American Thinker hits the jackpot with three articles.
On Health Care: Compulsory insurance -- another Trojan Horse
On the Copenhagen Treaty: U.S. sovereignty and the Climate Summit
On the concept of a third party: Divide and conquer
Big Government on Health Care: The Public Option Deception
Reason Magazine on Health Care: In Health Care - Nobody Knows Anything
Oniomaniac
n. one who shops uncontrollably, one who is addicted to shopping I thought this was a joke when I first saw the word, or at least an overwhelming desire to eat onions. It seems that the term "shopaholic" just isn't good enough anymore. The word is derived from the Greek onios which means for sale and mania which means insanity.
In the United States it is recognized as impulsive-compulsive disorder and stuck in the broad category of an impulse control thingy going on. They have their very own self-help groups and get to blame their "affliction" on low self esteem, anger, loneliness, and depression. They even blame it on the consumer driven society we live in.
Here's my problem with all of this. I'm an alcoholic. My solution to the problem is "don't drink." At the heart of an alcoholic's problem is spiritual malaise. So first, we don't drink and second we work on the spiritual problems such as selfishness, anger, and other transgressions against God (as we understand him.)
So my suggestion to the shopaholics out there is to not go shopping. Simple? Yep. Most things in life are...
And if you have credit cards, get rid of them.
USA Today: Latest bank fee is for paying off credit card on time every month
