“Republicans will do everything in their power to stop [health care] reform this time because for many on the other side there will never be a good time to reform health insurance. As former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole said a few days ago, and I quote, ‘Sometimes people fight you just to fight you,’ [...]
Archive for October, 2009
23 Oct
Health Care Budget Hijinks
The Senate Finance Committee submitted its 1,500-page health care bill this week. S. 1796, the brainchild of Chairman Max Baucus, has drawn the ire of Republicans and some Democrats because it includes a 40 percent tax on so-called “Cadillac” health insurance plans valued at $8,000 or more for individuals and $21,000 for families. This tax [...]
23 Oct
A Serious Question
“[T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes — rejecting all changes but through the channel itself provides for amendments.” –Alexander Hamilton Pelosi: “Are you serious?” A Serious Question We have known for many years that Democrats view the Constitution [...]
23 Oct
An Inconvenient Rebuttal
via: Patriot Post Ann McElhinney’s low-budget documentary refuting the global warming hype and hysteria arrives in Washington just in time to break Al Gore’s crystal ball. “Not Evil Just Wrong,” the feature-length film she made with her husband Phelim McAleer, coolly reveals how Al’s disguise of hot fanaticism as cold fact arrives as the Senate [...]
22 Oct
WH Tries to Ban Fox News from Press Pool Interviews with Pay Czar
via: bluegrasspundit Fox News is an official member of the press pool. They help pay the costs. When the White House tried to ban them from a pool interview with pay czar Kenneth Feinberg, the rest of the members refused to do the interview and the White House was forced to back down. From Special [...]
22 Oct
Katrina Victims Have Standing To Sue Over Global Warming
From the WSJ: The suit was brought by landowners in Mississippi, who claim that oil and coal companies emitted greenhouse gasses that contributed to global warming that, in turn, caused a rise in sea levels, adding to Hurricane Katrina’s ferocity. (See photo of Bay St. Louis, Miss., after the storm.) For a nice overview of [...]
22 Oct
Cooling the Hysteria: Time to Ask the “Nasty Questions”
via: nationalcenter “Climate change is a reality; the debate is over,” Tom Strickland, Assistant Secretary of Interior, recently told reporters before releasing a plan intended to mitigate warming’s effect on natural resources.1 Well the fat lady’s not singing yet. Debate on the science of climate change is heating up as scientists forecast the climate is [...]
22 Oct
The Rights and Obligations of Liberty
“No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly; I cannot believe it will [...]
22 Oct
Village Idiots
Trashing Fox: “It is not a news organization so much as it has a perspective.” –White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel on Fox News “[T]hey’re not really a news station. … It’s not just their commentators, but a lot of their news programming. It’s really not news. It’s pushing a point of view.” –White [...]
