REVIEW & OUTLOOK JANUARY 8, 2010 Medicare and the Mayo Clinic The famous hospital will no longer take some senior patients. President Obama last year praised the Mayo Clinic as a “classic example” of how a health-care provider can offer “better outcomes” at lower cost. Then what should Americans think about the famous Minnesota medical […]
Obama and the White House Chicago Boys By Ed Lasky Barack Obama has a problem. His polls numbers are dropping and his policies are fueling an angry backlash across America. The Democratic party is held in disrepute, and congressional Democrats are dropping like flies. This imperils Obama’s radical agenda and his own 2012 prospects. What […]
FLUSH WITH THE “SUCCESS” OF ALL HIS FOREIGN POLICY INITIATIVES, THE NOBELISTA STRIKES AGAIN……RSK http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100108/wl_mideast_afp/mideastdiplomacyus WASHINGTON (AFP) – The Obama administration on Friday begins a flurry of high-level talks aimed at reviving Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, after its Middle East diplomatic debut fell flat last year. Accompanied by Middle East envoy George Mitchell, Secretary of State […]
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=35095 The Westergaard Attack: It’s All the Same Jihad Despite the mainstream media’s best efforts to cover up the jihadist elements in both attacks, informed Americans know that Major Nidal Hasan murdered thirteen Americans in a jihad attack at Fort Hood in November, and that another Muslim, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, tried to explode Northwest Flight […]
White House backs intel agency appointee http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/08/white-house-backs-counterterrorism-center-chief//print/ SEE: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/01/07/2010-01-07_antiterror_chief_took_ski_pass_remained_on_slopes_after_christmas_bomb_attempt.html Eli Lake The White House is defending Michael Leiter, the Bush appointee who heads the agency charged with integrating terrorist threat information, as Congress prepares its own oversight hearings into the failed airline terrorist attack on Christmas Day. In the coming weeks, Congress will begin its […]
PRUDEN: There’s no penalty for sleeping on the job Wesley Pruden http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/08/theres-no-penalty-for-sleeping-on-the-job//print/ If it’s true, as Dr. Johnson famously told us it was, that the prospect of hanging focuses the mind in a wonderful way, maybe the prospect of facing angry voters sharpens a politician’s instincts (if not necessarily his mind). After first treating the […]
Palestine — where only death is worth living for http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/2010/01/07/palestine-where-only-death-is-worth-living-for/?print=1 By Rachel Raskin-Zrihen (bio) The Palestinians – the supposedly less radical ones no less – have named a public square after a terrorist who killed nearly 40 people about 30 years ago. The Palestinian argument is that it’s OK to glorify a murderer because there […]
http://politicalmavens.com/ Marilyn Penn Who’d have thunk that California’s show-biz governator would turn out to have so much more common sense than the billionaire third term mayor of New York City. Action-man Scharzenegger has proposed reducing the amount of money spent on prisons and re-directing it to the higher education system; towards that end, he will […]
Joel Fishman Makor Rishon 8 January 2010 Reality Bites Uncle Sam: Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel’s enemies based their propaganda war on several big lies, namely that Israel was the aggressor in the war, that there is such a thing as a Palestinian people who are the oppressed victims of Israel, that Zionism […]
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/01/07/thermopylae-for-health-care/print The American Spectator “The truth is that Obamacare is a care rationing, proxy death-paneling, taxpayer-abortion-funding, unconstitutionally individual-mandating, vast-bureaucracy creating, incredibly high taxing, free enterprise hobbling, doctor-patient-relationship interfering, medical-device denying, flexible savings-account destroying, trial-lawyer gift-wrapping, union-boss mollycoddling, medical price-increasing, job-killing, sinister power-grabbing, American republic-undermining mound of legislative plutonium.” Thermopylae for Health Care By Quin Hillyer […]
