An Old 'New' Program.
By Thomas Sowell
Excerpt: For example, when confronted with the fact that
millions of Americans stand to lose their existing medical insurance, as a
result of ObamaCare, defenders of ObamaCare say that this is true only when
those people have "substandard" insurance.
Who decides what is "substandard"? What is older
than the idea that some exalted elite know what is good for us better than we
know ourselves?
I DIDN'T SAY THAT: At fancy St. Regis dinner, Obama
tells supporters he never said, 'If you like your plan you can keep it'
http://dailycaller.com/#ixzz2jmypW4uhRead more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/05/obama-denies-you-can-keep-it-videotaped-promises/#ixzz2jmyXLBzm
http://dailycaller.com/#ixzz2jmypW4uhRead more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/05/obama-denies-you-can-keep-it-videotaped-promises/#ixzz2jmyXLBzm
Excerpt: President Barack Obama told his enthusiastic
supporters Monday night that he never promised what video recordings
show him promising at least 29 times. The videos show Obama promising 300
million Americans that “if you like your health-care plan, you will be able to
keep your health-care plan, period.” But that’s not what he really said, Obama
announced Monday in a speech to about 200 Organizing for Action
supporters, gathered at the St. Regis hotel in D.C. (Lying about the lie.
Par for the course. ~Bob)
I Like My Plan, and I Want to Keep It: Are
you listening, Secretary Sebelius?
Excerpt: Do you like your health-care plan? Do you think you
should be able to keep it? We think you should, too.
Better walk this lie back too: Remarks by the
President on the Affordable Care Act
Excerpt: Now, five days from now -- five days from now -- on
October 1st, millions of Americans who don’t have health insurance because
they’ve been priced out of the market or because they’ve been denied access
because of a preexisting condition, they will finally be able to buy quality,
affordable health insurance.
Blue Cross NC: No
payments made through health care exchange
Excerpt: Blue Cross Blue Shield has more than 3.7 million customers in our state, but internal emails obtained
by WNCN show that as of last Friday, only one person had enrolled for health
insurance through the Exchange and that person hasn't paid.
49-State Analysis:
Obamacare To Increase Individual-Market Premiums By Average Of 41%
Excerpt: One of the fundamental flaws of the Affordable Care
Act is that, despite its name, it makes health insurance more expensive.
Good Column: Obamacare and Cronyism: A free-for-all of
special interests is having catastrophic results. By James
V. DeLong
Excerpt: Sometimes this theory analogizes the political
jostling of interest groups to the rough-and-tumble of the free market, but in
fact it represents a dark parody. In a market, people promote their
self-interest by providing goods and services that other people value and buy
voluntarily. In interest-group liberalism, players make shifting power
alliances so as to loot other players, or more often to loot those not in on
the deal, which is usually the public.
Obama’s Numbers Racket: Thousands of
enrollees is impressive, and millions of canceled plans is a rounding
error. By Charles C. W. Cooke
Excerpt: What a difference a week has made. Now, the
administration is apparently unable to decide what constitutes a Big Number and
what is merely loose change. Pushing back against the increasingly common
realization that Obamacare’s achievements have thus far been to expose the
president as an incorrigible liar and to corrupt the individual
health-insurance market in precisely the way that critics were lambasted for
suggesting it would, Jay Carney complained last Tuesday that reporters were
blowing out of proportion the number of people whose health insurance is being
canceled.
Lying to Save Their Skins. By Matthew Vadum
Excerpt: Mendacity, stalling, and stonewalling have worked
well as part of a public relations strategy for the Obama administration over
its first five years, so there is no point in changing a winning formula now.
Besides, extravagant healthcare subsidies begin to kick in next year, and all
that free money floating around is bound to calm irate consumers.
Excerpt: There is a vital reason for all Americans to take a
close look at how, specifically, the various government-run, single-payer
healthcare systems around the world have already affected the lives of the
people living under them. This is vital because Barack Obama and the Democrats
actually have their sights set on creating precisely such a system here in the United States .
For them, Obamacare is, and always has been, nothing more than a stepping stone
toward their ultimate goal of a single-payer leviathan administered entirely by
the federal government. Indeed, they’ve been quite clear about their
intentions:
Reader comment on
Obabadon't Care.
The Madison Chamber of Commerce offered two programs to its
employer members, one through GHC and one through DeanCare, neither of which
complies with Obabadon't Care. The GHC program included over 400 employers, and
an unknown number of employees, who now are in limbo, including my own
firm. This doesn't count an unknown number of employers using the DeanCare
option and all of their employees. The leftstream media is catching on a
little, but seems to be focusing on the individual plans which have been
dropped. These group plans for businesses will affect tens of millions of
people, greatly overshadowing the impacts on individual policies. Regards, RS.
Obamacare Destroying Lives, Killing Businesses. By Daniel
Horowitz
Excerpt: Last week, we asked for your personal Obamacare
horror stories, as more and more middle class families are forced to surrender
their dignity and grovel before government for their health insurance. Here is
the latest from Charles in Alabama .
You can email me your story at daniel@madisonproject.com. ... We received our
Affordable Care Act letter from Blue Cross Blue Shield this week, and were informed
that our new monthly premium starting January 1, for much reduced
benefits, will rise from $735 to $1,114.61, with our yearly deductible
tripling; this monthly premium is more than my house payment.
Excerpt: Last November Barack Hussein Obama was able to
bring in his dumb sheep to once more give him an electoral victory. He won it
by assuring his sheepies that employment was right around the corner, that the
economy was a hair's breath away from booming, that he knew nothing about Benghazi and the NSA and
IRS scandals had not yet been revealed. And he promised they would love
Obamacare...and if they didn't, they could keep their old policies. And he got
just enough women who lusted after free birth control, gays grateful for
Obama's blessing on gay marriage, and sheepies who swallowed the Obama kool-aid
en masse to win the election. A year later we find the Fed is still pumping $70
billion dollars a month to keep the economy inflated, unemployment has not gone
up higher, only because a few million more people have left the work force
forever, women are finding that getting free birth control pills is not a fair
trade-off for financing the medical needs of millions of life's losers who
found it charming to quit school, breed like rabbits and embark on a career in
green check tit-sucking. And now some 15 million sheepies, and their families,
have now had their health care policies cancelled and are left without coverage
on the side of the road, or forced to pay as much as three times the costs of
their old policies. And the sheepies are scattered over hell and over and they
are now paying the price for being an Obama sheepie.
In wake of botched rollout, Obama to seek
IT procurement reforms
http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/189224-in-wake-of-botched-rollout-obama-to-seek-it
Excerpt: President Obama said Monday he
would seek reforms to the federal IT procurement process following the botched
rollout of the ObamaCare website. Blasting the technical glitches as
“inexcusable,” the president said he had personally been “very frustrated” with
the problems plaguing HealthCare.gov.“There are a whole range of things we're
going to need to do once we get this fixed, to talk about federal procurement
when it comes to IT and how that's organized,” Obama told a group of top donors
and supporters at an Organizing for Action dinner in Washington. (Marxist command economic systems do not work. Selecting
FLOTUS college chums and POTUS campaign bundlers in a no-bid contract…well,
they do not get what we paid waaayyy to much for. --Barb)
Obamacare's critics justified:
Our view. USA
Excerpt: Obamacare is starting to resemble a patient
bleeding from self-inflicted wounds.
A month after launch, the online health exchanges where
individuals are supposed to shop for insurance remain slow or unusable, except
in states that opted to run their own marketplaces and did a more competent job
than the administration.
Good Column: Obama’s Catastrophic Victory. By Peggy
Noonan
Excerpt: The problem now is not the delivery system of the
program, it’s the program itself. Not the computer screen but what’s inside the
program. This is something you can’t get the IT guy in to fix. They said if you
liked your insurance you could keep your insurance—but that’s not true. It was
never true! They said if you liked your doctor you could keep your doctor—but
that’s not true. It was never true! They said they would cover everyone who
needed it, and instead people who had coverage are losing it—millions of them!
They said they would make insurance less expensive—but it’s more
expensive!
Obama in 2009: We Will Call Out Those Who Lie About
Obamacare. By Katie Pavlich
Everything he said about Obamacare was a lie. ~Bob
It wasn’t just Obama:
Red state Dems said ‘if you like your plan, you can keep it,’ too
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/05/it-wasnt-just-obama-red-state-dems-said-if-you-like-your-plan-you-can-keep-it-too/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/05/it-wasnt-just-obama-red-state-dems-said-if-you-like-your-plan-you-can-keep-it-too/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Excerpt: American Crossroads is out with a set of videos
and a press release showing how Senators Mark Begich (D-Alaska), Kay
Hagan (D-North Carolina) and Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana) ”joined with
President Obama to lie to the American people about Obamacare.”
Sorry David’s Bridal
employees: Obamacare forces company to move workers to part time
Excerpt: Thanks to Obamacare, employees at more than 300
locations of David’s Bridal now have a tough choice to make: either accept
their new 30-hour work week — sans health insurance — or find somewhere else to
work.
Excerpt: Bertolini explained that there are three factors
that are behind the skyrocketing premiums, taxes and fees, Obamacare’s “minimum
essential benefits.” “The largest factor is that the essential benefits
requires a minimum of a 60% actuarial benefit,” noted Bertolini. “For most
Americans and more than half of Americans who buy individual coverage, there
current benefit plan is below 50%. So if you just move up to 60%, that’s a 20%
increase out of the box.”
Guest Post: Government Shutdown—FY 2014. Samuel L.
Skogstad, Ph.D.
True, but 39%, so a little spin in the headline. ~Bob. Excerpt:
According to the latest from Gallup, President Obama's approval rating has
plummeted into the 30s as millions of people continue to lose their health
insurance.
The Double-Dealing Middle East Is
Double-Dealt. By Victor Davis Hanson
Excerpt: The Sunni reactionary establishment of the Gulf is
right to deplore Obama’s incoherent flip-flop-flips in Egypt and Syria . The oil lords logically
conclude that a directionless president will do nothing to stop Iran ’s race to
get a bomb — and all the subsequent Middle East WMD catch-ups to match it. Even
Obama’s pet Turkey seems
confused that its favorite administration is now nowhere to be seen.
White House embraces
issue roulette
Excerpt: President Barack Obama has a busy schedule this
week, jumping from health care to immigration to the economy at events across
three different cities.
All these disparate messages add up to one unifying theme
for a White House on the defensive: HealthCare.gov will not paralyze the
president’s second term.
Food-Stamps Folly: Donna Brazile says
Republicans’ proposed cuts are “cruel,” but
who’s really heartless? By Rachel Campos-Duffy
Excerpt: Here are the facts: Over the last ten years, the
number of people on SNAP has more than doubled, from 21 million to 47 million recipients. However, the total amount of
benefits paid has nearly quadrupled, from $21 billion to $75 billion.
Republican measures would decrease SNAP funding by 5 percent over ten
years — a rate much lower than the rate by which it has increased over the past
decade. In addition, Republican reforms will help ensure that the program is
sustainable by limiting it to only those who truly need it, and ending SNAP benefits
for traditional college students and lottery winners.
The American Iron Curtain. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Today a new iron curtain is descending. It encloses
the small Missouri
town where Churchill gave his speech and all the great capitals of a great
nation. Behind the iron curtain lie New York , Los Angeles , San Francisco ,
Chicago , Boston , Philadelphia and
countless others. ... It is a wall of words, of laws, regulations and mandates.
Islamist rebels in Syria
Excerpt: In his death portrait, the young rebel’s bearded
face is fixed with a broad, unearthly grin. The Saudi man had been killed in
fighting, and his corpse, with its beatific smile, was photographed and
displayed in a Twitter posting inviting others to celebrate his martyrdom.
Unemployment Caused
by Increased Unemployment Benefits
Excerpt: The researchers exploit this policy discontinuity
at U.S.
state borders to identify the effects of unemployment insurance policies on
unemployment. Their estimates imply that most of the persistent increase in
unemployment during the Great Recession can be accounted for by the
unprecedented extensions of unemployment benefit eligibility. The researchers
find that an increase in unemployment due to benefit extensions is similar in
magnitude to the decline of employment. Also, border counties with longer
benefit durations have much higher unemployment, despite the potential beneficial
effects of spending. (Liberals are happy to pass legislation that helps
thousands and hurts millions of people, as long as the thousands know why they
were helped and the millions can't figure out what caused their suffering.
~Bob)
Excerpt: For some of these people, an increase in the
minimum wage is clearly a good thing – but not for everyone. This is the point
that many politicians never fully grasp. Raising the minimum wage does not
increase the value of the worker's labor. It increases the cost of the worker's
labor. And as everyone knows, the more something costs, the less of it we buy.
This is as true of workers in the labor market as it is of anything else. The
money for an increased minimum wage has got to come from somewhere, and there
are only three places from which it can come: investors, in the form of lower
profits; customers, in the form of higher prices; or workers, in the form of
fewer jobs.
Comic Jackie Mason
Tears Into President Obama
Excerpt: Over the last few months we’ve been watching the
culture tide shift against President Obama and the liberal Democrat machine.
With every new destructive policy and idiotic personnel decision they make, the
Democrats prove to be less and less worthy of leading our nation. For those of
us on the right, it simply proves what we’ve always known – the Democrat Party
is filled with listless, immoral, power hungry usurpers who simply crave
control and position. Is that too harsh? Maybe… but don’t tell that to famous
funny man Jackie Mason. His words for them are even more bellicose.
Hundreds will protest
Islam lovefest history textbook foisted on high school students
Excerpt: On Florida ’s Atlantic Coast ,
some 200 or more local parents and
activists have announced plans to show up at Tuesday’s Volusia County
Former FBI agent Mike
German talks about the NSA
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/05/former-fbi-agent-mike-german-talks-about-the-nsa/#ixzz2jn1CeIeE
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/05/former-fbi-agent-mike-german-talks-about-the-nsa/#ixzz2jn1CeIeE
Excerpt: I had been working for the FBI for 16 years and
domestic terrorism for 12 years. What I understood was that the rules that are
designed to protect privacy also help the government focus on people who are
real threats. … This idea that we trade our privacy for more security is just
false.
Hemingway too easy
for fourth graders!? Common Core’s backward reading list
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/04/hemingway-too-easy-for-fourth-graders-common-cores-backward-reading-list/#ixzz2jn0AsWmS
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/04/hemingway-too-easy-for-fourth-graders-common-cores-backward-reading-list/#ixzz2jn0AsWmS
Excerpt: The Common Core national reading recommendations
are based on Lexile methodology — a complicated formula that scores texts on
vocabulary and sentence length. Texts receive a score
between 0 and 1,600. “The Sun Also Rises,” for instance, scores 610 under the
Lexile algorithm…. Under Lexile methodology, “Sports Illustrated for Kids’
Awesome Athletes!” is a suitable read for ninth graders, but “Jane Eyre,” “To Kill a Mockingbird” and
“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
are not.
Who said what?
I whiffed this test badly! ~Bob
UAE: Islamists on
trial over Muslim Brotherhood claims
Excerpt: Thirty Islamists have gone on trial at a state
security court in the UAE, accused of illegally setting up a branch of the
Muslim Brotherhood. The 20 Egyptians and 10 Emiratis are also charged with
stealing secrets from the security services and collecting donations without
permission.
Report: Brazil
Excerpt: The Brazilian government confirmed Monday that its
intelligence service targeted U.S. ,
Russian, Iranian and Iraqi diplomats and property during spy activities carried
out about a decade ago in the capital Brasilia .
Excerpt: It’s a sign of just how
fast the balance of world power is shifting, that Russia’s President Vladimir
Putin oversaw a huge exercise of Russia’s nuclear forces this Wednesday,
involving — as the AP reported –
“multiple test launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles, a formidable
demonstration of Russia’s resurgent military power.” This follows the entry of
Russian warships into the Mediterranean, concurrent with the
Russia-brokered deal to relieve Syria ’s
Assad regime of its chemical weapons, at the cost of relieving the U.S. of
any real influence in what might come next.
Excerpt: Many years ago, the writer Ayn Rand noticed a curious kind of backpedalling from the political Left.
First, they’d claim that socialism would provide enough shoes for the whole
world. But when economic reality caught up with them, and they failed to
deliver on their promises, they’d turn around and claim that going barefoot was
superior to wearing shoes.
The News in Zingers.
By Argus Hamilton
Excerpt: The Washington D.C. City Council ordered the police
to set up prostitution-free zones in ten city blocks during major U.S. government
events and protest rallies. You can't make it up. Washington is so corrupt we just rope off
areas where people actually follow the law.
Woman in legal limbo
over refusal to cover hair
Excerpt: Amira Osman Hamid faces a possible whipping if
convicted of violating Sudan ’s
laws governing morality, which took effect after the 1989 Islamist-backed coup
by President Omar Al Bashir.
you'd think thy'd teach the students that "Islam is a
Religion of Peace." ~Bob. Excerpt: An unregistered religious seminary was
gutted as a result of an explosion that occured allegedly after explosive
materials prematurely went off in the Eastern Bypass, an outskirt of Quetta valley, on Sunday
morning.
Excerpt: You'd almost think these Islamic schools actually
had bomb-making classes: July 2009: Bomb kills nine at imam's house used as Islamic
school in Pakistan April 2007: 22 arrested for bombmaking in Islamic religious
school raid in Afghanistan July 2006: Jihadist killed by his own grenade at religious
school in Afghanistan September 2004: Nine prosecuted for bomb-making at Qur'an
recital class in Indonesia Even if they did, however, no one would care. What
about those right-wing extremists?
Islamists kill 27,
burn houses in Nigerian village attack
Better Late than Never: Questioning
Benghazi: Will
a disillusioned media investigate Obama’s claims about the 9/11/12
attacks? By Mona Charen
Excerpt: Even if he were brilliant, capable, and wise
(and he isn’t), it wouldn’t make a particle of difference. One of the central
delusions of progressives is that government is efficient and effective and
that complex human societies are amenable to centralized control and direction.
We on the right presume
government ineptitude.
Hillary Clinton: From Senator Clinton’s
tergiversations on Iraq to
Secretary Clinton’s lies on Benghazi
Excerpt: Hillary Clinton is no
doubt a talented speaker. She recently went into what the left wing sees as the
heart of darkness of the American 1 percent at Goldman Sachs, purportedly gave
two brief chats, and walked away with a reported $400,000 in fees. Such
compensation is almost as profitable as Hillary’s long-ago cattle-future trading, in which as a talented rookie
speculator she beat one-in-several-million odds by parlaying an original $1,000
investment into a $100,000 profit.
Obama Official: US is
an Islamic Country. Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council member
tweets controversial opinion of US.
Excerpt: Mohamed Elibiary, a member ofthe Department of
Homeland Security Advisory Council, is under fire for tweeting that America is
“an Islamic country," reported the Washington Free Beacon. After
a Twitter user asked Elibiary on Thursday to “show me just ONE example of an
Islamic country where non Muslims are treated with equality,” he responded with
the tweet: “America and
yes I do consider the United
States of America an Islamic country with an
Islamically compliant constitution. Move On!”
Kerry tries to soothe
relations with Saudi
Arabia
Excerpt: Secretary of State John Kerry met King
Abdullah on Monday and praised the U.S.
alliance with Saudi Arabia
as strategic and enduring, but strains in the nearly 70-year-old relationship
were apparent over Syria and other issues
Excerpt: The Mars Orbiter Mission took off at 09:08
GMT from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on the country's east coast. The
head of India 's
space agency told the BBC the mission would demonstrate the technological
capability to reach Mars orbit and carry out experiments. The spacecraft is set
to travel for 300 days, reaching Mars orbit in 2014. (Still another country
seeking to take advantage of the possibilities of exploiting space. If
you aspire to be an astronaut and can't learn Chinese, Korean, Japanese,
or Russian, here's another opportunity for you. --Ron P.)
Excerpt: These kinds of cases always outrage me. There are
countless videos on the internet of police encounters with people open carrying
their weapon. Most of them don’t end well for the citizen, even though in the
vast majority (if not all) of the encounters, the citizens themselves were
never doing anything illegal. They were just carrying a gun in the open. That’s
something police do all the time. But when a “civilian” does it, it constitutes
probable cause for a crime.
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