House Set to Launch Health Law Challenge

FOX News  "Boehner's speaker blog described the anti-health overhaul campaign as a push to shield businesses from costly requirements, like the oft-maligned mandate that businesses fill out 1099 forms for purchases of more than $600. The statement called for Congress to pass "common-sense reforms" to lower costs without using "unconstitutional mandates" -- the latter a reference to the requirement that Americans buy health insurance, a requirement being challenged in the courts."

Repeal vote is just Republicans' first step on health care  "House committee chairmen will haul administration officials before their panels, pressing for answers to questions that they feel have been ignored. GOP leaders will call for votes on bills dismantling pieces of the law, such as the mandate requiring all Americans to buy insurance. ....
"And, eventually, they will offer an alternative health care reform plan, one that could be pushed legislatively in 2012 and beyond — if they win the Senate and the White House, the holy grail of their long-term strategy."  Politico
They will be opposed by every corner of the media including anti-Republican dialog in movies and TV shows.

British Government Plans Major Health Care Reform  [Prime Minister David] "Cameron says he will save money and cut red tape by giving control over management to family practitioners rather than bureaucrats.
"He said Monday that standards of care in Britain have fallen behind other European countries."
"Some doctors welcome the changes, but the British Medical Association claimed the scale of the reforms could cause chaos."  Because it is firmly entrenched in the British economy, which we must not let happen here in the US. Time is of the essence. (Emphasis added)

The 10 Freest Economies in the World

The Atlantic  "There are two reasons why the U.S. is falling behind. First, a lot of other countries are doing good reforms while we're standing still. Second, we have lingering government interventionist policies and spending is growing. We need to cut spending to make our fiscal future more reasonable, more viable."

The Age of Uncertainty "All this uncertainty “complicates planning and discourages hiring and investment” because “businesses tend to be more reluctant to invest when they perceive high levels of uncertainty about various things, including taxes.”
"One bitter fruit of all this uncertainty can be gleaned from a recent Federal Reserve study. The Fed calculated that skittish companies are now sitting on nearly $2 trillion of cash reserves rather than deploying those resources to expand payrolls, build new plants, or purchase new equipment. This is not only $130 billion higher than it was at the end of June but, as a percentage of total assets, the highest cash-reserve level in over half a century."
The liberal solution would be to tax those cash reserves out of existence and let the gubmint allocate it. About ten cents of every dollar might get to the actual place for whch it is intended .

Don't fret; this country's in the very best of hands

Morning Bell: Dragon Week

Heritage  "The U.S. has a long list of concerns about Chinese policies that reflect fundamental conflicts of interest between our two countries. Given Beijing’s interest in a smooth and uneventful visit, President Obama should press Hu on several key issues. Specifically, President Obama should seek public commitments to better policies on the economic role of the state, freedom of navigation in the western Pacific, and nuclear proliferation."
At the very least, Obama should not bow to hm. If Hu's on first, don't let him get to second . (Baseball analogy for our international readers)

For Chinese Leader’s Visit, U.S. to Take a Bolder Tack  "But the White House has prepared for the visit in other ways in the past two weeks, dispatching several cabinet officials to publicly lay down challenges for Mr. Hu.
"Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates had a testy series of meetings in Beijing last week, telling reporters beforehand that the United States would counter China’s military buildup in the Pacific by stepping up investments in weapons, jet fighters and technology. "...

H.R. 190: Protecting America’s Workers Act: OSHA on steroids

Overcriminalized.com  Increases civil and criminal violations of OSHA regulations. Plus this: "H.R. 190 would also increase the criminal penalty for knowingly impeding or interfering with an OSHA inspection through the provision of advance notice to an employer. " Emphasis added.
Business owners and supervisors beware.  Sponsored by Lynn Woolsey, Democrat-Ca.

Palin Derangement Syndrome

Glenn Foden, Townhall

Please tell me...

Martin Luther King Jr.

...how on earth we got from this man...

Al Sharpton

...to this man?

Martin Luther King's Conservative Legacy

http://www.martinlutherking.org/

Heritage  "It is time for conservatives to lay claim to the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. King was no stalwart Conservative, yet his core beliefs, such as the power and necessity of faith-based association and self-government based on absolute truth and moral law, are profoundly conservative. Modern liberalism rejects these ideas, while conservatives place them at the center of their philosophy. Despite decades of its appropriation by liberals, King's message was fundamentally conservative."

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Peter Wehner  "On this holiday honoring his birth, it is worth reminding ourselves why Martin Luther King Jr. deserves the place he holds in the American imagination.
"Dr. King was — with Jefferson, Madison, and Lincoln — our nation’s most effective advocate for the American ideal. How he became so is itself a fascinating story."

MLK, an American Hero-Laureate  "In America, the fact that Martin Luther King won the Nobel Peace Prize is not that big a deal. I dare say, relatively few know he won it. King was much bigger than the Nobel Peace Prize. Sometimes the prize makes the man. Sometimes the man enhances the prize. Throughout the world, however, the fact that King won the peace prize is, or was, a biggish deal. It increased his international reputation.

"He won in 1964, at age 35. At that time, he was the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize. The year before was the March on Washington, and the “I Have a Dream” speech. When the Nobel for King was announced, in October 1964, we were nearing the end of a presidential campaign: President Johnson vs. Senator Goldwater."

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Michael Moore, Jane Fonda, Kathy Griffin: Shameless Trifecta Exploit Tucson

Big Hollywood  "All three of these individuals are obnoxious in their own way. Moore is anti-American to the core. He’s not only a U.S. war protestor who hates capitalism, but also a supporter of things the American people at large consider to repugnant: things like the Ground Zero Mosque. (His support for the mosque runs so deep that he raised $50,000 so the little jihadists can build a monument to their terrorism.)

Jane Fonda

"Fonda is also infamous for protests of wars the United States has had to fight, particularly the Vietnam War and raq War: the latter she protested in 2005 and 2007. Moreover, in addition to protesting these wars, Fonda actually supported the North Vietnamese against the United States during the Vietnam War: she believed Ho Chi Minh could teach President Richard Nixon a thing or two.

Griffin, to her credit, actually supports the troops, but they have been known to boo her when she stands in front of them because of her obnoxious rants against Bristol Palin. Nevertheless, she has placed herself on par with Moore and Fonda via her seeming inability to address persons with whom she disagrees without going on a tirade (as when she referred to Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity as “idiots” and “liars,” said she hated them, and claimed both of them could “suck it”).

Wise Words on the Palin Obsession

Peter Wehner "Ross Douthat of the New York Times has written a very intelligent column on the very odd, and in some respects co-dependent, relationship between the media and Sarah Palin."....

          Scenes From a Marriage

"For their part, the media manage to be consistently unfair to the former Alaska governor — gossipy and hostile in their reportage, hysterical and condescending in their commentary — even as they follow her every move with a fascination bordering on obsession. (MSNBC, in particular, should just change its name to “Palin 24/7” and get it over with.) "....
"Palin, meanwhile, officially despises the “lamestream” media. But press coverage — good, bad, whatever — is clearly the oxygen she craves. She supposedly hates having her privacy invaded, yet her family keeps showing up on reality TV. She thinks the political class is clueless and out-of-touch, but she can’t resist responding to its every provocation."

Women in combat units- Oh! Hell! No!

Blackfive  "Combat soldiers adhere to a warrior ethos, but also to a code of chivalry. We don’t find it condescending to assume that most females need and even welcome that protection. In the civilian world, and even in the military, there are plenty of female sheepdogs and they do amazing things. But they work in completely different conditions than combat troops; female cops and firefighters go home when their shift is done. They don’t spoon together behind a couple of rocks on top of a mountain in GoatRopeistan trying not to freeze to death."
Related, if you think about it:

Jerry Holbert, Townhall

Tucson Tea Party Leader Releases Statement – Lashes Out at Pima County Sheriff’s Department

Gateway Pundit  "I spoke to Trent Humphries today. Trent is the leader of the Tucson Tea Party organization. On Saturday Trent was threatened to death by far left activist and unimpeachable voice of the left Eric Fuller at a taped ABC town hall meeting in Tucson. Fuller was heard screaming “whores” at the audience as he was dragged from the event and arrested. ABC and Christine Amanpour decided this was not newsworthy enough to show to their Sunday audience, after all, it was just a tea party conservative who was threatened with death."



Eric Allie, Townhall