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Under ObamaCare Health Premiums Would Rise

March 17th, 2010 · No Comments

Via FOX News:

Buyers, beware: President Barack Obama says his health care overhaul will lower premiums by double digits, but check the fine print.
Premiums are likely to keep going up even if the health care bill passes, experts say. If cost controls work as advertised, annual increases would level off with time. But don’t look for [...]

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Tags: Government · Health · Insurance · Money · Taxes · The Left · The US

Why ObamaCare = Failure

March 16th, 2010 · No Comments

Says Kim Strassel at The Wall Street Journal:

No way around it, the politics of ObamaCare are bad. So bad that it lends credence to the belief that some in the White House and Congress are far more ideologically interested in establishing European-style health care than they are the public’s will or their party’s electoral success. [...]

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Tags: Government · Insurance · Socialism · The Left · The US

Do You Remember?

March 15th, 2010 · No Comments

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Tags: Government · The Left · The US

Obama’s Illusion

March 13th, 2010 · No Comments

Found at the Washington Post:

Bluntly put, this is the political reality:
First, the battle for public opinion has been lost. Comprehensive health care has been lost. If it fails, as appears possible, Democrats will face the brunt of the electorate’s reaction. If it passes, however, Democrats will face a far greater calamitous reaction at the polls. [...]

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Tags: Freedom/Independence · Government · The Left · The Right · The US

Obama Still Sinking/Stinking In Polls

March 12th, 2010 · No Comments

More Höpenchange, via Rasmussen:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 24% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -18.
Thirty-seven percent (37%) give the President good or [...]

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Tags: Government · Health · Money · Taxes · The Left · The US

Possible New Disease Outbreak

March 11th, 2010 · Comments Off

Atlanta Center for Disease Control
February 8, 2010
Reuters, CNN Wire Services
New Disease Discovered and Classified: ‘Gonorrhea Lectim’
The Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about a new virulent strain of this old disease. The disease is called Gonorrhea Lectim (pronounced “Gonna re-elect ‘em”).
The disease is contracted through dangerous and high risk behavior involving putting [...]

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Tags: Election · Government · Strange/Funny · The Left · The Right · The US

Maybe It Ain’t The Insurers Fault

March 9th, 2010 · Comments Off

From National Review Online:

According to the most recent Fortune 500 rankings, health insurers are not even among the top-30 United States industries in profit-margin. Health insurers rank 35th, with a profit-margin of just 2.2 percent — less than one-fifth the profit-margin of railroads. None of the ten largest American health insurers made profits [...]

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Tags: Government · Health · Insurance · Money · Taxes · The Left · The US

Six Reasons to Downsize the Federal Government

March 9th, 2010 · Comments Off

From those great folks at Cato:

Additional federal spending transfers resources from the more productive private sector to the less productive public sector of the economy.
As federal spending rises, it creates pressure to raise taxes now and in the future.
Much federal spending is wasteful and many federal programs are mismanaged.
Federal programs often benefit special interest groups [...]

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Tags: Government · Money · Politics · Pork · Taxes · The Left · The Right · The US

Wise Words

March 8th, 2010 · Comments Off

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. – Woodrow Wilson

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Tags: Government · The US

Majority says government a threat to citizens’ rights

March 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment

From CNN:

A majority of Americans think the federal government poses a threat to rights of Americans, according to a new national poll.
Fifty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday say they think the federal government’s become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and [...]

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Tags: Government · The Left · The Right · The US

The Change

March 4th, 2010 · Comments Off

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Tags: Government · The Left · The US

Three Percenters

March 3rd, 2010 · Comments Off

The “Three Percenters“:

During the American Revolution, the active forces in the field against the King’s tyranny never amounted to more than 3% of the colonists. They were in turn actively supported by perhaps 10% of the population. In addition to these revolutionaries were perhaps another 20% who favored their cause but did little or nothing [...]

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Tags: Government · Guns · The US

Obama’s Televised Healthcare Circus

February 27th, 2010 · Comments Off

Says the UK Times Online:

For the rest of us, however, it was mainly an opportunity to see how many conciliatory-looking poses Obama could strike while listening to his Republican opponents explain why the entire first year of his administration has been a gigantic waste of time, and why the telephone directory-sized health Bills produced by [...]

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Tags: Government · Health · Insurance · The Left · The Right · The US

Obama: The Audacity Of Socialism

February 26th, 2010 · Comments Off

Via FOX News:

President Barack Obama strongly signaled that Democrats will move forward on a health care overhaul with or without Republicans, preparing his party for a fight whose political outcome will rest with voters in November.
Delivering his closing argument at a 7-1/2-hour televised policy marathon Thursday, Obama told Republicans he welcomes their ideas — even [...]

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Tags: Election · Government · Health · Insurance · Politics · Socialism · The Left · The Right · The US

We Beg For A Nanny State

February 23rd, 2010 · Comments Off

Via FOX News:

When 4-year-old Eric Stavros Adler choked to death on a piece of hot dog, his anguished mother never dreamed that the popular kids’ food could be so dangerous.
Some food makers including Oscar Mayer have warning labels about choking, but not nearly enough, says Joan Stavros Adler, Eric’s mom.
The American Academy of Pediatrics agrees. [...]

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Tags: Absurd · Government · Health · The US