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Category Archives: Politics

How the New Health Care Bill Saves Money

A comparison of previous health care ideas, projected vs real costs: So assuming they are only up to the >>third<< worst example, Medicare Hospital Insurance, the $940 Billion in costs for this bill are only an actual $6,993.6 Billion…and this does not count the $350 billion in Medicare payments to doctors cut out of the […]

The socialist won a battle…

The Socialists Won A Battle; Now It is Our Turn by Dana Loesch “Last night the Democrat party died as it drove a spear through the torso of the Constitution and passed legislation that the majority of Americans overwhelmingly opposed. Nancy Pelosi sauntered into the capitol surrounded by fellow socialists, carrying the gavel used in 1965 […]

Things As Seen on TV…Somewhere…

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“America is Not Ungovernable”

From:  RealClearPolitics HorseRaceBlog By Jay Cost “Recently, some analysts have suggested that the lack of major policy breakthroughs in the last year is due to the fact that America has become ungovernable. Ezra Klein argued that it was time to reform the filibuster because the government cannot function with it intact anymore. Tom Friedman suggested […]

Universal Voter Registration…

The end of freedom? http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/democrats-plan-for-election-2010-cheat/ “…universal voter registration bill. This bill would be a federal mandate that gives the federal government power over the state governments’ election processes. According to John Fund of the Wall Street Journal, “The feds will tell the states: Take everyone on every list of welfare recipients, take everyone on every […]

Will the terrorist kill healthcare reform?

Not even 12 hours into the new year and there is a political post!  Well, he says it all, and very clearly, too. From Soccer Dad: “If – as shown by last week’s terror attack – the relatively simple step of improving the assessment of intelligence was not accomplished by introducing a new bureaucracy [Department […]

A fascinating history…

…of Greenland’s Viking settlers, back in the day when it was, you know green.  And warm. http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/greenland/ ~Curtis in Idaho {!-{>

The infamous Hockey Stick…

…deiced… “…back in grade school, I stumbled on a passage which was the very first in any book of any kind in which I realized that the authors could let their political preconceptions alter their interpretation of their subject.  What they wrote, as I recall it very inexactly 40 years later, was to the effect […]

Climate change?

I wonder who they are…helping? http://deceiver.com/2009/12/07/no-sleep-till-carbonhagen/ >>Ms Jorgensen reckons that between her and her rivals the total number of limos in Copenhagen >>next week has already broken the 1,200 barrier. The French alone rang up on Thursday and >>ordered another 42. “We haven’t got enough limos in the country to fulfill the demand,” she says. […]

Ten Points to Save Our Nation…

A selection from from Victor David Hanson’s column at Pajamas Media: ================================== We Should Vote for Anyone . . . Who offers a coherent systematic agenda of reform. What do most want? Not necessarily a Republican or Democrat, or at this 11th hour to be mired in messy issues like gay marriage (I’m opposed to […]