Angelina Jolie, one of Hollywood’s biggest and most visible stars, writes in a New York Times editorial about a very private medical decision she managed to keep secret. MY MOTHER fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold [...]
Next assignment – blame the GOP for not providing enough funding to keep this from happening. Yes, that’s satire. But seriously, is there anyone out there who really believes that this won’t happen? It’s just how the mainstream media works. Unless you rely solely on the mainstream media or low information news outlets (The Daily [...]
Even as the state of California is drowning in debt and already suffering under an avalanche of unfunded mandates, a powerful healthcare advocacy group in the Golden State is pushing for free healthcare for all illegal aliens. The group, The California Endowment, has launched a new program called “Health Happens Here” to push expanded healthcare. [...]
CNN’s Piers Morgan sees no reason why America shouldn’t turn into a nanny state. During his March 11 broadcast, Morgan insisted that, “people need the nanny state occasionally.” With guest Christine Quinn, on his late evening CNN talk show Morgan lamented what he felt was a bad decision by a New York judge who shut [...]
We often hear conservatives speak of the poverty trap created by the myriad of regulations surrounding assistance to the poor. Here is a perfect – and tragic – example of such a trap. I was tipped off to this particularly outrageous bit of government rulemaking by an article at the Patheos blog: “Medicaid Burn: Spend [...]
But don’t worry – your family will be able to buy health insurance through a government exchange for a mere $20,000 a year! As much as I would like to call this fiction, it isn’t. The Affordable Care Act health insurance mandate and penalty regulations are confusing and ridiculous. An employer must offer each employee [...]
The Old Media is getting a little help from team Obama on how to report about Obamacare the “correct” way. To achieve that goal, Obama operatives are setting up propaganda symposiums for journalists and giving large cash donations to journalism associations to help spread Obama’s word. This Obamacare propaganda campaign seriously blurs the line between [...]
After a discussion on gun control at an event in Richmond, Virginia, Vice President Joe Biden claimed that better mental health checks could have stopped the shooting on the Virginia Tech campus in 2007. Biden said that he and those he consulted during the recent gun banning commission he chaired which was completed in mid [...]
You can read the whole thing here [PDF]. Here are the highlights: Require criminal background checks for all gun sales. Take four executive actions to ensure information on dangerous individuals is available to the background check system. Reinstate and strengthen the assault weapons ban. Restore the 10-round limit on ammunition magazines. Protect police by finishing [...]
Hot Air and Big Government linked to a report by CNN’s Jim Acosta claiming a hidden section in the Obamacare legislation is “a gift to the nation’s powerful gun lobby” orchestrated by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). Big Government even goes so far as to claim that reports are that the “amendment says the [...]
If you haven’t been following the headlines, Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. is headed “over the cliff,” today, with respect to its decision to defy the Obamacare mandate covering birth control and “morning after” contraceptives. Here’s what makes the story interesting. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is a privately owned company, founded and operated by David Green. [...]
While everyone has been busy worrying about the “fiscal cliff,” a number of other regulatory and tax changes have gone by relatively unnoticed. Two of these involve the massive new Affordable Care Act regulations, which largely go into force on January 1, 2013. The first is a $25 billion tax that will be added to [...]
The New York Times is reporting that a disabled form of H.I.V. is being used to reprogram patient’s immune systems to genetically to kill cancer cells. PHILIPSBURG, Pa. — Emma Whitehead has been bounding around the house lately, practicing somersaults and rugby-style tumbles that make her parents wince. It is hard to believe, but last [...]
Here’ a preview of what you can expect under Obamacare. In Florida, unaccountable health-care bureaucrats through neglect, deceit, and intransigence managed to kill a 14 year-old disabled girl they had successfully pried from her mother in less than 24 hours. From The Tampa Bay Times: In March 2011, state child protection investigators took 14-year-old Marie [...]
One of my favorite stories this week is the college professors at Pennsylvania’s Community College of Allegheny who’ve had their hours cut because of the costly requirements of Obamacare. One of Obamacare’s changes to general business practices is to make people who work 30 hours or more a “full time worker.” For generations that magic [...]
A terminally ill patient, Grace Sung Eun Lee, 28, was awarded the right to chose to die by a New York court this month, but has now changed her mind and wants to live. Miss Lee, once a financial manager, was felled by terminal brain cancer that left her paralyzed from the neck down and [...]
For The New York Times, Steven Ratner had to admit last month that he was pretty darned excited for those Obamacare death panels to get started. “WE need death panels,” he said on September 16. This from the same paper that in 2009 attacked Gov. Sarah Palin for her rhetoric and an Old Media establishment [...]
Watching the Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan campaign this past week has been almost a surreal experience. Imagine – two passionate, articulate Republicans taking the fight directly to their opponents and demolishing the Democrats’ emotion-laced memes with simple, direct arguments. The last time we saw anything like this was 1980, and George H. W. Bush was [...]
The most unkind cut of all is when your paper thin understanding of the facts is shredded by someone you think is on your side. This is what happened to Democrat National Committee Chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schultz when she kept trying to tell CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that Ryan’s Medicare reform plan took Medicare away from [...]
New York Mayor Bloomberg’s nanny state continues unabated. Now Bloomberg, who previously decreed that large soft drinks would be banned. is going to lock up baby formula and force new mothers to plead for it and sit through breastfeeding indoctrination to get it. From Fox News: Starting Sept. 3, the city will keep tabs on [...]
Well knock me over with a feather…. About one in 10 employers plan to drop health coverage when key provisions of the new health care law kick in less than two years from now, according to a survey to be released Tuesday by the consulting company Deloitte. Nine percent of companies said they expect to [...]
From The Telegraph: Hundreds die from strokes at weekends because of poorer NHS care: study Hundreds of people die or suffer serious disability unnecessarily every year because they suffer a stroke at a weekend when NHS care is poorer, a major study has found. Patients who are admitted to hospital at the weekend suffering from [...]
American’s by a large margin see that the Affordable Care Act, forever to be known as Obamacare, will harm the U.S. economy according to a new Gallup poll. The overall difference is mirrored almost exactly among independent voters. Here’s what Gallup has to say about the findings: Proponents of the ACA argue that it has [...]
Lefties everywhere have hastened to try and absolve the ObamacareTax claiming that it really isn’t the largest tax in American history despite that conservatives say it is. What is their proof? Well, as a percentage of GDP ObamacareTax is smaller than other taxes we’ve instituted in the past. This, statistic, though, is quite misleading. LoudTalkerBlog [...]
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