Ramadan Scorecard for
2013
Attacks Around Baghdad Kill 69: Cafes
and Markets Targeted as Holy Month Ends
Blood for Allah. Muslims slaughtering Muslims. ~Bob
The U.S. Health Care System Can Be
Fixed Without ObamaCare
Excerpt: The U.S.
health care system suffers from three structural flaws. First, it artificially
inflates health insurance premiums for the healthy in an attempt to lower
premiums for the sick. This encourages healthy individuals to reduce their
insurance coverage or even exit the market entirely, driving up costs for
everyone. Mandates to purchase insurance and penalties for lack of insurance
can serve as cosmetic solutions, but they cannot erase this fundamental
problem. Second, by relying heavily on open-ended fee-for-service public
insurance, the present system rewards costlier high-volume care rather than
higher-quality care. Third, the poor are funneled into a Medicaid system with
reimbursement levels well below those of private payers. This relegates the
most vulnerable groups in America
to a separate and unequal health care system with more limited access and worse
outcomes, say Tomas J. Philipson, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise
Institute, and his coauthors. Philipson and his coauthors propose an approach
to health insurance reform that promotes high quality, fiscally sustainable
health care for all. Their solution is a departure from both the current system
and the Affordable Care Act reforms that begin in 2014. The approach
reorganizes U.S.
health insurance around four principles:
County employees can
earn twice as much as residents they serve
Excerpt: Nine out of 10 of the highest-paying county
governments in the U.S. are
in California -- the other is a wealthy New York suburb with an
exceptionally high cost of living -- according to a Washington Examiner
analysis of county employee compensation data.
Obama Administration
Spends $500 Million on Green Energy Jobs that Don't Exist
Excerpt: A recent Government Accountability
Office report revealed that the Obama Administration spent
$501 million of taxpayer money on ‘green energy training programs’ for jobs
that do not exist in the green energy sector.
Why the Cuccinelli
vs. McAuliffe Race Matters to You, Even If You Don't Live in Virginia. By Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt
If you're one of those folks who believes that Mitt Romney
was a RINO squish, and that Republicans always lose when they nominate RINO
squishes, then you really, really, really need Ken Cuccinelli to win this year.
If Ken Cuccinelli – Mr. Conservative Record – loses against a flawed competitor
like Terry McAuliffe, in a purple state like Virginia
. . . and simultaneously, Governor Hug-Obama-After-a-Hurricane-and-Move-Left
wins in a landslide up in New Jersey
. . . the message to the rest of the Republican party will be pretty clear.
What you fervently believe – conservatives win, moderate squishes lose – will
be refuted in the eyes of many Republicans. (Not on line, but you can subscribe
to Morning Jolt. ~Bob)
First dog Bo is
airlifted to Obama holiday home: When President Barack Obama goes on holiday to
the seaside things can get complicated.
Excerpt: Bo, the president's Portuguese Water Dog, arrived
separately on one of two MV-22 Ospreys, a hybrid aircraft which takes off like
a helicopter but flies like a plane.
The
Osprey Has Landed. Mark Steyn
Excerpt:
Among the many stories the prestigious American monodailies presently being
unloaded at fire-sale prices don’t have room to cover is this heartwarming
report from the London Telegraph — the First Dog and his entourage
flying in to Martha’s Vineyard on his own plane:
Tweet from Barbara McMahon@southsalem
Obama sends Osprey for Bo. Not for #Benghazi4.
Tweet from John Hayward @Doc-0
Remember when Obama said corporate jet owners were greedy
fat-cat Enemies of the People? Now Obama's dog gets his own plane.
Tweet from David Burge @iowahawkblog
Let Bo ride on the press plan with the rest of Obama's pets.
Excerpt: Booker, the front-runner in New Jersey’s Senate race, received five
checks from the Trenk DiPasquale law firm from 2007 until 2011. During that
time, the firm raked in more than $2 million in fees from local agencies over
which Booker has influence.
Leviathan Eats Its Tail: Municipal governments
cut employees’ hours to avoid the Obamacare employer mandate. By Jillian Kay Melchior
Excerpt: So state and local governments, as well as school
districts, are cutting back on hours for their employees to get around the
added costs imposed by Obamacare.
As the Detroit News editorial page reported,
200 part-time and seasonal employees in Dearborn,
Mich., will have their hours
scaled back to 28 hours a week or less. The city’s mayor attributed the
decision directly to the employer mandate. (Bet hey voted 90% for Obama.
Elections have consequences. ~Bob.)
KUHNER: Who betrayed
Navy SEAL Team 6?
Excerpt: Several days after the
bin Laden operation, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. — in a pathetic attempt
to spike the football and gloat — publicly revealed their central role in the
raid. His revelations put a giant target on the backs of every Navy SEAL
Team 6 member.
Does Obama White
House Want To Dictate Who Lives Where In America?
Excerpt: If any question remained about the Obama White
House's appetite for running everyone's life from Washington, it should be settled now. This
administration even wants to dictate neighborhood makeup. (When I first saw
this I figured it was some kind of satire, because no way the government was
going to start telling people where to live. Alas, I was wrong, this is
actually part of what the Administration is working on. Hopefully this will get
laughed off the stage, no one will take it seriously, and the idea will just
quietly fade away. The day they start telling us where to live is the day the
Tea Party movement goes to 100X its size, and Congress will have a meltdown
from the call, letters, e-mails, and all those people out there screaming in
the street. This is just too stupid to go anywhere, but it does say a lot about
certain people that they could even think of trying this. --Del)
Why I am a Republican
Delay Of Obamacare's
Employer Mandate Exacerbates An Already Bad Situation. By Sally pipes
Excerpt: But in the weeks since, it’s become increasingly
clear that the delay will provide little practical relief for businesses.
Obamacare will still force them to pay more for health coverage. The delay
simply gives them one more year to react — by cutting benefits, trimming hours,
or reducing staff.
Excerpt: Want documentary proof that the Muslim Brotherhood
created the Muslim Students’ Association (MSA) and the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for the purpose of duping people into
supporting Muslim supremacists? This document recovered from the Brotherhood —
“An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood
in North America” — was entered into
evidence by the FBI during the Holy Land Foundation trial. (Novel coming true: The
Hand of the Prophet: A Novel of Islamic America, 2053. http://www.amazon.com/Hand-Prophet-Novel-Islamic-America/dp/1478160535/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1341609341&sr=1-1&keywords=Hand+of+the+prophet+R.A.H.)
Mich. Doctor Accused
of Mistreating Cancer Patients
Excerpt: A Michigan
doctor is accused of committing health care fraud after he allegedly mistreated
cancer patients and bilked the government of millions in false Medicare claims,
a federal complaint said. Dr. Farid Fata, 48, of Oakland Township, Mich.,
reportedly gave "unnecessary chemotherapy to patients in remission"
and deliberately misdiagnosed patients in order to defraud the federally-funded
health care program of approximately $35 million over a two-year period,
according to the complaint. (Bilking the taxpayers - the perfect Obamacare
doctor. – LLW)
It’s Not That He’s
Liberal, And It’s Certainly Not That He’s Black. It’s That Obama Just Really
Sucks At Being President. By Michael Graham
Excerpt: Which brings up the question: What has President
Obama gotten right? I’m not trying to pick a fight. I’m really looking for an
answer. (Worth passing on to your liberal friends, but you may never hear from
them again, or alternately you may hear more nasty terms from them than you ever
have before. --Del)
Obama Tells Veterans
Sequester Puts Their Benefits in Jeopardy
Excerpt: Insane. How about quit sending money to the Muslim
Brotherhood? There are billions of things we could cut, yet liberals want to
make sure that the cuts hurt. (How about stopping with the million dollar
vacations? How long are we going to let this "Pretender-In-Chief get away
with this? --JB)
FBI: Al-Shabaab
Released Video To Recruit Minn.
Men For Jihad
Church Pastor's
Niece, 10, Gunned Down Leaving Sunday School Class, Dozens Injured as Attacks
Against Egypt's
Christians Continue
20 Questions The Media Would Be Asking Barack Obama If He
Were A Republican. By John Hawkins
Excerpt: If the mainstream media were a college class,
Republicans would be taking advanced calculus taught by a short tempered
professor from South Korea
with bad English, while Democrats would be taking remedial reading pass/fail.
In other words, as long as liberals don't do anything to embarrass the Democrat
Party, they get treated with kid gloves while all Republicans should assume
reporters would just as soon punch them in the throat as ask them a question.
Darkhorse Marines from 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment,
three years later. By Gretel C. Kovach
Excerpt: Juan Dominguez and his bride Alexis exchanged vows
on a warm evening this spring at a Temecula winery. The couple met a year after
a bomb buried in the hard ground of Sangin,
Afghanistan,
blew away his legs and an arm. (The price of guerilla war in particular, with
IEDs as the enemy's weapon of choice, is very heavy in terms both of the
crippling of strong young men physically, and the buildup of stress as they
learn to live with the kind of warfare being practiced. For those who've done
multiple tours and lost many friends, as well as those who have lost major
parts of their bodies, the remaining stress can become a terrible enemy of the
mind. The long term effects mentally can be as or more disabling as the the
physical effects. We owe these men more than our society can ever really repay.
At the least, they deserve great honor and our continuing prayers for their
lives to become stable and satisfying. They have earned it a hundred times
over. –Del. I
went to the wake for a 3/5 Marines here in Illinois at the time they took the worst
hits. He was KIA on 11/10/10. ~Bob.)
What Terrorists Want. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Liberals are great lovers of nuance. Ask an
ordinary New Yorker who saw the planes hit the towers what the terrorists want
and he will say, “To kill us all.” But to the left that is an excessive
simplification that leaves out such key elements as American foreign policy,
the role of automation in a global economy and the price of tea in China.
Home Office backs
down over 'go home' vans after legal complaint: Government agrees to consult
with local communities before embarking on such campaigns again
Excerpt: The Home Office has backed down in a legal battle
over its vans warning illegal immigrants to go home….According to the
claimants, the government has accepted it would in future need to have
"due regard" to its duties under the Equalities Act, including the
need to eliminate discrimination and harassment based on race and religion, as
well as to foster good relations between people from different racial and
religious groups. The vans have been criticised by campaigners for causing a
"climate of fear", with Vince Cable, the business secretary,
condemning them as "stupid and offensive". (Global push to
remove established culture for…..it ain’t just happening here. –Barb)
Toward a Post-Racial Society -- or Maybe Not: Maybe it's
time to acknowledge that we're all too stupid to talk on the subject of race.
By Frank
J. Fleming
Excerpt: If anything, it seems that the election (and
re-election) of the first black president has actually aggravated racial issues
in America.
If you want my opinion on why -- and you probably don't -- it's because we
specifically elected a black president instead of a president who happens to be
black -- i.e., his election was more because of racism than a triumph over it.
Branches of Military Battle over Shrinking War
Chest. By Julian E. Barnes
Excerpt: Fights between branches of the U.S. military have erupted over responsibility
for everything from drones to clocks as America's armed forces battle to
keep their share of a shrinking defense budget. (I get a kick out of the Army
wanting to base their choppers on Navy ships. The Marine Corps is going to jump
all over that, for sure. But the whole idea of cutting the military back is
scary to me, we've already done serious damage to all the military with the
damned PC mentality taking over so much. And driving out what are probably some
of the best young officers, to leave the politicians in place and gaining rank.
Having all the 3- and 4-star generals be politicians instead of actual soldiers
is a great way to drop the effectiveness of the military sharply, and
guarantees a terrible price in blood if/when we are back in real combat again.
Heaven help us. --Del)
The Fix’s 5 immutable rules of politics. By Chris Cillizza
Hall’s Laws of Politics: 1. The voters always want less
taxes and more spending. 2. Citizens want honest politicians until they want
something fixed. 3. Constituency drives out consistency (i.e., liberals defend
military spending and conservatives social spending in their own districts).
Girl, 4, among 8 shot
overnight
Three partygoers shot
in Cicero
2 dead, 8 wounded in
overnight shootings
8 shot in four hours
overnight across Chicago
Think the TV this morning said two or three dead, many shot
over the weekend. It kind of washes over you when you live in Chicago. The stories don’t mention the race
of the victims or of the shooters—it never does unless the victims are black
and the shooters white, which is rare. No word if any of the victims or
shooters could have been Obama’s son, or if they were wearing hoodies to
remember Trayvon. ~Bob
Army veteran kicked
off North Wildwood boardwalk by police because of service dog
Excerpt: An Army veteran was kicked off the North Wildwood
boardwalk and issued a summons Thursday because he was walking with his service
dog, according to local police and a Florida
news report. (I love the Jersey shore, but prefer Sea Isle or Ocean City
to Wildwood. ~Bob.)
MO State Fair bans
rodeo clown who mocked Obama
Hippies - Crying Over
Dead Trees
Warning, hippies. Reality is coming. And it’s pissed! ~Bob.
Here's The Law That's
Driving Record Numbers Of Americans To Renounce Their Citizenship
http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-law-thats-driving-record-numbers-of-americans-to-renounce-their-citizenship-2013-8#ixzz2bmoncG1a
http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-law-thats-driving-record-numbers-of-americans-to-renounce-their-citizenship-2013-8#ixzz2bmoncG1a
Mark
Levin's The Liberty
Amendments. By Thoams Lifson
Excerpt: I must confess that I
had some trepidation when starting to read it, for as the editor of American Thinker I turn down most submissions that propose
amending the Constitution as a solution for what ails us. The reason is simple:
amending the Constitution is deliberately difficult to accomplish, so changing it is a
solution easy to propose and difficult to dispose. But Mark, whose body of work as a
political thinker includes not just the significant tomes Men in Black, Liberty and Tyranny, and Ameritopia but also three hours a day of
extemporaneous political talk on one the nation's most popular syndicated talk
shows, is in a different category.
Tweet from Charles Krauthammer @krauthammer
Obama, yesterday, on Putin's "slouch": Putin looks
"like the bored kid at the back of the classroom." That's not
boredom. That's contempt.
Slap Hillary Game
Upsets Liberals Who Were Silent About The Slap Palin Game
WATCH: Proud Parent
Posts Video of Child Praying to Barack Obama
I couldn’t watch. ~Bob
Man in coma after
black mob of 50 pummels him
http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/he-thought-hed-be-safe-in-black-neighborhood/
http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/he-thought-hed-be-safe-in-black-neighborhood/
Excerpt: Ray Widstrand thought he had nothing to fear from
moving into a black neighborhood on the East Side of St. Paul. This young white
guy and aspiring filmmaker thought he had nothing to fear when he decided to
take a Sunday night stroll through his adopted part of town. (When Progressives
meet reality. ~Bob.)
Civilization (Bongo,
Bongo, Bongo). Mark Steyn's Song of the Week
Excerpt: But despite shifting
fashions it's endured longer than most pop novelties. Long before Godfrey
Bloom, the British Defence Minister and indiscreet diarist Alan Clark, you may
recall, used Bongo-Bongo
Land as a synonym for a
certain type of incorrigible African dictatorship, and undoubtedly got it from
the song. But in 1947 African
dictators were thin on the ground, so "Civilization" (to give the
song its formal title) operated on a more innocent premise – the natives'
inability to see what was so great about life in the heart of the metropolis:
Know
Thine Enemy. By Mark Steyn
Excerpt:
[Major Hasan] is not, in fact, a soldier. He is a shrink. The soldiers in this
story are the victims, some 45 of them.
Matt
Damon Slams Obama: "He Broke Up With Me"
Excerpt:
"Jimmy Carter came out and said we don't live in a democracy. That's a
little intense when an ex-president says that," Damon said, adding that
Obama "got some explaining to do, particularly for a constitutional law
professor."
Allen
West asks why 'the usual race-baiters' are silent on bus beating. By Alex
Pappas
Excerpt:
West is referencing the July 9 attack
— caught on videotape – of three 15-year-olds beating a student while riding a
school bus. The attack was reportedly in response to the student telling on one
of the attackers for trying to sell drugs. “Who
leaked the information provided in confidence by the victim about the black
teens selling drugs?”
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