Britons are celebrating the reduction in wait times for hospital care to 18 weeks. That's over 4 months. That's the reduction. That's a big improvement for their socialized medicine. Britons are excited they only have to wait 18 weeks! Why in the world would be punish ourselves by adopting a similar, rotten plan? And the way Britain is improving their system is by moving to private companies doing the work. Yet liberals want to force the horrific model the Briton's are abandoning on us. Hospitals are canceling more difficult procedures in order to meet the 18 week requirement on the easier procedures. Socialized medicine is horrific on patients, and it's time liberals admitted it instead of making excuses for this inhumane treatment of people. Socialized medicine is ineffective, expensive, inhumane and immoral.
US missile test succeeds again. Don't tell Obama. He's going to cancel that program because it's wasteful. For Obama, protecting Americans from nuclear missiles is wasteful.
US unemployment rate is 5.5%. When Bill Clinton was president, that was heralded as a sign of his success. What changed? While the unemployment rate is fine historically, Cato explains that it's government's fault, the Fed and Congress, that we're losing jobs.
These Washington D.C. officials are drunk on power. I don't know about the laws in D.C., but what the police are doing would violate the kidnapping statute in Ohio. You cannot detain anybody against their will for any amount of time. These cops should be arrested and tried for kidnapping by another authority or by citizens arrest. I was just following orders is not a defense. Americans have to stand up and punish government officials for committing crimes.
Police will ask motorists to show proof that they live in the area. If they do not have proof, drivers must explain whether they have a reason to be in the neighborhood, such as a doctor's appointment or a church visit.Everybody stopped should refuse to cooperate.
Police will only search cars if they observe the presence of guns or drugs, officials said. Anyone who does not cooperate will be arrested.
Israel threatens to attack Iran to stop it's nuclear weapons program. Good for Israel. Because we've perverted the international community with security welfare, the international community is useless against Iran. In order to get the international community to agree to real sanctions, we first have to make them understand than Iran is a threat. We should stop all plans to put a missile shield in Europe. We should begin pulling our troops out of Europe. When Europe realizes it will have to do the work to defend itself, it will be open to negotiation on how to stop Iran, and then the EU can blossom onto the world stage as a mature, major power.
The world needs to spend 1% of its growth ($45 trillion over however many years) fighting climate change. I'm all for nuclear power plants - nuclear energy is cheaper than energy from oil now. Too bad the Marxists posing as environmentalists won't allow us to build them. I prefer the strategy of adapting to climate change anyway. Saying we're going to stop climate change is a lie.
Now Mugabe has banned the opposition from campaigning ahead of the run-off election. This is a joke, and Zimbabwe's neighbors and the international community are a joke for allowing this to continue. Yet liberals blame the west for Africa's problems.
Obama and Clinton have secret meeting. Obama may not be that bright, given his absurd gaffes, and he may be super-naive, but Obama isn't dumb enough to make Hillary his VP, is he? Surely he knows that the only thing the Clinton's want is the White House, and that they'll do anything to get it. With their sociopathic tendencies, they've never obeyed a law in their life when it wasn't in their interest. The main reason they've gotten away with everything they've gotten away with is liberals refused to believe they were sociopaths. Not any more. After this campaign, even liberals have seen the Clintons for what they are. I don't think Obama will put himself in a position where the only thing between the Clinton's and the White House is one of his heartbeats.
The press is angry because Obama ditched them. What a bunch of jerks. Doesn't Obama know they're king-makers, and the only reason he won was because they chose to make him the winner? How dare Obama meet with Clinton without bringing them along. In the age of McCain-Feingold, the press really is a king-maker. They're the only people who don't have absurd limits placed on their speech. But this is nothing more than a temper tantrum because they're still going to promote Obama and try to tear down McCain.
Clint Eastwood identifies himself as libertarian. Fun interview.
Of course fat people should pay more to fly. Anybody who can't fit comfortably in 1 seat should have to buy 2. That goes for any place, not just airplanes. The last Reds game I went to, I had to change seats because the guy next to me couldn't fit in his. That's not right.
Did we really need a secret study invading the privacy of those studied to tell us that people tend to stay close to home?
Baby survives abortion attempt. Talk about baggage.
Cato isn't happy with either the big-war-fighting faction or the counter-insurgency faction in the Pentagon. I don't know why we can't do both. Our military procurement bureaucracy is a wasteful bureaucracy like any other, and should be revamped completely. We need to encourage competition for military systems to get the price down. We should be able to develop and purchase leading edge weapons systems at much lower cost and use that cost savings to develop man-power intensive capabilities - keeping military expenditures flat over all.
Excellent history of the socialist and communist influence that saddled us with harmful farm subsidies.
Senators call for more regulation of the energy market. They've already regulated us into this energy crisis. How much more can we survive?
The WSJ explains that the reason liberals keep condemning and misstating the reasons for the Iraq war is because it's going so well. If they admit the present, their case against the war falls apart.
Excellent analysis of our untapped oil reserves and how Congress forbids us from tapping them.
Power British education adviser recommends Britain stop teaching "middle class" subjects like history, geography, and science in favor of civic duty and energy-savings. Good communists don't need to understand history, geography or science. They just have to do what the government says including save energy. This guy has already damaged British secondary schools. This curriculum sounds like the changes that we're making here in the US too. Like making students watch "An Inconvenient Truth". I guarantee you this guy is paid by taxpayers.
Al Gore has quite the financial stake in the global warming fraud, not to mention quite the cozy relationship with all sorts of government entities. Corporatism in action. I would love to see him charge with fraud and lose every penny he's conned out of investors.
Oil tops $139. If Congress opened up drilling in ANWR and offshore drilling, the price of oil would fall below $100 immediately. It would drop more of they reduced restrictions on nuclear, coal, and natural gas power plants. The Democrats are trying to force America into a recession before Nov.
Ann Coulter points out that liberals screamed bloody murder about Al Gore winning the popular vote when it didn't matter because the law didn't care, but now that Hillary's claiming the popular vote, and she can make a great case for selecting the nominee based on popular vote since it's nothing but a Democrat party rule how the nominee is selected, and the party has already changed the rules to seat Michigan and Florida, liberals don't care about the popular vote. They make whatever argument advances their agenda at the moment. Principles, laws and rules are unimportant.
Victor Davis Hanson noticed 2 disturbing patterns in Obama's long list of disavowals and disassociations. First, he always makes the behavior about himself, highlighting his disturbing narcissism. Second, he always feign ignorance or accuses the other of changing since he started running for president, when it's obvious that Obama is the one who's public expression of his views are changing. Hanson also explains why Michelle Obama is no longer undermining Barack's campaign - she's been restricted to reading prepared statements.
It's amazing how little press Mark Steyn's trial in Canadian so-called human rights courts is getting.
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