The glaring incompetence and indifference in reporting spending of the $787 billion stimulus dollars provides yet another window into how health care administration decisions will be handled by government bureaucrats. Earlier in the week, Watchdog.org
broke the scandal that the White House’s own website, Recovery.gov, listed $6.4 billion in stimulus [...]
Editor’s Note: This week, the great investigative reporters at Watchdog.org broke yet another scandal surrounding the White House’s bogus claims of jobs created-or-saved from the $787 billion stimulus bill. In spite of a made-for-the-media announcement by President Obama last February that he was personally tasking VP Joe Biden with oversight [...]
Last month’s A Line of Sight profiled Mark Hillman’s excellent article describing the Colorado Supreme Court’s latest “power grab”.
In an audacious power grab, the Colorado Supreme Court recently embraced, by a 4-3 decision, a judicial doctrine that would relegate the other two branches of government — and the voters [...]
In April, 2007 Harry Reid, Majority Leader of the United States Senate, proclaimed “this war is lost.” Well, as it turned out George W. Bush, General David Petraeus, and our 160,000 troops in Iraq paid no attention to Reid, and thankfully, neither did most of the Iraqi people.
America still [...]
Abby Johnson worked at the Planned Parenthood facility in Bryan, Texas for the last eight years, most recently as the director. She quit, made a complete about-face, and joined a pro-life group in October.
Planned Parenthood likes to portray an image of “the nation’s leading sexual and reproductive health care provider” [...]
Nancy Pelosi rushed the vote on her plan to nationalize the health care industry despite Republican requests to wait until the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) could issue the agency’s analysis of the legislation. Now we may know why.
Costs will soar, Medicare services will be slashed, and [...]
It’s natural to sympathize with the parents of Brandon Patch, the 18-year-old baseball pitcher who died after he was hit by a batted ball in 2003.
Sooner or later, sympathy must yield to logic and reason, so when Brandon’s parents sued the bat’s manufacturer, Louisville Slugger, and a jury awarded them [...]
It is a troubling time in America when extending Constitutional protections to the confessed 9/11 mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and the first amendment rights of Nalid Malik Hasan, a deranged Islamic jihadist with known ties to Al Qaeda, now charged for murdering 13 at Ft. Hood, Texas, are protected, but [...]
A group of Democrat party hacks have started running a television ad touting all the wonderful things Gov. Bill Ritter has done for the economy in Colorado. That sounds remarkably similar to the White House making phony claims about all the jobs saved-or-created as unemployment jumped to 10.2%.
A [...]
Less than two hours after the worst act of terrorism on U.S. soil since 9/11 FBI Director Robert Mueller announced that his investigators were “definitely not discussing terrorism”. Soon after President Obama urged Americans “not to jump to conclusions”. When reporters asked what the President meant by that White [...]
A group of 52 House Democrats, mostly from conservative leaning districts, belong to the Blue Dog Coalition. They like to go home and claim they are deficit hawks, pro-business free-market capitalists, and low tax advocates. Back in July, the Blue Dogs yipped for a little while and slowed down Nancy [...]
President Obama has consistently labeled Afghanistan the war America cannot afford to lose. Last March, he announced a “stronger, smarter and comprehensive strategy,” undertaken after “a careful policy review,” and subsequently hand-picked one of America’s most respected military officers, General Stanley McChrystal, to lead the effort.
Yet with General McChrystal’s [...]
The natives are becoming increasingly restless, and last Tuesday’s election results demonstrated just how troubled they are. The various talking heads tell us that various reasons pushed voters over the edge: health care reform, cap-and-trade, spending, the economy, etc. Boiled down, the real people back home are alarmed at the [...]
Americans feel increasingly disheartened, and our leaders don’t even notice
Peggy Noonan, Nov. 2, 2009 , The Wall Street Journal
Editor’s Note: Likely you’ve felt it, but couldn’t quite put it into words. Renowned columnist, author, and former speech writer for Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush, Peggy Noonan recently penned [...]
Epic new spending and taxes, pricier insurance, rationed care, dishonest accounting: The Pelosi health bill has it all.
Reprinted from The Wall Street Journal
Editor’s Note: This Wall Street Journal November 1, 2009 editorial is reprinted in its entirety. It is one of the most scathing, frightening, ominous analyses of [...]
In an audacious power grab, the Colorado Supreme Court recently embraced, by a 4-3 decision, a judicial doctrine that would relegate the other two branches of government — and the voters — to a perfunctory role.
The high court’s activist majority used Lobato vs. State not only to intrude on the [...]
Editor’s Note: The following special feature to A Line of Sight would be an important thoughtful perspective under any circumstances. However, Mr. Moloney’s insight is particularly poignant considering the recent Colorado Supreme Court 4-3 decision to allow a special interest group to move forward with a lawsuit to decide [...]
Lamar Alexander (R-TN) worked in the Nixon White House 40 years ago, and with the benefit of his historical memory he’s noticed a disturbing similarity to that infamous era and the new Obama administration. In a speech from the Senate floor, the Tennessean urged the White House to not make [...]
Watchdog excoriates execution of TARP
Excerpts from USA Today feature story October 20, 2009
“The American people’s belief that the funds went into a black hole, or that there was a transfer of wealth from taxpayers to Wall Street, is one of the worst outcomes of this program, and that [...]
Benjamin Netanyahu to United Nations: “Have you no shame?”
Most politicians can easily manage addressing a friendly, agreeable crowd; the proverbial speech-to-the-choir. It takes considerably more courage to speak to adversaries, or debate a well prepared and articulate foe. It is rare to witness a leader willing to be as [...]
Those independent voters who “vote for the man, not the party” helped sweep Barack Obama into office. Pundits and pollsters tell us that by large numbers, it was these swing voters that went for the message of “hope and change” en masse, willing to give the largely unknown young Senator [...]
There are a lot of numbers flying around Washington regarding ObamaCare and the various plans that are now being glued together behind the closed door to Harry Reid’s office. If you wonder which numbers and projections you can believe, the Wall Street Journal has the answer – none of them!
In [...]
We couldn’t choose between these two so you get two for the price of one in October….Enjoy!
Didn’t see this on a bumper, but it’s just too good to resist.
[...]by Robert Spencer
10/13/2009
Reprinted from Human Events
Dalia Mogahed, Barack Obama’s adviser on Muslim affairs, appeared on British television last week, where she said: “Sharia is not well understood and Islam as a faith is not well understood.” How have we misunderstood Islamic law? We [...]
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With a lot of back-slapping and high-fiving the Senate Democrats and White House proclaimed victory and when the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) decreed last week that the so-called Baucus plan would actually reduce the ten year deficit by $81 billion. If [...]
Actions have consequences, and so too, do choices. Nothing is static. Even with nations, you are either ascending or declining. Some believe it is a matter of chance, or predetermined fate. There seems to be a growing sentiment, particularly on the left, that America’s best days are behind us; even [...]
After Max Baucus pushed his health care reform idea out of the Senate Finance committee on a straight party line vote, Harry Reid hailed it as “another important step down the road toward enacting health insurance reform.”
A primary stated goal of all the Democrat’s wrangling is to reduce [...]
The case for turning the nation’s health care system inside out is often made by claiming that some 47 million or so Americans are uninsured. The proposed solution? H.R. 3200, aka: ObamaCare, at an estimated cost of $900 billion over the next ten years.
Many have pointed out that significant [...]
By Damien McElroy and Ahmad Vahdat
Published: 7:30AM BST 03 Oct 2009
Telegraph.co.uk
“A photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots.”
“A close-up of the document reveals he was previously known as Sabourjian – a Jewish name [...]
The Democrats have made a great deal of the AMA’s endorsement of ObamaCare. They don’t tell you that today’s AMA represents only a fraction of the nation’s doctors, nor that far from all of the members of the AMA are behind the proposals floating between the White House and Capitol [...]
He promised us that the $787 billion “stimulus” would save the economy and keep unemployment below 8 per cent. Yesterday we learned that another 263,000 jobs were lost in September, 15 million out of work, and 9.8% unemployment, President Obama used his weekly radio address today to promise us [...]
by Mark Hillman
Say what you will about Bill Clinton’s foreign policy shortcomings, but for the most part he had the good sense not to squander Ronald Reagan’s legacy of peace through strength.
By contrast, Barack Obama’s foreign policy seems to be predicated on a boundless faith in his own persuasive [...]
During the lengthy and often testy Senate Finance Committee mark-up of the health care reform bill offered by Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT), the ranking Republican Charles Grassley offered what was officially labeled as the Grassley Amendment #C8.
The recorded purpose of the amendment was “to require presentation of identification in [...]
There’s a prevailing perception that Barack Obama has a unique idea to deal with nuke seeking Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Ayatollah friends in Iran. During the campaign, Obama pledged he’d talk to anybody – especially America’s biggest foes – and work his magic to forge new understanding and peace. As [...]
You saw the image – Obama front and center with a demure French President Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Brown flanking the American President – one step behind – as Obama waged his finger and Iran for yet another nuke plant.
Curiously, the allied demonstration of political resolve came in [...]
It seems that every day we get an ever clearer idea of what Obama and the Democrats meant when they promised to “change” and “transform” America. Take the dust-up this week between the big Kentucky based insurance company, Humana, and the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus, as [...]
From the Wall Street Journal:
President Obama promised he would win America friends where, under George W. Bush, it had antagonists. The reality is that the U.S. is working hard to create antagonists where it previously had friends.
That’s one conclusion to draw from President Obama’s decision yesterday to scrap a missile-defense [...]
President Obama and the Democrats promise improved access and quality of health care if their radical reform ideas are adopted. According to results of a new poll, they may have to figure out how to do that with a lot fewer doctors. Nearly half of the 1376 practicing physicians polled [...]
There is a nasty odor emanating from the first floor of the Longworth House Office Building in Washington, DC – more specifically from the office of the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Charlie Rangel. The stink erupted a year ago when it was first disclosed that Rangel – [...]
Featured 9/12/09 House Editorial from Investor’s Business Daily
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=505956
Reproduced in its entirety
Millions of Americans finally got to hear the Democrats’ pitch on health care reform, made by their top salesman. But they heard nothing new — just a lot of discredited myths recycled as the truth.
For the [...]
With all the various “think tanks” operating in proximity to Capitol Hill, the challenge of coming up with new and good ideas is a lot easier for members of Congress – most of the work is already done for them.
For example, the Cato Institute has recently announced a website with [...]
The intense spirit of both anguish and patriotism that gripped the nation on 9/11/01 seems sadly to have faded over the eight years that have now passed since the attacks. I pray we never forget the innocents that died that day, the heroes that emerged, or the lessons about the [...]
Our monthly “Good News” features will likely not often come from the pages of the Washington Post, but such is the case for September. On the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks Colorado native and Broomfield High School graduate Cameron Marshall was the subject of a front page feature story [...]
Note: On the eve of President Obama’s unprecedented address to a joint session of Congress supposedly to advocate for his ideas on how to improve access and affordability of health care, the following observations of a Russian immigrant are especially profound and important. If you read nothing else about the [...]
By MARTIN FELDSTEIN for the Wall Street Journal, September 8, 2009
“The deficits projected for the next decade and beyond are unprecedented. According to an assessment released in March by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the president’s budget implies that deficits will average 5.2% of GDP over the next decade and [...]
This coming Tuesday, President Barack Obama will stand before a televised audience, an audience not the American Voter. Not yet that is. On Tuesday, September 8th, the President will collectively address our nation’s children on what will serve for most, as their first day of school. His speech is expected [...]
