Aug 12, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
All too Hitleresque In the 1930s and on through World War II Hitler found the perfect -- at least for him -- scapegoats, the Jews, gypsies, and mentally infirm. He was very “successful” at rounding them up and murdering them. It’s a dark scar upon German and world history known as the Holocaust. Today, Obama has found ...
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Aug 12, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(NY TIMES) WASHINGTON — The new health care law is known as the Affordable Care Act. But Democrats in Congress and advocates for low-income people say coverage may be unaffordable for millions of Americans because of a cramped reading of the law by the administration and by the Internal Revenue Service in particular. Under ...
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Aug 4, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from BIG GOVERNMENT: We may not know it until we need it. Some of the medical care we assumed we would get automatically will soon be harder to obtain. A few more obstacles, a few more restrictions, before we can receive the specialized medical treatment or surgery that we need, that we took ...
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Aug 3, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(NEWSMAX) Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid yet again stymied a Republican attempt to vote on repealing the healthcare reform law Thursday evening. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed that the Senate vote on repeal of Obamacare soon after it returns from vacation in September, The Hill reports. “Let’s have a vote,” McConnell said on the ...
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Aug 1, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER: The Obama administration’s contraception mandate takes effect Wednesday to cheers from liberal women’s groups and protest from religious freedom advocates. Tuesday the administration heralded the implementation of eight facets of Obamacare’s preventative-care coverage for women, the contraceptive mandate among them. “President Obama is moving our country forward by giving women control ...
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Jul 31, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(CAMPUS REFORM) Former Speaker of the House and current Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told an audience of more than 600 college students last week that President Obama has signed many “expansions of freedom” into law since he took office in 2008. Pelosi, speaking at a youth conference hosted by the George Soros funded Campus Progress, ...
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Jul 31, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(AFP) Uganda's president on Monday warned against shaking hands and other physical contact after the first death from the deadly Ebola virus in the capital Kampala. "The Ministry of Health are tracing all the people who have had contact with the victims," Yoweri Museveni said in a state broadcast, adding that 14 people had died in ...
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Jul 31, 2012 No Comments ›› Toro520
CNS News: (CNSNews.com) – Sixteen states have set a limit on the number of prescription drugs they will cover for Medicaid patients, according to Kaiser Health News. Seven of those states, according to Kaiser Health News, have enacted or tightened those limits in just the last two years. Medicaid is a federal program that is carried out in partnership ...
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Jul 15, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Health Watch: The Obama administration is aggressively pushing states to implement the healthcare reform law now that the Supreme Court has upheld it. In the two weeks since the court issued its decision, the Health and Human Services Department has pushed out new grants, new policies and a new rhetorical standby: It’s time to ...
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Jul 10, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Mediate: Arthur C. Brooks, author of Gross National Happiness, explored how peoples’ political beliefs influence their happiness in a New York Times column Saturday, and revealed that conservatives are happier than liberals, although he points out it could have more to do with demographics than which cable news channel someone prefers. “Scholars on both ...
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Jul 8, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Financial Times: Top Olympics officials questioned whether it was appropriate to allow fast-food chain McDonald’s to continue sponsoring the games amid mounting concern about the global obesity crisis, the International Olympic Committee president has admitted. Jacques Rogge said in an interview with the Financial Times that the growing financial demands of the Olympics were ...
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Jul 5, 2012 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
A condition referred to as "exhaustion" and "grappling with emotional ailments privately", and requiring the type of long-term inpatient care (read: rehab) his office describes below, is always alcohol and/or drug abuse... Excerpted from The Wall Street Journal: Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D., Ill.) is undergoing inpatient treatment for “physical and emotional ailments” that are more ...
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Jul 5, 2012 No Comments ›› Toro520
CNS News: (CNSNews.com) - Only 6 percent of Americans think that health care is the most important problem facing the country, according to a new Gallup poll. When asked in June to identify the most important problem facing the country, a whopping 94 percent of Americans named something other than health care as the nation’s top problem, ...
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Jun 27, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Daily Mail: Barack Obama faces Judgment Day today as the Supreme Court is set to announce whether his healthcare reform will be struck down and Attorney General Eric Holder faces being held in contempt of Congress. Having spent his first 14 months in office on achieving Obamacare, for the former constitutional law lecturer ...
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Jun 23, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Prof. Matt Friedeman tries to sway women at Mississippi’s only abortion clinic, saying, “The Lord wants you to love that baby.” Excerpted from The New York Times: JACKSON, Miss. — It was only recently that Dr. Willie Parker began flying down here from Washington, heading to work at a vaultlike building that sits unassumingly on ...
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Jun 14, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Talking Points Memo: In an ominous sign for tensions between conservatives and the GOP over ‘Obamacare,’ a Senate Republican leadership member sparred with a popular right-wing blogger on Twitter Thursday over whether to reinstate pieces of the health care reform law in a potential replacement plan. It began with a blog post by Michelle ...
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Jun 9, 2012 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from ABC News: "Happy Days" star Erin Moran may be living in her mother-in-law's trailer, but she has a good reason. "Erin and her husband did in fact move in with her ailing mother-in-law over a year ago," Moran's publicist told ABCNews.com. "They are helping take care of her, as any loving family would do." Moran's ...
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