Health Care Reform End Game Emerges Posted By Rich Baehr On October 30, 2009 @ 12:02 am In . Feature 01, Health, Money, Politics, US News | 3 Comments The Obama administration and Democrats in Congress have pledged to pass a major health care reform bill by the end of the year. It will provide […]
The Pay Czar Is Unconstitutional Kenneth Feinberg hasn’t been confirmed by the U.S. Senate. By MICHAEL W. MCCONNELL Last week’s announcement that “Pay Czar” Kenneth Feinberg slashed compensation for executives at seven large financial firms by an average of 50% stunned Wall Street, stoked the fires of populist resentment, and troubled economists. Will this government-mandated […]
UN Aids Jihadis by Robert Spencer (more by this author) Posted 10/29/2009 ET That they have broken up several major jihad plots in recent weeks is a tribute to American intelligence gathering and law enforcement. To them must go the credit for the fact that the U.S. is not this week picking up the pieces […]
Norman Borlaug who recently died was continually opposed by the “Greens” for his support and development of genetically altered crops which could have saved a continent from famine….and good for Ben Johnson for promoting return of the use of DDT now that malaria is reaching epidemic proportions again….rsk Bill Gates vs. the Famine Lobby – […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/30/pruden-great-pumpkin-soon-upon-us//print/ PRUDEN: Great Pumpkin soon upon us Wesley Pruden The Senate is losing its grip on unreality, so it may be up to whoever can teach manners to cows and pigs to save us from the consequences of global warming. (We’re supposed to call it “climate change” now, but some of us, being strict constructionists, […]
Originally published 04:45 a.m., October 30, 2009, updated 05:17 a.m., October 30, 2009 Health bill: 42 studies, 214 mentions of taxes THE WASHINGTON TIMES THE WASHINGTON TIMES House Democrats’ health care bill runs to 1,990 pages, costs $1.06 trillion, covers 96 percent of eligible Americans and demands the production of 42 studies on everything from […]
A 1,990-Page Medical Monstrosity Posted 10/29/2009 07:48 PM ET Medical Care: Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s cry in unveiling the House’s massive reform bill might as well have been “Viva la health care revolution!” America never voted for change like this. Just as most congressional Democrats refused to listen to the angry public at town halls in […]
‘Nobody Questions That’? — The Patriot Post http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2009/10/29/nobody-questions-that ‘Nobody Questions That’? Mark Alexander, Patriot Post.us “In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” –Thomas Jefferson Never before has there been more evidence of outright contempt for our […]
STEPHEN WALT CALLS THIS A “GREAT AND REASSURING BOOK”….RSK If Iran and North Korea want the bomb so badly, we should ‘let them have it.’ Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism From Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda By John Mueller Oxford, 319 pages, $27.95 Reviewed by Gabriel Schoenfeld In the years since the first nuclear bomb was tested in […]
OCTOBER 30, 2009 The Turkish Temptation The Erdogan government shifts its allegiances to anti-Western Islam. It’s been a decade since Turkey threatened to invade Syria because Damascus was harboring Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdish PKK terrorist group. “We will say ‘shalom’ to the Israelis on the Golan Heights” is how one Turkish newspaper […]
