Don’t be fooled by what the story says, $150 Million is not a “Staggering” sum compared to the $1 Trillion + it will take to socialize American Medicine. WASHINGTON — The nation’s drugmakers stand ready to spend $150 million to help President Barack Obama overhaul health care this fall, according to numerous officials, a staggering [...]
From Reuters. I would certainly wish that one of these jokers in D.C. would tell the American People when enough is enough? WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner formally requested that Congress raise the $12.1 trillion statutory debt limit on Friday, saying that it could be breached as early as mid-October. “It is [...]
American Thinker: This is a 100% true accounting of my experience at the Lloyd Doggett Town Hall meeting at Veterans Building, Austin, Texas, 8/6/09 – Susan Prince Just to set the scene: I am a white woman, 67 years old, 5’2″ tall and weigh 115 pounds. I am usually very healthy. I was at the [...]
The Local: Almost 100,000 Swedes, many of whom viewed the clip on YouTube, have joined a Facegroup group called “I am scared of the girl in the Apoliva commercial†(“Jag är rädd för tjejen i Apolivareklamenâ€) in reaction to the film. Several other related groups, both in favour of and against the ad, have popped [...]
The Weekly Standard: Last night, as reports began to emerge of unrest at two big health care town halls in Tampa and St. Louis, a man on Twitter claiming to work with SEIU, claimed a handful of arrests in St. Louis had been Obamacare critics, and they’d been arrested for assaulting SEIU members. His report [...]
ISLAMABAD – Senior Taliban commanders denied that their leader, Baitullah Mehsud, had been killed in a CIA missile strike, while conflicting reports emerged late Saturday of a clash between rival Taliban factions during a meeting to chose a successor. Interior Minister Rahman Malik said authorities had received information about a fight breaking out during a [...]
IBD Editorials: Health Care: The latest poverty data highlight what many keeping calling the “crisis” of the uninsured. Some 47 million people lack medical insurance, a record. A social disaster? Hardly. It goes without saying that there now seems to be a broad consensus that the great tragedy of our health care system is that [...]
Above: Not real, though it certainly is an accurate depiction of NYT (Liberal) bias. Hunorously, it was the first picture result in a search for “NYT.” The Washington Examiner: The front page of the New York Times is filled with hope about the nation’s economic situation. The lead story, “Job Losses Slow, Signaling Momentum for [...]
Jerusalem Post: Increasing tensions between Israel and Hizbullah are the result of growing concern that Syria will transfer “balance-altering” weaponry to the Iranian-backed group in the event of a new conflict with Israel, a top defense official has told The Jerusalem Post. “Our assumption is that whatever Iran and Syria have, Hizbullah could one day [...]
NewsBusters: Are you opposed to ObamaCare? Willing to attend a town hall to express your disapproval? Odds are good you’re a racist. Just ask Cynthia Tucker . . . As Clay Waters has noted, Paul Krugman alleges that racist motives are at the heart of the town hall protests against ObamaCare. On this evening’s Hardball, [...]
Real Clear Politics: When my mother was in her late 80s, I took her to a lawyer’s office one sunny day to sign her “living will.” We read over the questions and her answers, and she signed on the dotted line. She was pleased with the decisions that she had made weeks before. We went [...]
The Washington Examiner: “Protest is patriotic!” “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism!” These battle-cries were heard often, in a simpler America of long ago — that is, before last November. Back then, protests — even if they were organized by the usual leftist apparatchik-groups like ANSWER or ACORN — were seen – at least [...]
