George Harris

George Harris Kansas City Star Reader Advisory Panel 2008

Maybe the legal minds out there can straighten me out on this. What is wrong with President Obama sounding confident about the conviction of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed?.

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After the shootings at Fort Hood, people understandably speculated about what caused the alleged shooter Major Hasan to attack. Was it Muslim ideology? psychosis? Or was it post traumatic stress disorder?

George Harris Kansas City Star Reader Advisory Panel 2008

The U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday passed a health insurance reform bill by a vote of 220 to 215. One Republican, Rep. Joseph Cao of Louisiana voted in favor, while 39 Democrats joined the Republicans.

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The New York Yankees beat the Philadelphia Phillies 4 games to 2 in the 2009 World Series. Kansas City must find a way to match the investment New York put into their team to capture this world prize.

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There may be a tendency to over analyze Tuesday’s election results or to extrapolate too far from any given outcome. But what the heck.

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The Conservapedia Bible Project has a plan to remove liberal bias from the Bible. This is an interesting idea, and I went to the project’s web site to learn more.

The web site click here states:

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Anytime you see people with "Parking Systems" imprinted on their jackets, you should be afraid. Very afraid.

Afraid as in, afraid you're not gonna get into Arrowhead on time to see the kick-off because the guys in the jackets will route you completely around the stadium before letting you into a lot to park.

George Harris Kansas City Star Reader Advisory Panel 2008

Famed film director Roman Polanski now faces extradition from Switzerland for the rape of a 13 year old girl in Los Angeles in 1977. He lives in France but was visiting Switzerland to receive an award when he was arrested.

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An Associated Press article click here by Roger Alford and Jeffrey McMurray provides additional details about the death of census worker Bill Sparkman more than two weeks ago.

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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, we have a winner: Into the Woods at the Kansas City Repertory Theater (or is it Theatre? I can never remember.)

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A report on opensecrets.org reveals that professional football teams, coaches and players have made hefty contributions to politicians over the years.

The Kansas City Chiefs, for example, gave $20,950 to Democrats and $109,350 to Republicans between 1989 and 2009.

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Bill Sparkman, a census worker, age 51, was found hanged in a Kentucky national forest two weeks ago. It is reported in a number of news stories that the word "Fed" was written or carved onto his chest.

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Tea party participants and town hall protesters at recent events have been declaring, “We want our country back.”

I don’t know exactly what they mean, but It has a familiar sound. When have we heard this before? Yup, from Democrats when George Bush was president.

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For reasons I am at a loss to explain, calling a foot fault is a tennis taboo. In amateur matches players often get irritated if an opponent calls a foot fault, and they defend their error by saying the fault didn’t affect the outcome of the point being played.

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Congressman Joe Wilson yelled "You lie" to President Barack Obama in last night's address to Congress and has now been coerced by his own party's leadership into giving an apology to the president. So exactly what did Mr. Wilson apologize for?

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Post Hoc News Service 2009

Socialism works. The battle between the government subsidized Kansas City Chiefs and the even more government subsidized St. Louis Rams produced a Rams victory Thursday night in the Battle of Missouri Socialized Football. Final score: Rams 17-Chiefs 9.

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At a panel discussion on health care reform Sunday, area leaders spoke about their faith perspective on the issue of health care reform so much now in the news.

Among the handouts was a compilation of "faith statements on health care" culled from publications of various religious groups.

By Tarris Rosell, Ph.D. D.Min, Rosemary Flanigan Chair, Center for Practical Bioethics in Kansas City

(The following was one of several presentations in a panel of area religious leaders discussing faith conversations on health care reform. The panel, moderated by Bill Tammeus, was at the Community Christian Church on Aug. 30th. Submitted by George Harris)

By George Harris, Kansas City Star Reader Advisory panelist

Who among us would want our lives to be defined by the worst thing we've ever done?

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The summons for jury duty arrived several weeks ago. Though I already had things on my schedule, they could be rearranged. The bigger problem was that I’d been called to jury duty previously but had never before been selected to serve from the panel of potential jurors.

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Tom McClanahan's editorial ("True private options a must," KC Star Aug. 23) makes good points that advance the health care reform debate. But he also makes some errors that confound the discussion about health care finance reform.

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Speaking about the proposed health care co-ops in today’s Kansas City Star ("Can idea for co-ops make foes cooperate?") Blue Cross Blue Shield CEO Tom Bowser’s comment made me grimace.

“I don’t know if that’s a new dress on the same old girl or not,” Mr. Bowser said.

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President Obama's concession to pass health care finance reform without the so called public option is hardly surprising for several reasons.

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Democrats will push through health care finance reform this year because the political damage from failing to do so is greater than the risk of angering opponents.

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It is just too easy to distort or deceive people about health care reform proposals.

Whether it's Sarah Palin or now Senator Grassley speaking, no fair reading of any of the reform proposals includes "death panels" for the elderly.

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This one is just too funny to pass up.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution* cited an editorial in Investors Business Daily saying that scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the UK because the National Health Service would say his life, because of his physical handicaps, is "essentially worthless.”

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Eunice Kennedy Shriver has died. You probably know that she began the Special Olympics, the athletic competition program for people with disabilities. And of course she was inspired by her sister, who was developmentally disabled.

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It’s not a new idea, but I recently experienced how one second can mean the difference between serious injury or none. My tennis partner and I arrived at the ball simultaneously. His head hit my eye, and the CT scan the next day showed multiple fractures in the orbit beneath my eye.

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Someone, please tell me what I’m missing.

In his letter to the editor today (July 7, 2009) Jim Griggs of Stilwell, Kansas complains that his insurance company began charging higher co-pays unless he uses their “distant, faceless, centralized pharmacy.”

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I’d like to go on record as thanking the insurance companies for keeping the government out of the middle of the doctor-patient relationship. In the consideration of health care reform, we must be very sure the government doesn't take over for insurance companies.