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Redstate | Links | Related | Sep 10, 2010 10:05 AM EST
Before I talk about another Republican candidate we need to reform Washington I want to mention this AP story on Medicare’s actuary determining that the Democrats’ massive health care law will not stop spending from going up: “Factoring in the law, Americans will spend an average of $13,652 per person a year on health care in 2019, according to the actuary’s office. Without the law, the corresponding number would be $13,387.” The Democrats’ big government solution won’t lower health care costs. They’ve failed us again. Yesterday, I talked to you about campaigning with Jesse Kelly who is running in Arizona’s Eighth Congressional District. During that same trip I went to the Third District to help another Republican candidate we need to get elected to get the GOP back into the majority in the...
Worldwide Standard | Links | Related | Sep 09, 2010 12:09 PM EST
You may remember that for a brief time, singer Wyclef Jean flirted with the idea of running for president of Haiti, citing as his qualifications the fact that he is Haitian, knows Shakira, and put out that awesome solo album in '98. Just kidding, he actually did have a platform of sorts: [A] five-point plan for revitalizing the earthquake-ravaged nation, by focusing on agriculture, job creation, security, health care and especially education. 'Haiti will not be a part of the 21st century if Haiti can not read or write,' Jean said, adding that he hoped fellow Haiti-born, U.S.-educated expatriates will return to their native country to assist in his efforts. Nonetheless, an electoral board declared him ineligible because he didn't meet a residency requirement, at which point Jean bowed out...
RCP Blog | Links | Related | Sep 09, 2010 11:57 AM EST
Most people have probably come across stories this morning detailing how health care costs are projected to keep rising, despite the passage of the reform package earlier this year. But here's one...
Worldwide Standard | Links | Related | Sep 08, 2010 05:00 PM EST
We are now seeing the beginning of the political equivalent of the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940. This time, it’s not British troops escaping Nazi German forces. It’s Democrats evacuating Obamaland, desperate to avoid identification with President Obama with their re-election (or election) on November 2 in doubt. Okay, I’m exaggerating, but not much. There is indeed a growing exodus of Democrats from Obama and also from their congressional leaders, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. And it’s striking for several reasons. For one thing, the evacuees want their constituents to know they’ve bailed out. They think it will help their campaigns and perhaps it will. At least five House Democrats are highlighting their votes against Obama’s health care plan. And you can expect more Democrats to join this...
Cato-at-liberty | Links | Related | Sep 08, 2010 03:44 PM EST
By Michael D. Tanner This morning, in a column for National Review Online, I criticized a number of Democrats and Republicans who voted against Obamacare but had not signed a discharge petition that would force force a floor vote on repealing the new health care law. One of the Republicans I singled out was Rep. Castle of Delaware, who [...]
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run | Links | Related | Sep 07, 2010 06:25 PM EST
On Friday, after years of negative publicity and pressure from state attorneys general, Craigslist replaced the hyperlink to its controversial 'adult services' section with a black rectangle labeled 'censored.' My column tomorrow discusses the role played by Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut's insufferably self-righteous attorney general, in this shameful episode. In the meantime, here is some relevant reading: 1. Craigslist is still officially mum about its decision, but CEO Jim Buckmaster's angry posts on the company's blog help illuminate the controversy, especially if you look up the criticism and press coverage that pissed him off. 2. According to A.P. and CBS News , the ads that offended Blumenthal et al. already are migrating to other sections of Craigslist or to...
NewsBusters | Links | Related | Sep 07, 2010 04:31 PM EST
In a September 5 editorial promoting the legalization of RU-486 telemed abortions, the Des Moines Register editorial board had to admit Planned Parenthood of the Heartland is currently committing them illegally. Read carefully: … Planned Parenthood of the Heartland has used telemedicine as it was intended: to expand access to legal health services in rural Iowa. The challenge of that smart approach should prompt state leaders to update laws and policies – to give Iowans increased access to health care, including abortion, through the use of technology . Now it’s up to Iowa leaders to: - Re-evaluate outdated abortion laws in this state. The law requiring physicians to perform abortions made sense when all abortions were surgical procedures. But that requirement is called into ...
Red County | Links | Related | Sep 07, 2010 04:29 PM EST
Post To County: Placer County (CA) Post to Other County: If you would like to post in any additional counties please list the counties and why in this text area. ShareThis --Is the US Constitution a living, breathing document that changes with the times or is it a foundational document with timeless principles? --Does the Constitution give the Federal government authority to spend taxpayers’ money on TARP, bailouts and stimulus? Can the Federal government really own a car company? --Does the Constitution really give the Federal government the power to force US citizens to buy health insurance and punish those citizens who do not buy insurance? Hear the...
The Patriot Room | Links | Related | Sep 07, 2010 04:22 PM EST
Is there nothing these guys won’t regulate? Here’s the summary of the bill: Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) establish concussion management guidelines that address the prevention, identification, treatment, and management of concussions in school-aged children, including standards for student athletes to return to play [...]
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run | Links | Related | Sep 06, 2010 07:40 PM EST
Daily Markets' Mark Perry declares the Great Mancession in session, with help from a mesmerizing time-lapse chart tracking employment growth by job type since 2008. Click here to watch the real-time shrinking of majority male sectors in opposition to the growth of two majority female sectors -- education and health care. Perry says this chart helps tell the story of the Great Mancession of 2007-2010 and how men were disproportionately affected by the recessionary conditions that adversely impacted male-dominated industries (construction and manufacturing), while employment in female-dominated industries actually increased throughout the entire recession. And according to the employment report yesterday, there is still a 2% male-female jobless rate gap of 10.6% for men and...
Flopping Aces | Links | Related | Sep 06, 2010 06:28 PM EST
Democrats were positively joyous when they passed health care. It was as much a victory over America as anything else. Democrats did not listen to America. They didn’t care what America wanted. Instead of worrying about the needs of the country they used their supermajority to ram down our throats their personal agenda. Now the [...]
The Corner | Links | Related | Sep 06, 2010 03:18 PM EST
If that health-care vote in March were such a beautiful thing for America, you'd think more Dems would be proud of their votes than this. Politico reports : At least five of the 34 House Democrats who voted against their party’s health care reform bill are highlighting their “no” votes in ads back home. By contrast, party officials in Washington can’t identify a single House member who’s running an ad boasting of a “yes” vote — despite the fact that 219 House Democrats voted in favor of final passage in March. Kathryn Jean Lopez
Gateway Pundit | Links | Related | Sep 05, 2010 11:35 PM EST
Obama is the worst jobs president since the Great Depression. The Obama-Pelosi economic plan resulted in a cumulative 7.5 million jobs deficit . By every objective measure the democrat’s Trillion dollar stimulus bomb was a complete disaster. Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi tripled the national deficit last year by nearly a trillion dollars something unheard of in our nation's history. After an unheard of record deficit last year of $1.4 Trillion the economy is on track to experience a $1.3 Trillion deficit this year. Instead of focusing on the economy the past two years the radicals in Washington beat up on business and rammed through an unpopular nationalized health care entitlement program. Now there's this... Top economist Nouriel Roubini told colleagues this...
NewsBusters | Links | Related | Sep 05, 2010 05:36 PM EST
Barack Obama's 2008 campaign manager on Sunday said Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Sarah Palin are currently the leaders of the Republican Party, and this represents a long-term problem for the GOP. Appearing on NBC's 'Meet the Press,' David Plouffe was asked about a number of questions facing the nation as well as the President he helped get elected. Apparently feeling the need to do some conservative bashing, host Gregory asked Plouffe about a section from his book 'Audacity to Win' dealing with Limbaugh, Beck, and Palin. This set the Obama adviser up nicely to go after targets liberals just love to hate (video follows with transcript and commentary): DAVID GREGORY, HOST: Finally, a quote from your book, handicapping the Republican field, this is what you write in the new part of 'Audacity...
Gateway Pundit | Links | Related | Sep 05, 2010 04:58 PM EST
Let's face it. They're socialists. Via Breitbart TV and The Blaze : First Lady Michelle Obama reveals some requirement of the new Health Care law that seemed to have been hidden in its 2,000+ pages. Nancy Pelosi famously said We have to pass the bill to see what is in the bill. Well, now we are finding out little gems like this.
Redstate | Links | Related | Sep 03, 2010 05:59 PM EST
Many Red S tate readers probably remember 1994. The GOP launched its “Contract with America” six weeks before the mid-term elections and took back Congress with a 54-seat swing on Election Day. While the Contract had many good ideas, a family values agenda was left in the dust, and was ignored once Congress convened. Protecting women and unborn babies from the violence of 4,000 abortions per day was put on the back-burner. Fast forward to today. The GOP is busy crafting a legislative blueprint much like that of the Contract and are expected to release the document to the American people shortly after Labor Day. Jobs. National Security. Spending Restraint. Government Reform. Health Care. According to media reports, those are the planks. But that doesn’t complete Ronald Reagan’s...
David Limbaugh | Links | Related | Sep 02, 2010 08:17 PM EST
Sorry, but I can't allow Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' statement that 'we have a lot of re-education to do' slip by without comment. It's amusing when avowed leftists don't even recognize the Marxist buzzwords they're sputtering. Sebelius is attributing the public's vehement opposition to Obamacare to 'misinformation given on a 24/7 basis. ... Unfortunately,' she said, 'there still is a great deal of confusion about what is in (the Obamacare law) and what isn't.' She is especially peeved about the vulnerability of seniors, who 'have been a target of a lot of the misinformation.' (The target of Obama's misinformation, perhaps.) The most remarkable thing is that Sebelius didn't actually use the term 're-education' accidentally or out of school. Perhaps unwittingly, she's quite...
The Corner | Links | Related | Sep 02, 2010 07:06 AM EST
The New York Times catches up to what people like Mary Eberstadt and Christina Hoff Sommers were talking about long ago: Kids are overdrugged. From a news feature this morning: More than 500,000 children and adolescents in America are now taking antipsychotic drugs, according to a September 2009 report by the Food and Drug Administration . Their use is growing not only among older teenagers, when schizophrenia is believed to emerge, but also among tens of thousands of preschoolers. A Columbia University study recently found a doubling of the rate of prescribing antipsychotic drugs for privately insured 2- to 5-year-olds from 2000 to 2007. Only 40 percent of them had received a proper mental health assessment, violating practice standards from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent...
Jim Geraghty Campaign Spot | Links | Related | Sep 01, 2010 11:20 AM EST
Ask yourself whether any campaign ad you see this cycle will pack as much punch as seeing this letter in your doctor's waiting room: To My Patients, Section 1311 of the new health care legislation gives the US Secretary of Health and Human Services and her appointees the power to establish care guidelines that your doctor must abide by or face penalties and fines. In making doctors answerable in the federal bureaucracy, this bill effectively makes them government employees and means that you and your doctor are no longer in charge of your health care decisions. This new law politicizes medicine and in my opinion destroys the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship that makes the American health care system the best in the world. In addition to also badly exacerbating the...
Commentary | Links | Related | Sep 01, 2010 11:19 AM EST
Gallup reports: A new USA Today/Gallup poll finds Americans saying the Republicans in Congress would do a better job than the Democrats in Congress of handling seven of nine key election issues. The parties are essentially tied on health care, with the environment being the lone Democratic strength. As Gallup points out, “The Democrats’ advantage on the [...]
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run | Links | Related | Sep 01, 2010 10:48 AM EST
Earlier this summer, 18 states declined to participate in the PPACA’s new network of high risk pools, which the Obama administration had hoped would be a bridge from now until the insurance exchanges are set up in 2014. The states’ biggest gripe? Funding—too little of it. States like Virginia and Georgia didn’t want to get involved with a program that might leave their residents with an unfunded liability. Just about every estimate, including the CBO and Medicare’s chief actuary, estimated that the $5 billion set aside for the program would run out in early—possibly as soon as 2011. But it looks like the high-risk pools weren’t the law’s only underfunded bridge. The Early Retiree Reinsurance Program, which is intended to encourage employers to continue to provide health coverage to retirees...
The Corner | Links | Related | Sep 01, 2010 10:23 AM EST
Byron York further analyzes that recent Gallup poll : look at the swings away from the Democratic party: a 38-point swing on health care, a 27-point swing on the economy, a 26-point swing on handling corruption in government, a 29-point swing on combating terrorism. All the progress Democrats had made on those issues during the Bush years has gone away. Is it any wonder Democratic strategists are approaching this November's elections in a state of panic? And these are on issues Democrats said were their priorities. Harry Reid better hope his election isn't about congressional job performance. Kathryn Jean Lopez
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run | Links | Related | Sep 01, 2010 10:08 AM EST
Just to prove that Internet rumors don't have to involve Barack Obama, Snopes.com describes the best tale to attach itself to a corporate trademark since Proctor & Gamble had to scrub a Satanic moon man off its products: Claim: A pact with the Devil to save a cancer-stricken child resulted in the creation of the Hello Kitty brand.... The rumor gained its start from a 2008 e-mail rendered in Spanish, which asserted that the frantic parents of a 12-year-old girl stricken with cancer of the mouth made a pact with the Devil to bring to worldwide fame a character alluring to children in exchange for their daughter's return to health. The fatuous account asserts 'kitty' is a Chinese word meaning 'demon,' thus Hello Kitty means 'hello demon' -- that is, those who fall for the...
The Corner | Links | Related | Aug 31, 2010 03:38 PM EST
From the Star Tribune : Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty Tuesday ordered all state agencies to not to submit applications to any health care funding from the federal government related to the health care overhaul. Any applications must be either required by law or approved by the governor's office. Mark Halperin is in awe -- and views it as not just anti-O, but anti-Mitt. Kathryn Jean Lopez
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run | Links | Related | Aug 31, 2010 03:00 PM EST
Did you hear about the Oregon health inspector who shut down a seven-year-old girl's lemonade stand? How about the California mayor who put the kibosh on a three-year-old's vegetable stand? Sure they're both big-time buttinskys, but this month top honors go to the top cop who busted a guy who was offering free rides to keep drunk drivers off the road. Presenting Reason.tv's Nanny of the Month for August 2010: Quincy, Illinois Police Chief Rob Copely! 'Nanny of the Month' is written and produced by Ted Balaker. Associate Producer: Alex Manning; Animation: Meredith Bragg. Approximately one minute. To watch previous Nanny of the Month videos, go here . Go to Reason.tv for HD, iPod, and audio versions of this and all our videos and subscribe to Reason.tv's YouTube channel to...
Sister Toldjah | Links | Related | Aug 31, 2010 02:17 PM EST
When a majority of those surveyed believe that socialist is an accurate description of President Obama, saying that opponents of his health-care program need to be reeducated is perhaps not the best choice of words: In an interview before the latest Kaiser results were released, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told ABC News that the sustained opposition to the Democrats’ health care reform efforts has mainly been a function of “misinformation.” “Unfortunately there still is a great deal of confusion about what is in [the reform law] and what isn’t,” Sebelius told ABC News Radio on Monday. With several vulnerable House Democrats now touting their votes against the bill, and Republicans running on repeal of the law, Sebelius said ...
Worldwide Standard | Links | Related | Aug 30, 2010 06:50 PM EST
Uncertain whether the last 18 months of dismal health-care speeches and rallies had entirely destroyed the myth of the Obama administration as gifted, uplifting message mavens, Kathleen Sebelius bravely ventured into the rhetorical orchards and brought forth this rotten fruit: “Unfortunately, there still is a great deal of confusion about what is in [the reform law] and what isn’t,” Sebelius told ABC News Radio in an interview Monday. “So, we have a lot of reeducation to do,” Sebelius said. Cult of competence , I believe they were once called. One is left wondering if this will be a standard PSA-style push or something more along the lines of a camp environment. This Healthcare.gov video offers a pretty clear look at the end result of reeducation efforts. Start studying, keep the eyes...
The Corner | Links | Related | Aug 30, 2010 05:58 PM EST
From Time magazine : Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers, Study Finds One of the most contentious issues in the vast literature about alcohol consumption has been the consistent finding that those who don't drink actually tend to die sooner than those who do. The standard Alcoholics Anonymous explanation for this finding is that many of those who show up as abstainers in such research are actually former hard-core drunks who had already incurred health problems associated with drinking. But a new paper in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research suggests that - for reasons that aren't entirely clear - abstaining from alcohol does actually tend to increase one's risk of dying even when you exclude former drinkers. The most shocking part? Abstainers' mortality...
Red County | Links | Related | Aug 29, 2010 03:13 PM EST
Post To County: Illinois Post to Other County: If you would like to post in any additional counties please list the counties and why in this text area. ShareThis The Daily Herald reports on Republican Randy Hultgren's ideas on Obamacare as he races to the finish line to become the congressman from the 14th District. Hultgren told attendees of a luncheon in St. Charles last week that changes created in the new law do nothing to address the cost of health care. He said he would've voted against both the major Democratic versions of the law and will work to undo 'Obamacare.' 'I think Republicans blew it on this,' Hultgren said of the new law. 'But I think Democrats...
Outside the Beltway | Links | Related | Aug 28, 2010 11:23 AM EST
Yesterday was not a good day for Charlie Crist. First, in an interview with an Orlando TV station, Crist seemed to pretty clearly say that he would have voted in favor of the health care reform bill: ORLANDO — Gov. Charlie Crist stopped by the News 13 studios Friday to sit down with The Agenda [...]
