From PrisonPlanet.com: According to the CDC, swine flu infections have already peaked, and the pandemic is on its way out. Peak infection time was the middle of October, where one in five U.S. children experienced the flu, says the CDC. Out of nearly 14,000 suspected flu cases tested during the week ending on October 10, [...]
From NewsMax.com: When he was a presidential candidate, Barack Obama promised to make negotiations over healthcare reform an open and transparent process. Now that he’s president, the reality is that most of the high-stakes work is being conducted by just three senators behind closed doors. According to the Washington Post, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, [...]
From CNSNews.com: President Barack Obama told the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) on Wednesday evening that illegal immigrants would not get government funded health insurance under his health care reform, but said the debate over that plan underscores the need to legalize illegal immigrants so they can get that coverage. “As you know there’s been [...]
From Michelle Malkin: This man is wearing scrubs, but he’s not a doctor. He was part of a ring of violent thugs who posed as Obamacare supporters to pull off a terrifying home invasion robbery. Newsday reports (hat tip – The Anchoress): They were well-dressed when they knocked on the door of a Huntington home [...]
From Michelle Malkin: Here’s a glimpse of the grim future under Obamacare. It’s not just about patients and consumers getting screwed. It’s about the enormous disincentives government-run health care would bring to the medical profession. Investor’s Business Daily reports on the results of its heart-stopping poll of doctors: Two of every three practicing physicians oppose [...]
From The Heritage Foundation: Contrary to the White House’s video, member of Congress in the House Ways and Means Committee already have exempted themselves from a government-run health plan with the defeat of an amendment by Rep. Dean Heller (R-NV). The amendment, which would have required members of Congress to enroll in the newly created [...]
From LifeNews.com: As the debate over President Obama’s socialized healthcare plan heats up, the depth of his radicalism is becoming more evident.John Holdren, Obama’s recent choice for “Science Czar,” provides the latest and perhaps most troubling example of extremism. In the name of population control, Holdren has advocated both forced abortion and compulsory sterilization through [...]
From CNSNews.com: Cass Sunstein, President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), has advocated a policy under which the government would “presume” someone has consented to having his or her organs removed for transplantation into someone else when they die unless that person has explicitly indicated that his or [...]
From The Wall Street Journal: Want a preview of ObamaCare in action? Sneak a look at what has happened in Maine. In 2003, the state to great fanfare enacted its own version of universal health care. Democratic Governor John Baldacci signed the plan into law with a bevy of familiar promises. By 2009, it would [...]
From The Heritage Foundation: We have heard a great deal about the costs and benefits of a “public option” and “single-payer system.” We have heard about the financial costs—and the other costs—of allowing the government to interfere with matters of life and death. However, we haven’t heard whether the Constitution gives Congress the power to [...]
At The Heritage Foundation, I found this “video of liberal politicians and intellectuals all admitting that, despite his claims otherwise, President Barack Obama’s public option is designed for the sole purpose of being a Trojan Horse for government-run single payer health care…So the next time an Obamacare supporter tries to tell you that the public [...]
From The National Review: Why shouldn’t socialized medicine prompt comparisons to National Socialism? It’s this week’s fashion on the left, and among such fashionably contemplative moderates as Mort Kondracke, to blast Rush Limbaugh for comparing Democrats to the Nazis. It’s no surprise that the Obama hardcores are misrepresenting the sequence and substance of events, but [...]
From The Heritage Foundation: Will Entire Obama Agenda Crumble In August? Poll after poll is demonstrating that the Americans turning out at townhalls across the country are making President Barack Obama’s health care plan less and less popular. But health care is not the only Obama agenda item that is dying a slow death. Bloomberg [...]
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted any entries, for which I apologize. Not only have I been out of town and busy, but my computer crashed and needed to be replaced. There’s been a heck of a lot going on lately, and I don’t even know where to start. How about with the now-infamous townhall [...]
From Michelle Malkin: Obama summons his army: “This is the moment our movement was built for.” Hey, no top-down direction here in President Obama’s latest mass e-mailing to his minions. Only thing missing is advice on how to dress like “real” grass-roots activists and instructions on how to snitch on friends and neighbors saying “fishy” [...]
From The Heritage Foundation: According to Gallup, while Americans favor some government involvement in health care, they do not want a government-run health care system. The left knows this. They understand that Americans would never sign on to health care reform that created a “single-payer” system where the government would run the entire health care [...]
From The National Review: Denying care options to retirees is necessarily a part of the Democrats plan. By Sam Brownback In addition to being fiscally unsustainable, the health-care-reform plan emerging from Democrats in Congress raises disturbing questions for our nation’s seniors. If President Obama pushes through proposed “reforms,” seniors could very well face rationed care [...]
From The Heritage Foundation: Obama Moves the Goal Posts on Health Care In his July 25 Radio Address, President Obama offered a new goal to health care reform—“And we’ll limit the amount your insurance company can force you to pay out of your own pocket.” By laying this out as one of the goals of [...]
From The Heritage Foundation: This weekend President Obama dedicated his weekly address to defending Congress’s plans for an overhaul of the nation’s health care system. He argued, “Once you’ve seen enough ads and heard enough people yelling on TV you might begin to wonder whether there’s a grain of truth to what they are saying.” [...]
From Michelle Malkin: I blogged about Michelle Obama’s role in creating a patient-dumping scheme for the University of Chicago Medical Center back in March. With her husband and the Democrats unleashing health care horror story anecdotes to gin up public fear and build support for the beleaguered Obamacare plan, my syndicated column today revisits the [...]