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President Obama’s Bipartisanship Founders

April 17th, 2011

By Dan Miller Little Barry does not play well with some of the other children; remediation is suggested. During a fund raiser in Chicago, President Obama and apparently even TOTUS thought he was speaking where his comments would not be heard by anyone other than his supporters. Modestly carrying forward his bipartisan efforts to mend [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: bipartisan, budget, debt, deficit, health care, hot mic, Ryan, satire
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I Want To Join A Union

February 21st, 2011

By Nancy Morgan Until I saw the thousands of loyal union members expressing solidarity by their courageous protests in Wisconsin, I had no idea of the great perks union membership entailed. Now that I do, I want in. And not just any union — I want to join either a teacher’s union or the government [...]

Articles written by Nancy Morgan
Tags: compensation, health care, political, protests, teachers, unions, Wisconsin
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Dear Obama, Please Leave Me Alone

February 7th, 2011

By Nancy Morgan Dear Obama, I’m not a member of the elite. I’m not a millionaire and I don’t claim to have any power or influence. I’m just an average taxpayer who lives in fly-over country. On behalf of all the Suzy Homemaker’s and Joe Six-Pack’s who are my neighbors, I’d like to request a [...]

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Tags: Constitution, food, health care, light bulbs, nanny state, satire, smoking
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Talk Radio Interview

January 11th, 2011

By Dan Miller Here is a recording of a short interview I did with Jesse Jones and J.R. Williams on talk radio station KXYL, Sweetwater, Texas, about my January 5th article at Pajamas Media and excerpted at Opinion Forum here, entitled “Our New Congress: What Are We Going to Do About It?”. There was a [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: appropriations, Congress, EPA, health care, interview, KXYL, repeal, veto
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Obama’s Accomplishments

July 8th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin To my mind there are two different kinds of Leftists in the world. One type wants the same things that conservatives and libertarians do (peace, freedom, the equality of all peoples under the law, etc.); they just don’t realize that liberal policies are seldom if ever the correct way to go about it. [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: Beinart, foreign policy, health care, Kagan, reform, Sotomayor, stimulus
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The Little Victories

May 21st, 2010

By Brian Bagent I recently left the full time employ of the hospital where I worked for a little more than two years on a medical/surgical floor to take a job with a hospice agency. Patients can be put on hospice only if the medical diagnosis is such that an ordinary progression of their terminal [...]

Articles written by Brian Bagent
Tags: cancer, death, dying, families, health care, hospice, nursing
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A Modest Proposal to Promote Domestic Tranquility

May 20th, 2010

By Dan Miller Huff and Puff and down fall the houses of falsehood Here is a truly fascinating article from Huffington Post by Jim Taylor, PhD in psychology and lecturer at the University of San Francisco, a well known bastion of unbiased intellectual thought. Mr.* Taylor complains that the sources of information nowadays are too many, [...]

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Tags: extremists, facts, global warming, health care, information, puppies, truth
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Implementation Timeline

April 7th, 2010

By Tom Carter The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has produced a handy implementation timeline for health care reform. The first few years are devoted mostly to new taxes and other ways to raise money. Among those other ways are taxes and fees on businesses that will be passed on to consumers, which in reality is [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: health care, implementation, legislation, reform, timeline
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Health Care Fears

April 3rd, 2010

By Tom Carter There are lots of concerns about the new health care law, some valid and others not. Confusing media reports, partisan pundits, and hysterical chain e-mails have created an environment of fear, at least among some people. Kaiser Health News has published an interesting article addressing some of the specific fears people have, [...]

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Tags: false, fears, health care, Law, Limbaugh, true
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For the Greater Good

April 2nd, 2010

By Larry Ennis My mother and I share the dubious distinction of both being senior citizens, her at 90 and me at 70. Both of us receive Social Security and Medicare. We are both concerned about what our status will be under the new health care law. As more information emerges it’s beginning to appear [...]

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Tags: costs, health care, Law, Medicare, seniors, Social Security
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The Devils Are in the Details

March 30th, 2010

By Tom Carter I didn’t support the health care bill, and I think it’s bad law. What makes bad law? Ambiguity, excessive complexity, constitutional uncertainty, limited popular support, intense partisanship, difficulties in enforcement, and too much latitude for bureaucratic interpretation and implementation. This law has all these problems in spades. Every sentient American understands that [...]

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Tags: abortion, children, constitutional, funding, health care, pre-existing, reform
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When Will They Learn?

March 25th, 2010

By Larry Ennis I have been waiting since the inception of the Tea Party for the day when it would become a target for a smear campaign. Now the left has launched a full-blown attack complete with charges of death threats and racism. Let’s start with the death threats. Because the Tea Party movement is [...]

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Tags: Democrats, demonstration, health care, Hoyer, Palin, Pelosi, Tea Party
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Report from Capitol Hill

March 23rd, 2010

By Brianna Aubin For those of you who may not be interested in reading further, here is the precis. I spent March 20th in Washington D.C., along with somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000 people in D.C. that day for the protest, all of whom came to D.C. with less than 48 hours notice. That estimate [...]

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Tags: Congress, health care, House, politicians, protesters, Tea Party, Washington
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Redundant Idiocy

March 22nd, 2010

by Jane Thomas My husband prefers to go fishing rather than listen to my Sunday morning TV programs dealing with political activities. His special pet peeve is Washington Journal when general public calls are taken, calls which he deems range from incredibly ignorant to purposefully stupid statements. Yesterday, I spent the entire day watching the [...]

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Tags: democracy, Democrat, health care, House, legislation, republic, Republican
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Health Care Fatigue

March 21st, 2010

By Tom Carter I’m tired of the health care debate. It’s been going on for a year, and it’s become so complex and so partisan that even many of the politicians who will vote for health care reform today don’t understand it well. We’ll know in a few hours whether we have a new law [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Congress, constitutional, health care, House, legislation, Senate
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What’s in the Bill

March 19th, 2010

By Tom Carter The Washington Post today published a handy guide to what’s in the Senate health care bill and changes that are in the House reconciliation bill. It’s highly summarized and covers only eight major topics. It’s useful, however, given that the bill posted on the internet is unintelligible. On abortion, the Senate language [...]

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Tags: abortion, health care, House, Obama, reconciliation, Senate
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The Political Cost of Reform

March 13th, 2010

By Tom Carter Patrick H. Caddell and Douglas E. Schoen, former and current Democratic pollsters, say that if Democrats ignore public opinion on health care reform, the “midterms will be costly.” In their view, the Democrats’ “blind persistence in the face of reality threatens to turn this political march of folly into an electoral rout [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Congress, Democrats, health care, majority, midterm, minority, Republicans
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The Fog of Controversy

March 10th, 2010

By Tom Carter Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, on health care reform legislation: We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it — away from the fog of the controversy. Maybe the “fog” she’s talking about is caused by the fact that she and her colleagues have [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: bill, controversy, fog, health care, legislation, Pelosi
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Who Won at the Summit?

February 26th, 2010

By Tom Carter “Who won at the summit?” seems like a silly question. This was supposed to be a sit-down (remember The Sopranos?) where apparently irreconcilable opponents could work out their differences for the common good. The problem is, no one who understands what’s going on in Washington expected that to happen. And, inevitably, politicians [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Congress, Executive Branch, health care, losers, President, summit, winners
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The Health Care Summit

February 24th, 2010

By Tom Carter It’s hard to imagine how anything very positive will come out of the President’s health care summit in Washington tomorrow. An article in Politico describes the atmospherics and the haggles involved in detailed negotiations. A gaggle of congressional Democrats and Republicans will meet with the President at Blair House for about six hours, [...]

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Tags: Blair House, Democrats, health care, Obama, Republicans, summit
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