http://frontpagemag.com/2013/bruce-thornton/what-would-the-founders-think-of-defunding-obamacare/ A few days ago CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin, speaking about the Republican House bill defunding Obamacare, commented, “Certainly not the way the Founding Fathers maybe drew this thing up.” It’s certainly a surprise to hear an anchor on CNN, an organization biased in favor of progressives, appealing to the authority of the Constitution. For a […]
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/4173/uk_nhs_disaster_death_rates_45_percent_higher_than_in_the_us UK NHS disaster: death rates 45 percent higher than in the US NHS-loving Brits won’t like this, but if you had to choose between the United States and the UK on healthcare, it’s not even close. And that’s from a serious critic of the US system Back in 2010, I guest-hosted Larry Kudlow’s CNBC […]
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/4169/leading_pakistani_academic_says_cabal_controlled_us_and_uk_put_microchips_in_our_brains Leading Pakistani academic says “Cabal” controlled US and UK put microchips in “our brains” The Pakistani intelligentsia has a few surprises for the country’s Western allies. The vice-chancellor of Punjab University, and former Fulbright Fellow, is not hesitant about “Cabals” As Western governments, not least the government of the United States of America, wrestle […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/09/the_wrecking_ball_known_as_obamacare.html
It is mindboggling that so many people are totally unaware of ObamaCare, have no interest in discussing it, and are dismissive and rude if someone attempts to have a rational conversation about a law that will drastically change the landscape of this country.
This deliberate ignorance continues to beget denial. Consequently, we find America on the verge of a system that apparently only African and Eastern European acquaintances of mine instantly understand, since they ran away from the very draconian worldview that we will all face in a matter of days if ObamaCare is not stopped dead in its tracks.
Daily, one learns that ObamaCare is a job destroyer. The graph here shows that deep cuts to jobs will continue as “ObamaCare kills off at least two percent of the U.S. full-time workforce.” The list of companies cutting hours for workers continues to grow. Employers seek to keep staff below the 30-hour threshold set by the not-so Affordable Care Act.
Thus, “according to an April survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 41% of 603 small business owners” are delaying hiring. In fact, “one in five [have] already cut hours, while 20% have reduced payroll.”
Reduction of workers’ hours is now a direct result of ObamaCare. In the retail and hospitality industries, 20% of employers will cut part-time hours.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304213904579092961404425886.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLESecond When Viktor Yanukovich became Ukraine’s president in 2010, many observers feared the former Soviet republic was destined to return to Moscow’s orbit. Mr. Yanukovich—long seen as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s man in Kiev—quickly extended the lease on Russia’s naval base at Sevastapol. And it wasn’t long into his presidency that his old political rival, […]
The hallmark of the new German consensus is an all-providing state that taxes, spends and regulates.Angela Merkel’s Gilded Status Quo http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304713704579093122287930500.html?mod=opinion_newsreel By German standards, Angela Merkel scored a landslide victory in Sunday’s election. But remember Midas, the mythical Greek king, who faced starvation because his touch turned everything—food and drink included—into gold. Chancellor Merkel appears […]
Special subsidies for Hill workers trample on the Founders’ code of equal application of the law. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324665604579080921594857770.html?mod=opinion_newsreel As close observers of history and human nature, James Madison and the other Founders of the U.S. Constitution knew that the equal and unbiased application of the law to all people, especially elected officials, is essential to freedom […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/359316/print
At the end of John Ford’s classic Western, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, the editor of the local paper decides not to print the truth about who really killed the murderous Valance. “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”
Legends now become facts in America at almost lightning speed. Often when lies are asserted as truth, they become frozen in time. Even the most damning later exposure of their falsity never quite erases their currency. As Jonathan Swift sighed, “Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.”
After the recent shooting tragedy at the Washington Navy Yard, cable news shows, newspaper reports, and talking heads immediately blasted lax gun laws. The killer, Aaron Alexis, had mowed down 20 innocent people — twelve of them fatally — with yet again the satanic AR-15 semi-automatic “assault” rifle. The mass murdering was supposedly more proof of the lethal pathologies of the National Rifle Association and the evil shooter crowd that prevents good people from enacting proper gun-control laws. Once more an iconic tragedy had the chance — in a way that eventhe near-simultaneous shooting of 13 in Chicago did not — to energize the nation to do the right thing and ensure that no other such mayhem would follow.
Then the assault weapon vanished into fantasy. Instead, over the course of the week, it was slowly learned that the unhinged Alexis had somehow passed at least two background checks, legally bought a shotgun, modified it, and for 30 minutes shot and reloaded it to slaughter the innocent. Are we to outlaw the owning of shotguns despite background checks and lawful purchases? Vice President Joe Biden, remember, had recently urged Americans to obtain old-fashioned, all-American shotguns for protection rather than dangerous semi-automatic assault rifles. If a shotgun could be used to commit mass murder in the middle of a military installation, how could any gun-control law, short of the confiscation of all guns, ensure that such heinous crimes could not be repeated?
Few seem interested in other, less politically correct, less melodramatic solutions. It was reported that Alexis had been treated for severe bouts of mental illness, yet apparently without endangering his security clearances. Like the deranged Sandy Hook mass murderer, Adam Lanza, Alexis was also pathologically addicted to playing violent video games for hours on end. Further controversy arose over the fact that most military personnel are not allowed to carry weapons at facilities like the Navy Yard.
Unfortunately, few of our elites dared to question the mental-health industry’s approach to treating the unstable, especially its resistance to properly monitoring whether those being treated as outpatients are taking their medications. Few faulted the entertainment industry for the savage genre of the modern video game. Should we also blame the incompetence of the agencies that conducted the background checks? Was the Pentagon to blame for not allowing military personnel and contractors to carry weapons while on their own federal military facilities?
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-epas-war-on-america?f=puball Among the targets to disable an enemy’s ability to wage war is their energy infrastructure. The destruction of the utilities that provide electricity or its ability to refine oil is critical to crippling a nation’s ability to function, based on the universal use of hydrocarbons such as coal, natural gas, and oil. If an […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/global-warming-and-the-credentialist-fallacy Here’s one of the great stories of the past 25 years, entirely ignored by the dying legacy media: the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-the bureaucratic authority that gave us global warming-is taking it all back. The new IPCC report concedes that its former prognostications were incorrect. Not only were their statistical models […]
