FACTS ABOUT THE “MASSACHUSETTS MODEL”

Independence Institute "Why is it important to know the facts about the Massachusetts Mandatory Health Care Model? Because President Obama is giving serious consideration to enacting mandatory health insurance on a national scale." Massachusetts' plan has been considered the prototype of Obama's plan.

The Second World War — Seventy Years Later

By Victor Davis Hanson "In fact, Britain nearly alone saved Western civilization between September 1939 and June 1941. From May 1940, it fought almost alone against the entire continent of occupied Europe, when the United States was still isolationist and the Soviet Union was actively helping the Nazi cause. One of the great mysteries of the war is how an isolated Britain survived the Blitz, German submarines, Gen. Erwin "the Desert Fox" Rommel, and the industrial might of the entire European continent until Russia and America joined its cause."

Listening to a Liar

By Thomas Sowell "Whatever President Obama is, he is not stupid. If the urgency to pass the medical care legislation was to deal with a problem immediately, then why postpone the date when the legislation goes into effect for years-- more specifically, until the year after the next Presidential election?"...."Moreover, he wanted to get re-elected in 2012 before the public experienced what its actual consequences would be."

The Elders' View Of the Middle East

By Jimmy Carter "Late last month I traveled to the region with a group of "Elders," including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former presidents Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil and Mary Robinson* of Ireland, former prime minister Gro Brundtland of Norway and women's activist Ela Bhatt of India." * Last month we published several articles about Obama awarding her the Medal of Freedom.

What Carter Missed in the Middle East

By Elliott Abrams "While Carter warns that a Palestinian "civil rights struggle" is in the offing, he says nothing about Palestinian violence in the real world -- in which Palestinian terrorist groups continue to attack Israel and where all of Gaza is, of course, in the hands of one such group, Hamas."

Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care

By Sarah Palin "How can we ensure that those who need medical care receive it while also reducing health-care costs? The answers offered by Democrats in Washington all rest on one principle: that increased government involvement can solve the problem. I fundamentally disagree."

Lisa Benson cartoon

Townhall

Once Upon a Time . . .Whatever happened to the old Barack Obama?

By Victor Davis Hanson = "But soon President Obama read the classified intelligence briefings. Suddenly military tribunals, renditions, the PATRIOT Act, Predator assassinations, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were not just Bush conspiracies after all, but serious, necessary tools of American overseas contingency operations to thwart real man-caused disasters. The media, Hollywood, and the intelligentsia agreed, and thus Code Pink, Michael Moore, and a screaming Al Gore either quieted down or dropped out the news. "

What ‘Highly Trained and Certified’ Professors Don’t Want You to Know

Pajamas Media "Now that they have had four decades to take over the campuses, the radical Ph.D.s prop their Birkenstocked feet upon their large desks, until someone dares to question their “expertise.” Rushing to their computers, they then splutter out their invectives against assaults on their “academic freedom.”"

People Power; A wake-up call for America's political elites.

by Matthew Continetti "Congress returns this week, and here's hoping that its members, Democrats in particular, learned a little something from this summer's town hall meetings. The lesson to be drawn from these occasionally raucous events is that America is on the verge of--or already knee-deep in--one of those moments that periodically roil the country and rearrange our preconceived notions about public life. And not a moment too soon."

My Mother, the Czar: "List of Obama's Czars"

Glenn Beck "The Brainroom counts 32 czars in the Obama administration, based on media reports from reputable sources that have identified the official in question as a czar. • In addition, President Obama has said that he will create the position of cyber czar, and there have been media reports that there could be a health insurance czar and a copyright czar. When and if those positions are filled, that would bring the total to 35. • Since czar isn't an official job title, the number is somewhat in the eye of the beholder."

"Congress's Next Giveaway" By Sen. Jim DeMint

Washington Post "The $400 million Travel Promotion Fund, set to be created if the Senate passes the Travel Promotion Act (TPA) this week, is perhaps the perfect illustration of the disconnect between the American people and their representatives in Washington. "