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Friday, August 14, 2009

Real Health Reform

Weekly Standard "Republicans can advance ideas like these: discrete solutions to particular problems, and not a wholesale remaking of the system. These ideas are not simple--each would have its complications, as the problems to be solved are quite complex; but they are simpler than a wholesale overhaul of health care."

Air Force to buzz before bombing

BLACKFIVE "We will now get the bad guys buzzed, er we will buzz them from over head to hopefully disperse them. If not we can move to dropping iron rain. But it's even more fun to note that the proponent for this policy is LTG Hostage."

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

Australian Senate defeats cap and trade legislation

American Thinker "The government needs to explain to the Australian people why global temperatures have remained steady over the last 10-15 years despite skyrocketing man made carbon emissions."

Can the GOP win in 2010?

American Thinker "Of course, self destructing Democrats are only part of the equation. Republicans must come up with an agenda that the American people will support. So far, that hasn't happened although one would expect them to formulate one before the first of the year. The Democrats are becoming the toxic party now. Where they'll be in a year will determine the result in 2010."

From 'Yes, We Can,' to 'No! Don't!' By Peggy Noonan

Wall Street Journal "The president seemed like a man long celebrated as being very good at politics—the swift rise, the astute reading of a varied electorate—who is finding out day by day that he isn't actually all that good at it. In this sense he does seem reminiscent of Jimmy Carter, who was brilliant at becoming president but not being president."

Video: Liberals Remove "Offensive Words" From Textbooks....

Weasel Zippers "Most absurd in my opinion: Adam and Eve being changed to Eve and Adam (so men don't appear superior)...." Language advisory elsewhere in this site.

Hmmm: Was There a Plant at the Sheila Jackson Lee Town Hall Meeting?

Patterico's Pontifications/ "Some attendees at the meeting spoke in favor of the plan, go so far as to want a system where the government had complete control. One supporter, Dr. Roxana Mayer, a physician who does not live in Jackson Lee’s district, praised the reform plan for overhauling a broken system. “I don’t know what there is in the bill that creates such panic,” she said. MyBarackObama shows a Roxana Mayer was a Texas Delegate for Obama..."

More Health Care Nonsense

Charles Krauthammer "...However, prevention is not, as so widely advertised, healing on the cheap. It is not the magic bullet for health care costs. You will hear some variation of that claim a hundred times in the coming health care debate. Whenever you do, remember: It's nonsense -- empirically demonstrable and CBO-certified."