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‘Obamacare is Not a Good Fit for Women’

From The Heritage Foundation: First Lady Michelle Obama’s video on health care reform raises important issues about female patients who are falling through the cracks of the U.S. health care system. It’s not a perfect system, but Nina Owcharenko explains that ObamaCare would take women and the rest of the country in the wrong direction. [...]

How Unemployment Taxes and Obama’s Stimulus Are Killing Jobs

From The Heritage Foundation: The Associated Press reports: Employers already are squeezed by tight credit, rising health care costs, wary consumers and a higher minimum wage. Now, the surging jobless rate is imposing another cost. It’s forcing higher state taxes on companies to pay for unemployment insurance claims. Some employers say the extra costs make [...]

‘Obama may put Americans under world judges’ power’

From World Net Daily: President Obama has dispatched a delegation this week to The Hague to explore issues involving the United States’ possible participation in the International Criminal Court, an organization critics charge could be used to prosecute Americans under international legal standards for actions that are not crimes in the U.S. Andy Laney of [...]

Despite Obama’s Repeated Claims That Enacting $787-Billion Stimulus Was Urgent, 78 Percent of Money Remained Unspent by End of Fiscal 2009 Says Federal Auditing Agency

From CNSNews.com: After his election last November and until the $787-billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was passed in February, President Barack Obama repeatedly insisted that it was urgent for Congress to enact his economic “recovery” bill immediately. Yet, by the end of fiscal 2009 fully 78 percent of the federal spending authorized by that bill [...]

The Obamacare Rationing Threat To Your Mammograms

From The Heritage Foundation: Last week, the United States Preventive Services Task Force issued new guidelines recommending that women in their 40s no longer have annual mammograms and that women ages 50 to 74 have them only every other year, instead of annually. The recommendations were highly controversial, and by week’s end most health insurers [...]

‘The Stimulus Jobs Inflation Map’

From Michelle Malkin: A few weeks ago, I said we needed a new metric for all the bogus jobs claimed by the Obama White House. I called it the “Stimulus Jobs Inflation Index.” The Examiner does even better — creating a handy, interactive Stimulus Jobs Inflation Map. More than ten percent of the jobs the [...]

Bowing Before Monarchs and Tyrants: Obama ‘Restores’ America’s World Standing With His Head Down

From RightWingNews.com: The headline up top is borrowed from Power Line, “Why is This Man Bowing?” (via Memeorandum): Obama’s breach of protocol is of a piece with the substance of his foreign policy. He means to teach Americans to bow before monarchs and tyrants. He embodies the ideological multiculturalism that sets the United States on [...]

Obama’s Public Option for Gitmo

From The Heritage Foundation: The Obama Administration announced this morning that it intends to ship five Guantanamo Bay detainees to New York to be tried in civilian federal court. One of those men is the September 11th mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammad. This decision will be seen by many liberals as paving the way for closing [...]

Jailtime for those who refuse to buy Obamacare?

From ABCNews.com: During an exclusive interview with ABC News’ Jake Tapper today, President Obama said that penalties are appropriate for people who try to “free ride” the health care system but stopped short of endorsing the threat of jail time for those who refuse to pay a fine for not having insurance. “What I think [...]

‘Reagan, Obama and the Berlin Wall’

From The Heritage Foundation: On June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan stood at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin and said: “General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, [...]

Cap-n-Trade Gives Obama Strong Man Powers?

From The Washington Examiner: Both the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade energy approved earlier this year and the version just okayed by Sen. Barbara Boxer’s Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s Democrats (Republicans boycotted the vote) contains an obscure but nasty bureaucratic provision that requires President Obama to act like Venezuelan strong man Hugo Chavez. Here’s how: The [...]

Obama’s Failed Stimulus in Pictures: 10.2% Unemployment

From The Heritage Foundation: When President Barack Obama was pitching his $787 billion economic stimulus package, the White House produced a report [2] claiming their plan would keep unemployment under a peak of 8%. Reality has not been kind to President Obama’s promises. On November 6, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released their Employment Situation Summary [...]

Malkin: “Creepy Obama cult worship photos of the day”

From Michelle Malkin: Last night on Hannity, I discussed the latest batch of Obama education cult worship videos rounded up by John Nolte at Big Government. I called for the separation of O-cult and state. To underscore my point, take a look at the featured photos of the day at the White House website, which [...]