As expected, President Obama exploited the worst environmental disaster in our nations history for the primary purpose of promoting his and the far lefts’ cap and trade energy bill. Sure, he buttered up the masses with some warm sentiments about how upset he was concerning what he has seen and the justice that must be [...]
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Insensitivity? Never Waste a Serious Crisis
In the words of Rahm Emanuel, “Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things you couldn’t do before.” Well, our President is certainly wasting no time to push through draconian climate and energy legislation, that’s for sure, while millions of people and a coastline [...]
Lofty Utopian Healthcare Dreams Meet Reality
Health reform threatens to cram already overwhelmed emergency rooms – TheHill.com The new healthcare law will pack 32 million newly insured people into emergency rooms already crammed beyond capacity, according to experts on healthcare facilities. A chief aim of the new healthcare law was to take the pressure off emergency rooms by mandating that people [...]
European History Repeats Itself
“Europe’s fiscal Fascism brings British withdrawal ever closer” – Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – Telegraph “Just when you thought the EU could not go any further down the road towards authoritarian excess, it gets worse.” – Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Things are spinning out of control in Europe, economically, fiscally and socially. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said today that [...]
Practical Effects of the Health Care Legislation
ObamaCare Day One – WSJ.com Theory aside, practically what does the health care legislation mean for businesses and therefore individual employees of those businesses … already? Read the article above. Now, after it’s too late, does everyone see a little clearer that this legislation is merely paving the way for single payer by raising costs [...]
Milton Friedman on Entitlement Policies
Nobel Prize winner of economics in the 20th century, Milton Friedman, explains in this old video why entitlement policies, while well-intentioned, are fundamentally flawed at their root. Really wish we would pay attention to even recent history, let alone distant. We’re a very short-sighted people.
Socialism Is What We’re Getting … From Democrats’ Own Mouths
In all honesty, without an angered emotional response on my part, coolly looking at the information presented in the videos, in the context of the questions asked with the full responses, what are we conservatives supposed to make of these statements? Can I have a liberal friend explain this to me? Remember, coolly look at [...]
Health Care, Fear and the Christian Life
Don’t Be Afraid – Russell Moore It is a sad day … no, not about health care. It is sad to see so many, I would even venture to say a majority of fellow believers (many possibly assumed believers of the verbally violent conservative bent) controlled more by their affections and longings for a temporal, [...]
Was Soylent Green Population Reduction Propaganda?
For those who are not privy to nerdy, futuristic dystopian science fiction movies, Soylent Green is a classic. By today’s standards, it’s an awful movie (maybe even by that day’s standards as well). It’s pretty bad. Regardless, the plot is of particular interest here. Released in 1973, the movie portrays a time in the future, [...]
