Health Care
National Center for Policy Analysis: 10 Surprising Facts about American Health Care...by Scott Atlas: Medical care in the United States is derided as miserable compared to health care systems in the rest of the developed world. Economists, government officials, insurers and academics alike are beating the drum for a far larger government rôle in health care. Read more
Heritage Foundation: Families and Businesses to be Taxed to Pay for Healthcare Reform...by Gerrit Lansing: To help pay for its expensive and painfully complex health care bill, Congress plans on burdening families and small businesses earning over $350,000 with a surtax. Read more
Washington Examiner: It's time for Dems to hear music on Obamacare...Examiner Editorial: As Democrats continue their stumbling march toward nationalized health care, splits in their coalition are growing wider. Instead of demonizing anonymous "insurance industry lobbyists" and special interest naysayers, Democratic leaders would do better to concede that their blind devotion to one solution -- government-run health care -- is their biggest problem. Read more
National Review Online: A Liberty Issue...by Mark Steyn: My conservative friends — and even a few media liberals — are agreed: The bloom is off the Obama rose. He’s not the Obamessiah, just another 50-percent president. He tried to do too much too fast, and his numbers are sinking. The Europeanization of health care is dead. Fuhgeddabouddit. Read more
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Energy & Global Warming
Heritage Foundation: Cap and Trade: A Comparison of Cost Estimates..by Nicolas D.Loris
Three major analyses of the Waxman-Markey climate bill confirm that cap and trade will produce an economy that will perform well under its potential...Read more
Washington Examiner: New Study Debunks Global Warming Claims...Examiner Editorial: Members of the U.S. Senate will do well to take the time to read "Influence of the Southern Oscillation on Tropospheric Temperature." Sounds like a real page-turner, no? It certainly should be for senators and anybody else who cares about whether Congress approves the Obama-Waxman-Markey anti-global warming energy bill ("cap-and-trade") that recently passed the House and is now before the Senate.
Institute for Energy Research: Massive Govt Subsidies + Mandates - Reality = Green Jobs..by Laura Henderson & Patrick Creighton: Senate panel looks further into what we already know; government control of energy markets hurts economic growth. Read more
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Out of Control Government Spending
American Thinker: Obama Fails...by J.R.Dunn: The stimulus shares one major element with every other program this administration has come up with: they have all been tried before, and they have all failed. Read more
Michelle Malkin: Grim milestone: Budget deficit hits $1 trillion...by Michelle Malkin: Woo-hoo! Feel the Hope and Change
Nine months into the fiscal year, the federal deficit has topped $1 trillion for the first time. Read more
Red State: Gallup: American Increasingly Worried About Bigger Government...by Brian Faughnan: USA Today/Gallup poll shows that 59% of Americans say President Obama’s proposals to address the major problems facing the country call for too much government spending, and 52% say Obama’s proposals call for too much expansion of government power. Read more
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Global War on Terror...aka "Overseas Contingency Operation"
Weekly Standard: Miranda Rights for Terrorists...by Stephen F. Hayes: When 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad was captured on March 1, 2003, he was not cooperative. “I’ll talk to you guys after I get to New York and see my lawyer,” he said, according to former CIA Director George Tenet. Read more
Washington Post: "Global War on Terror" Is Given New Name...by Scott Wilson & Al Kamen: The Obama administration appears to be backing away from the phrase "global war on terror," a signature rhetorical legacy of its predecessor. In a memo e-mailed this week to Pentagon staff members, the Defense Department's office of security review noted that "this administration prefers to avoid using the term 'Long War' or 'Global War on Terror' [GWOT.] Please use 'Overseas Contingency Operation.' " Read more
Washington Times: White House: 'War on terrorism' is over...by Jon Ward and Eli Lake:'Jihadists' and 'global war' no longer acceptable terms. It's official. The U.S. is no longer engaged in a "war on terrorism." Neither is it fighting "jihadists" or in a "global war." Read more
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Other Issues to be addressed:
There are many issues that need to be addressed, and we will continue to post great articles relating to the issues at hand as the site continues to grow.
Immigration & Border Security
First Princples
Education
Family & Religion
Our Military
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Obama on Health Care Reform
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Obama on Energy & Global Warming
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VP Joe Biden on Government Spending
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