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• Senate passes health bill, now what?

  
  Real Health Reform — Authority: 114
  Now that the Senate has passed it’s version of health care, with the “purchase” of the votes of at least 5 or 6 Democratic senators, we may wonder what it all means.  Well, certainly it means that there will be a conference committee which will be controlled, dominated and ruled by Democrats.  This means that ...
  14 hours ago

• Tougher US screening for travellers from Pakistan, 13 other countries (Second Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  By Arun KumarWashington, Jan 4 (IANS) All travellers flying into the US from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and nine other nations considered high risk will be patted down and have carry-on luggage searched under new security procedures that start Monday.In addition, all international passengers ...
  2 days ago

• Halfway Between Hope And Cynicism

  
  Boztopia.com — Authority: 109
  For my first blog post of 2010, I wanted to comment on two very good, but very different, essays I read this week. Both take a look at what the Obama administration has accomplished in terms of activism and messaging, but they come to very different conclusions. The first is a blistering critique of the Obama ...
  3 days ago

• Is There Any Sanity Left Concerning Government Spending?

  
  Garnering Right Ideas — Authority: 130
  I was looking at some very interesting numbers this morning and wondered how long the American public would be content to keep sending the same Representatives to Washington D.C. year after year? This “mental illness” of spending money that you do not have, afflicts both parties. In 2008 receipts to the ...
  3 days ago

• Right & Left Agree: Mandates are the Road to Neofeudalism

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 471
  There is tremendous fear rising on both the right and the left that the announced intention of Congress — to force every American to pay tribute to private corporations, with no government alternative — sets a dangerous and frightening precedent with implications far outside the scope of health care. If the health ...
  5 days ago

• 2009: The Year In Review: Betrayal Edition

  
  Taxes, Stupidity, and Death — Authority: 427
  He aint heavy, hes my brother. Once again, we’re at that time of year when everyone examines the year that was with their clever lists, and wry observations.  being neither clever or wry, I’ll simply point out where we weren’t a year ago, before the Dawn of the Age of the HopeyChangeyness (now with ...
  6 days ago

• Blue State Governors Cry Foul Over Health Care Bill

  
  The Lonely Conservative — Authority: 589
  They know first hand what liberal social policies do to state budgets. They’re states are bankrupt thanks to those policies. They know things will be far worse if they’re forced, unconstitutionally, by the federal government to further burden their taxpayers. Politico : New York Democratic Gov. David Paterson ...
  6 days ago

• CalPERS Tightens Ethics Rules After Hedge Fund Probe

  
  FINalternatives — Authority: 593
  Faced with something of a hedge fund scandal—albeit a minor one by today’s standards—the nation’s largest public pension fund is strengthening its ethics rules. read more
  6 days ago

• Ever Wonder Why Healthcare Is So Expensive?

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 501
  Note: I intended to merely comment on this chart when sharing it via my Posterous . During the 5 or so minutes I was commenting, it grew to be something more substantial, and at the urging of others, it has been cross-posted here. Since the 1960s, the percentage of total healthcare cost paid directly by the ...
  6 days ago

• Law Suits Threatened Over Obamacare

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 734
  The chorus of concern that an individual mandate forcing Americans to purchase health insurance is at a crescendo. The Attorney General of Florida, Bill McCollum, yesterday requested, in a letter , that other state Attorney Generals join him in “a full review of the individual mandate.” McCollum writes ...
  6 days ago

• EV Truck Makers Expect Boost from Federal Mandates, Incentives

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 608
  Driven by growing demand by large and small corporations and government agencies looking to reduce CO2 emissions and pollution, and boosted by government loans and tax incentives, electric vehicle truck makers and their suppliers expect a major boon in 2010.According to hybrid truck industry estimates, U.S. production ...
  1 week ago

• Top Ten Heritage WebMemos of 2009

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 734
  As 2009 draws to a close, The Foundry will be posting a series of Top Ten lists highlighting some of The Heritage Foundation’s most influential work. The Top Ten list of WebMemos below is sorted by pageviews below with the most popular memo at the bottom. If we left out your favorite, let us know in the comments. ...
  1 week ago

• Some States Fight Medicaid Expansion – Costs a Worry to All

  
  Real Health Reform — Authority: 114
  One provision of health reform which has the states up in arms, for varying reasons, relates to the expansion of Medicaid coverage.  First, the expansion creates a mandate by the federal government levied upon the states, since Medicaid is basically a 50/50 matching program of state and federal dollars.  Second, ...
  1 week ago

• Yeah, I Smell Desperation, But This Genius Needs to Check His Pits and Quit Looking Around…

  
  Taxes, Stupidity, and Death — Authority: 427
  This clown shoe is a jackass.  If he wants to make a mark on Washington, I’d like to let him pick a spot, and I’ll gladly slam his head against it until the mark is made. We resist it because Congress doesn’t have the authority and because we can’t afford it.  I know that this bothers them, but it is what ...
  1 week ago

• Healthcare Reconciliation

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 165
  With the historic passage of a partisan health care insurance reform measure, the US Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid kept his most recent promise to pass the bill by Christmas. Differences with the House version means that the bill will almost certainly require reconciliation and another 60-vote “filibuster ...
  1 week ago

• Wisconsin To Hire Up To 25 Hedge Funds

  
  FINalternatives — Authority: 593
  The State of Wisconsin Investment Board is preparing its first foray into hedge funds, but it isn’t going to merely dip its toe in the water. read more
  1 week ago

• Video: The Left’s Righteous War Against the Individual Mandate

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 734
  As we reported last week , now that the public option is no longer part of Obamacare, President Barack Obama’s leftist base is open revolt over the bill’s requirement that all Americans must buy health insurance or pay a fine. We’ve been calling this a health insurance company bailout for months, and now ...
  1 week ago

• [6] Sens. Won’t Answer Directly If It is ‘Morally Right’ to Force Taxpayers to Fund Abortion

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Washington (CNSNews.com) – Six senators, including former Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), when asked if it is morally right to take tax dollars from pro-life Americans to pay for health insurance plans that cover abortion, did not answer the question directly, but instead expressed their ...
  1 week ago

• Obama Promised

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 180
  http://yeswestillcan.org/?source=yt Help us get this ad on TV! Obama promised America a public option -- and opposed the mandates in the Senate bill.
  1 week ago

• ObamaCare Imposes $15,000 Fee On Middle Class Families

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 158
  CNSNews.com reports that the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the final Senate health care bill indicates it would slap a mandatory annual fee of about $15,000 on middle-class families that earn an annual income greater than 400 percent of the federal poverty level ($88,200 for a family of four) and are not ...
  1 week ago

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