Archive for August 2009
Can you keep your health insurance?
Good question. But as the Sound Off Sister clearly outlined in numerous posts, here, here and here, you will not be able to keep your insurance under the Waxman-Markey health care bill. I put that question to Connecticut’s 5th District Congressman Chris Murphy and he responded with the standard yes you can. But when I…
Read MoreUh Oh
Scott Rasmussen on Fox this afternoon speaks to his poll and Obama’s sinking numbers. Notic Scott’s little laugh at the start as if there’s really some question as to why his numbers are sinking fast. Worse for the Democrats says Scott, are the numbers for Congress. 1994? httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWmWRMf_nOY I’m not so sure. 15 months is…
Read MoreObamacare: the stealth provisions
What is wrong with the following sentence? Congress wrote the Kennedy-Dodd health care bill while meeting in Washington on the backs of envelopes. Hint: there are at least two correct answers. I have written many posts about the Kennedy-Dodd health care bill. There is only one problem. I learned Saturday, courtesy of The Wall Street Journal,…
Read MoreIt’s Bush’s Fault … again and again and again
But of course it is. One sure way to determine the state of the Obama Aministration’s policies is by the thickness of it’s political skin. Fun to watch because Gibbs gets sooooooo irritated.
Read More“I can charge you with whatever I want to charge you with”
You probably have seen video of Howard Dean at Rep. Jim Moran’s (D- Va.) town hall meeting on Aug. 25. What you probably have not seen is the video from outside the school where a school security officer demanded a protester put his sign down. Did this use to be America? The officer states “it…
Read MoreRangeling up the cash – Rangel forget to report $1.3 million of income
When I find money, it usually is a matter of a couple bucks in a pair of jeans, or maybe a fistful of change in the sofa cushions… small amounts are easy to overlook. I’m certain this is fairly normal for most Americans. So… could do you think you “forget” a million dollar house?
Read MoreDoes Lockerbie bomber really have terminal cancer?
That’s the question Scottish authorities are asking after a quick review revealed justice secretary Kenny MacAskill – who ordered the release of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi – only had one physician tell him the bomber had three months to live.
Read MoreDemocrats admit Medicare cuts part of Obama-Kennedy health care plan
From Gateway Pundit, we’ve got video from a Colorado town hall meeting where Rep. Betsy Marky (D-Colo.) flat out states Medicare recipients will have to give up benefits for Obama-Kennedycare to work. Who are you going to believe?
Read MoreDon’t expect the media to be unbiased
On O’Rielly’s program the other day, Bernard Goldberg reminded us that Accuracy in Media reported – with little fan-fair years ago – that CBS producer Mary Mapes knew President Bush (43) had volunteered to go to Vietnam with his Texas Air Guard unit, a fact Mapes and Dan Rather left completely out of the story…
Read MoreHannan discusses British health care and libertarian plan
Daniel Hannan, a member of the British politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) was interviewed over at Reason TV interviewed Hannan, and Jim was unable to get the video posted, but here it is.
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