Worth Reading
Excerpt: The Democrats meanwhile spent the past five years
on a toot, passing multi-thousand-page bills they didn't read whose
consequences they didn't even bother to guess at. Now, to the consternation of
the American people, they have blown up the American health-care system. That
system was a road with a lot of potholes and not enough lanes. It needed repair
and strengthening. Instead Democrats attacked it like the Bridge on the River
Kwai and are now standing there scratching their heads like Alec Guinness,
asking: "What have I done?"
Health care law seen
as eroding medical insurance coverage, AP-GfK poll finds
Excerpt: Americans who already have health insurance are
blaming President Barack Obama's health care overhaul for their rising premiums
and deductibles, and overall 3 in 4 say the rollout of coverage for the
uninsured has gone poorly.
Half of Uninsured Say
Health Law Is Bad Idea
Excerpt: Uninsured Americans have soured on the Affordable
Care Act in the past three months – and that bodes ill for the law’s
popularity and financial underpinnings. Less than a quarter—24%—of uninsured
Americans think the health care law is a good idea, and half think it’s a bad
idea, according to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released Wednesday.
Enrollment Errors
Cut, Officials Say; Fixes Are Overstated, Insurers Report
Excerpt: The Obama administration said Saturday that it had
reduced the error rate in enrollment data sent to insurance companies under the
new health care law, even as insurers said that files they received
from the government in the last few days were riddled with mistakes. ... Federal officials, insurers and health
care providers said they were concerned about confusion and possible
chaos in the early days of January, when people try to use the new insurance coverage they
believe they have. (Hear that? "Chaos." We've got good seats
with an unobstructed view of America 's
Medical Armageddon. -- Jim Geraghty,
Morning Jolt
Excerpt: What no one is yet talking about is the fact that
the insurance industry is a major player in the capitalization markets in the United States ;
and ObamaCare significantly changes the way health care is insured in this
country. What happens if trillions of dollars of private investment capital
suddenly disappears from banks, lending institutions and investment markets in
this already fragile economy?
New Report Says Obamacare Navigator Program Marred by
Mismanagement, Confusion. By Guy Benson
Excerpt: A new report produced by Rep. Darrell Issa's House Committee on Oversight and Government
Reform reveals that Obamacare's controversial "Navigator and
Assister" program has suffered from chronic poor management, resulting in
widespread disarray, since the law's October 1 launch date. An advanced copy of
the document obtained by Townhall raises a number of competency and
security concerns.
Healthcare.Gov
Contractor Rejects Illegal Obama HHS Request To Withhold Subpoenaed Documents
From Congress
Excerpt: HealthCare.gov contractor Creative Computing
Solutions, Inc. (CCSi) has rejected an unlawful request from the Department of
Health and Human Services to withhold documents subpoenaed by the Oversight
Committee.
Study: Earth was
warmer in Roman, Medieval times
http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/13/study-earth-was-warmer-in-roman-medieval-times/
http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/13/study-earth-was-warmer-in-roman-medieval-times/
Excerpt: If you think the Earth is hot now, try wearing
plate armor in the Middle Ages. A Swedish study found
that the planet was warmer in ancient Roman times and the Middle Ages than
today, challenging the mainstream idea that man-made greenhouse gas emissions
are the main drivers of global warming. (Damn Caesar and his SUVs. ~Bob)
The Newest Left-wing Lie: Megyn Kelly Is a Racist Who
Believes In Santa. By Matthew Sheffield
Excerpt: Liberals often love to say that conservatives
cannot take a joke but the truth is that both left and right sometimes are
lacking in the humor department. That’s especially true of the cottage industry
that’s sprung up devoted to finding any tiny little thing to bash Fox News, one
of the handful of national media outlets that don’t lean left. (Assuming she
was joking, she was foolish to get sucked into a joke they could twist against
her. Funny, though, people who mostly don't believe in God getting upset about
someone's supposed belief in the race of the spirit of Christmas. ~Bob)
Excerpt: The poll showed 45 percent of the millennials
approve of how Obama is handling his job, but 46 percent disapprove. But less
than a year ago, the president was enjoying a 67 percent approval rating among
young adults. Now that approval rating mirrors the general population's.
Tweet from Patrick Dollard @PatDollard
Once we stopped colonizing the Third
World , it began colonizing us.
‘Stand down’: CIA
Benghazi team clash led to controversial order
Excerpt: CIA officers revealed a clash over how quickly they
should go help the besieged U.S. ambassador during the 2012 attack on an
outpost in Libya, and a standing order for them to avoid violent
encounters, according to a congressman and others who heard their private
congressional testimony or were briefed on it. (It still boils down to someone
somewhere tell the only people with weapons and knoweldge to use them who were
close enough to the attack to get there quickly, to stand down. Hang on and
wait until someone says it's safe. Don't call for air support because we know
we can't get it. All kinds of reasons to not do anything while you can hear the
gunfire of the attack on the safe house. Maybe taking action would still
not have saved the ambassador and the other man who died from smoke, but they
had no way of knowing that for sure. And if others had moved to do something
helpful the two men who died on the roof from accurate mortar fire might not
have died. Not doing anything is sure one way to not save anybody from
anything. --Del )
Excerpt: When Obama has your PIN, it’s Christmas all year
round. For him.
NJ cop shoots for big
disability pension, scores $2M or more
Excerpt: Christopher Onesti collects a police
disability pension for life because he stapled the ring finger of his
non-shooting hand. State authorities ruled he is “totally and permanently
disabled,” no longer able to handle a gun or perform duties as a New
Jersey Transit cop.
Kerry Awards Vietnam
Excerpt: Kerry pledged $17 million to a program that will
help the region's rice producers, shrimp and crab farmers and fisherman adapt
to potential changes caused by higher sea levels that bring salt water into the
delicate ecosystem.
Creepiest Obama Story
Yet
Excerpt: Our beloved leader is so humble. He doesn’t want a typical Presidential portrait
with the American Flag next
to him. He’ll settle for his face large and in charge as the Dictator
who is transforming America
into his socialist utopia on the way to communism. (Okay with me if he doesn't
have our flag in his picture. ~Bob)
How many days old are
you?
24,717--I'm just getting started! ~Bob
28-year sentence in Ohio
Excerpt: A judge handed down a 28-year prison
sentence Monday to a man convicted of masterminding a $100 million,
cross-country Navy veterans charity fraud. (The investigation into the phony
Navy Veterans charity started almost 2 years ago, as best I can remember from
seeing the early articles about it. It took authorities a long time to get
really serious about finding who was really running things, and then the guy
took off and became very hard to find for a long time. But I see they finally
nabbed him, and brought the SOB to court. He's now going to play the mental
defense (as in, he's not really all there), but 99% sure that is just more of
his game. They'll never recover much of the money, aside from the nearly $1
million he was carrying around. (Wow... talk about pocket change) And at his
age he'll just die in prison, unless they let him out early for humanitarian
reasons when he gets old and sick enough. I don't have a lot of sympathy for
him. --Del )
Rep. Forbes: Make
China Bleed $$$; Budget Deal Stops ‘Hemorrhaging.’ By Sydney J.
Freedberg, Jr.
Excerpt: Why don’t we make the bad guys bleed money for a
change? That’s the strategic insight that helped us win the Cold War, and it seems especially timely today as the nation
wobbles back – we hope – from the brink of yet another budget crisis. (Maybe a good idea. --Del )
ATF uses rogue
tactics in storefront stings across nation
http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/atf-uses-rogue-tactics-in-storefront-stings-across-the-nation-b99146765z1-234916641.html
http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/atf-uses-rogue-tactics-in-storefront-stings-across-the-nation-b99146765z1-234916641.html
Excerpt: Earlier this year when the Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel exposed a botched ATF sting in Milwaukee — that
included agents hiring a
brain-damaged man to promote an undercover storefront and then
arresting him forhis work — ATF officials told Congress the failed Milwaukee
operation was an isolated case of inadequate supervision.
It wasn't.
Remembering Mandela,
without Rose-Colored Glasses
Excerpt: Mandela had been out of prison for about two years
in September 1992 when, fist clenched in the "black power" salute, he
was filmed singing
the anthem with a number of his comrades. Interestingly, but not ironically, as
Mandela and others repeated the refrain about killing Boer farmers, it
was a white man who stood next to him, similarly clench-fisted and singing. The
man's name is Ronnie Kasrils. A Soviet-trained terrorist who helped Mandela
found the MK, Kasrils was a member of the Central Committee of the South
African Communist Party.
The
Redistribution of Freedom. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt:
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis called the right to be left alone the
"most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by a free
people." It would even be fair to say that without the right to be left
alone no other rights exist. Amendments one through ten of the Bill of Rights
are essentially an enumeration of the ways that government is obligated to
leave people alone.
One of these
tapestries is not like the others. By Doug Powers
Excerpt: You might be asking the same question the Obama
administration did when they saw the tapestry: Why is it so small? The
real kicker is when the view is pulled back to see the placement of
the tapestry:
Excerpt: We are told that ObamaCare needs a mandate in order
to prevent people from gaming the system. Without the mandate, people who are
healthy would remain uninsured until they had a health problem. Then they would
enroll and get their medical bills paid. But if that were possible, only the
sick would insure ― making premiums inordinately high and possibly leading to a
“death spiral.” Yet
employers don’t require employees to enroll in their health insurance plans. So
why don’t they experience death spirals? Potentially, they could face something
similar. The reason: employers have exactly the same problems that the
individual market has. Here is how they solve it.
Kitten Plays Computer
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
You have to watch this video to believe it. Truly a
mind-blowing achievement by a little kitten. --Del. Too funny. ~Bob
Teacher’s Union
Fights to Get Severance Pay for Child Molester
Excerpt: The Michigan Education Association (MEA) is trying
its hardest to force the West
Branch-Rose City Rose City Middle School
Excerpt: Israeli troops shot two Lebanese soldiers early on
Monday, hours after a Lebanese army sniper killed an Israeli soldier as he
drove along the volatile border late at night, the Israeli military said.
Excerpt: North
Korea ’s dictator is executing family members
and ex-girlfriends at a speed that would give even Stalin pause. Meanwhile the
People’s Republic of China
has decided to follow in the footsteps of the Empire of Japan while the
pacifistic modern Japan and
an uncertain South Korea
look to America
for aid. Obama’s amazing Asian pivot has now run smack dab into China ’s
infinitely expanding territorial claims.
The Alarming Rise of Campus Anti-Semitism. By Joseph Klein
Excerpt: Anti-Semitism on U.S. college campuses is growing at
an alarming rate. It has escalated to the point that Jewish students on
campuses have been physically attacked or threatened for peacefully
demonstrating their support of Israel .
Events demonizing Jews and even glorifying the murderers of Jews, in the guise
of anti-Israel rhetoric, are tolerated by campus administrators despite the
hostile environment such events create for Jewish students who are open about
their beliefs in support of the Jewish state.
Three American Teachers Slaughtered for Christian Faith.
By Raymond Ibrahim
Excerpt: Most Western media and analysts dismiss the killing
as a random act of violence incited by a recent al-Qaeda video. However, by
connecting the dots and looking at precedence, it appears that Smith’s
Christianity, specifically his talking about it among Muslims, was the motive
behind the slaying.
True, this: Why Government Institutions Fail to
Deliver on Their Promises
Excerpt: Public choice theory shows that government
solutions not only fail to solve most problems but often make problems worse,
says Veronique de Rugy of Mercatus Center in testimony before the House
Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Public choice theory applies
economic analysis to politics. Economists operate under the assumption that
individuals act according to self-interest. So, public choice theory applies
that same assumption to government actors. Similarly, individuals are driven to
act prudently when buying, investing and saving in the marketplace. But those
same incentives do not exist within government management. Because government
decision makers are using other people's money rather than their own, they do
not face the same type of risk that an individual faces when making a decision.
Moreover, there is little, if any, reward for acting wisely, effectively or
efficiently.
Excerpt: Almost 150 NHS patients have been harmed by
incidents that should never happen, according to new figures - including the
wrong patient receiving heart surgery, patients given overdoses and a woman who
had her fallopian tube removed instead of her appendix. (The joys of
Progressive single Payer Systems. ~Bob)
Two more letters. Two
more victims. By Colin Flaherty
Excerpt: Want to call it Knockout? Go ahead. Call it
anything you want. But less than one hour after listening to the NPR report on
Knockout, i received these two emails:
Machiavelli with
malaprops: A quarter-century of covering Harry Reid. By Jon
Ralston
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/12/harry-reid-ralston-machiavelli-with-malaprops-101168.html
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/12/harry-reid-ralston-machiavelli-with-malaprops-101168.html
Excerpt: The former boxer’s ability to absorb blows and,
even more importantly, to counterpunch, perhaps with an occasional hit below
the belt, are the secrets of his longevity—and no doubt he will deploy them
once again as the Senate fights this week over the budget deal. Unlike most of
the preening Club of 100, Reid expends little effort tending to his public
image. (Machiavelli should sue. ~Bob)
Bipartisan push
imperils ethanol mandate. By Ben Goad
http://thehill.com/blogs/regwatch/energy-environment/192978-bipartisan-push-imperils-ethanol-mandate
Excerpt: Introduced by Sens.
Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), the Corn Ethanol
Mandate Elimination Act of 2013 would effectively repeal
requirements for the amount of ethanol that is blended into gasoline. “The
time to end the corn ethanol mandate has arrived,” Coburn said in a written
statement. “This misguided policy has cost taxpayers billions of dollars,
increased fuel prices and made our food more expensive.”
Photoshop Bombing
Excerpt: The White House Thursday tweeted a photo of Barack
Obama holding a sign with the message, “#GetCovered because nobody should go
broke just because they get sick.” In response, pundits had some fun photoshop
bombing the image.
Quote
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a
huge research staff to study the problem. --Bill Vaughan
Satan’s Little Imps. By Burt Prelutsky
Excerpt: Generally, when a boss – be it of a company or a
country – is constantly whining that he was unaware of a problem, be it
harassment in the work place or, say, the IRS targeting millions of law-abiding
Americans, unsafe working conditions in Benghazi or a catastrophic health care
plan, he is either, one, lying or, two, surrounded by flunkies, whose main
responsibility is to keep him out of the loop. But in Obama’s case, it’s never
a case of either one or two; it’s always both.
Excerpt: The Defense Department announced the transfer of two Guantanamo detainees to Saudi Arabia
today. Saad Muhammad Husayn Qahtani and Hamood Abdulla Hamood were both
previously approved for transfer from the detention facility by President
Obama's Guantanamo Review Task Force. (Coming soon to an airport near you.
~Bob)
Gunmen kill TV
presenter Nawras al-Nuaimi at her home in Iraq
Excerpt: Nawras al-Nuaimi was shot near her home in Mosul , Al-Mosuliyah TV
said, and was the fifth journalist killed in the northern city in the same period.
Mostly Sunni Arab Mosul is one of the most dangerous cities
in Iraq ,
with militants frequently carrying out attacks and reportedly extorting money
from shopkeepers.
Afraid of
'bridenapping,' Kyrgyzstan
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20131216_Gimme_shelter.html
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20131216_Gimme_shelter.html
Excerpt: IF ALBINA Kurmanbekova returns home, she has many
prospects for marriage. Not marriage as we understand it, however. More than a
dozen Muslim men have threatened her with "bridenapping," forcible
marriage that is indistinguishable from kidnapping, rape and slavery. Welcome
to Kyrgyzstan ,
where "bridenapping," a gross violation of human rights, is the
national sport played by men and endured by women.
Hizballah Leader
Bashes Saudi Arabia Over Syria
Muslims just can't get alone. ~Bob
A Safe Christmas for
Christians in the Holy Land . By Taki
Theodoracopulos
Excerpt: This Christmas our thoughts need to be with our
fellow Christians who are being threatened in the biblical lands. No ifs or
buts about it, they are being told to either join the Sunni-led opposition to
Assad and renounce Christianity or die. After decades of protection by a
secular-leaning dictatorship, the Saudi-financed jihadists are giving
ultimatums for a very dark future for Christians.
Good
Tidings and Bad Art. By Taki Theodoracopulos
Excerpt:
There is a game being played only by blacks and Hispanics in the great City of New York
Excerpt:
This is not to say that Mandela was without importance or that he merited no
praise. His greatest achievement by far, and an important one, was the
avoidance of the interracial violence that had long been predicted as
“inevitable” in South Africa and the only way things would ever change there.
He did this by his dignity and lack of rancor after his release from prison and
during his presidency, the first presidency post-apartheid.
MAPS:
Lots of atheists, more Muslims, fewer Christians and Jews: this is the new America
Excerpt:
Did you know there are – possibly – now more religious Muslims than religious
Jews in Florida Miami Beach has had
15 Jewish mayors, there are getting on for 200 synagogues in South
Florida – and, of course, it was the hunting ground of the
despicable Bernie Madoff. But here's a section from the map of Eastern states,
grouped by region:
The
Fall of the House of Tsarnaev. The Boston
Excerpt:
Tamerlan Tsarnaev first heard the voice when he was a young man.
It came
to him at unexpected times, an internal rambling that he alone could hear.
Alarmed, he confided to his mother that the voice “felt like two people inside
of me.”
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