PelosiCare includes a possible fine and jail time for those who don’t abide by the mandate to buy health insurance. Is it really fair to send people to jail for choosing to pay their own way? Pelosi thinks so: “I think the legislation is very fair in this respect. It gives people an opportunity to [...]
Archive for November, 2009
16 Nov
Saturday Night Special
“If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.” –Thomas Jefferson Saturday Night Special “Woohoo — I’m close to controlling your health care!” The Constitution took a beating Saturday night when the House passed its 2,000-page version of ObamaCare [...]
14 Nov
Signs Of The Apocalypse: Community Organizers Pray To Obama Edition
via: rightsoup.com Holy crap. I don’t mean to overload the Right Soup with Obama propaganda videos, but they just keep coming. This one is particularly odious to me. I was raised in the Episcopal church, and anyone else who was (or is Catholic) will instantly recognize the liturgical “call and response”. Except in church we [...]
14 Nov
Flashback: Medicare Exceeded Congress’ Cost Projections By 800%
via: rightsoup.com While the CBO has come out and scored the Baucus concepts at $829 billion it is worth noting, as HotAir points out, that Congress isn’t the most reliable source for “uncertain” projections like the CBO’s scoring. Medicare’s initial projection of $12 billion in expenditures for the year 1990 turned out to be “uncertain” [...]
14 Nov
How U.N. redefined ‘pandemic’: World Health Organization quietly changed qualification of term in case of ‘swine flu’
By Chelsea Schilling © 2009 WorldNetDaily H1N1 (photo: CDC) In light of a perceived swine flu outbreak, the World Health Organization raised its influenza pandemic alert to its second highest level in May – but evidence reveals the agency may have made it easier to classify the flu outbreak as a pandemic by changing its definition to [...]
14 Nov
DEFEAT OBAMACARE IN DETAIL
via: dickmorris.com Harry Reid can pass a bill in the Senate that has no public option or an easy opt-out, shallow subsidies for the uninsured, a low total cost, weak penalties for not having insurance, no coverage for abortion and no general tax increase (except for the premium and medical device taxes). And Nancy Pelosi [...]
13 Nov
The Absence of Strategic Thinking
When media and political “talking heads” contended there was no “connection” between the recent spate of foiled terrorist plots on American soil, we were witnessing an absence of strategic thinking. They simply weren’t analyzing the ideological force of jihadist Islam that IS the connection between the terrorist plots. When media and political “talking heads,” in [...]
13 Nov
What Temple? Fatah says ‘only a Muslim holy site’: ‘U.S. partner’ demands Jews, Christians be banned from praying on Mount
Temple Mount in Jerusalem JERUSALEM – The Temple Mount does not exist alongside the Western Wall, and neither Jews nor Christians should be allowed to pray on the Mount site, Dimitri Diliani, the spokesman for Fatah in Jerusalem, told WND in an interview. Fatah, once named by the U.S. as a Mideast “peace partner,” is [...]
13 Nov
NY-23 Race Not Certified; Absentees Could Give Doug Hoffman The Win
via: rightsoup.com The race that galvanized a nation of conservatives: the NY-23 congressional election 9 days ago– isn’t over yet. Absentee ballots are still being counted, and a re-canvassing of the district shows that the race has tightened to around 3000 votes. Dark horse conservative Doug Hoffman could still win this thing, as the race [...]
13 Nov
Obama To Purge Republicans From Civil Service
via: rightsoup.com Scary stuff here: The federal government’s Office of Personnel Management just released a memo detailing that Barack Obama intends to purge Republicans from the civil service. Not only that, he intends to make the purge retroactive for 5 years. Many political appointees join the civil service after their political appointments expire, usually after [...]
