Don’t let government
play doctor
Funny, some say creepy Anti-Obamacare Ads.
How Economic Freedom
Promotes Better Health Care, Education and Environmental Quality
Excerpt: Economic freedom and prosperity go hand in hand
with improved health and health care, better education, and a cleaner
environment, say James M. Roberts, a research fellow at the Heritage
Foundation, and Ryan Olson, a research assistant at the Center for
International Trade and Economics. Instead of the coercive monopolization of
health care through expensive and inefficient government programs, economic
freedom can be applied to achieve positive health care outcomes by: Eliminating
barriers by removing subsidies and repealing laws that prevent individuals from
purchasing health care services from market-based sources. Increasing
competition among bidders to help reduce cost trend and encourage innovation. Decentralizing
regulations, allowing for health care plans that fit the customer.
The Affordable Care
Act Is Not So Affordable
Excerpt: The public relations battle over the cost of health
insurance in the exchanges is in full roar. State insurance commissioners and
health insurance exchange boards, eager to prove to taxpayers that they are
doing their jobs, have announced that they will save consumers plenty of money
-- or at least not cost them too much more. Critics of the Affordable Care Act
(ACA) dig into the rate filings and find unconscionable increases in premiums,
says Joseph Antos, the Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement
Policy at the American Enterprise Institute.
I GUESS I’M DOOMED:
Rangel says you’re going to hell if you don’t support food stamps
http://clashdaily.com/2013/09/guess-im-doomed-rangel-says-youre-going-hell-dont-support-food-stamps/
http://clashdaily.com/2013/09/guess-im-doomed-rangel-says-youre-going-hell-dont-support-food-stamps/
Excerpt: New York Representative Charlie Rangel is an
absolute beacon of morality. Holding himself to the highest ethical and
spiritual standards, he has built a political career on a foundation of honor,
charity, and good will. So, when he issues a proclamation claiming that
Republicans who try to scale back government programs are headed to Hell,
they’d better listen. (Blowhards squared, see video --JB)
Syrian Rebel Alliance Rejects
Western-Backed Leaders
Show me your shocked face. ~Bob. Excerpt: An alliance of
Syrian rebels, including a U.S.-designated terrorist group and several
Western-backed factions, rejected the leadership of a main Syrian political
opposition body and called for a unified Islamic rebel structure. The
statement, signed late Tuesday by some of the most powerful Islamist factions
in the Syrian rebel insurgency, threatens to undercut international attempts to
organize the political opposition, to isolate extremists from rebels that
receive Western funding, training and arms and to move both toward peace talks
with the regime.
Police fine car
owners for allowing Saudi women to drive
http://www.thenational.ae/world/middle-east/police-fine-car-owners-for-allowing-saudi-women-to-drive
http://www.thenational.ae/world/middle-east/police-fine-car-owners-for-allowing-saudi-women-to-drive
Hope this is in the National Park Service video of 'Islam's Work For Women's Rights' ~Bob
Saudi Arabia worst on women's legal issues -report
Hope this is in the National Park Service video of 'Islam's Work For Women's Rights' ~Bob
Some
politically-active youth don't like to sweat the details. By Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt
Excerpt: Back when Obama was pushing for military action in Syria, a
significant chunk of his base opposed the idea, and another, even larger chunk
was just plain quiet. Organizing for Action was notably muted. Obama's
grassroots army appears powerful and easy to mobilize, as long as the
motivation is "give us free stuff" -- i.e. "free" health
care, "free" birth control, "free" Obamaphones, etc. But is
it that they're only stirred by asking what their country can do for them, not
what they can do for their country? Is it that Obama has built a large,
activist base that will show up and attend rallies and knock on doors and vote,
but only if it is promised some sort of tangible goodie at the end of the
process? For better or worse, that's not what fuels our movement. The
conservative message doesn't include free ice cream. Our message is pretty
relentlessly that we expect you to take care of yourself, and only turn to
government or society as a whole in dire emergencies:
Old but important: The Party of Civil
Rights. By Kevin D.
Williamson
Excerpt: Perhaps even worse, the Democrats have been allowed
to rhetorically bury their Bull Connors, their longstanding affiliation with
the Ku Klux Klan, and their pitiless opposition to practically every major
piece of civil-rights legislation for a century. Republicans may not be able to
make significant inroads among black voters in the coming elections, but they
would do well to demolish this myth nonetheless. … In Congress, Johnson had
consistently and repeatedly voted against legislation to protect black
Americans from lynching. As a
leader in the Senate, Johnson did his best to cripple the Civil Rights Act of
1957;
Islamist War on
Christians: Each time Islamists murder Christians,
the media treat it as an isolated episode. By Lee Habeeb
Excerpt: I’m waiting. I am a Lebanese Christian,
and I am waiting. Waiting for CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, the New York
Times, the Los Angeles Times, orTime magazine to really tell the
story. To finally run this headline: “War on Christians
Being Waged by Islamists.”
Lois Lerner’s lawyers
negotiating with Oversight Committee on immunity
http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/24/lois-lerners-lawyers-negotiating-with-oversight-committee-on-immunity/
http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/24/lois-lerners-lawyers-negotiating-with-oversight-committee-on-immunity/
Excerpt: IRS scandal figure Lois Lerner is negotiating
through her lawyers with Rep. Darrell Issa’s House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee about possibly gaining immunity to testify again in
the committee’s investigative hearings. (Is the canary warming up? ~Bob)
Obama’s ‘Stable’ New World: A Middle
East In Flames. By Joseph Klein
Excerpt: Presumably, the reference to American
exceptionalism, a notion which Obama himself has pooh-poohed in the past, was
meant as a rebuke to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent New York
Times op-ed column in which Putin had offered his critique of this idea.
Saddam’s Ticking Time Bomb. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: In 1992, Al Gore accused President George Bush of
“a dangerous blindness to the murderous ambitions of a despot.” Eight years
later, the Democratic Party platform proclaimed, “As President, Al Gore will
not hesitate to use America’s
military might against Iraq.”
Three years later, the Democratic Party, which had initiated the most
aggressive military action against Iraq since the Gulf War and whose
leading lights had repeatedly pledged to get tough on Saddam, had reinvented
themselves as the anti-war party.
Stupidity Is The Root
Of Our Ruin
Excerpt: There is an astounding volume of stupidity in the
world. One would like to believe that all of our education, parenting, social
interactions, and philosophizing would combine to make us intelligent. I’m not
even suggesting genius level intelligence, merely basic logical intelligence.
However, our society continues to breed ignorance, and it just so happens that
many of the most ignorant in our world get featured on TV
Good Analysis: The Westgate Mall Attack and the
Future of Terrorism
Excerpt: Westgate represented a more limited target set than
Mumbai, but the attack was based on the same principles. Like Mumbai, the death
toll in Nairobi
was high, the target was a prominent public place important to the economy and
to tourists, and the assault dragged on for days. Securing the targets in both
Mumbai and Nairobi
in advance would have been difficult because efforts to protect them from
attack would likely also make them onerous to enter, thus cutting against their
very purpose.
Why Obama’s big U.N. speech on Syria was so awkwardly
inconsistent. By Max Fisher, Washington Post
Excerpt: There were two contradictions in Obama's comments
to the United Nations on Syria.
The first was with the Obama of General Assemblies past, who espoused a very
different view of the war and how to handle it. Previously, Obama had not
advocated any of the military and diplomatic actions that, today, he declared
so vital that failing to pursue them could undermine the legitimacy of the
United Nations itself.
Tweet from David Burge @iowahawkblog
Stop worrying about what the rest of the world thinks of us,
and start making the rest of the world worry about what we think of them.
Admiral Reasserts
possibility Benghazi
about Blind Sheikh
Excerpt: On September 16th, Accuracy in Media (AIM) held a conference with
the Citizens Commission on Benghazi (CCB), which was comprised of several retired,
decorated military and intelligence officials. One such official was four-star
Admiral James “Ace” Lyons, who reiterated his belief that the 9/11/12 attack in
Benghazi was possibly about a staged kidnapping operation gone awry….When asked
by Kincaid to clarify his comments, Lyons responded by asking (and then
answering a question): “What was Mursi’s number one priority?… Get the release
of the Blind Sheikh.” (Told you, told you, told you, I did…..it was the only
thing that made all the take down of security under HC, stand down of rescue
and sociopathic “bump in the road” POTUS reaction when The Plan blew up because
rebels just had to sodomize and kill a gay versus holding him for ransom…. Hillary
and her MB connections up in it to their necks. We need to thank the Egyptian
people for revolting against the New World Order to use them as pawns and
standing up for their freedoms, now outlawing the MB, which has infiltrated US
Regime and multiple alphabet agencies. –Barb)
Allen West: ‘CAIR
obviously fears those who confront them w/ the truth’
http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/24/allen-west-cair-obviously-fears-those-who-confront-them-w-the-truth/#ixzz2fuvgkr5i
http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/24/allen-west-cair-obviously-fears-those-who-confront-them-w-the-truth/#ixzz2fuvgkr5i
Excerpt: Former Florida Republican Rep. Allen West fired
back at the Council on American-Islamic Relations Tuesdayafter the Muslim
advocacy group denounced West as Islamophobic last week. “Recently the Council
for (sic) American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) bestowed upon me a great honor,
they listed me in the top ten of individuals and organizations they fear,”
West wrote on a Tuesday Facebook post
Democrats Bury
Psychotic Allan Brauer's Death Rant
Excerpt: Here’s what Allan Brauer, the now former
communications chair for the Democratic Party of Sacramento, responded on his
Twitter account. He wished that Carpenter’s children would “die from
debilitating, painful and incurable diseases.”
Secretary Kerry Will
Sign UN Arms Trade Treaty
Excerpt: Obama administration officials say Secretary of
State John Kerry will sign the Arms Trade Treaty
(ATT) "during annual United Nations General Assembly meeting this
week." As Breitbart News reported in March, the ATT hands the
executive branch the power to work with other governments around the world to
shut down portions of the U.S.
import firearms market…. On March 23, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) introduced an amendment to
keep the U.S. from
entering into the treaty.
NRA Reacts to Signing
of UN Arms Treaty: Blatant Attack on Constitutional Rights. By Katie Pavlich
Excerpt: Secretary of State John Kerry has signed the UN
Arms Trade Treaty on behalf of the Obama administration and the National Rifle
Association, which has spent years fighting the treaty, isn't happy about it.
“The Obama administration is once again demonstrating its contempt for our
fundamental, individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms,” Executive Director of the
NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action Chris
W. Cox said. “This treaty threatens individual firearm ownership with an
invasive registration scheme.
Freedom of Travel Act
Aims To Reaffirm Americans’ 4th Amendment Freedoms
Excerpt: Simply put, there is no conceivable aspect of life
that is free from the TSA and its VIPR squads. Yet, despite its all
encompassing reach, the VIPR program has little record of making the American
people safer. VIPR searches are typically random and thus are not based on any
actual specific threat or criminal activity.
Good Column: Next stop, banana republic. By Mark
Steyn
Excerpt: We’re not a banana republic, if only because the
debt of banana republics is denominated in a currency other than their own –
i.e., the U.S. dollar. When you’re the guys who print the global currency, you
can run up debts undreamt of by your average generalissimo. As Obama explained
in another of his recent speeches, “Raising the debt ceiling, which has been
done over a hundred times, does not increase our debt.” I won’t even pretend to
know what he and his speechwriters meant by that one, but the fact that raising
the debt ceiling “has been done over a hundred times” does suggest that
spending more than it takes in is now a permanent feature of American
government.
Little Sisters of the
Poor file lawsuit to stop HHS from forcing them to fund contraception coverage
Tweet from David
Burge @iowahawkblog. Obamacare: making sure elderly nuns get the
birth control insurance coverage they so desperately need.
Report: Obamacare Exchanges to Cost $5.3 Billion, 16
Million Hours. By Daniel Halper
Health-Law
Implementation to Vary by State: As 'Obamacare' Kicks In, Americans'
Experiences Are Set to Diverge Depending on Where They Live
Excerpt: There is just one federal health law, but the way
Americans experience the debut of its main provisions on Oct. 1 will vary
widely depending on where they live.
Son's heroin death
prompts dad to seek HIPAA rule change
Excerpt: More than 80% of those arrested in Camden, N.J.,
for possessing or
seeking narcotics are from suburban communities, said Camden
County Police Chief Scott Thomson.
Obama Lied, My Health
Plan Died. By Michelle Malkin
Excerpt: Last week, our family received notice from Anthem
BlueCross BlueShield of Colorado
that we can no longer keep the plan we like because of "changes from
health care reform (also called the Affordable Care Act or ACA)." The
letter informed us that "(t)o meet the requirements of the new laws, your
current plan can no longer be continued beyond your 2014 renewal date."
Obama's 1.3 Billion
in Syrian Aid Helping Al Qaeda. By Daniel Greenfield
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/obamas-1-3-billion-in-syrian-aid-helping-al-qaeda/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=obamas-1-3-billion-in-syrian-aid-helping-al-qaeda
Excerpt: This isn’t the first such report. ISIS have seized weapons and equipment from the Free Syrian Army. And members of the FSA have joined the Al-Nusra Front taking weapons and equipment with them.
Excerpt: This isn’t the first such report. ISIS have seized weapons and equipment from the Free Syrian Army. And members of the FSA have joined the Al-Nusra Front taking weapons and equipment with them.
Obamacare Will Increase
Health Spending By $7,450 For A Typical Family of Four
How many times did Mr. Obama mention the specific number of
a $2500 reduction per year savings in health care costs for a typical American
family of four? Answer- like a half dozen at least. But gee, it turns out the
official figures that have come out say that Obamacare will result in a total
increase in health care costs for the country of about $62 billion dollars per
year. I say again, an increase in health care costs for the
country. Which means that family will not have $2500 fewer bucks going into
their health care costs per year, instead they will have an increase in those
costs, of roughly $900 per year. All kinds of supporters of Obamacare are upset
with these numbers and have said very nasty things about them. None of what
they have said disproves the predictions of the Medicare actuaries. Even if
they are wrong about the amount of increase, there is certainly no question
that there will never be the promised $2500 annual bonus to those US families.
We're watching the major unions screaming to be exempted from Obamacare because
it will raise their costs, Congress has exempted themselves and their staffs
from Obamacare, others are lining up to try to get exemptions, just how much
evidence that this is not going to work as promised does anyone need? Here
comes October first, when the real fun will start. I figure by January the
initial impact of the system will begin to be felt, and by next October
everyone will know a great deal about what is really going to happen with this
horrendous package. That may affect some of the voting in the Fall. We live in
such interesting times. Meanwhile, the Syria mess rolls along, and so far
there hasn't even been a hint of a plan for locating and destroying the
chemical weapons. I will go way out on a limb here and predict that this is not
going to work out well at all. Anyone care to make a wager on this? I'll offer
good odds. –Del
Vietnam's Talk/Fight
Strategy in play on Human Rights Negotiations. By Michael Benge
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/09/vietnams_talkfight_strategy_in_play_on_human_rights_negotiations.html#!#ixzz2fgIhbO7w
Excerpt: For decades, the Vietnamese communists' negotiating strategy has been "Talk/Fight" -- first in dealing with the French, then with theU.S. during the Vietnam War, and now in the current U.S.-Vietnam Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations. The "Talk/Fight" strategy is to engage their opponent in negotiations, stalling for time, all the while replenishing, repositioning, and resupplying their troops, as they gain ground and concessions. According to Ernest Bower, senior advisor on Southeast Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, "[t]he American government admires Vietnam's strategic thinking." (The total hypocrisy of Hanoi in claiming to be a socialist government created for the good of the people is truly unbelievable. They have been oppressors always, and now their level of oppression just keeps increasing. While our government ignores that, and continues to give them MFN status, when they should be a Nation of Particular Concern. And we should be subjecting them to all kinds of pressures, trade-wise and any other ways possible, because they will react to nothing except something that affects their cash flow. --Del)
Excerpt: For decades, the Vietnamese communists' negotiating strategy has been "Talk/Fight" -- first in dealing with the French, then with theU.S. during the Vietnam War, and now in the current U.S.-Vietnam Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations. The "Talk/Fight" strategy is to engage their opponent in negotiations, stalling for time, all the while replenishing, repositioning, and resupplying their troops, as they gain ground and concessions. According to Ernest Bower, senior advisor on Southeast Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, "[t]he American government admires Vietnam's strategic thinking." (The total hypocrisy of Hanoi in claiming to be a socialist government created for the good of the people is truly unbelievable. They have been oppressors always, and now their level of oppression just keeps increasing. While our government ignores that, and continues to give them MFN status, when they should be a Nation of Particular Concern. And we should be subjecting them to all kinds of pressures, trade-wise and any other ways possible, because they will react to nothing except something that affects their cash flow. --Del)
Theft of US weapons
in Libya involved
hundreds of guns, sources say
Excerpt: The recent theft of massive amounts of highly
sensitive U.S. military
equipment from Libya is
far worse than previously thought, Fox News has learned, with raiders swiping
hundreds of weapons that are now in the hands of militia groups aligned with
terror organizations and the Muslim Brotherhood. The equipment, as Fox News previously reported, was used for training
in Libya by
U.S. Special Forces. The training team, which was funded by the Pentagon, has
since been pulled, partly in response to the overnight raids last August.
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