via: patriotpost President Obama told the American Medical Association on Monday that he thinks single-payer health care systems — socialized medicine — work “pretty well” in other countries, but that he does not want to create such a system here because he wants to “build on our traditions.” In fact, the predictable endgame of the [...]
Archive for June, 2009
18 Jun
A Refreshing Spin on Cable TV
via: patriotpost Few of us had heard of Glenn Beck a few years ago. Now the conservative talk-jock is everywhere. His radio show reaches eight million people. He’s performing live before sold-out crowds on a comedy tour. He’s had No. 1 bestsellers in both fiction and nonfiction — plus a new book, “Common Sense: The [...]
18 Jun
’45 Million Americans’ — Who Are Those Guys?
via: patriotpost About 45 million Americans lack health care insurance. Or do they? A pro-”universal health care” television host recently cited this widely accepted “fact.” The number is bogus. Here’s the skinny. Start with the math. We have 300 million Americans. Subtract the 45 million — 15 percent of us — with no health insurance. [...]
18 Jun
A Fine Madness in the Washington Air
via: patriotpost To borrow Niall Ferguson’s metaphor, if finance is an evolutionary process, then regulation is its intelligent design — which, I would add, is a cognate of faith, not science. Or, to take the observation of former Federal Reserve Governor Frederic Mishkin, if “the financial system (is) the brain of the economy,” then, I [...]
18 Jun
Now that’s a shock, because he started some of this: Silent No More!… GW Bush Slams Obama’s Socialist Policies
via: gatewaypundit Finally, after being pummelled for months, George W. Bush blasted Barack Obama for his socialist economic policies, overspending and weak national security decisions. Obama will quadruple the US budget deficit his first year in office. And, he wants to spend trillions more for his Obamacare program. The Washington Times reported, via Reboot Congress: [...]
18 Jun
NYT: Duke Lacrosse Players Killed Meredith Kercher
via: humanevents Whether it is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Weather Underground, Central Park rapists, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Jim Jones and the People’s Temple, welfare recipients, Palestinian terrorists, murderers, abortionists, strippers or common criminals — liberals always take the side of the enemies of civilization against civilization. In the view of The New York Times, every criminal [...]
18 Jun
You’re Not Outraged Yet? State-Run Media Refuses Opposition Ads During Obama Health Care Infomercial
via: gatewaypundit Drudge reported: ABC REFUSES OPPOSITION ADS DURING WHITE HOUSE SPECIAL Wed Jun 17 2009 15:15:00 ET ABC is refusing to air paid ads during its White House health care presentation, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned, including a paid-for alternative viewpoint! The development comes a day after the network denied a request by the [...]
18 Jun
As parents, we can have no joy . . .
“As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and [...]
17 Jun
Weird? Lib McCaskill Questions Obama Over Firing of Inspector General …Update: White House Smears Walpin
via: gatewaypundit More on the Americorps scandal… Obama signed legislation in April to vastly increase the troop size of the Americorps from 70,000 to 250,000. In March the Senate voted to allow ACORN funding in this same bill. Last week, Dear Leader fired the inspector general after he identified millions of dollars in AmeriCorps funds [...]
17 Jun
Orbitz Should Stick to Cheap Flights; Abandon Cheap Advocacy
via: Heritage In case you missed it, Orbitz is not limited to simply booking flights and hotel accommodations anymore. It has also become a passionate advocacy group. In a heartfelt letter to its loyal customers, Orbitz called for an end to the US-Cuban embargo and immediate normalizations with the Caribbean island. On their recently-launched website, www.opencuba.org, [...]
