US breast cancer drug decision 'marks start of death panels'

UK Telegraph "The FDA advisory panel has now voted 12-1 to drop the endorsement for breast cancer treatment. The panel unusually cited "effectiveness" grounds for the decision. But it has been claimed that "cost effectiveness" was the real reason ahead of reforms in which the government will extend health insurance to the poorest."

Will Republicans Save Us?

Walter E. Williams "Democrat control of the White House, House of Representatives and the Senate has produced an unprecedented level of political brazenness and contempt for the limitations placed on the federal government by the U.S. Constitution. As such, it has raised a level of constitutional interest and anger against Washington's interference in our lives that has been dormant for far too long."....
"The question is what can liberty-minded Americans expect from a Republican majority? Maybe a good starting point for an answer might be to examine how Republicans have handled their majority in the past." 

Thomas Sowell: Dismantling America: Part II

Townhall ""We the people" are the central concern of the Constitution, as well as its opening words, since it is a Constitution for a self-governing nation. But "we the people" are treated as an obstacle to circumvent by the current administration in Washington.
"One way of circumventing the people is to rush legislation through Congress so fast that no one knows what is buried in it. Did you know that the so-called health care reform bill contained a provision creating a tax on people who buy and sell gold coins?"....
"You might debate whether that tax is a good or a bad idea. But the whole point of burying it in legislation about medical insurance is to make sure "we the people" don't even know about it, much less have a chance to debate it, before it becomes law."

Neal Boortz on Sowell's article "The America your grandchildren will grow to know will look nothing like that in which we grew up in. While I can't say that this administration and this period in history are entirely to blame, Obama-Pelosi-Reid have sure have their hand in this disastrous change."

Where China Invests, And Why It Matters

Forbes "As the nation increases spending on overseas deals, it becomes even more important to keep tabs on where the renminbi* are going."  *Chinese currency

http://townhall.com/cartoons/cartoonist/LisaBenson

Solutions for America

Heritage "Heritage Foundation President Ed Feulner describes Solutions as “a comprehensive guide for getting our nation back on the right track. Some of the policy recommendations are groundbreaking. Others are familiar. Some are being debated right now. They all have two things in common: They return power to the people, and they are all transformational ideas.” For example, Solutions recommends:"...

Ground Zero Mosque Site

Warning Signs Alan Caruba over at  Warning Signs  posted this most informative aerial view of Ground Zero and the proposed mosque site. How's this for perspective?

http://townhall.com/cartoons/2010/08/17/30efddb3-3816-487a-8235-d004393baa11

Pak-trained killers 'used Facebook' to track aid group

 NY Post  "One by one, the entire team -- Little, Woo, five other Americans, one German and two Afghans -- were wiped out. Only their driver, who fell to his knees and recited from the Koran, was spared.
"God was good to me," Safiullah told the AP in his first interview since being released. When the slaughter was over, one of the Taliban killers spoke Urdu into his radio.
"Mission accomplished," he coldly declared. "

A Nation of Teenage Deists?

Kerby Anderson, Point of View. "They summarized the mindset of teenagers in this way. (1) "A god exists who created and ordered the world and watches over human life on earth." (2) "God wants people to be good, nice, and fair to each other, as taught in the Bible and by most world religions." (3) "The central goal of life is to be happy and to feel good about oneself." (4) "God does not need to be particularly involved in one’s life except when God is needed to resolve a problem." (5) "Good people go to heaven when they die.""

Real Shariah in America: Will Rauf Denounce These Fatwas?

Big Peace "Rauf’s continued failure to repudiate these odious Sharia-based rulings—extracted below—would be concordant with his ongoing refusal to denounce the jihad terrorism of Hamas, providing more evidence that he is indeed a traditional Sharia-supremacist who shares an Islamic societal vision incompatible with America’s founding ideals.

"Germane 2006-2009 rulings by the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America which Imam Rauf must repudiate, are recorded below:"...
Pictured: Katem Al-Hajj ,an Egyptian cleric ... forbidding US Muslims to work for the FBI or US security services because of the ostensible harm these institutions cause Muslims...

Cordoba Initiative's Antisemitic Tweets "Apparently Haaretz erroneously reported that Imam Rauf, Daisy Khan and the waiter Gamal had shown some mercy and would move the mosque. I never believed it for a second. They have yet to exhibit one scintilla of humanity. What is interesting is their recent tweets. Look at the last one. They couldn't help themselves: when a Jew is involved, their fangs come out. Islamic antisemitism."  Pam Geller, Atlas Shrugs

Rachel Maddow to Receive Award for Her 'Civility' and 'Tolerance'

Newsbusters "As Maddow and MSNBC represent and emblemize some of the most divisive, hyperpartisan invective on television today, to even suggest she or the network she works for embodies the values of civility and tolerance is about as preposterous a comment one could make with regard to the media."

Let Me Clarify My Clarification of My Clear Remarks

Commentary Magazine "The New York Sun editorialized that [Sarah Palin] had made a practical proposal while speaking more forthrightly than the famously eloquent president, raising this question:"

How did one of the most intellectual presidents in history, a constitutional law professor with a government-provided staff of legal experts and policy geniuses and an ability, rarely if ever matched, to speak in lofty tones, manage to get himself in a position where he will end up following the lead of an ex-governor who has been constantly set down by the left as but a one-time beauty queen without brains and who has been watching the whole fracas from a lake-side camp at Alaska?

Articulate No More "So Obama has gone from inspirational to exasperating for his followers and cheerleaders. Maybe he just ran out of left-wing bumper-sticker phrases. Perhaps, you know, there’s not a brilliant mind at work but a panicked liberal pol who can’t seem to slide through sticky situations with gauzy phrases. It is a revelation to the left and a vindication to the right. Unfortunately, we have over two more years of him, and it’s generally not a good idea to have a president who has become the object of widespread derision. It tends to embolden our foes and demoralize our friends, in this case even more than they already are." Jennifer Rubin

Obama vs. America

NRO  "As Dorothy Rabinowitz has noted, Obama’s alienation from the citizenry is just beginning to be more broadly revealed, but has been on display since the 2008 campaign.The media either failed to report it or chastised anyone who dared notice. When some remarked about Obama’s refusal to do something as simple as wear a flag lapel pin, they were pronounced unsophisticated and jingoistic. Obama’s casual stance during the playing of the “Star Spangled Banner” was declared a triviality. When Reverend Wright was caught shouting ” G–damn America!” those who wondered whether Obama’s 20 years in Wright’s pews might suggest ideological concurrence were dismissed as alarmist. When some expressed concern that Obama might agree with his wife that America is a “downright mean country” and that perhaps he, too, for the first time in his adult life, was proud of his country, they were told to grow up."