Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Statement from Dr. Charles Krauthammer about his American Experiment Annual Dinner Remarks

American Experiment "This account is neither accurate nor authoritative. My views on Obama are well known. I’ve explained them in a series of five columns. "...."My views are clearly spelled out in that series of columns and subsequent writings. Anyone who wants to know my views should consult those and not this email. Charles Krauthammer"

Britain forced to fly in foreign doctors to fill in physician gaps

American Thinker "What happens to doctors under nationalized health insurance?They become like any union and negotiate for more money while working less. Doctors in Great Britain recently signed a contract that gives them evening and weekends off while paying them more. Of course, that leaves patients high and dry if they happen to need a doctor after hours."

Gary McCoy cartoon

Townhall

John Stossel's Take: Every Critic a Racist

ABC News "Come on. Every president eventually is criticized by the media – even one as “transcendent” as Obama. The President’s supporters should engage his critics with facts, not charges of racism."

Republicans Say Obama Administration Is Hampering U.S. Intelligence Efforts

CNS News "...Dick Cheney told The Weekly Standard, a conservative journal, that the decision "serves as a reminder, if any were needed, of why so many Americans have doubts about this administration's ability to be responsible for our nation's security.""

A WARNING LETTER TO AMERICA

UpPompeii "I am writing this letter to you in the hope that I can draw to your attention the dangerous route your country is taking, I am naught but an ordinary Englishman who is seeing the danger signs springing up in the country where my children live, below is what I see happening in America, and I would not like to see the USA going down the same disastrous route that the UK has been taken by its government."

Abortion: Which Side Is Fabricating?

FactCheck.org "Obama has said in the past that "reproductive services" would be covered by his public plan, so it’s likely that any new federal insurance plan would cover abortion unless Congress expressly prohibits that. Low- and moderate-income persons who would choose the "public plan" would qualify for federal subsidies to purchase it. Private plans that cover abortion also could be purchased with the help of federal subsidies."

Picturing The Enemy

IBD "Has there ever been a more outrageous trading of places? Those behind the attacks that murdered thousands are now the victims? And the courageous U.S. government officials who grilled them for the purpose of preventing further terrorist attacks are now the villains?"

Whose Medical Decisions?: Part III

Thomas Sowell, Townhall "That such a massive change of the entire medical care system, from top to bottom, was attempted to be rushed through Congress before the August recess-- before anybody in or out of Congress had time to read it all-- should have told us from the outset that we were being played for fools."

Straw Man Watch

By Karl Rove "The Straw Man fallacy involves the attribution or assumption of a position, which is then attacked or dismissed, The problem is that the position dismissed by the argument is not the real 'man' or 'person', but a caricature of the real position held."—Christopher W. Tindale, Fallacies and Argument Appraisal, January 2007 "

Divine Debt Trumps All

By Victor Davis Hanson "President Obama has put forth an ambitious agenda of radical health-care reform, cap-and-trade legislation, new energy proposals and expanded entitlements. But no matter how brilliantly the president describes his progressive agenda, it can't escape our fiscal fate: The country is broke and its ability to borrow ever more trillions of dollars is coming to an end."

Imputed Income? Not coming now, but Democrats have considered it before.

Link Just be aware that Democrats have considered this back in Clinton's time.