Dodge County News

Thoughts from the right side
By Marshall Miller
Which is it?
Senate candidate Obama 2003: “I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer healthcare plan.”
President Obama 2009: “I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter.”
Vice Plagiarist Biden 2009 with the new math, D.C. style: “We have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt.” [Full Story »] 

A little common sense
By Rich Lowry
One of the few strictly accurate things that President Barack Obama routinely says about his health-care reform is that it’s much bigger than just the so-called public option. Yet when his administration signaled that the public option could be dropped, the left threw a collective tantrum.
Why the uproar over what Obama at his recent Colorado town hall called a “sliver” of reform? After all, the left should be delighted about the movable feast of statism in the congressional bills: new mandates on employers and individuals, $1 trillion in new spending over 10 years, heavy regulation on insurers, a vast accretion of new bureaucratic power, and higher taxes. What’s not to like?
But nothing offers the near-term promise of moving toward a single-payer government-controlled system quite like the public option. [Full Story »] 

Dear Editor,
Every time I see a man with a pit bull, I think what a coward and a loser. If someone is so insecure about himself and his masculinity and macho image that he can’t, or is too afraid to fight his own fight, that he has to put a poor, innocent animal in a ring to fight to make up for his own lack of machismo, there is something wrong with that man. [Full Story »] 

Dear Editor,
An open letter to Dr. John D. Roberts. [Full Story »] 

Legals for August 26, 2009 [Full Story »] 

By Austin R. Vaughn
In April 2009, a new flu virus, also known as “swine flu”, was identified and has since infected 33,902 people and killed 170 people in the United States alone. That virus has recently taken hold in Dodge County.
At first glance it seemed the swine flu (H1N1) was destined to become the next bubonic plague, but due to extensive study of the new strain, the swine flu has become even less serious than common influenza. [Full Story »] 

Although much is being written about the global concern for the current Novel Influenza A (H1N1), or “swine flu”, pandemic, health officials are cautioning the public not to forget about seasonal influenza or to take it for granted. Each year approximately 36,000 deaths in the United States are attributed to our “usual” seasonal flu.
Health departments and other health care providers do not typically offer the seasonal influenza vaccine until later in the fall each year. However, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has recommended that health care providers begin administering seasonal influenza vaccinations earlier this year. [Full Story »] 

Two Dodge County Deputies were assaulted by a man with a hammer in Rhine last Tuesday afternoon August 18. The deputies were dispatched to Rhine when Buford Lee Berry (age 62) of Rhine threatened two men with a knife and a hammer. Deputies located Berry and attempted to interview Berry about the complaint. Berry became hostile and a struggle ensued between Berry and the deputies. Berry was able to pick up a hammer and struck Deputy Kale Dunn in the head with the hammer. [Full Story »] 

Hunters statewide can celebrate the beginning of dove season at noon Saturday, September 5. Long-awaited opening day is traditionally considered the beginning of fall hunting season, and with the numerous wildlife management area hunts scheduled, it is the perfect opportunity to introduce children and grandchildren to the sport. [Full Story »]