Thursday, August 13, 2009

Our Aging Deterrent

IBD "President Obama dreams of a world without nuclear weapons. Unless testing and maintenance of our nuclear deterrent is resumed, it will be a world without American nuclear weapons."

Markets Bet ObamaCare Won't Survive

By Larry Kudlow IBD "UnitedHealthcare is up 13%, Humana is up 12.4% and Aetna is up almost 10%. These firms will be decimated if the government insurance plan passes. But investors are now predicting it won't. For the sake of economic freedom, liberty, and fiscal sanity, let's hope the markets are right."

USA Today fact-checks Obama’s town-hall assertions

HotAir "One of the best catches from USA Today concerns Medicare Advantage, about which Obama has lied for over two years:"

http://townhall.com/cartoons/cartoonist/MichaelRamirez

National Enquirer scoops NY Times - again

AmericanThinker "While the New York Times was wasting its money digging up non scandalous information about Sarah Palin in Alaska, it missed a story more or less under their computers and thus was scooped by...The National Enquirer on a real scandal. "

Obama's 'green jobs czar' worked with terror founder

WorldNetDaily "He was a founder and leader of the communist revolutionary organization Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM. The organization had its roots in a grouping of black people organizing to protest the first Gulf War. STORM was formally founded in 1994, becoming one of the most influential and active radical groups in the San Francisco Bay area."

Obamacare's tax hikes

Washington Times "The bill does contain new taxes -- plenty of them. Pages 167 and 168 impose an income tax of 2.5 percent on any individual who chooses not to buy government-approved health insurance. Pages 149-150 impose a tax of between 2 percent and 8 percent on the payrolls of all companies whose payrolls exceed $250,000. Pages 197 and 198 outline income tax surcharges to be imposed on individuals with incomes over $350,000, rising to a highest surcharge of 5.4 percent."

Nineteen Minutes In a Car With Harry Reid

PoliticsDaily "Reid left no doubt he intends to get a health reform bill passed in the Senate, no matter what erupts at town hall meetings and whether any Republicans support the end result. "We can't let the insurance industry win another round. We're going to win this round," he said."

Health Care Research By Jamie Dupree

Hat tip: Neal Boortz Jamie Dupree "Even though I have put the links up a number of times, I still get people asking where they can read and/or download the various health care bills that are before Congress. So let's do that again."

Obama Again Inflates Number of Uninsured Americans--Falsely Claiming '46 Million of Our Fellow Citizens Have No Coverage'

CNS "...overshoots the Census Bureau’s official estimate by about 10 million people—a mistake that is more than 7 times larger than the 1,315,809 people that the CNS News make up the entire population of the state of New Hampshire."

White House: Obama 'Misspoke' About Claim of AARP Endorsement

Fox News "The group is sensitive to the issue because polls show that Medicare beneficiaries are worried their health care program will be cut to subsidize coverage for the uninsured."

THE ARROGANCE OF THE LEFT By Neal Boortz

Boortz "These politicians only care about one thing and that is maintaining power. Many of them simply do not have the job skills to earn in the private sector what they do in Congress. "