Way Worse Than Comment The Pope gave an academic lecture on “Faith and Reason” in which he says violence in the name of G-d is unreasonable, and he touched on a Byzantine Emperor’s quote blasting the idea of Jihad. Incredibly, this has spurred a massive round of protests and violent reprisals. If you read … Continue reading “The Pope Calls Religious Violence Unreasonable, Triggering Religious Violence”
More Torah Commentary Veahavta l’reyacha kamocha, or, in English, “you shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Lev. 19:18) is one of the core mitzvos (commandments) of the Torah, and is in nearly every religion. This is counted in Rambam’s Sefer HaMitzvos as its own commandment, but he also notes that this mitzvah falls under the … Continue reading “Love Your Neighbor: The Whole Torah?”
Commentary On Sefer HaMitzvos It’s time for a post about Torah before Shabbas (Sabbath) starts. As I mentioned earlier, I’m studying Rambam’s Sefer HaMitzvos, which lists all of the Torah’s 613 mitzvos (commandments), what they mean, their reasons, how to do them, and why they’re included as one of the 613. In my study of … Continue reading “Serve G-d Without Thought Of Reward”
How Can Anyone Not See It? We’re digging up fossil fuels and pumping them into the air like never before, and the government still denies mass carbon emissions are causing global warming. All the smog that’s increasing children’s allergies and asthma worldwide on a scale heretofor unimaginable, is being ignored. I just clicked on Yahoo … Continue reading “Global Warming”
An Addendum To My Previous 9/11 Blog In my last 9/11 blog, I commented on how raw the event still feels to me. How close it feels. How fresh the wound still is. But it is also so very far away. Isn’t it amazing that the second-graders who were reading “The Pet Goat” to the … Continue reading “September 11: Also Very Far Away”
Religion Will Shape Our World The last century, 1900-2000, was “the communism century” and was defined by the USA vs. USSR struggle. Now the world is no longer bi-polar, the only pole left is the US, and in place of a conflict between nation-states, we have clashing cultures and ideologies. A rising tide of religious … Continue reading “The Religion Century”
Anniversary of Terror September 11, 2001 my grandmother woke me up and told me the country was under attack. I turned on the TV and saw the replays of the second plane flying into the tower. It had just hit the tower — I SAW IT. I know what I saw; planes full of jet … Continue reading “September 11: Still Too Raw For Me”
Going Big-Time, Need A New Name This Blog has picked up in activity lately, and I hope to keep it that way, and broaden its audience and its influence. I now publish it on Xanga, MySpace and on nickdupree.blogspot.com. And big news: the blog is now featured alongside other lefty blogs at PowersandMorrison.com! See it … Continue reading “Name The Blog”
In A New Segment, I Dissect What The Dumb Media Is And Isn’t Covering As the recent media blitz surrounding fake Jon Benet murder suspect John Mark Karr has shown us, the mainstream media (MSM) is completely clueless about what IS and ISN’T news. Since everyone is so confused, I’ll give you a breakdown on … Continue reading “News, Not News”
Historic First Human Rights Treatry of New Millenium The UN Disability Rights Treaty has been approved! It is the first human rights treaty of the new millenium, and is aimed at protecting the planet’s estimated 650 million disabled people. It bans discriminatory laws and practices, and it is supposed to spur a revolutionary change in … Continue reading “Disability Rights Treaty”