A CHALLENGE TO MEDICARE

REVIEW & OUTLOOK OCTOBER 4, 2009, 7:12 P.M. ET FACT IS THAT MEDICARE ABROGATES THE SIMPLE PRINCIPLE OF INSURANCE…IF YOU USE A DOCTOR WHO HAS OPTED OUT OF MEDICARE, YOU CANNOT SUBMIT YOUR BILL TO MEDICARE FOR REIMBURSEMENT OF ANY PART OF THE BILL EVEN THOUGH ALL SENIORS PAY A MONTHLY FEE DEDUCTED FROM SOCIAL SECURITY…..RSK […]

OBAMA’S “ABSURD RESULTS” DOCTRINE

REVIEW & OUTLOOK OCTOBER 4, 2009, 7:15 P.M. ET The ‘Absurd Results’ Doctrine Turning the carbon screws on businesses so they lobby Congress for cap and trade. ‘In recent years, many Americans have had cause to wonder whether decisions made at EPA were guided by science and the law, or whether those principles had been […]

CHAVEZ IMPORTS ISLAMIC ANTI-SEMITISM

OPINION: THE AMERICAS OCTOBER 4, 2009, 10:48 P.M. ET Revolutionary Anti-Semitism Chávez imports Ahmadinejad’s ideology to Latin America. By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY Sometimes I ask myself if Hitler wasn’t right when he wanted to finish with that race, through the famous holocaust, because if there are people that are harmful to this country, they are […]

TWOFER ON THE JUNK SCIENCE OF CLIMATE

  The New Scientist? Allan Nadel I enjoy my subscription to The New Scientist in large part for seeing to what lengths they are willing to go to support global warming orthodoxy.  This week’s issue, for example, describes a hitherto unobserved and completely unexplained phenomenon involving sudden changes in the temperature of the stratosphere associated […]

COMMUNISM ALIVE AND WELL IN CHINA

China anniversary: Why the Communist party still enjoys the support of its people The Chinese Communist Party is reviled around the world for its human rights abuses, but it still enjoys unswerving support from those Chinese old enough to remember life beforehand. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/6256434/China-anniversary-Why-the-Communist-party-still-enjoys-the-support-of-its-people.html By Malcolm Moore in Shanghai Published: 6:16PM BST 03 Oct 2009 This […]

IRAN OUTLOOK: GRIM JOHN BOLTON

NOBODY SAYS IT BETTER THAN JOHN BOLTON Iran Outlook: Grim The failed policies of Presidents Bush and Obama have brought us to a difficult pass JOHN R. BOLTON The week of September 21 was supposed to be multilateralism on parade for President Obama: attending the Climate Summit, addressing the U.N. General Assembly, chairing the Security […]

MARK STEYN

happy warrior MARK STEYN Bridge to Nowhere Good Single-payer . . . public option . . . cap-and-trade . . . No, wait, is that health care or something else? It’s all so complicated, isn’t it? Which is the point. It’s so hard to follow we have to leave it to our betters — i.e., […]

ANOTHER SLAPDOWN FOR THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION

China vows to stand by isolated North Korea Print Back to story China vows to stand by isolated North Korea By Chris Buckley Chris Buckley 2 hrs 42 mins ago BEIJING (Reuters) – China pledged to strengthen bonds with isolated North Korea on Monday, calling their relationship a boon to peace, while reports of swoops on North Korean ships […]

Nation-Building in Afghanistan: It Didn’t Work the First Time

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1053/Nation-Building-in-Afghanistan-It-Didnt-Work-the-First-Time.aspx   Nation-Building in Afghanistan: It Didn’t Work the First Time Written by:Diana West 10/4/2009 11:25:00 AM   Gen. McChrystal in London last week: “We don’t win by destroying the Taliban,” he said. “We don’t win by body count. We don’t win by the number of successful military raids or attacks, we win when the […]

Why I drew the cartoon: The ‘Muhammad Affair’ in retrospect

  The Daily Princetonian Guest Contributor Published: Thursday, October 1st, 2009   When — in early September 2005 — I got a brief request from my editor at the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten to draw my impression of the prophet Muhammad, I had little idea of what I was getting myself into. To me it was […]