Now entering Greece

The Political Class "Eric Allie nails this one."...."Is it that bad? Look at the numbers yourself."

John Bolton on American Sovereignty Under a Post-American Presidency

Heritage "The first problem, he argued, is that President Obama doesn’t care about national security. It is not where his attention is focused. The second problem is that he doesn’t see threats to the U.S. overseas. He argued during his presidential campaign, for example, that Iran was a “tiny” country. The third problem is that President Obama appears to believe that American decline is not only inevitable, but also a good thing."

No, You Can't Keep Your Health Plan

WSJ "President Obama guaranteed Americans that after health reform became law they could keep their insurance plans and their doctors. It's clear that this promise cannot be kept. Insurers and physicians are already reshaping their businesses as a result of Mr. Obama's plan."...."The bottom line: Defensive business arrangements designed to blunt ObamaCare's economic impacts will mean less patient choice."  Dr. Gottlieb, a former official at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a practicing internist. He's partner to a firm that invests in health-care companies.

Republicans on Track to Snatch Defeat From Jaws of Victory

Ann Coulter "Republican consultants are doing a wonderful job raising expectations sky-high for the November elections, so that now, even if Republicans do smashingly well, it will look like a defeat (and an across-the-board endorsement of Obama's agenda). Thanks, Republicans!"

Political Cartoons by Michael Ramirez

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Texas doctors opting out of Medicare at alarming rate

Houston Chronicle  "Two years after a survey found nearly half of Texas doctors weren't taking some new Medicare patients, new data shows 100 to 200 a year are now ending all involvement with the program. Before 2007, the number of doctors opting out averaged less than a handful a year."  What is the "Doc fix" ? "In the 1990s, President Bill Clinton and a Republican Congress passed a law cutting Medicare payments to doctors. The cuts ended up being bigger than policy makers first understood, so President George W. Bush and a Republican Congress overrode them in 2003. In the years since, both Republican and Democratic Congresses continued to override them."

Fans asked to remove pro-Arizona immigration law shirts during NBA game

Daily Caller "One of the fans, businessman Jim Clark, said he and a friend, who were wearing orange shirts that read “Viva Los 1070,” eventually were allowed to return to their seats during last Wednesday’s game against the San Antonio Spurs after speaking with a security director."

Obama's idea of press freedom

Jeannie DeAngelis "Apparently Obama gets "angry and frustrated" being pressed for information. Barack prefers to orchestrate the venue with controlled pre-planned responses. A White House press corps asking extemporaneous, unrehearsed questions, even about free press, international human rights or an oil spill may be liberating for media types, but isn't a "freedom of press" ceremony really more about Obama? "

DoJ trial attorney in Black Panthers case resigns in protest

Rick Moran   "Even a US Civil Rights Commission subpoena couldn't get Holder to supply them with a reason why he dropped a case that Justice had already won. Now it appears that someone is going to talk. And what he has to say will no doubt prove very interesting to Congress."

A Nation of Profilers

Victor Davis Hanson "When we weigh racial and gender stereotypes for what we deem are noble purposes, we call it "diversity," but when considering criteria other than one's individuality for matters of public safety, it devolves into "profiling"?"

Polarization May Be Our Best Hope

Mona Charen  "The Post is expressing a slightly more refined version of the broader liberal assault on conservative activism. In this construct, massive rallies for Barack Obama are a sign of hope and human progress, but massive rallies against Obama’s health-care plan are evidence of “fringe sentiments” (Gov. Jennifer Granholm) or “fear” (Rep. Steve Driehaus), or are “un-American” (Rep. Steny Hoyer). When Michael Moore asked, during the Bush administration, “Dude: Where’s My Country,” that was social commentary. When tea partiers say similar things, they are proto-fascists."

WHAT MORE PROOF DO YOU NEED? .. IT'S ALL JUST BRAVO SIERRA

Neal Boortz "What's BS, you ask? This opposition --- virtually ALL of the opposition to the Arizona immigration bill. This is nothing less than pure absolute manufactured outrage over a bill that gives absolutely nobody any power nor requires anything of anyone that is not already given or required under federal law."