robert reilly

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October 14, 2009

robert wrote Health Care Reform: A Reality Check

Let's see if I have this straight. Corporate American will run most of the nation's health care industry by providing first rate medical insurance coverage for more than 90 percent of the nation's... Read More

October 9, 2009

robert wrote No Sympathy for Those In The Ivy Tower

I'm sure a lot of people were distressed after reading about the hard economic times at Harvard that lost 27 percent of its endowment this past year gambling on risky investments. The sad tale was... Read More

October 7, 2009

robert wrote At The ABA The Spin Doctor Is In

if the ABA is interested in justice why isn't it speaking out across the nation against mean spirited prosecutors who resist allowing inmates access to DNA testing that may prove their innocence?... Read More

October 1, 2009

robert wrote The Newspaper: The Watchdog Sleeps

The newspaper with printer's ink, paper, and pictures should be put out of its misery pronto. It's costing media companies billions of dollars in loses. it's forced publishers to get in bed with m... Read More

September 7, 2009

robert wrote Making Money Off Of Dead People

I became worried when medicine became big business. I didn't like the idea of companies earning big profits off of sick people. Now we know the $2.7 trillion a year medical profession is helping t... Read More

About robert reilly

I'm a retired journalist who began my career as a summer copyboy before my senior year in high school for CBS News Washington under then Vice President Theodore Koop. The summer following my high school graduation I served as a disc jockey for radio station WTCR in Asland, Kentucky that was then owned by Town and Country Network founded by Connie B. Gay. I then joined the Army and served as a military correspondent in Korea and Ft. Belvoir, Virginia. I earned a BS degree from Arizona State University and a MA degree from the University of Iowa. I also studied at the Wharton School, the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy (NIH Summer Fellow), Oxford University, the University of London, Wesleyan University and ASU"s graduate program in higher education. I served as my own attorney in federal court in an age discrimination case (Dist. of Arizona case No. 96-0063) taking it up to trial in 18 months. My news articles have appeared in several publications nationwide. I've written a self-published novel titled "The Return of John Marshall" that's available from Amazon.com, Borders, Barnes& Noble, Google and 25,000 book retailers nationwide. One reviewer wrote: "Above all, this is a novel of ideas, sometimes called a protest or propaganda novel--for example, Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country, and Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. The ingredients in this manuscript are handled superbly"... I'm working on a second novel.