How Long Do Canadians Wait for Healthcare?

The Daily Beast  "According to a new study by Canada's Fraser Institute, surgical waitlists are costing the nation about $1 billion each year in lost productivity. The average Canadian can now expect to wait 9.5 weeks for treatment with a medical specialist, this number up from 9.3 weeks last year."....

With more and more attention being placed on Canada’s poor productivity relative to other industrialized nations, Mr. Esmail [the author of Fraser's study] says it’s high time Canada’s leaders begin examining more efficient means of providing health care through a socialized healthcare model that operates parallel to a private care model that is open to competition (similar to the model used in Japan and numerous European nations).

Imperial Presidency

Heritage  "We can now see before us a persistent pattern of disregard for the powers of the legislative branch in favor of administrative decision-making without—and often in spite of—congressional action.  This violates the spirit—and potentially the letter—of the Constitution’s separation of the legislative and executive powers of Congress and the President.

"Examples abound:"....

The article concludes: 

"The President has unique and powerful responsibilities in our constitutional system as chief executive officer, head of state, and commander in chief. Those powers do not include the authority to make laws or to decide which laws to enforce and which to ignore. The President – like judges or Members of Congress – takes an oath to uphold the Constitution in carrying out the responsibilities of his office."

The Punk President and His ‘Gangster Government’ Go All In; Can we really survive four more years of this?  "That moniker came not from whim but from study. By Election Day in 2008, the question was no longer whether our new president was a punk. It was only whether he would only fit the word’s relatively benign definition as a “young, inexperienced person” or would be much worse than that....

"It wasn’t long before it became obvious that the country had selected the latter, after which a grievous and ongoing financial toll which continues began to accumulate."

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/06/22/100396

Selectively editing MSNBC

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/06/21/100360

Bill O'Reilly Slams MSNBC's Sneaky Editing of Romney Wawa Clip  "An Attorney General of the United States is about to be held in contempt of Congress and NBC is just finding this out now?  It is ironic when the most vilified news network in the country by the political left, also happens to be the only ones doing their job concerning reporting the state of governmental affairs.  However, I guess NBC is so good, they can’t be possibly biased."

Executive privilege in cartoons

http://www.conservativedailynews.com/category/political-cartoons/

Is President Obama A Pathological Liar?

IBD Editorials  "The Obama Record: The most frightening aspect of this president may not be his radical ideology but his rank dishonesty in selling that ideology. Now he's been caught lying about family racism."
....
"This is only the latest example of a growing body of fabrications, embellishments and outright lies told by this president, who has a real and possibly pathological problem with the truth."
"Stacked up, his whoppers would make even Bill Clinton blush. Here's a sampling:"....

Putin wants Russia to be a superpower; Obama wants to be elected

http://terrellaftermath.com/

The American Interest:  Obama Bets Ranch on Weak Syrian Hand; Putin Calls

"The Obama administration dialed up its rhetoric on Syria in recent months, but it hasn’t matched U.S. words with action. Russia has noticed the chasm between U.S. words and will and has seen an opportunity:"

Obama-Putin Meeting Brings Chill to Mexico  "The G-20 meeting was a missed opportunity to recognize that the “reset” policy has indeed reset U.S.-Russia relations—back to the Cold War—and is in dire need of reassessment. For starters, Obama should have told Putin that Russian cooperation on Iran and Syria are the litmus test of the U.S.-Russian relations.

"Unfortunately, however, the president could not do even that."

Reading List

US-Russia: from ‘Reset’ to regret   "The fact is Putin wants the US to get out of the way of Russia’s re-emergence — but is willing to cooperate on issues that benefit him politically or Moscow in general. That’s really nothing new."

U.S., Israel developed Flame computer virus to slow Iranian nuclear efforts  "The effort to delay Iran’s nuclear program using cyber-techniques began in the mid-2000s, during President George W. Bush’s second term."


Earth Summit Babble  "There is one good reason to not ignore the Earth Summit. They are telling you just what kind of an Orwellian and totalitarian world they have in mind for you." Alan Caruba


The Scandal of Our Age  "We sort of knew about the cyber war against Iran, but not to the detail that Sanger provides and not through the direct agency of the Obama administration itself." Victor Davis Hanson



US Senator Urges Independent Probe of National Security Leaks "Senator Joseph Lieberman, an Independent who nevertheless is part of the chamber’s Democratic majority, is now siding with Republicans on the matter." GlobalSecurity.org

Vulgarians On The Loose!  "That is, unless your little body hasn't been born yet, in which case, liberals think it can be torn to shreds and dumped in the garbage -- a point they argue by shouting "vagina" and claiming Republican legislators want to date-rape them."  Ann Coulter

Samuelson: Obamacare a 'Colossal Error of Judgment  "President Barack Obama’s focus on reforming health care as a centerpiece of his first term amounted to a "colossal error of judgment" that weakens the economic recovery and angers millions of Americans..."  Robert Samuelson

Gum chewing at the G20  "This is embarrassing. The President of the United States looks like an unpopular kid at a high school dance in the early seonds of the video below, circling around the more popular kids, chewing gum."  American Thinker


Jon Stewart: A Rich Man Attacking Other Rich Men For Being Rich "While Romney is wealthy, he created hundreds of jobs and has run a state very successfully. Oh, and he saved Olympics. Jon Stewart, simply has created no jobs other than the people he pays to run his condescending, low-rated show."


BIOGRAPHER ADMITS: THERE WAS NO OBAMA FAMILY  "What Maraniss has laid bare, perhaps without meaning to, is a journalistic scandal of historic proportions in which, alas, he himself has played a part."  Jack Cashill   Yes, Obama’s Bio Lies Constitute a Pattern


Obama now owns "Fast and Furious"  "No longer is this a merely DOJ problem. The president’s invocation of his privilege makes the problem his own." NRO

Pelosi: “I could’ve arrested Karl Rove on any given day” "Asked on what grounds she could have arrested Rove, Pelosi replied, “Oh, any number. But there were some specific ones for his being in contempt of Congress."  Hot Air


More Rats Jump Ship… Two More Democrats Will Skip DNC Convention   "Artur Davis, one of President Obama’s earliest supporters and a former co-chairman for his presidential campaign, announced Tuesday that he was leaving the Democratic Party for good." Gateway Pundit


Mitch McConnell and Free Speech  "...McConnell says, Obama and his allies will keep shaming Americans who support conservative causes. " NRO


House Committee Told Political Correctness Towards Islamic Terrorism Hampers Military…  The Obama administration “chose political correctness over accurately labeling and identifying certain terrorist attacks appropriately, thereby denying Purple Heart medals to killed and wounded troops in domestic terror attacks,” the report said. Weasel Zippers

House panel votes 23-17 to place Holder in contempt of Congress

The Hill  "The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, led by Republican Chairman Darrell Issa (Calif.), approved a resolution along party lines to place Holder in contempt after battling him for months over access to internal agency documents about the gun-tracking operation known as "Fast and Furious."

"The vote came after Obama escalated the conflict by sending a letter to the committee claiming executive privilege over the documents the panel had sought.

"All 23 Republicans on the committee voted for the contempt resolution, while all 17 Democrats voted against it. Every member of the panel was present for the vote."

BBC  "Historically, Congress and the White House have negotiated agreements to avoid a court battle that would limit either Congress' subpoena power or executive privilege itself.

"In a separate development on Tuesday, the family of an Immigartion and Customs Enforcement agent killed in Mexico has filed a $25m wrongful death lawsuit against several US officials, including Mr Holder.

"Jaime Zapata's family say the weapons that killed him were brought into Mexico because of US investigations into gun trafficking."

The Potemkin President Disintegrates

Potemkin: "a pretentiously showy or imposing façade intended to mask or divert attention from an embarrassing or shabby fact or condition. "Po·tem·kin village  Origin of POTEMKIN VILLAGE: Grigori Potëmkin, who supposedly built impressive fake villages along a route Catherine the Great was to travel. First Known Use: 1937

The Potemkin President Disintegrates
...."The political unifier who claimed, “There is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America,” has been exposed as one of the most divisive and partisan presidents of modern times. The post-racial candidate who supposedly transcended our racial divisions has intensified them, whether by crudely racializing incidents like the Trayvon Martin shooting, or by allowing the Justice Department to facilitate race-industry attacks on state voter-identification laws, or by calling his own grandmother “a typical white person” for fearing black criminals.".... 

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/jack_ohman/index.ssf/2012/06/cartoon_new_wing.html

"Indeed, any mention of Wright even today calls forth shrill charges of “race-baiting” and “racial politics” from the Democrats and MSNBC. The same media that in 2006 hyperventilated over Republican Senate candidate George Allen saying something that sort of sounded like what maybe was an obscure ethnic slur apparently didn’t see a story in the fact that Obama’s spiritual mentor hates white people and had glorified the terrorist attacks of 9/11 as “chickens coming home to roost.” "  Emphasis added.


Canada Free Press: Barack Obama, the Illusion   " In other words, Obama’s spun fairytales on his Kenyan family were as bogus as the faux Greek columns from which he first strode onto the world stage at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

....

"Designed down to the last politically correct detail, for making it well past his best-before date, he just had to be half black, half white, metrosexual, the Underdog of Underdogs; an illusion that could never be nailed down and exposed."

Issa vs. Holder: It's Go Time!

Via Drudge; Issa pushes ahead with Holder contempt vote despite Obama intervention

"Rep. Darrell Issa pressed ahead with a committee vote Wednesday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, despite an 11th-hour move by President Obama to exert executive privilege over the Fast and Furious documents at the heart of the dispute. 

"The announcement instantly touched off a caustic debate on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, as Democrats accused Issa of prosecuting a "political witch hunt" and Republicans stepped up their criticism of Holder's "stonewalling" over the Fast and Furious probe. Even for Washington, the tone at the hearing was decidedly bitter and accusatory."


FLASHBACK: Obama Blasts Bush For "Hiding Behind Executive Privilege"

"You know, there's been a tendency on the part of this administration to -- to try to hide behind executive privilege every time there's something a little shaky that's taking place. And I think, you know, the administration would be best served by coming clean on this. There doesn't seem to be any national security issues involved with the U.S. attorney question. There doesn't seem to be any justification for not offering up some clear, plausible rationale for why these -- these U.S. attorneys were targeted when, by all assessments, they were doing an outstanding job. I think the American people deserve to know what was going on there.”

 M Catharine Evans; Holder Met with Issa, Didn't Bring the Goods  "Issa has a textbook contempt case against Holder. The attorney general is required by law to comply with a congressional subpoena so what is Holder going to the mat for?

"The mainstream media is complicit as well. Their deafening silence coupled with Holder's arrogance must be inversely proportional to their level of guilt."

CNN; Obama asserts executive privilege over 'Fast and Furious' document  "President Barack Obama has asserted executive privilege over document sought by a House committee investigating the botched Fast and Furious gun-running sting, said a letter to the panel Wednesday from Deputy Attorney Gen. James Cole.
"The move means the Department of Justice can withhold the documents from the panel."

What would your rebuttal be to this Muslim's charges?

American Thinker  "(culled from an anonymous blogger from the UK)"

Your infidel lifestyle has proven to be a total and absolute failure. Your degenerate Western way of life is collapsing all around you. You are unable to solve your own problems. Look at what your decadent culture and sick societies have produced: sexual immorality, pornography, prostitution, divorces, broken families, filthy movies, homosexual marriage, drugs, alcohol, gambling, consumerism, materialism, hedonism... Why do you persist in your filthy decadent Western culture? It is self-destructive. It destroys families. It destroys children. Nothing good comes out of your sick poisonous culture. The Sharia will save you from yourselves. We will never let you spread the pollution & poison our children's minds. We will fight to the death in order to keep your decadent culture out of our societies. You decadent infidels are disgusting. Keep your vile culture to yourselves. Stop trying to export it to our countries. We will fight you to the end ... and we will prevail ... even if it takes 100 years. Allahu Akbar!

Still think Lady Gaga, Madonna and rappers are popular worldwide? And that Western culture is the envy of the world?

What should we fear most?

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/06/20/100333