Health Care Reform: A Better Plan

by Charles Krauthammer http://townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/08/07/health_care_reform_a_better_plan "Candidate John McCain and a host of other Republicans since have offered alternatives. Let me offer mine: Strip away current inefficiencies before remaking one-sixth of the U.S. economy. The plan is so simple it doesn't even have the requisite three parts. Just two: radical tort reform and radically severing the link between health insurance and employment. "

Shame: Former U.S. president kow tows to an evil regime

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2009/s0621_07_31.asp "It appears highly likely that another ignominious chapter in U.S. relations with North Korea has opened with President William Jefferson Clinton’s “mission” to rescue two captured young American female journalists. As the relief, cheers, and good wishes ring out, the reality of what has happened may become all too self evident."

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Firing up the leftist base

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/08/firing_up_the_leftist_base.html "I've been watching the media onslaught aimed at these townhall protesters, and now think I understand why we saw a huge pickup in coverage on the birth certificate controversy over the last 2 weeks. Media Matters and other 527s, like Moveon, send daily communiqués to left-leaning media with their issues highlighted, and talking points suggested. "

Obama looses labor thugs on tea party town hall protestors

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/08/obama_looses_labor_thugs_on_te.html "It couldn't be any clearer that the goal of the labor thugs is to intimidate people from coming to these town hall meetings unless they are supporters of the president. Obama's labor brown shirts will continue these tactics unless the president himself calls them off.And given the perilous condition of his health care reform bill, there isn't much chance of that happening."

NOW ENTERING THE RING ... THE UNIONS

By Neal Boortz http://boortz.com/nealz_nuze/2009/08/now-entering-the-ring-the-unio.html "..."The principal battleground in the campaign will be town hall meetings and other gatherings with members of Congress in their home districts ... We want your help to organize major union participation to counter the right-wing 'Tea-Party Patriots' who will try to disrupt those meetings, as they've been trying to do to meetings for the last month.""

‘You Are Terrifying Us’ ; Voters send a message to Washington, and get an ugly response.

By Peggy Noonan http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204908604574334623330098540.html "They are mocking and menacing concerned citizens. This only makes a hot situation hotter. Is this what the president wants? It couldn’t be. But then in an odd way he sometimes seems not to have fully absorbed the awesome stature of his office. You really, if you’re president, can’t call an individual American stupid, if for no other reason than that you’re too big. You cannot allow your allies to call people protesting a health-care plan “extremists” and “right wing,” or bought, or Nazi-like, either. They’re citizens."

White House to Democrats: 'Punch back twice as hard'

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/25891.html Top White House aides gave Senate Democrats a recess battle plan on Thursday, arming the lawmakers with tips for avoiding disastrous town hall meetings while showing them polling on popular aspects of the reform effort. Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/25891.html#ixzz0NVQIxiRq

St. Louis town hall: Protesters locked out while SEIU is admitted? Update: “These Members need cover”

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/06/st-louis-town-hall-protesters-locked-out-while-seiu-is-admitted/ "Stacking the audience with friendly SEIU members in lieu of ObamaCare naysayers surely qualifies as providing “cover.” Fun fact: One of the organizations on HCAN’s steering committee is, you guessed it, SEIU."

A Modest Proposal; Truth, Grace, and Carrie Prejean/ From Breakpoint

http://www.breakpoint.org/features-columns/archive/12113-a-modest-proposal "The dictionary defines modesty as “reserve or propriety in speech, dress, or behavior.” When was the last time you heard a sermon on modesty? In our fear of being labeled as repressed puritans in the third millennium, perhaps we have jettisoned modesty."

Edwards' ex-mistress appears at federal courthouse

http://www.wral.com/news/local/politics/story/5736309/ "Edwards, a former U.S. senator from North Carolina and two-time Democratic presidential candidate, is under investigation to see if campaign funds were illegally paid to Hunter..."

Prairie-Fire Anger; By Victor Davis Hanson

http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/prairie-fire-anger/ "And Obama lectures about the inequality of wealth and the burdens of racism while his wife’s salary climbed as his political influence grew. Meanwhile his own rarified tastes translated into a shady transaction with Tony Rezco to help to score a stately home and expansive yard—while attending a Trinity Church that radiated racial venom from a charlatan preacher who ended up in a mansion on a golf course."