MANCHESTER, Kentucky – Rodney Miller has lived nearly all his 56 years in Clay County, the only exception being when, as a young man, he moved to Indianapolis. He lived in the big city for two years without ever knowing his neighbors‘ names. “The best people in the world live here,“ says Miller, sitting in [...]
“But to those who gave this Holocaust-denier a hearing, I say on behalf of my people, the Jewish people, and decent people everywhere: Have you no shame? Have you no decency?” – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu So, in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride — [...]
Primetime is difficult. It can be incredibly unforgiving – especially in this season of high-def politics. The exposure associated with 300 plus million viewers watching every presidential miscue has never been greater. Yet, primetime is the venue that the venerable Obama chose when he turned hope and change into a 24/7 infomercial. That his ratings [...]
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Today on Spectator.org: GOP Soul Check, by Larry Thornberry. A Clear and Present Danger, by Peter Ferrara. Does the Left Have a Sense of Decency? by Steve McCann. Copenhagen or Bust, by Peter Hannaford. Bomberphobia, by Lisa Fabrizio. Plus more. Comment of the Day: Tuesday Reader Josa Young on James Bowman’s Rotten Apples: Dear James [...]
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Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, co-chairman of the House Progessive Caucus, reiterated through a representative Tuesday evening that any health care bill that does not include a government plan will be “unacceptable.” I emailed the congressman’s office earlier to get a reaction to news that the Senate Finance Committee rejected two proposals for a “public option.” [...]
Earlier today, I noted that Sen. Max Baucus inadvertently confirmed an argument that conservatives have been trying to make throughout this health care debate — that it’s important to pay attention not just to what is written in the legislation, but the infastructure it puts in place. As I’ve written from the beginning of this [...]
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One thing that journalists don’t seem to get about ACORN is that it is a strange, complex creature with tentacles that reach into the highest levels of the United States government, the Democratic Party, corporate America, the labor movement, the nonprofit world, the media, foreign governments, and academia. ACORN has a confusing structure and its [...]
The Senate Finance Committee just killed an amendment proposed by Sen. Chuck Schumer to create a new government-run health insurance plan by a vote of 13 to 10. Coupled with the failure of another version of the so-called “public option” introduced by Sen. Jay Rockefeller earlier in the day, this officially means that the Finance [...]
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“Rome wasn’t built in a day,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus said Tuesday afternoon. He made the statement over the course of arguing that he could not support the creation of a government-run plan, because it could not get 60 votes in the Senate. “My top priority is getting this across the finish line,” [...]
Sen. Jay Rockefeller declared Tuesday afternoon that, “the public option is on the march.” Moments later, the Senate Finance Committee defeated his proposal for a government-run plan by a 15-8 vote, with five Democrats joining all 10 Republicans on the committee in voting against it. The five Democrats voting “no” were: Sens. Max Baucus, Kent [...]
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Today’s New York Times cover story on funding for abortion in health care reform has the marvellously fence-sitting headline “Abortion Fight Complicates Debate on Health Care.” Ignore the fact that there is no debate whatsoever on/over (the NYT itself cannot seem to choose between the two prepositions, using “the debate over health care” in the [...]
Several years ago, liberals made the decision to refer to a the idea of a government-run plan as a “public option,” because “public” tests better with people than “government,” and the term “option” emphasizes choice. Evidently, Sen. Jay Rockefeller doesn’t think the term “public option” is very effective, either. Instead, he calls his version of [...]
The Finance Committee hearings are starting to display the Democrats’ intra-party rift over the creation of a government-run plan. Sen. Kent Conrad argued that an amendment proposed by Jay Rockefeller that would create a government-run plan that would set reimbursement rates at Medicare levels would bankrupt every hospital in his home state of North Dakota. [...]
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Sen. Jay Rockefeller, arguing this morning in favor of amending the Senate Finance Committee bill to include a government-run health care plan, claimed that his approach would have been supported by the intellectual father of capitalism, Adam Smith. Rockefeller blasted the current draft of the bill, authored by committee Chairman Max Baucus, for being a [...]
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Pop singer Andy Williams, though a fan of the Kennedys, says Barack Obama is promoting “Marxist theory” and trying to turn the United States into a “socialist country.” All to the tune of “Born Free” and maybe “Moon River.” Tweet This Post
Sarkozy not happy about Obama’s talk of a nuclear weapons free world while North Korea and Iran are eager to break the rules. This latest French-American issue seems unlikely to result in the return of freedom fries (RealClearPolitics) Reports of taxpayer-funded pornography up 600% in the last year at National Science Foundation (Washington Times) State [...]
The ever-brilliant Katherine Mangu-Ward fires a return volley in the War Against Soda. Tweet This Post
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President Obama’s repeated denials of tax increases to fund his National Socialist Healthcare program are belied in the legislative language proposed by his own Democrat/Socialist colleagues. Tweet This Post
Liberal-progressives care more about their myths than about real-world results. Tweet This Post
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Newer discoveries dig an even deeper hole for simplistic faith in Darwin’s unprovable hypothesis. Tweet This Post
Is it unreasonable to require that members of Congress read, study, and debate, at length, major programmatic legislative bills before voting on them? Tweet This Post
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I was emailed a link to this 2007 article by getting-to-be-beleaguered ’safe schools czar’ Kevin Jennings: This isn’t a fight where neutrality is an option, Mary. As Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel has said, “Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” Whether you like it or not, politics [...]
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REDSTATE MORNING BRIEFING FOR SEPTEMBER 30, 2009 Sign up to get the morning briefing by email here. 1. Obama Administration Condones Sex With Minors. 2. Don’t Get Sick or Die Quick 3. Respect Authority! 4. Even The New York Times Notices That The Health Care Bill Has An Abortion Problem 5. Rockefeller Amendment for a [...]
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Alan Grayson is the Democrat representing Florida’s 8th Congressional District — a Republican district. Alan Grayson sees the writing on the wall. He knows he is going to be out of Congress after 2010, so he’s letting it all ahng out. Alan Grayson believes the Anti-Defamation League is “a crazy racist institution.” He also believes [...]
Republicans are in possession of a letter which asks: Where are the secret Medicare cuts going to come from? Given that both Rasmussen and the AP polls have come up with the same answer: 59% of seniors are opposed to ObamaCare, the draft letter below has greater significance for Seniors than just the political implications [...]
Here’s the problem: Republicans are winning right now just because they are not Democrats. That won’t help us though, long term. At some point we are going to have to have ideas. People forget, though, that the Contract With America did not come about until the end of the 1994 campaign season. It was the [...]
Matthew Vadum had precisely the same reaction that I did when I read the Ben Smith Politico article that published ACORN founder Wade Rathke’s denial that White House Director Political Director Patrick Gaspard was affiliated with his group: Umm. No. It’s not Ben’s fault – this is all deliberately designed to be confusing – but [...]
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Hey, remember when the Left’s big slogans were all about “Question Authority” and “Speak Truth to Power” and all that? Well, here’s the perfect gift for the left-wingers you know who have had those bumper stickers during the Bush years and want to get their mind right with the new Administration: Yes, the shirt says [...]
From the CNBC stock blog: “I don’t know when [the dollar] is going to strengthen,” Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital told CNBC. “The dollar isn’t the new yen, it’s unfortunately the new peso.” The fact that the Federal Reserve is printing dollars to buy U.S. Treasury bills means there can be no other [...]
Senator Rockefeller’s public option amendment offered in the U.S. Senate Finance Committee went down in flames today. The implications for Speaker Pelosi are profound. Her insistence on a public option in the House bill will force even more Democrats to vote no, and the chances that it will become law are small. Rockefeller is threatening [...]
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“At some point we must stop saying that there was a failure to vet these people and conclude that Barack Obama has no more of a problem with men like Kevin Jennings who encourage statutory rape than men like Bill Ayers who encourages cop killing.” People with low IQ got to see Whoopee Goldberg defend [...]
Today’s New York Times essentially owns up to what conservatives have been saying, and what President Obama branded a lie during his joint address to Congress: federal funding for abortion is very much on the table in the health care debate. Let’s take a look: Abortion opponents in both the House and the Senate are [...]
I know that there are many people who are incredulous that the U.S. Senate can proceed to a blank, shell health care bill next week — a vapor-bill. Every person knowledgeable about Senate procedure believes that the Democrats are both arrogant and desperate enough to bring up a blank bill on the Senate flooor, and [...]
Ten New Details on the Apple Tablet When this comes out, I will stand in line to buy one. Just because. (tags: Apple iPhone tablet) This Shouldn’t Happen in America. My recommend button does not work and were I to front this it would break any and all inks to it because it was not [...]
That long-running leftist delusion about how “We will make the world love us again” sure got old fast, didn’t it? (Never mind that outside of the jet-setting cliques of babbling salon intellectuals, our reputation around the world has always been pretty good – unlike the salon intellectuals, your humble correspondent actually gets out on the [...]
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