http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/the-global-warming-god-strikes-again/print/ After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, Mayor Ray Nagin said that the storm was divine punishment for “being in Iraq under false pretenses.” Not only was a Liberal deity taking a position on WMDs and punishing George W. Bush by evicting a lot of black people from their homes, but the Democratic divinity was paradoxically also […]
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RCP Average 10/20 – 11/11 — 39.2 52.7 Against/Oppose +13.5
Gallup 11/7 – 11/10 1039 A 40 55 Against/Oppose +15
Rasmussen Reports* 11/9 – 11/10 1000 LV 35 55 Against/Oppose +20
Quinnipiac 11/6 – 11/11 2545 RV 39 55 Against/Oppose +16
GWU/Battleground 10/27 – 10/31 1000 LV 43 53 Against/Oppose +10
NBC News/Wall St. Jrnl 10/25 – 10/28 800 A 37 47 Against/Oppose +10
FOX News* 10/20 – 10/22 1020 RV 41 51 Against/Oppose +10
All Public Approval of Health Care Law Polling Data
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/364003/print Watching President Obama’s press conference Thursday, I almost started humming the old ditty “The Farmer in the Dell” because all I could think was: “The cheese stands alone.” The president did his level best to explain that he was as in the dark as anybody about the problems with his signature legislation. He explained […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/obamacare-the-obvious-over-the-important?f=puball This article is the first in a series of excerpts from my new book, Cry from the Heart, due in January 2014. If anyone is still looking for proof of the perils of socialism, they need look no further than the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Just as with any other socialist […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-palestinians-have-always-avoided-statehood?f=puball The former Prime Minister of Israel, Golda Meir, once said, “We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.” That day has not yet arrived. […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/363999/print Don’t raise the bridge. Lower the river, divert the water, steamroll the riverbed, and install a bullet train as an “affordable” bridge substitute. Such grandiose thinking is derailing Obamacare at breakneck speed. Long after it has passed from the American body politic, Obamacare will be remembered as a Smithsonian-grade specimen of what happens when […]
http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2013/11/14/putin-gets-it-and-we-dont/ Middle East politics amounts to managing the decline of a failed culture. Nothing expresses Arab failure more vividly than Egypt, a banana republic without the bananas, now living on a $14 billion or so annual subsidy from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States. With 70% of its population living in agricultural areas, it imports […]
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303789604579197912431701646?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion The Bible is “the most dangerous book on Earth,” George Bernard Shaw famously warned a century ago. Today, Shaw’s words ring true—literally—for the 24 million people of North Korea. Possession of a Bible is a one-way ticket to the gulag or worse. The worst came true this month for a handful of North Koreans […]
http://www.wnd.com/2013/11/a-day-that-should-live-in-infamy/print/ On Saturday, Nov. 16, the United States marks a milestone: the 80th anniversary of when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt recognized the Soviet Union and “normalized” U.S.-USSR relations. It is a day that should live in infamy. But it’s a day hardly anyone has ever heard of. I certainly hadn’t before researching my book, “American […]
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You know the politics of ObamaCare is bad when even President Obama is forced to concede that the rollout is a bloody mess. If only the new “administrative fix” he announced on Thursday did more to help the consumers who are losing their coverage than it does to help Democrats protect their political future.
In a major political reversal, the President announced at a surprise press conference that he is suspending the regulations that he now admits are the reason that millions of health insurance plans have been terminated. Only days ago he was saying these were “substandard plans” sold by “bad-apple insurers.” Some of us have been warning for years about the coming insurance market destruction, but Mr. Obama went ahead anyway even though millions of middle-class folks preferred their coverage to ObamaCare.
Now these mass cancellations are proving to be unpopular, and Democrats are panicking, so Mr. Obama is offering a temporary stay of execution. He is instructing his health regulators to suspend eight complicated rules that all insurance plans had to meet and had caused the market implosion.
There is less reprieve here than Mr. Obama claims. It’s hard to un-cancel insurance. The rules Mr. Obama is repudiating were written in 2010, and insurers have been adapting to them for years. They will now have to scramble to revive the policies they can while throwing all of their actuarial assumptions out the window.
The faux reprieve also lasts for only one year and applies only to anyone who was covered in 2013. The insurers are essentially being asked to agree to accept losses on behalf of a rump group of policy holders in a legacy business that would then turn into a pumpkin in 2015.
