Enough is enough, Harry

SHERMAN FREDERICK: - Opinion - ReviewJournal.com

We've seen cattle ranches give way to railroads. We chronicled the construction of Hoover Dam. We reported on the first day of legalized gambling. The first hospital. The first school. The first church. ...

Reid is a bully and a jerk! He thinks he is above and better than everyone else. Well, I look forward to him suffering the same fate as his Democrat predecessor, Tom Daschel, and going down in flames in next years election!

Fixing the Health-Care System Requires Market Changes, Not a Government Takeover, Major Economists Say

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Friday, August 28, 2009
By Pete Winn, Senior Writer/Editor

(CNSNews.com) – Fixing the main problems with the health-care system should not take a major overhaul or government-run health insurance, or even a 700-page bill. What is needed is some good old-fashioned competition, according to the authors of a new book on the subject -- two economists whose research is highly regarded in the academic world.

“If (some) pro-competitive adjustments are made, you could write a bill probably of 30 pages or less – a very short bill that would make the necessary changes and would accomplish the objective of getting everybody covered with adequate insurance,” said Dr. Earl Grinols, distinguished professor of economics at Baylor University and co-author of the book, “Health Care for Us All: Getting More for Our Investment.”...

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Whose medical decisions?, Part II

Jewish World Review August 18, 2009 28 Menachem-Av 5769
Thomas Sowell

When famed bank robber Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks, he said: "Because that's where the money is."

For the same reason, it is as predictable as the sunrise that medical care for the elderly will be cut back under a government-controlled medical system. Because that's where the money is...

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Whose medical decisions?

Jewish World Review August 18, 2009 28 Menachem-Av 5769
Thomas Sowell

There was a time when rushing a thousand-page bill through Congress so fast that no one has time to read it would have provoked public outrage. But now, this has been attempted twice in the first 6 months of a new administration.

The fact that they got away with it before, with the "stimulus" bill, may have led them to believe that they could get away with it again.

But the first bill simply spent hundreds of billions of dollars. The current "health care" bill threatens to take life-and-death decisions out of the hands of individuals and their doctors, transferring those decisions to Washington bureaucrats...

This is the first of a multi-part series. I'll be posting each a day apart and giving my comments at the end of the series. Dr. Sowell is a brilliant economist and is a Fellow at The Hoover Institute at Stanford. I highly recommend his articles and books.

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Exploiting Public Ignorance

A MINORITY VIEW

BY WALTER WILLIAMS

RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 2009

How can political commentators, politicians and academics get away with statements like "Reagan budget deficits," "Clinton budget surplus," "Bush budget deficits" or "Obama's tax increases"? The only answer is that they, or the people who believe such statements, are ignorant, conniving or just plain stupid. Article I, Section 7 of the U.S. Constitution reads: "All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other Bills." A president has no power to raise or lower taxes. He can propose tax measures or veto them but since Congress can ignore presidential proposals and override a presidential veto, it has the ultimate taxing power. The same principle applies to spending. A president cannot spend a dime that Congress does not first appropriate. As such, presidents cannot be held responsible for budget deficits or surpluses. That means that credit for a budget surplus or blame for budget deficits rests on the congressional majority at the time...

Sadly, too many people in nation haven't the slightest clue how our government is SUPPOSED to operate!

Lockerbie bomber 'set free for oil'

Times Online

From The Sunday Times
August 30, 2009
By Jason Allardyce

The British government decided it was "in the overwhelming interests of the United Kingdom" to make Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber, eligible for return to Libya, leaked ministerial letters reveal.

Gordon Brown's government made the decision after discussions between Libya and BP over a multi-million-pound oil exploration deal had hit difficulties. These were resolved soon afterwards.

The letters were sent two years ago by Jack Straw, the justice secretary, to Kenny MacAskill, his counterpart in Scotland, who has been widely criticised for taking the formal decision to permit Megrahi's release.

The correspondence makes it plain that the key decision to include Megrahi in a deal with Libya to allow prisoners to return home was, in fact, taken in London for British national interests...

Absolutely disgusting, but I'd expect nothing less from a loser like Gordon Brown!!!

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FCC Diversity Chief Says Republican Communications Policies Hurt Civil Rights

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Friday, August 28, 2009
By Matt Cover

(CNSNews.com) – Mark Lloyd, chief diversity officer at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), claimed that communications policies enacted by Republicans negatively impacted the civil rights of minorities.

Lloyd made the claim in a 1998 essay he wrote while working for the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. He said that two decades of Republican communications policies had eroded the gains made by the civil rights movement in minority ownership in communications...

This man does not believe in Freedom of Speech and wants government control of all aspects of the media and especially political speech.

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FCC 'Diversity' Chief Asked Liberals to Fight Limbaugh

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 2:34 PM
By: Dan Weil

A top Federal Communications Commission official believes that “progressives” should challenge conservative media moguls like Rush Limbaugh and Rupert Murdoch.

FCC Chief Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd made that argument in a 2007 report he penned for the liberal Center for American Progress, CNS News reports...

This same man heaped praise on Hugo Chavez and his take over of Venezuela.

Marine Dresses Down His Congressman

This is PRICELESS! Semper Fi Mr. Hedrick!

Plane crash eyewitness

Pilot 'never had trouble before'

Cincinnati.com | The Cincinnati Enquirer

By Quan Truong • qtruong@enquirer.com • August 22, 2009

HARRISON – The death of a pilot and his girlfriend in Friday night’s plane crash near Harrison High School leaves many unanswered questions.

Several friends asked the same as the news slowly sank in: How did this happen?...

• Friday photos from the crash

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2 dead in Harrison plane crash

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Posted: Aug 21, 2009 8:41 PM Updated: Aug 22, 2009 9:19 AM

HARRISON, OH( FOX19)-- The FAA/ NTSB will be on the scene investigating a plane crash that killed two people Friday evening.

Police say that a home built Steen Skybolt, Bi-plane took off from the Harrison Airport a short time after 8:00pm. According to witnesses, the plane began a steep climb near the end of the runway, then pitched to the left and nosedived. The aircraft crashed a quarter of a mile from the end of the runway near the Harrison High School bus garage...

Very sad, but apparently the pilot did a fabulous job of steering the plane away from the stadium so as not to hurt anyone else. I had actually gone to the game initially, but changed my mind at the gate and went and got something to eat because it was just a scrimmage.

To read more of the story click on the red link above.

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The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare

(Co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods John Mackey writes in the Wall Street Journal that the last thing the US needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars ...)

WSJ OpinionJournal.com

Opinion - August 11, 2009, 7:30 P.M. ET

Eight things we can do to improve health care without adding to the deficit

By John Mackey

"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out
of other people's money."

—Margaret Thatcher

With a projected $1.8 trillion deficit for 2009, several trillions more in deficits projected over the next decade, and with both Medicare and Social Security entitlement spending about to ratchet up several notches over the next 15 years as Baby Boomers become eligible for both, we are rapidly running out of other people's money. These deficits are simply not sustainable. They are either going to result in unprecedented new taxes and inflation, or they will bankrupt us...

This is an excellent piece. Mr. Mackey provides sensible common sense ideas that don't require the government to control health care. What's interesting about this is that Mr. Mackey is a self-described Libertarian and his stores are frequented, in large part, by those on the left. Another thing, he, a couple years ago, made his salary $1/year. The remainder, as well as much more, is donated to charity.

In Government We Trust?

WSJ OpinionJournal.com

By Daniel Henninger

To explain why the Obama health-care proposal pitched the nation's politicians into town-hall hell, we would like to call to the stand an expert on how things in life can sometimes go wrong-Mr. Billy Joel.

Using a song years ago to sort through the complexities of a relationship in trouble, the Piano Man repeated the same simple one-word truth: "It's a matter of trust."...

My simple answer, NO I do not trust government, especially a large centralized government. Our Founding Fathers warned against just such a thing. Sadly, too many people in this country never learned that.

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EPA Cover-up

A MINORITY VIEW

BY WALTER WILLIAMS

RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 2009

Here's what I wrote in last year's column titled "Global Warming Rope-a-Dope" (12/24/2008): "Once laws are written, they are very difficult, if not impossible, to repeal. If a time would ever come when the permafrost returns to northern U.S., as far south as New Jersey as it once did, it's not inconceivable that Congress, caught in the grip of the global warming zealots, would keep all the laws on the books they wrote in the name of fighting global warming. Personally, I would not put it past them to write more." On June 28, 2009, the House of Representatives, by a narrow margin (219-212), passed the Waxman-Markey bill. The so-called "cap and trade" bill has been sold as a system for cutting greenhouse gas emissions in the struggle against global warming. There's a full-court press on the U.S. Senate to pass its version of "cap and trade..."

As I said, repeatedly, environmentalism is a religion. A very old one at that. It is nothing more than worship of the earth/creation. Global warming in simply one of its newest tenets. If you'll notice, it's a rather fragile one too. Because the earth is actually cooling, and has been for the last decade or so, the term has, conveniently, been changed to Climate Change. How convenient that is. Doesn't sound like a very stable belief structure to me.

Another VERY GOOD Reason to Want to Move to FL!!!

I had the opportunity to meet her at a UC Football game and she's even hotter in person!

Conservatives Now Outnumber Liberals in All 50 States, Says Gallup Poll

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Monday, August 17, 2009
By Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief

(CNSNews.com) - Self-identified conservatives outnumber self-identified liberals in all 50 states of the union, according to the Gallup Poll.

At the same time, more Americans nationwide are saying this year that they are conservative than have made that claim in any of the last four years...

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Senate Slavery Apology

A MINORITY VIEW

BY WALTER WILLIAMS

RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2009

Last month, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed Senate Resolution 26 "Apologizing for the enslavement and racial segregation of African-Americans." The resolution ends with: "Disclaimer. -- Nothing in this resolution (a) authorizes or supports any claim against the United States; or (b) serves as a settlement of any claim against the United States." That means Congress apologizes but is not going to pay reparations, as least for now...

Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine

This was said almost 50 years ago! It's amazing how applicable it is to today!!!

"Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare but only those specifically enumerated."
-- Thomas Jefferson

James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, elaborated upon this limitation in a letter to James Robertson:
With respect to the two words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators. If the words obtained so readily a place in the "Articles of Confederation," and received so little notice in their admission into the present Constitution, and retained for so long a time a silent place in both, the fairest explanation is, that the words, in the alternative of meaning nothing or meaning everything, had the former meaning taken for granted.

"If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one subject to particular exceptions." James Madison, "Letter to Edmund Pendleton,"
-- James Madison, January 21, 1792, in The Papers of James Madison, vol. 14, Robert A Rutland et. al., ed (Charlottesvile: University Press of Virginia,1984).

" The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government."
-- James Madison, speech in the House of Representatives, January 10, 1794

Football Buckeyes Report To Camp

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Football season is getting close!

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More Thuggish Behavior!

It seems the "community organizer's" minions like to use the cover of darkness to perpetrate threats and violence against American citizens just exercising their God given right to freedom of speech.

I was in the pub...(received via email)

I was in the pub yesterday when I suddenly realized I desperately needed to fart. The music was really, really loud, so I timed my farts with the beat.

After a couple of songs, I started to feel better. I finished my pint and noticed that everybody was staring at me.

Then I suddenly remembered that I was listening to my iPod.

More Union Thuggery!

I guess we now know who's going to be "the messiah's" "Civilian Defense" army! I've encountered several SEIU members, mostly during the election, and to a person they are(excuse my language) horse's asses!!! They were especially hostile towards me while I was in uniform/working. If you notice at the end, the black SEIU attacker ran like the coward he is. People are accusing the conservative concerned citizens attending these townhall meetings of "brown shirt" tactics, but it's quite clear who is utilizing such tactics. It's the "community organizer's" followers perpetrating such actions!!!

Union Thugs Beat Up Old People

This is typical union thug behavior! When you're organized and led by the REAL Mob and their Bosses as well as Alinsky "community organizers" this is the type of behavior you get! Why there weren't police officers in there is beyond me!