Keep It Simple / What a Republican health-care plan should look like.

Weekly Standard "The Democratic leadership's striking failure to listen and to respond to what Americans are saying has opened up a huge opportunity for Republicans to fill the void. Now is the time for Republicans to act--and to unite behind a well-conceived small-bill proposal. As Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has argued this week in the Washington Post, Republicans "should seize the mantle of reform and lead.""

Wounded U.S. Soldiers Refused to Leave Taliban Fight

ABC News# "When the chopper lifted off moments later with three wounded soldiers, it left behind others who were wounded but refused to be MEDEVACED out of the combat zone so they could return to fight with their buddies."

Who needs death panels?

American Thinker ""The 2010 rules, which will be finalized next month, visit an 11% overall cut on cardiology and 19% on radiation oncology. They're targets only because of cost: Two-thirds of morbidity or mortality among Medicare patients owes to cancer or heart disease." Think about that concept for a minute."

First, the unions came for home-care providers. Next, they came for babysitters…

Michelle Malkin "In Illinois, in-home providers who care for the developmentally disabled are battling an aggressive power grab by the SEIU Purple Army and its Democrat enablers. In Michigan, the unions are going after…home-based child care workers."

Obama Doesn't Seem Ready to Lead

RealClearPolitics "Already, we have his choice for Afghanistan commander, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, taking the measure of his commander in chief and publicly telling him what to do. This MacArthuresque star turn called for a Trumanesque response, but Obama offered nothing of the kind. Instead, he used McChrystal as a prop, adding a bit of four-star gravitas to that silly trip to Copenhagen by having the general meet with him there." h/t to Neal Boortz

THE UNITED STATES WINS THE POPULARITY CONTEST

Boortz "...for those of you who think Obama is absolutely right in pulling America back from international strength and leadership: Some country out there is going to dominate the world militarily. Some country is going to dominate the world economically. Many of you don't want the United States to be that country. OK, fine. Then do tell us which country you want to fill that role? No hedging here. Some country is going to dominate ... and if you don't want our country to be the one, which country do you chose??

TARP FALLOUT / Under both Bush and Obama

Boortz "Then the government comes along and tells these institutions that took bailout money ... under the threat of government retribution ... that they must submit to executive compensation restrictions. Restrictions that will only grow and expand with Democrats in charge."

White House's botched 'op'

NY Post "The physicians, all invited guests, were told to bring their white lab coats to make sure that TV cameras captured the image. But some docs apparently forgot, failing to meet the White House dress code by showing up in business suits or dresses. So the White House rustled up white coats for them..." h/t to Drudge.

Redefining Marriage by Redefining Good and Evil

Alliance Defense Fund "Obama’s EEOC pick, Chai Feldblum: Sexual liberty wins in conflict with religious liberty." More Here: "Barack Obama's latest nominee for The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission signed a petition that praised polygamy."

General Injustice; McChrystal’s critics are wrong — very wrong — to suggest he has gone PC.

National Review=# "But does it really advance the cause of combating Islamism? Withdrawing from Afghanistan now will heave that country, and possibly Pakistan, into chaotic, region-shaking civil war. It will dramatically increase the freedom of both the Taliban and al-Qaeda to operate. It will strengthen the hands of those in Pakistan who want to continue to support the Taliban and weaken those who have been fighting Pakistan’s own Islamist enemies. And it will increase the prospects of yet another catastrophic terrorist attack on our homeland, as happened the last time we abandoned Afghanistan to the fates, and the Taliban took power there. How does any of that advance the cause of defeating Islamism?"

McChrystal’s Duty

By Max Boot "All that McChrystal is doing is telling the president — and the public — what it will take to prevent that dire scenario from unfolding. There is no indication that he violated any presidential or Pentagon directive by speaking in London; if he had, surely we would have heard about it by now."

Aw: Ahmadinejad doesn’t have Jewish roots after all

Hot Air "On the one hand, this counter-scoop from the Guardian would answer my question about why, if his original surname’s been widely known for years, no one accused him of having Jewish roots until just recently. Answer: Because it’s not really a Jewish name, silly."