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Allen Finkelstein was born in New York where he attended Yeshiva as a boy. He continued his religious training at The Hebrew Academy of Miami Beach, but was transferred to public school by his parents who "feared" that he would become a Rabbi. It was at the Hebrew Academy that young Allen was first encouraged to write. After a stormy career at the University of Florida, where he was largely discouraged from writing, majoring in premed, English and philosophy,each department advising him to change to another, he graduated with a B.A. in philosophy and a Masters Degree in Education. After teaching math and science at various primary school levels for a few years, despite some fond regrets, he left teaching for medical school in West Virginia. After graduating with his D.O. Degree in 1981, Dr. Finkelstein moved back to Florida, finished his internship and still practices as a family practitioner in Tampa Bay Area. Dr. Finkelstein became very active in the early "90s promoting to his colleagues and patients the idea of saving Medicare from the hands of the greedy lobbies. In 2006, at the urging of his physician assistant he started publishing his Blog, "The O'Finky Factor." Recently he has become a contributor to OpEDNews. A life long liberal democrat, his writing tends to decry the party's penchant for so often trying to promote a righteous agenda too quickly for acceptance by a more moderate public, thus holding back the very progress they so desperately seek.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
Whether Democrat or Republican, I believe most U.S. citizens feel that members of our Supreme Court habitually use obviously bad precedents to make brand new bad decisions.
Saturday, December 31, 2011 The Year 2011 in Short Review (1 comments)
There are so many obvious facts to ignore, so many obvious "truths" to hide that one simply cannot tell where to start.
Thursday, November 17, 2011 There's Always a Place for Herman Cain in Our Hearts and Our Government
It is time for Herman Cain to step down as a candidate for president and vie for a more suitable position befitting his social and moral values. In the not too distant future, a Supreme Court position will be open. What could be more appropriate for Mr. Cain than to join his political and ethically challenged colleague Clarence Thomas on the High Court. There is always room for one more sociopath in any government instit
Monday, November 14, 2011 The Republican Debates: Can You Feel Their Pain
It is not only Republicans that can feel the pain involved in watching the party's presidential debates. While it may be amusing to many Democrats and independent voters to watch so many wannabes pontificating on issues they know so little about, it is also painful to think that one of them may end up as president or vice president in 2012.
Monday, October 17, 2011 The Innate Value of "Dumb" Questions (2 comments)
As ignorant and confused as average voters are, we have many questions, but are reluctant to ask them because our leaders keep telling us that the answers to these questions are too complicated for us to understand.
Saturday, October 8, 2011 American Civil Libbb... Blibbb...uh... It's Time for a Nap!
Where is the ACLU, once great champion of the First Amendment? The venerable, once proud organization, afflicted with Alzheimer's Dementia in its 91st year, carelessly championed bribes to politicians as freedom of speech....
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 The Demise of the Republican Party? (5 comments)
A question that has haunted many of us since neo-psychotics such as the young Dick Cheney and sidekick Donald Rumsfeld subtly took over for the ailing President Reagan is whether or not the honorable Republican party is terminally ill?...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 Cooking the Books: The Republican Recipe
I keep reading about absurd figures regarding how deep our country is in debt. Right wing pundits whose most advanced mathematics class was the one they failed in third grade, will claim that entitlements such as Medicare and Social Security are technically in debt to the tune of more than one hundred trillion (with a "t") dollars! Is this possible?...
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 The Freak Show
In light of the downgrade of the U.S. credit rating by Standard and Poor, we must be careful, as John McCain has said on Meet the Press today, not to kill the messenger, no matter how much the bumbling, dishonest fools may deserve it...
Monday, August 1, 2011 The Real Problem (1 comments)
O.K., it's time for us to pay some attention to that old nemesis, perspective. Perhaps we are, however late in the day, on the verge of a deal between two criminal factions that will free up the U.S. debt ceiling. Perhaps the president has substantiated his reputation as an adult among bickering adolescents and as a mediator?
Friday, July 22, 2011 Washington D.C. and the War of Competing Genetic Defects (2 comments)
As a practicing physician over the past thirty years or so, I have made a profound and undeniable observation regarding our two major political parties. Republicans create laws and rules encouraging rich people to commit obscene abuses of our institutions while Democrats encourage the less affluent to abuse our systems to equally obscene degrees.
Friday, June 24, 2011 On the Dole
As private homeowners insurance is, once again, about to be bailed out of extinction, as the banking industry and Wall Street repeat all of the vile, clandestine practices that won them their bailouts, Republicans scream for "smaller government."
Friday, June 17, 2011 Twenty Questions, Stupid
There seems to be no end to questions leading in "stupid"...
Thursday, June 16, 2011 A Rational View of Global Health Insurance (5 comments)
Did you ever wonder how an industry which is repeatedly bailed out by the government holds the right to monopolize homeowners insurance?
Sunday, May 8, 2011 American Government: Fair and Balanced (1 comments)
By catching and executing Osama bin Laden, President Obama has proven that through commitment and careful analysis of the facts, he can make informed decisions. In stark contrast, Junior Bush and his comedy retinue, after starting two useless, prolonged foreign wars, soon abandoned the only practical goal which they pretended to adopt...
Friday, May 6, 2011 Donald Trump: Neo Republican Presidential Contender (2 comments)
Sitting back and watching Donald Trump was amusing at first. Seeing the long time Democrat, the same man who had donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democratic causes and candidates masquerade as a "neo" Republican presidential pretender was at once shocking and perplexing.
Saturday, April 16, 2011 The Real Battle of Washington
What we have in this country is the ultimate battle. After years of petty arguments and vague differences, crystal clear battle lines have been drawn: the party of abject evil, the Republicans, has declared war on the party of abject stupidity, the Democrats.
Monday, April 11, 2011 Talk is Cheap (1 comments)
President Obama needs to act like the person he is instead of the person his advisors have told him he should be. Trying to be a classic politician is not his strong suit. Yes, he can carry it off well enough for Republicans and bigots to call him a "cheap Chicago politician," but those are just code words for Republicans seeking to project their own faults on to an opponent or bigots trying to avoid using the "N" word....
Monday, March 7, 2011 The American Conscience and Abuse of the Elderly (1 comments)
Why does our government seem to have so much disdain for our senior citizens? Some seventy five years ago a completely different U. S. government proposed and implemented an investment program which it called the Social Security System.
Saturday, February 19, 2011 Solving the Healthcare Enigma II (2 comments)
As a progressive and a healthcare professional, I have found one thing to be painfully apparent. As a group, impatient progressives in Congress, in their excitement and eagerness to pass healthcare reform apparently failed to complete their homework on the subject!
Saturday, February 5, 2011 A Little Talk With Myself
I don't want to hear that progressives want mandatory health insurance because they don't want some slackers to pay five or ten times as much for ER care as they would for a regular doctor visit...
Friday, January 21, 2011 Involuntary Appraisal
I could scarcely believe my ears- Rudy Giuliani recommending and even chastising our society for not committing people like Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Karl Rove to "involuntary appraisal." I actually agree wholeheartedly with the Mayor!...
Friday, January 14, 2011 History Repeats Itself (1 comments)
Unfortunately, after observing President Obama's latest political "victories" in the now famous lame duck session, I realize how useless it really is to argue with leaders of either major party...
Thursday, September 30, 2010 Rage: The Missing Ingredient (4 comments)
Whatever disagreements I may have with the way in which the Obama Administration and various "fools" in Congress have failed to repair the vast damage to this country committed by the Junior Bush Administration, I realize that the damage WAS done by that administration....
Friday, September 24, 2010 A Word From The Wise (2 comments)
It is time for moderate Democrats to take over the Democratic Party.
Saturday, July 10, 2010 Retarded (4 comments)
What it means to be politically retarded
Friday, May 21, 2010 Democrats vs Republicans (2 comments)
Thoughts about the great Democrat versus Republican battles that are destroying our country, from the author of the controversial political blog "The O'Finky Factor."
Saturday, March 27, 2010 The Congressional Sandbox
Recently, President Obama signed into law, a massive bill extending health care to millions of American citizens who would otherwise be unable to obtain insurance coverage. The authors tried, valiantly, to include even more citizens in the coming years. They did their best to reform private insurance regulations and create fair competition among medical insurance carriers. Though they fell short in this endeavor, someday...
Monday, March 8, 2010 Realistically Speaking
Realistically speaking, the Republicans have, as usual, ignored the consequences of their actions. Sadly, it is what they do. It is the way Republicans have always done business, and it will have to be accepted. Recently, by engaging in two questionable wars, while at the same time lowering taxes, they almost managed to destroy social security whose surpluses they usurped to pay for those wars.
Thursday, February 18, 2010 Freedom of Speech
Dr. Finkelstein, controversial Florida political blogger and physician, weighs in on the recent Supreme Court decision and its implications.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 Sometimes
Dr. Allen Finkelstein, family physician and famous political blogger of "The O'Finky Factor" weighs in on the recent shameful Supreme Court decision (from his Jan 25th site blog entitled "Sometimes").
Friday, January 29, 2010 Health Care Babbaloney
Family Physician and Political Bloggist Dr. Allen Finkelstein gives his viewpoints on the Health Care Reform debate.
