Opinion Forum

The Weakness of the Democrats

February 15th, 2010

By Tom Carter Fred Barnes is the executive editor of The Weekly Standard and a moderate, practical conservative. His column today is an incisive review of the present state of the Democratic Party’s rule in Washington. One would think that with a Democrat in the White House and majorities in both the House and the Senate, the [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Congress, Democrats, health care, majorities, Obama, summit
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Ambush at Blair House

February 14th, 2010

By Larry Ennis President Obama wants to meet with Republican leaders for a supposed health care summit, to be held at Blair House on February 25. This choice of meeting places brings back memories from long ago. Two people calling themselves Puerto Rican nationalists tried to ambush President Truman as he was leaving Blair House in 1950. [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: Blair House, Democrats, health care, Obama, polls, Republicans
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State of the Union from the Kitchen Table 2010

February 13th, 2010

by Jane Thomas Each year I write a State of the Union from the Kitchen Table. As a general rule, I do not share it with others; however, I have been encouraged by my friends and family to do so this year. It has become a rare experience in American politics to elect a President [...]

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Tags: campaign financing, capitalism, democracy, freedom, health care
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Summit? What Summit?

February 10th, 2010

By Larry Ennis The President’s invitation to the Republicans for a health care summit is, I suppose, an attempt at humor. The idea that a thirty-minute spot on television is enough to gain acceptance of the health care fiasco is ridiculous. After a year of shutting out the opposition, the President proposes a thirty-minute fixer-upper. I hope [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: Congress, Democrats, health care, Obama, polls, Republicans, summit
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Obama’s State of the Union

January 31st, 2010

By Tom Carter A number of the President’s critics have opined that he didn’t say anything new in the State of the Union Address and mainly tried to rally Democrats to support him. To the contrary, I think three important aspects of the address are pretty clear. The first is what he actually proposed. Politico [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Congress, DADT, health care, Obama, SOTU, Supreme Court
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The Massachusetts Referendum

January 19th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin Tomorrow morning, health care, the Democratic party, and Obama’s agenda are going to come up for a vote. They’re going to come up for a vote in Massachusetts, a state where Kennedy held a Senate seat for 47 years and a Republican has not been elected since 1972. That the race is [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: Coakley, Democratic, health care, Massachusetts, Republican, Scott Brown
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How Much Is Too Much?

January 15th, 2010

By Larry Ennis Somewhere between health care reform and pay raises for politicians, I lost all track of the non-stop Obama tax machine. I’m surrendering myself to the reality that my descendants will have to pay for taxes imposed during my lifetime. The thought of such a hateful legacy is best ignored lest I go [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: bailout, banks, Haiti, health care, stimulus, taxes
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What’s The Rush?

January 7th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin According to an article in USA Today, Obama is still in a tearing hurry to get his “historic” health care bill passed in spite of (or more likely because of) a set of horrendous poll numbers and an utter lack of bipartisan support. Despite his campaign promises of wanting to reach across [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: Dodd, Dorgan, health care, legislation, Obama, polls
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The “Right” to Health Care

December 26th, 2009

By Tom Carter The Senate and House have both passed health care reform legislation. There are quite a few differences in the two bills, and those differences will have to be worked out before a final bill is passed by both houses and sent to the President for signature. At this point it seems likely [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Democratic, health care, legislation, Republican, rights
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The Real President Obama

December 21st, 2009

By Harvey Grund There’s no way around this. Democrats in the White House and on Capitol Hill have just perpetrated the most criminal rip-off in the history of this country on the American people. And with its passage now a certainty, the only thing left to do is to start working on getting it repealed. [...]

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: health care, Obama, statism
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Taxpayer Funding for Abortions

December 19th, 2009

By Tom Carter One of the biggest controversies in the health care debate has been the issue of whether taxpayer dollars will be used to pay for abortions. There’s already a law on the books, the Hyde Amendment, that forbids spending federal funds for abortion. However, those who oppose federal funding of abortions feel that the [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: abortion, health care, partisanship, reform
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Obama’s Low Approval Ratings

December 13th, 2009

By Tom Carter President Obama’s approval ratings have been constantly falling, according to most major polls. Real Clear Politics does an excellent job of pulling all the polls together and averaging them, providing better numbers than any one poll taken in isolation. The polling calculations presented today by Real Clear Politics are interesting and should [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: approvals, Congress, health care, polls, President, RCP
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Harry Reid: A True Statist?

December 9th, 2009

By Harvey Grund An insult was in order for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid after reading this lead story in Politics Daily, but why stoop to name calling? Harry Reid is what he is, and that is someone who either truly believes that the country is better off with a free market that has been [...]

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: Harry Reid, health care, Obama, Statist
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A Doctor’s Diagnosis

December 1st, 2009

By Brianna Aubin The other day, I was combing YouTube for article material when I came across some videos of a discussion held on government-run health care. One of the speakers was Dr. Arthur Astorino, Jr., chairman of Americans for Free Choice in Medicine. He is against the idea of government-run health care, but I hope [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: costs, government-run, health care, medical insurance
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Mandates and Penalties

November 19th, 2009

By Mary Jones Please read this press release from the Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee. One of the many things a lot of people don’t know is that if the House health care bill becomes law, you will not be able to opt out of health care or make your own [...]

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Tags: freedom of choice, health care, penalties, taxes
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Everything He Touches…

November 18th, 2009

By Larry Ennis According to The Washington Post online early edition today: Dearly Beloved President is not helping matters a lot here at home as he travels around Asia in an effort to look good there. Or maybe he just needs to lay low until some of his problems cease to be. Eric Holder, Obama’s [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: Afghanistan, diplomacy, health care, Holder, Obama, Palin
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Abortion and Health Care

November 16th, 2009

By Tom Carter Senate Democrats will presumably get their act together and bring a health care bill to a vote someday. Whether the Senate bill includes some form of a public option is not the only issue that may cause the bill to fail. The question of whether it will include a prohibition against spending federal [...]

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Tags: abortion, bill, Catholic, health care, legislation
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Thou Shall Not Govern

November 12th, 2009

By Harvey Grund When I ran across a recent article at Air America online titled Abortion Restrictions In House Bill Show Power Of Organized Religion In Politics, I broke into a sweat! (Well, not literally.) However, how could it be that I, a self-professed proponent of conservatism, could agree with anything that the “wacko libs” [...]

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: abortion, conservative, health care, Law, liberal, religion
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Paglia on Pelosi and Health Care

November 11th, 2009

By Tom Carter Camille Paglia’s monthly column was published today at Salon.com. She discusses everything from Nancy Pelosi’s performance as Speaker of the House, health care reform, health care in other countries, and Obama’s decision on Afghanistan to Richard Dawkins on atheism, the study of anthropology, pop music, Madonna’s latest escapades, and more. As always, [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Afghanistan, health care, Obama, Paglia, Pelosi
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Doctors On Strike?

November 5th, 2009

By Brianna Aubin In an article in Investor’s Business Daily, 45% of doctors said in a national survey that they’d consider quitting under Obama’s health care plan. This translates to roughly 360,000 doctors out of 800,000. Seventy-two percent of doctors said that they disagree with the claim that Obama’s plan can cover 47 million more [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: doctors, health care, socialized medicine, uninsured
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