Published on TheHill.com on December 15, 2009
Due to pressure from enraged Americans, the most pernicious features of Obama’s healthcare legislation have, for now at least, been stripped from his bill. This is no time for complacency, however, since the liberals are trying to push back and get the provisions back in.
As the bill now stands, [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2009
HEALTH BILL HAS NO CLOTHES
COPENHAGEN: AFRICAN DICTATORS DEMAND “DEMOCRACY”
The Copenhagen conference on climate change, held amid record low freezing temperatures that are blanketing Europe, was shattered by a walkout by the G-77 nations, the bloc of “developing” countries that spans from China to Chad. Their demand? More “democracy and transparency” in the negotiations! They also want massive American and European [...]
No reason for optimism about war in Afghanistan
According to the polls, President Obama's speech announcing the U.S. troop surge in Afghanistan won over a majority of Americans.
What was Tiger thinking?
(Rejected first draft of a statement by Tiger Woods prepared for his Web site.)<p/>Two weeks ago on this page I apologized for my personal transgressions and pleaded for the media to give me and my family some privacy.
U.S. HALF WAY TO KYOTO GOALS – WITH NO GOVERNMENT REGULATION
The worst nightmare of the left is about to come true: The United States is about to achieve the carbon emissions goals set by the 1997 Kyoto Accords. Once seemingly beyond reach, the United States is already half way toward meeting the stringent Kyoto goals for reduction in carbon emissions without a cap and [...]
NEW HEALTH CARE DEAL: THEY’RE ON THE RUN!
Faced with a massive center-right uprising, the Obama liberals have been forced to abandon a public option. But in doing so, they are throwing the Medicare program under the bus.
Already, we have been asking how you can treat a growing number of elderly with a Medicare program that this bill cuts by $500 [...]
THE CHARGE OF THE 280 DEMS
Published on TheHill.com on December 8, 2009
Let’s first channel Alfred, Lord Tennyson from his poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade”:
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred (two-hundred eighty)
“Forward the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns,” he said
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred. (two-hundred [...]
MAMMOGRAM DECISION TO KILL 11,500 WOMEN
The best possible example of the kinds of conflicts that will increasingly undermine the US health care system if Obama’s bill passes is the effect of the federal government’s advice to women under 49 to abstain from mammograms. What may make sense from a national perspective that focuses on the need to control [...]
U.S. HALF WAY TO KYOTO GOALS – WITH NO GOVERNMENT REGULATION
The worst nightmare of the left is about to come true: The United States is about to achieve the carbon emissions goals set by the 1997 Kyoto Accords. Once seemingly beyond reach, the United States is already half way toward meeting the stringent Kyoto goals for reduction in carbon emissions without a cap and [...]
NEW HEALTH CARE DEAL: THEY’RE ON THE RUN!
Faced with a massive center-right uprising, the Obama liberals have been forced to abandon a public option. But in doing so, they are throwing the Medicare program under the bus.
Already, we have been asking how you can treat a growing number of elderly with a Medicare program that this bill cuts by $500 [...]