Monthly Archives: August 2009

Cindy Sheehan was once the darling of the anti-war left. Homesteading a mosquito infested, mud-encrusted patch of dirt and weeds in Crawford, Texas – inappropriately named “Camp Casey” – Sheehan and her sycophants captured the attention of the usual gamut … Continue reading →

 “If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” President Ronald Reagan jokingly said it; but the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress currently in charge seem hell-bent to follow it…at … Continue reading →

From Andy McCarthy on the Corner in the National Review this morning: Compared to the infinite complexity of health care and health insurance, cash for clunkers is kindergarten stuff. You trade in your old car for a new one that … Continue reading →

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, with a 78 member plurality over Republicans, said legislation to revamp the U.S. health-care system won’t get through her chamber unless it creates a government-run insurance program to compete with the private industry. “There’s no way … Continue reading →

The Associated Press is reporting this morning that freshmen Democrats are torn between the Democrat Party line and the voter’s wishes on health care reform. FORK UNION, Va. – …Backbencher Democrats thrown into the front lines of the [health care] … Continue reading →

From the AP: WASHINGTON – Key senators are excluding a provision on end-of-life care from health overhaul legislation after language in a House bill caused a furor. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, said … Continue reading →

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, speaking yesterday in Incheon, Korea before the global Environment Forum, which precedes the UN Climate Conference Conference in Copenhagen this December, announced the following apoplectic warning: We have just four months. Four months to secure … Continue reading →

John Gross, the English literary critic, coined the epigram, “Complexity is the first refuge of the scoundrel.” With Congressional Democrats writing complex thousand- page, never read or debated bills, there is little wonder to why P.J. O’Rourke termed Congress a … Continue reading →

At yesterday’s town hall health care forum in Portsmouth, N.H., President Barack Obama said we should not worry about private insurance companies competing against a government-run public plan because that’s what UPS and FedEx do and they are doing just … Continue reading →

Cash-strapped Cuba is out of toilet paper. HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba, in the grip of a serious economic crisis, is running short of toilet paper and may not get sufficient supplies until the end of the year, officials with state-run … Continue reading →