About those lower insurance costs we promised . . .

WSJ   "In fact, the real choice with medical care, as with any good or service, is between rationing via politics and bureaucratic lines or via a competitive market and prices. As Democrats are showing by trying to pass a new insurance bill, they want all U.S. health care to function like price-controlled Medicare. Dr. Berwick's job as the country's largest purchaser of health care will be to find ways to offset the higher insurance and medical costs that ObamaCare's subsidies and mandates will cause, which will inevitably mean political rationing of care."

Costly IRS Mandate Slipped into Health Bill

CATO "Basically, businesses will have to issue 1099s whenever they do more than $600 of business with another entity in a year. For the $14 trillion U.S. economy, that’s a hell of a lot of 1099s. When a business buys a $1,000 used car, it will have to gather information on the seller and mail 1099s to the seller and the IRS. When a small shop owner pays her rent, she will have to send a 1099 to the landlord and IRS. Recipients of the vast flood of these forms will have to match them with existing accounting records. There will be huge numbers of errors and mismatches, which will probably generate many costly battles with the IRS."

No More Beer Summits: Tea Party ‘N-Word’ Incident Didn’t Happen, And the Congressional Black Caucus Owes America an Apology

Andrew Breitbart "When I offered a reward of $100,000 to be donated to the United Negro College Fund if anyone produced video and audio evidence that this occurred, I was accused of a publicity stunt (because everyone knows that the best way to get publicity in America is to accuse a civil rights icon of lying about racism). Rep. Carson himself suggested that my challenge was “a veiled attempt to justify actions that are simply unjustifiable.” Get it? He calls protesters racist and if you ask him to prove it, you’re a racist, too.
Needless to say, no one has claimed the $100,000."

TODAY'S GOLDMAN HEARING

Boortz   "In everything the left does there is always the quest for more power. They cannot see why they should not be controlling something as large as the U.S. economy; but to do that they must first demonize and then destroy the major private aspects of that economy. One of those battles will be fought today in a hearing room on Capitol Hill."

Liberals Seek VAT to Pay for Big Gov’t

Human Events  "What is a president to do when his gargantuan spending increases threaten to double the national debt and push the federal government into insolvency? A conservative would put together a commission to eliminate waste, fraud, abuse and unnecessary programs (all those things the federal government is doing but shouldn’t be). A liberal would raise taxes."  Brian Darling

The Federal Budget in Pictures

Heritage "This recurring feature allows visitors to dig down deep into the data of government revenue and expenditures in a visual format that is easy to understand. This year’s chart book does not disappoint, providing roughly 40 new charts–even several that are interactive. We also recently put together a brief video introduction to the chart book and all of its features. Watch the  video,  explore the new chart book, and learn more about the federal budget."

Filtering History

Thomas Sowell "Only the fact that the West had more firepower than others put an end to slavery in many non-Western societies during the age of Western imperialism. Yet today there are Americans who have gone to Africa to apologize for slavery-- on a continent where slavery has still not been completely ended, to this very moment."

Obama's credibility crisis

Washington Post "As the Obama administration will learn, plummeting public trust eats away at the fundamental credibility of government and undermines its ability to carry out even its most basic duties."

Is this Obama's understanding of the free market?

Boortz "The bottom line here is that our "sort of a God" president doesn't seem to understand the basic essence of a free market economy, and this spells danger for our economy."

Death Panels: Sarah Palin was right.

Gateway Pundit  "Obama Budget Director Peter Orszag admitted earlier this month that: A Powerful Rationing Panel (Not Doctors) Will Control Health Care Levels. Via Breitbart TV: "  Jim Hoft

Top Islamic Site Calls for the Final Jihad

Europe News

"This is the only the first in a series of messages which will be provided for use in the worldwide struggle to establish a truly and fully Islamic world. This declaration simply and publicly calls the Muslim ummah to jihad."

Dressing up left-liberal jurisprudence once again

Powerline "But the public not only dislikes Obamacare, it favors repeal. Thus, the White House's reformulated empathy standard can be viewed as cutting in favor of a decision that would find Obamacare unconstitutional. What Obama really wants, I think, is a justice who will be animated not by what ordinary citizens think they want, but by what the liberal elite has concluded they need. "