Heavy-Handed Politics

• What a Hoot! What a Fool! What a Shame.

  CNSNews.com - Sen. Reed: Forcing People to Buy Health Insurance is Constitutionally Justified Because It’s Like Making People ‘Sign Up for the Draft’
  Sen. Reed: Forcing People to Buy Health Insurance is Constitutionally Justified Because It’s Like Making People ‘Sign Up for the Draft’
  Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 6:30pm EST
  

• Pushing a Point of View

  Robert Ringer's Voice of Sanity Blog
  
  By Robert Ringer
  
  Those commentators on Fox News who like to play it down the middle keep saying that they believe BHO’s strategy of trying to marginalize the most successful TV network in the country is unwise. Unwise? They’ve been inside' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 2:26pm EST
  

• "..... socialized medicine is a ...

  "..... socialized medicine is a bad idea. Any system that comes out of our government is going to be a scandal-plagued train wreck of high prices and low quality on day one, and only get worse from there."
  
  -- Dr. William Douglass --
  
  
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 2:12pm EST
  

• How much more are you going ...

  How much more are you going to pay?
  By Dr. William Douglass
  It doesn't take a math whiz to see the problems with the numbers when it comes to ObamaCare.
  
  But the funny business going on is reaching outrageous new levels - as a new analysis shows that' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 2:08pm EST
  

• The Dismissal Strategy

  Robert Ringer's Voice of Sanity Blog
  By Robert Ringer
  
  I caught the last part of Chris Wallace’s interview with Rush Limbaugh last Sunday and was pleased to have it confirmed as being a huge success. That confirmation came from David Axelrod on CBS’ Face the Nation when he' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:52pm EST
  

• The Gouverneur Times: ...

  The Gouverneur Times:
  Owens Breaks 4 Campaign Promises in first hour in Congress
  
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:53am EST
  

• Obama's Frightening Insensitivity ...

  Obama's Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting | NBC Chicago
  A bad week for Democrats compounded by an awful moment for Barack Obama.
  
  ' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:47am EST
  

• Failure to Comply: Welcome to Facism

  House Committee on Ways & Means
  PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail
  Failure to Comply with Democrats’ Mandate Can Lead to 5 Years in Jail
  
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:30am EST
  

• Recession, Depression, What Michelle Worry?

  First Lady requires more than twenty attendants
  By Dr. Paul L. Williams
  Canada Free Press
  “In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much,” she said. “See, that’s why I left a job at [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 5:58pm EDT
  

• Destructive 'Solutions' | Richard W. Rahn ...

  Destructive 'Solutions' | Richard W. Rahn | Cato Institute: Commentary
  For at least a century, the Washington political class has been correctly known for creating more problems than solving existing ones. This tendency to enact destructive, rather than constructive, solutions for problems (most often created by government) has now [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 12:16am EDT
  

• A DITHERING DEMAGOGUING WHITE HOUSE THAT IS ...

  A DITHERING DEMAGOGUING WHITE HOUSE THAT IS A DANGER TO AMERICA
  By Dick Cheney
  
  [This is the full text of former Vice-President Dick Cheney's speech at the Center for Security Policy award dinner in Washington on October 21, 2009.]
  
  Thank you all very much. Its a pleasure' [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 11:59pm EDT
  

• Marxism

  "...for Marxist Communists, there is no difference between make-believe and reality. There is no such thing as reality. There is only what people believe. If people believe something is true, it is. If they don't, it isn't, it doesn't exist..."
  
  -- Dr. Jack Wheeler--
  ' [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 11:55pm EDT
  

• OMG. What next.

  CNSNews.com - Lawyers Call for Changes in International Law to Help ‘Climate Exiles’
  (CNSNews.com) – International law dealing with refugees should be amended to cover people affected by disasters attributed to climate change, environmental lawyers are arguing.
  
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 11:51pm EDT
  

• T. Boone Pickens on Iraq: 'We ...

  T. Boone Pickens on Iraq: 'We leave there with the Chinese getting the oil'
  WASHINGTON — A leading energy developer said the United States has been excluded from Iraq's revived energy market.
  
  T. Boone Pickens told Congress that U.S. companies were losing opportunities in the Iraqi crude' [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 11:48pm EDT
  

• OBAMA CARE

  According to AMERIPAC, under Obama Care:
  Seniors lose $500 Billion from MedicareObama Lied - Illegals are TAX exempt and get FREE care (Americans pay)You pay TAXES on Employer health care plansUninsured forced to spend 20% of income to be insuredRetired Union Members healthcare benefits get TAXEDObamaCare provided to ALL non [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 11:27pm EDT
  

• What's "Divisive"? by John Hinderaker

  What's "Divisive"? by John Hinderaker
  Power Line
  

  A postscript on the Rush Limbaugh/St. Louis Rams story, which I wrote about here: the conventional criticism of Limbaugh, by those not dumb enough to fall for the fake racist quotes, is that he is a "divisive" figure. That,' [...]

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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 10:15pm EDT
  

• Lefty anger splits Dems -- and ...

  Lefty anger splits Dems -- and may sink them | Washington Examiner
  Self-styled progressives across the country are angry, not just at Obama, but at the rest of the Democratic power structure, as well. That anger is causing an ugly split inside the Washington Democratic world.
  
  "Can I" [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 9:49pm EDT
  

• LIFE

  We lost a family friend yesterday to cancer. He was only 31 years old and was married about one week shy of 1 year.
  
  Life can be cruel at times. [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 11:01am EDT
  

• "We lay it down ...

  "We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience."
  
  --Thomas Jefferson [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 7:06pm EDT
  

• "[W]here there is no ...

  "[W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community."
  
  --Benjamin Rush, 1788 [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 7:02pm EDT
  

• "[I]f the public are ...

  "[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them."
  
  --Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772 [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 6:59pm EDT
  

• Saudis weighs major ...

  Saudis weighs major F-15 buy as Iran advances
  WASHINGTON — Saudi Arabia is negotiating another major order of F-15 fighter-jet from the United States.
  
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 6:57pm EDT
  

• CIA hurt by ...

  CIA hurt by 'administration's war with the U.S. intelligence community'
  A senior member of Congress said last week that Justice Department prosecutions of CIA personnel over detainee treatment is undermining morale at the agency and prompting resignations.
  
  ' [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 6:56pm EDT
  

• GAO report: Saudis ...

  GAO report: Saudis are top fianciers of Taliban
  WASHINGTON — The United States has determined that Saudi Arabia continues to be the leading source of funding to Al Qaida and is also the top financial backer of Taliban.
  
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 6:55pm EDT
  

• Kerry Says Recession Helps Environment

  Echoing White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's maxim, "Never let a serious crisis go to waste," Sen. John F. Kerry (D-MA) wants to capitalize on, extend and even increase current unemployment rates to cut carbon dioxide emissions. Endorsing draft legislation of a so called "cap and trade" bill co-introduced' [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 6:18pm EDT
  

• Dollar Looking Weaker

  With the dollar's continued decline due to excessive debt racked up by the Obama administration, the oil-rich nations of the Middle East, along with a cabal of other countries including Russia and China, are discussing a switch to currencies other than the dollar for trading oil. This would mark the [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 6:15pm EDT
  

• Obama No Friend of Dalai Lama

  It's been at least 18 years since the Dalai Lama trekked to Washington without paying a visit to the White House, but this week's visit from the Tibetan religious leader lacks a meeting with Peace Prize-winning Barack Obama. And while an appointment with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is on the [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 6:10pm EDT
  

• "I don't expect to actually ...

  "I don't expect to actually read the legislative language [of the health care bill] because reading the legislative language is among the more confusing things I've ever read in my life."
  
  --Sen. Thomas Carper (D-DE) [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 6:06pm EDT
  

• The Nobel Prize to Obama: Europe's ...

  The Nobel Prize to Obama: Europe's Bid to Re-Colonize America
  Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
  Whether it was rewarding Jimmy Carter for criticizing the Iraq War or supporting Al Gore in his crusade against global warming, the Norwegian Parliament -- which chooses the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 5:51pm EDT
  

• [nt]

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  By Robert Ringer

  If you’ve ever wondered how the Republican Party lost its way, some of Senator Lindsey Graham’s recent comments should help you to understand. Graham is part of a clique [...]

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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 4:04pm EDT
  

• What Are They Smoking ...

  What Are They Smoking In Oslo?
  JOHN FUND
  
  A prize for not being George W. Bush. [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 3:58pm EDT
  

• Most Embarrassing MomentJAMES TARANTO

  Most Embarrassing MomentJAMES TARANTO
  
  The Norwegian Nobel Committee makes President Obama look ridiculous. [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 3:55pm EDT
  

• Fannie's Next Big AdventurePiling ...

  Fannie's Next Big AdventurePiling a guarantee on a guarantee on . . . [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 3:54pm EDT
  

• Obama's Nobel Peace Prize

  An award for the end of American exceptionalism.
  The Nobel Peace Prize awarded to President Obama yesterday was greeted with astonishment as much as any other emotion, even among many of his admirers. Our own reaction is bemusement at the Norwegian decision to offer what amounts to the world's' [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 3:52pm EDT
  

• He Won - But For What?

  He Won - But For What?
  by: Michael Medved
  
  President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize reflects the prevailing perception by Europeans (and most of the rest of the world) that the USA is an evil, racist, incurably bigoted society. I've spoken with visiting Europeans who expressed their surprise after' [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 3:47pm EDT
  

• A Defense Bill Should Be About ...

  A Defense Bill Should Be About Defense — Not Liberal Social Policies
  by Rep. Mike Pence (Ind.)
  
  Throughout my nearly nine years in Congress, I have been downrange with our troops every year in Afghanistan and Iraq. I also supported every defense authorization bill that came before [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 3:42pm EDT
  

• House ethics panel ...

  House ethics panel to expand Rangel probe - Washington Times
  The House panel investigating alleged ethics violations by Rep. Charles B. Rangel, New York Democrat, said Thursday it voted unanimously to expand the probe.
  
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 3:28pm EDT
  

• Holder's Witch Huntby Rep. Dan ...

  Holder's Witch Hunt
  by Rep. Dan Burton
  Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to prosecute CIA personnel is an outrageous act of political theater that has the potential to significantly damage our nation’s long-term intelligence gathering capabilities. Despite the Administration’s subtle attempts to distance itself from the Justice Department’s [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 8:20pm EDT
  

• Beware of the Republican Establishment - ...

  Beware of the Republican Establishment - HUMAN EVENTS
  Between the town hall meetings and the tea party rallies, millions of Americans are taking to the streets to protest a government gone berserk. They are angry and determined to take their country back. But there are snakes in the grass [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 8:15pm EDT
  

• Networks Ignore Democrat Defeat of Immigrant ID and Their Push for Coverage of Illegals

  News media covered dust-up over Joe Wilson, but not recent developments that support his claim.
  
  Rep. Joe Wilson’s “shocking outburst” generated plenty of media attention and even accusations of racism, but it also forced the networks to talk about the possibility of illegal immigrants getting health care. But [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 6:43pm EDT
  

• Republicans Say Obama Administration ...

  Republicans Say Obama Administration Is Hampering U.S. Intelligence Efforts
  
  
  AP: ‘Inside the CIA's Haphazard Interrogation Program’ [...]
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  Posted: August 26, 2009, 6:22pm EDT
  

• U.N. Agency Calls for Teaching Children ...

  U.N. Agency Calls for Teaching Children 5-to-8 Years of Age about Masturbation
  (CNSNews.com) – A June report from the United Nations Economic, Social and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) suggests that children of all countries and cultures are entitled to sexual and reproductive education beginning at age five. For children [...]
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  Posted: August 26, 2009, 6:21pm EDT
  

• A Preview of Things to Come...

  Former USS Cole Commander Assails Release of Terrorist Suspected of Trying to Kill U.S. Soldiers
  (CNSNews.com) - A terror suspect charged with the attempted murder of two U.S. soldiers -- before a judge ruled that his confession was coerced and inadmissible -- returned home to Afghanistan on Monday, [...]
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  Posted: August 26, 2009, 6:19pm EDT
  

• CIA Officers Involved in Legally Approved ...

  CIA Officers Involved in Legally Approved Interrogation Program Feared Government Would ‘Not Stand Behind Them’
  (CNSNews.com) - CIA officers involved in a terrorist interrogation program that had been reviewed by the Justice Department, authorized by agency superiors, approved by top administration officials and repeatedly briefed to leaders of [...]
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  Posted: August 26, 2009, 6:18pm EDT
  

• Sarah and the Death Panels

  Valid points raised:
  Sarah and the Death Panels
  HUMAN EVENTS
  Democrats call Medicare the model of government-run universal health care. But Medicare is a system whereby 140 million working Americans pay 2.9 percent of all wages and salaries into a fund to pay for health care for 42 [...]
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  Posted: August 23, 2009, 8:05pm EDT
  

• Point for Palin

  By Jack Kelly:
  The Obama administration has a playbook, too. It's "Rules for Radicals," written in 1971 by Chicago Marxist Saul Alinsky, the godfather of community organizing.
  
  Mr. Obama's aides have faithfully followed those rules, in particular his rule number 13 under tactics: "Pick the target, freeze it," [...]
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  Posted: August 20, 2009, 10:29pm EDT
  

• Axelrod Cashes In on Changeby ...

  Axelrod Cashes In on Change
  by Rowan Scarborough
  Barack Obama's chief White House adviser is collecting millions of dollars from his former public relations firms as they sign lucrative contracts with coalitions recently created to push the president's agenda.
  
  After arriving at the White House as top [...]
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  Posted: August 20, 2009, 7:44pm EDT
  

• Arthur C. Brooks: ...

  Arthur C. Brooks: Why Obama’s Approval Ratings Are Sinking - WSJ.com
  Americans will put up with a lot. But not with someone who imperils their future.
  
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  Posted: August 18, 2009, 10:20pm EDT
  

• The Panel

  What death by bureaucratic fiat might look like.
  Andrew Klavan: Death Panels are Inevitable Once Government Takes over Health Care - WSJ.com
  It is very difficult to imagine the country making those decisions just through the normal political channels. And that's part of why you have to have some [...]
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  Posted: August 18, 2009, 10:18pm EDT
  

• The Public Option Goes Over

  The big fight over ObamaCare is far from finished. Obama Concedes on Public Option, but Maintains Goal of Single-Payer System
  WSJ.com
  So it looks as if the public option has been sent to the death panel—so to speak. Over the weekend President Obama and other White House officials [...]
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  Posted: August 18, 2009, 10:11pm EDT
  

• IT'S ALL A DEATH PANEL:

  THE TRUTH ABOUT OBAMACARE
  By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
  Washington is all atwitter about "death panels": President Obama derides the idea that his health-care reform calls for them; the Senate is stripping "end of life" counseling language from its bill -- and last Friday the voice of [...]
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  Posted: August 18, 2009, 9:49pm EDT
  

• Highlighting a Hidden Health Agenda

  Highlighting a Hidden Health Agenda
  CNSNews.com - Before he took office, Barack Obama told CNN he’d use a Blackberry to stay in touch with average Americans. “If I’m doing something stupid, somebody in Chicago can send me an e-mail and say, ‘What are you doing?’” Obama explained.
  [...]
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  Posted: August 18, 2009, 9:32pm EDT
  

• Top Senate Republican Fears FCC's 'Diversity' ...

  Top Senate Republican Fears FCC's 'Diversity' Chief May Use 'Back Door' to Regulate Talk Radio
  
  CNSNews.com-In a letter sent last week to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Sen. Charles Grassley (R.-Iowa) said he is concerned that the FCC's new "diversity" director, Mark Lloyd, may seek [...]
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  Posted: August 18, 2009, 9:22pm EDT
  

• The thirst for power never rests

  The history of mankind has been dominated by tyranny and despots. Coerced governments like communism, Marxism, authoritarianism, dictatorships, totalitarianism, and despotism have been the standards of government throughout the ages -- and have always failed.
  
  This in large part is why the United States has been called "the" [...]
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  Posted: August 15, 2009, 8:22pm EDT
  

• OBAMACARE DOUBLESPEAK

  Obama recently said, "I have not said that I was a single payer supporter because, frankly, we historically had a employer-based system in this country with private insurers, and for us a transition to a system like that I believe would be too disruptive."
  
  But yet, on June 30, [...]
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  Posted: August 15, 2009, 8:12pm EDT
  

• Obama Brings Chicago-Style Intimidation

  Phyllis Schlafly:
  Obama's staff and retreads from the Clinton administration are using Chicago-style intimidation to rescue his extravagant health-care bill from its decline in public opinion polls. [...]
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  Posted: August 15, 2009, 7:13pm EDT
  

• Cal Thomas : What Lies Beneath

  Cal Thomas : What Lies Beneath
  Are we now assigning worth to human life, or does it arrive with its own pre-determined value, irrespective of race, class, IQ, or disability?
  
  The bottom line is not the bottom line. It is something far more profound. Our decisions regarding who [...]
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  Posted: August 15, 2009, 7:11pm EDT
  

• Chuck Norris : Dirty Secret No. ...

  Chuck Norris : Dirty Secret No. 1 in Obamacare
  While watching these political hot August nights, I decided to research the reasons so many are opposed to Obamacare to separate the facts from the fantasy. What I discovered is that there are indeed dirty little secrets buried deep within [...]
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  Posted: August 15, 2009, 7:02pm EDT
  

• 'Conservatives, Shut Up and Step Aside'

  David Limbaugh:
  
  The hubris, arrogance and deceit of President Barack Obama and the Democratic leadership are breathtaking. In their maniacal frenzy to assume control over every aspect of our lives through socialized medicine, they are behaving like the thuggish autocrats they have proved themselves to be. Read [...]
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  Posted: August 15, 2009, 6:52pm EDT
  

• Random Thoughts by Thomas Sowell:"What did ...

  Random Thoughts by Thomas Sowell:

  "What did we learn from the "beer summit" on the White House lawn, except that Vice President Joe Biden doesn't drink alcoholic beverages? Considering the many gaffes that the vice president has made while cold sober, the thought of an intoxicated Joe Biden boggles the'" [...]

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  Posted: August 15, 2009, 6:47pm EDT
  

• Obama's Tone-Deaf Health Campaign

  By Dorothy Rabinowitz:
  Opinion Journal
  
  The president shouldn’t worry about the protestors disrupting town hall meetings. He should worry about the Americans who have been sitting at home listening to him. [...]
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  Posted: August 15, 2009, 6:41pm EDT
  

• The Next Fannie Mae

  Opinion Journal
  Ginnie Mae and FHA are becoming $1 trillion subprime guarantors. [...]
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  Posted: August 15, 2009, 6:37pm EDT
  

• "He knows nothing; and he thinks he ...

  "He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."
  -- George Bernard Shaw --
  "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies."
  -- Groucho Marx --
  "I think politicians and diapers have" [...]
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  Posted: August 15, 2009, 5:20pm EDT
  

• Quotes from John Adams:"In my ...

  Quotes from John Adams:
  
  "In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress."
  **********
  "There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to" [...]
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  Posted: August 15, 2009, 4:50pm EDT
  

• Double-dip recession?

  Washington Times
  Dire prospects rise along with borrowing
  By Richard W. Rahn
  
  We are likely to have a double-dip recession, and this is why. Your Uncle Sam has been having a hard time because he spends more than he makes. He engages in much unproductive behavior [...]
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  Posted: August 13, 2009, 10:37pm EDT
  

• Ten Questions Politicians Won’t Answer

  Evasive politicians, not concerned citizens, are dividing America over health-care reform.
  
  By Tom Coburn
  National Review Online
  
  The past week’s debate about health care has shown that in Washington the only things more stubborn than facts are politicians who evade them. In spite of a torrent of [...]
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  Posted: August 13, 2009, 10:34pm EDT
  

• OBAMACARE

  From the North Carolina GOP:
  The deficit clock in Washington is spinning out of control – $1.8 Trillion for this year alone! And that does not even include most of Obama’s “$787 Billion Stimulus” spending program!
  
  You remember that program. That’s the one that hasn’t created the jobs [...]
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  Posted: August 13, 2009, 7:59pm EDT
  

• ELDERLY SWING AGAINST OBAMA PLAN

  By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
  The most ominous signal yet for the Obama health care plan emerged in the poll by Scott Rasmussen released today. While public support for the plan fell to a new low (42% support, 53% oppose -- down five points in two weeks), the elderly [...]
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  Posted: August 12, 2009, 11:00am EDT
  

• Assaulted by sex-ed

  REBECCA HAGELIN:
  Washington Times
  Culture Challenge of the Week: Immoral Sex Indoctrination
  
  Much of what is being taught to our young girls and boys in sex-education classes is too graphic and vulgar to be quoted in the newspaper.
  
  For that, you can blame Planned Parenthood, [...]
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  Posted: August 11, 2009, 9:23pm EDT
  

• Obama Says Immigration Reform Is a Priority, but Won't Happen Soon

  washingtonpost.com
  But Immigration Action Won't Come Until 2010By Cheryl W. Thompson and William Booth
  
  GUADALAJARA, Mexico, Aug. 10 -- President Obama, attending a North American summit with the leaders of Mexico and Canada, said Monday that his administration will pursue a comprehensive overhaul of the U.S. immigration' [...]
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  Posted: August 11, 2009, 9:19pm EDT
  

• Doctor Knows BestBy Robert Ringer

  Doctor Knows Best
  By Robert Ringer
  In cases where a sincere progressive genuinely believes that he is doing the right thing by forcing people to do what he deems to be in the best interest of “the common good,” my hunch is that there is a mental disorder at [...]
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  Posted: August 11, 2009, 9:10pm EDT
  

• "Dependence begets subservience and ...

  "Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."
  
  --Thomas Jefferson --
  
  
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  Posted: August 11, 2009, 10:43am EDT
  

• ObamaCare's Real Price TagThe ...

  ObamaCare's Real Price TagThe funding gap is a canyon by year 10. [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2009, 10:03pm EDT
  

• Karl Rove:

  Karl Rove:
  Health Reform and the Tax PledgePolling and focus groups have led the president astray on his top priority. [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2009, 10:02pm EDT
  

• Justice SotomayorShe’s lucky she ...

  Justice SotomayorShe’s lucky she didn’t get the Miguel Estrada treatment. [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2009, 10:00pm EDT
  

• STEPHEN MOORE It's ...

  STEPHEN MOORE
  It's Time to Legislate a Spending CapOnly legally binding limits can brings deficits under control. [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2009, 9:59pm EDT
  

• Strassel: Blue ...

  Strassel:
  Blue Dog Blues
  Moderate Democrats may lose simply because voters don’t want Nancy Pelosi in power. [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2009, 9:57pm EDT
  

• MAX SCHULZ A ...

  MAX SCHULZ
  A Town Hall Protest in MarylandThe audience was loud but civil—and their anxiety over health reform was very real. [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2009, 9:55pm EDT
  

• Ken Connor: Seniors Left Behind?

  Ken Connor:
  Seniors Left Behind?
  
  One of the most controversial issues of the current health care reform debate is the concept of health care rationing—allocating medical care according to predetermined criteria that dictate how much and what kind of care a given patient will receive under a [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2009, 9:46pm EDT
  

• Salena Zito:Corzine Seeing ...

  Salena Zito:
  Corzine Seeing Red in New Jersey
  
  Deep-Democrat-blue New Jersey is on a direct course to go Republican-red this fall, and it does not look like even Obama-esque hope and change can stop that. [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2009, 9:41pm EDT
  

• JOHN S. BAKER AND ELLIOTT ...

  JOHN S. BAKER AND ELLIOTT STONECIPHER
  Our Unconstitutional Census
  
  California could get nine House seats it doesn’t deserve because illegal aliens will be counted in 2010. [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2009, 9:39pm EDT
  

• Mike Adams : Barry, Barry, Quite ...

  Mike Adams : Barry, Barry, Quite Contrary - Townhall.com
  Hello Barry:
  
  I want to express my deep disappointment with your continued refusal to address my questions about the new health care reform bill currently being pushed through Congress. A few days ago, I sent you several dozen questions [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2009, 9:36pm EDT
  

• Polls undercut scripted protest claims

  Polls undercut scripted protest claims
  
  The White House's claim that large and boisterous protests against health care reform over the past week have been scripted performances, underwritten by industry lobbyists and the Republican Party, continues to run into a stubborn reality check: public polling on the matter.
  [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2009, 9:28pm EDT
  

• Michigan crowd vents health care fury

  Washington Times
  Congressman struggles to cool tempers
  ROMULUS, Mich. - There were no buses, no swastikas, not a piece of Astroturf in sight.
  
  But there was name-calling, jeering, red faces and finger-pointing as Michigan residents shot back with fury at a congressional town-hall meeting geared to explaining [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2009, 9:25pm EDT
  

• "The Great Depression, like most ...

  "The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy."
  
  --economist Milton Friedman (1912-2006) [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2009, 9:10pm EDT
  

• "The intellectual establishment [is] so busy demanding ...

  "The intellectual establishment [is] so busy demanding more power for government, more bureaucracy, regulation, spending and -- oh, yes -- more and more taxes, they forgot all about the secret of America's success -- opportunity for people, for all the people. ... Will we heed the pessimists' agenda of higher'" [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2009, 9:07pm EDT
  

• WHAT A JOKE!!

  Obama Adviser Considers Stimulus Spending Successful
  (CNSNews.com) – Even while conceding that job losses are “horrendous” – 9.4 percent unemployment nationwide – a top Obama administration economic adviser said the $787-billion stimulus plan is working. “Millions of unemployed workers have seen an extra $25 a week in their [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2009, 9:00pm EDT
  

• CASH FOR CLUNKERS: TRADE IN AMERICAN; BUY FOREIGN

  By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
  The only part of the stimulus program that is working, the cash-for-clunkers program is, in reality, a subsidy to foreign car companies, proving that Barack Obama is the best president Japan ever had.
  
  The Department of Transportation reports that the ten [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2009, 8:38pm EDT
  

• How did the radical Bill Ayers ...

  How did the radical Bill Ayers obtain tenure at the University of Illinois?
  By Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media
  
  The University of Illinois, which employs communist terrorist Bill Ayers as a professor, has been hit by an admissions scandal which has forced the resignation of the chairman of [...]
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  Posted: August 09, 2009, 12:04am EDT
  

• High stakes for democracy (and terrorism) ...

  High stakes for democracy (and terrorism) as Afghans prepare to vote
  By John Metzler
  
  PARIS - Warning that Afghanistan could again become the "grand central station of international terrorism," NATO's new Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen described the critical political and security situation facing the embattled South Asian [...]
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  Posted: August 09, 2009, 12:01am EDT
  

• Where's Jimmy? A past president goes ...

  Where's Jimmy? A past president goes silent on his Iran legacy
  By Sheda Vasseghi
  
  "Where is Jimmy?" Has anyone seen or heard from Jimmy Carter while the Islamic Republic regime in Iran and its thugs brutally beat, torture, and murder civilians on a daily basis? After all it [...]
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  Posted: August 08, 2009, 11:58pm EDT
  

• Dennis Prager : What ...

  Dennis Prager :
  What the Gates-Crowley “Teachable Moment” Really Teaches
  Readers on the left will be shocked, if not incredulous, to learn that neither I nor any conservative I know realized why the president asked Vice President Joseph Biden to join him, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates [...]
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  Posted: August 06, 2009, 11:05pm EDT
  

• Thomas Sowell : Care ...

  Thomas Sowell :
  Care Versus Control
  As someone who was once rushed to a hospital in the middle of the night, because of taking a medication that millions of people take every day without the slightest problem, I have a special horror of life and death medical [...]
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  Posted: August 06, 2009, 11:00pm EDT
  

• John Stossel : Impossible ...

  John Stossel :
  Impossible Promises
  
  I keep reading about health-care "reform," but I have yet to see anyone explain how the government can make it easier for more people to obtain medical services, control the already exploding cost of those services and not interfere with people's' [...]
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  Posted: August 06, 2009, 10:46pm EDT
  

• Clinton suggests US ...

  Clinton suggests US could join war crimes court
  U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says it is a "great regret" that the United States is not a member of the International Criminal Court.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: August 06, 2009, 10:44pm EDT
  

• Ex-Edwards mistress at ...

  Ex-Edwards mistress at court amid campaign probe
  The ex-mistress of John Edwards spent much of Thursday in a federal courthouse in Raleigh where a grand jury was meeting, at a time when federal investigators are examining the two-time presidential candidate's finances.
  
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  Posted: August 06, 2009, 10:39pm EDT
  

• Hugh Hewitt : They ...

  Hugh Hewitt :
  They Think You Are Stupid: Why Resistance To Obamacare Is Growing Despite Intimidation and Slander
  
  President Obama's decision to unleash his operatives at the DNC, surrogates like Barbara Boxer, and his staff like Linda Douglas to slander and attempt to intimidate opponents of [...]
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  Posted: August 06, 2009, 10:36pm EDT
  

• Obama Can't Afford To Tell Truth ...

  Obama Can't Afford To Tell Truth on Health Care
  by David Limbaugh
  President Barack Obama is spreading disinformation about health care almost as quickly as he's driving up the national debt, such as that 47 million Americans can't get health care and that a government takeover would [...]
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  Posted: August 06, 2009, 10:31pm EDT
  

• Pakistan, US check reports of Taliban ...

  Pakistan, US check reports of Taliban chief death - Yahoo! News
  ISLAMABAD – U.S. and Pakistani authorities were investigating reports that Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud was killed in an American missile strike, officials from both countries said Thursday. If confirmed, Mehsud's demise would be a major boost to [...]
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  Posted: August 06, 2009, 10:28pm EDT
  

• Who May Harm Whom? By ...

  Who May Harm Whom?
  By Walter E. Williams
  
  The government, in the name of reducing health care costs, wants to assumes part ownership of you and as such assume a right to control many aspects of your life. That Americans have joyfully given up self-ownership is [...]
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  Posted: August 06, 2009, 10:07pm EDT