Archive for the '2008' Category
Saturday, October 16th, 2010
That freedom loving people must resist it: Private-sector innovators from around the world contributed their expertise to the rescue effort in Chile, and the result was nothing short of miraculous. Yet when it comes to rescuing our health care system, President Obama and his allies are hellbent on limiting — if not eliminating — the [...]
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Saturday, October 16th, 2010
Take a bow Barack: Friday was a very bad day for the people responsible for the Keystone Kops operation protecting military voting rights inside the Justice Department. The three ranking members of the House of Representatives with oversight over military voting issues and the Justice Department sent a devastating letter to Assistant Attorney General Tom [...]
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Friday, October 8th, 2010
ObamaCare waivers. For a teachers’ union no less: The United Federation of Teachers — one of President Obama’s key political backers — is the biggest beneficiary of a White House sweetheart deal that will exempt certain outfits from complying with new health-care rules, officials revealed yesterday. The quietly approved federal waivers for 30 companies, health [...]
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Saturday, October 2nd, 2010
Details here: A young wife is desperately searching for her husband after he was shot in the back of the head by Mexican pirates in an ambush while they were jet-skiing on a border lake. Search teams are combing the U.S. side of Falcon Lake in Texas for David Michael Hartley, 30, after he was [...]
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Thursday, September 30th, 2010
Thanks to ObamaCare: The administration kept promising that the public would like what they found in ObamaCare. However, the more they see, the more they are likely to conclude they were scammed. UPDATE: The Wall Street Journal tutors Obama’s HHS Secretary Sibelius: Among President Obama’s core health-care promises was that Americans can keep their current [...]
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Monday, September 27th, 2010
They told me that if I voted for John McCain, wiretaps would be easier. And they were right! Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is “going dark” as people increasingly communicate online instead of [...]
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Sunday, September 26th, 2010
Weasel Zippers: The U.S. government said Sunday it made an “honest mistake” when it displayed an inverted Philippine flag — which wrongfully signified that the Southeast Asian nation was in a state of war — in a meeting hosted by President Barack Obama.
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