At one VA hospital,
the care is 'beyond superb.' Robert A. Hall
http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/inquirer/20140708_At_one_VA_hospital__the_care_is__beyond_superb_.html
http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/inquirer/20140708_At_one_VA_hospital__the_care_is__beyond_superb_.html
The Philadelphia
Inquirer used a version of my VA column. ~Bob
After getting out of the VA hospital Tuesday, I went to PT
Rehab at 9:00 am Wednesday. The physical therapist shook his head. "Bob,
you never take a day off." "I did once--didn't like it," I
replied.
General News and Comment
Definition:
Chi-cag-o. sha-cog-oh
Verb, Noun or Adjective. To ruthlessly acquire power and wealth through
corruption of the laws. Examples: "He Chicagoed his way to $100M since he
left office." "A Chicago Politician" "We can Chicago this one." http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2014/07/definition.html
Worth Reading : Our Roost, Obama’s
Chickens: From the Middle East to Russia
Excerpt: Barack Obama likewise has done some crazy things
that seemed for years to have no ramifications. Unfortunately, typical of the
ways of Nemesis (a bitter goddess who waits until the opportune moment to
demand payment for past hubris), suddenly the bills for Obama’s six years of
folly are coming due for the American people. When a president occasionally
fails to tell the truth, you get a scandal like the monitoring of the
Associated Press reporters. When a president serially fails to tell the truth,
you get that plus the scandals involving the IRS, the NSA, the VA, Benghazi , and too many
others to mention.
A Primer on Race. by Thomas Sowell
Excerpt: That is essentially the message of an outstanding
new book by Jason Riley about blacks in America . Its title is "Please
Stop Helping Us." Its theme is that many policies designed to help blacks
are in fact harmful, sometimes devastatingly so. These counterproductive
policies range from minimum wage laws to "affirmative action" quotas.
Gay Conservatives of Color
No,
really. ~Bob. I've often said that somewhere in this country there is a
Black man who is gay, Christian, Republican, and smokes too. This guy has total
zero friends, but I'd buy him dinner if I could find him. Now we have an actual
blog from someone at least a little like this. My hat is off to them, and I
wish them all the luck in the world. --Del
Barney Fife Meets
Delta Force: Hypermilitarized police departments are more
dangerous than whatever they fight. By Charles C. W.
Cooke
Excerpt: The piece’s author, Alecia Phonesavanh, described what
it felt like to be on the business end of an attack that was launched in error
by police who believed a drug dealer to be living and operating in her house.
They “threw a flashbang grenade inside,” she reported. It “landed in my son’s
crib.” Now, her son is “covered in burns” and has “a hole in his chest that
exposes his ribs.” So badly injured was he by the raid that he was “placed into
a medically induced coma.”
In unusual plea deal,
Virginia
Excerpt: When Jessie Lee Herald fled the scene of a crash
with his injured 3-year-old son late last year, authorities reached a breaking
point with a man who had been in and out of jail and fathered seven children with six women. A Shenandoah County
prosecutor proposed a plea deal that would not only send the 27-year-old to
prison, but would also require him to do something to ensure he would not have
another child: Get a vasectomy.
Excerpt: Are race and territory the correct terms for
defining an African? It would seem that as Africans, we are still preoccupied
with the debate of who is more African than the other, using race, language,
hair and skin colour as criteria. Some among us have appointed themselves
custodians of the true African image. If you look at race as an example of
defining an African, a question remains: How do we then define white South
Africans, who have never known any other country but South Africa ? If we define an
African as a black man with certain Bantu features, what then becomes of
Moroccans, Egyptians and other Arab Africans?
Quote
For bureaucrats process is everything. Outcomes are nothing
--Thomas Sowell, PhD
Pavlich Talks (about
her book) 'Assault and Flattery':
"There Certainly is a War on Women and it’s Being Waged by the Left."
By Cortney
O'Brien
Excerpt: 1. Is there a “war on women?” If so, who’s waging
it? There certainly is a war on women and it’s being waged by the left, and I’m
not talking about contraception or abortion. For decades far left policies have
made women more dependent on government rather than independent and empowered,
ultimately limiting economic opportunity. Liberals have a bad habit of accusing
their opponents of what they are actually doing and the war on women is no
exception.
Oops: US Government
Misallocated $100 Billion in 2013. By Daniel Doherty
Excerpt: By its own estimate, the government made about $100
billion in payments last year to people who may not have been entitled to
receive them — tax credits to families that didn't qualify, unemployment
benefits to people who had jobs and medical payments for treatments that might
not have been necessary. Congressional investigators say the figure could be
even higher.
Ex-New Orleans Mayor
Ray Nagin sentenced to 10 years in prison for bribery, money laundering.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07/09/10-year-sentence-for-ex-new-orleans-mayor-nagin/
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07/09/10-year-sentence-for-ex-new-orleans-mayor-nagin/
Excerpt: He also drew notoriety for impolitic remarks, such
as the racially charged "New Orleans will
be chocolate again" and his comment that a growing violent crime problem
"keeps the New Orleans
brand out there." (Since he wanted New
Orleans to be a "chocolate city," I hope
they put him in a chocolate prison. ~Bob)
What a difference the
next commander in chief will make.
By Jennifer
Rubin
Excerpt: To see what difference a president makes, you need
look no further than the violence raging throughout the Middle East and the
lack of U.S.
influence. Certainly, this was a long time in coming, the inevitable result of
President Obama’s notion that the United States should retrench and
leave the burden of international stabilizing to others. The next president
will have his or her hands full.
Playing in Traffic Is
Not Safe Politics: Are Democrats beginning to rationalize that losing the
Senate majority wouldn’t be as bad as some fear?
Excerpt: We saw it again this past week with The Washington
Post’s inimitable Dana Milbank writing a column July 4 suggesting that perhaps
the Obama presidency might benefit from Democrats losing their Senate majority.
The crunching sound you heard was the bones of Senate Democrats under a bus, a
pretty fair indication that someone in or close to the White House was
beginning to rationalize why such an outcome might not be as bad a thing as
some might think—all logic to the contrary.
Identifying Those
Relatively Apolitical Americans with Conservative Instincts. By Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt
There's a demographic out there that I can describe but not
label. These folks are instinctively conservative, but probably don't apply
that label to themselves. They work for a living, or they are looking for work.
They can't stand what they perceive as whining. But they don't identify with
the Republican Party. They look at the leadership of the party, at least in Washington — House
Speaker John Boehner, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, RNC Chair Reince
Priebus — and don't feel any sense of connection to them. In fact,
they don't really relate to or connect with any particular politician. They
either tune out politics as much as possible, or they find the political
process to be dominated by adults acting like children and bickering in a
selfish, obstinate manner. One reason they don't feel any particular attachment
to the current crop of Republican leaders — or perhaps the last
Republican presidential standard-bearer, Mitt Romney —is that they're
suspicious, or at least wary of Wall Street, or most big companies. They may
work for a big company but they don't feel a particular loyalty or
identification with their employer. These folks might sound like potential Tea
Partiers, but at some point, these folks either tuned out the Tea Party or got
turned off by some of the more fiery rhetoric. (Morning Jolt is free and worth
subscribing to. ~Bob)
Government Spending
Tax Dollars on Social Media
Excerpt: As social media has risen in popularity, so has
federal spending on social media, reports Kelly Cohen for the Washington
Examiner. It is difficult to account for exactly how much federal spending goes
towards social media, but various reports have revealed pieces of government
spending on social media efforts: In 2010, the federal government spent at
least $945 million on advertising, according to a report from the Congressional
Research Service. That figure includes social media. In 2013, the U.S. State
Department spent $630,000 purchasing
Facebook "likes."
Death toll rises to
16 in Chicago
Excerpt: Many of the shootings, which began about 3:30 p.m.
Thursday, took place in some of the most violent South Side neighborhoods. Five
people were reportedly shot by Chicago
police, including two who died. (Hey, so what? It's their culture and all
cultures have equal worth. ~Bob)
Authorities: Military
service member with concealed carry permit shoots attacker
Excerpt: A Gresham
man fired on a group of people leaving a party, only to be shot himself by one
of the victims, a military service member with a concealed carry permit,
authorities said.
Super-Amnesty Will
Turn Every City into Detroit
Excerpt: After another bloody weekend in Chicago , Mayor Rahm Emanuel branded the
shootings unacceptable and the city’s top cop demanded more gun control laws. Chicago ’s murder rate has
actually dropped since concealed carry became legal. Emanuel’s lawsuits over
his illegal gun control laws have left the already struggling city deep in the
hole and forced to cover the NRA’s million dollars in legal bills.
Excerpt: Meanwhile, the U6 unemployment rate, which includes
part-time workers who want better full-time jobs or folks who have given
up, dropped only slightly to 12.1%. That’s still a historically high rate.
And the labor-force participation rate was unchanged at 62.8%, a 30-year low. all
Street Journal editor Phil Izzo makes a disconcerting point:
The good way for unemployment to fall is for more people to find
jobs. But the bad way is for more people to give up looking for work
altogether.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: During last year's budget negotiation meetings,
President Barack Obama told House Speaker John Boehner, "We don't have a
spending problem." When Boehner responded with "But, Mr. President,
we have a very serious spending problem," Obama replied, "I'm getting
tired of hearing you say that." In one sense, the president is right.
What's being called a spending problem is really a symptom of an unappreciated
deep-seated national moral rot.
States poaching
businesses from other states
Excerpt: Indiana is
aggressively trying to poach businesses from Illinois — a controversial economic
development strategy that several other states also are employing in the battle
for jobs and revenue. The dynamic playing out here is one that is being
embraced by Republican governors across the country who are aggressively
courting businesses in higher-tax states such as Illinois, California,
Connecticut, Massachusetts, Missouri and New York — all states with Democratic
governors.
Lois Lerner’s attorney now says former IRS official saved
‘some e-mails.’ By Josh Hicks
Excerpt: Lois Lerner’s attorney on Wednesday
revised recent comments he made suggesting his client, the former Internal
Revenue Service official at the center of the agency’s targeting controversy,
did not save any of her e-mails, a fact that would put her in violation of
federal record-keeping laws.
In New Haven
Sag is swag if you ask some young people. For Trevor Smith,
saggin’ pants are merely a fashion statement. Others, however, worry that it
perpetuates racial stereotypes, may have roots as a gay male signal and could
lead to health complications based on the way it can force wearers to walk.
(These are the freedoms good men are fighting for. As usual with NHR, the
comments are priceless. --GS)
The Congressional
Black Caucus Has No Conscience
Excerpt: They have conned the American people into believing
that they represent the values of the Black community; and nothing could be
further from the truth. They have sat silently by as President Barack Obama has
put forth policies that have decimated the very people they claim to represent
– the Black community. (Interesting commentary from a Black activist, who is
not exactly a Conservative. But I am grateful for people like him, who will
call things out clearly, and are not afraid to criticize other Blacks for their
publicly known actions. And for the people who are saying that the election was
not won for Cochran by the Black crossover vote, how do you react to the very
clear statements of Black activists who are confirming that with emphasis? --Del )
Excerpt: Climate alarmism is “the biggest fraud in the field
of science” and the 97% consensus claim is nonsensical, Apollo 7 astronaut
Walter Cunningham tells MRCTV in a preview of his presentation at the upcoming
Heartland Institute climate conference, July 7-9.
Obama’s talk about fighting income inequality grows quiet: A
split within the Democratic Party over how to address inequality issues is
changing the president’s focus.
Excerpt: After making fighting income inequality an early
focus of his second term, President Obama has largely abandoned talk of the
subject this election year in a move that highlights the emerging debate within
the Democratic Party over economic populism and its limits.
Excerpt: Americans’ patriotism did not wane during Vietnam ,
it was simply not widely reported. ... Included in this online repository is
rare video of the third longest parade in U.S. history. That parade was
called the “Support Our Men In Vietnam Parade.” This parade lasted nearly nine
hours, through the heart of New York
City . There were approximately 250,000 people,
including 15,000 Teamsters, 10,000 Longshoreman and 6,000 union carpenters.
Vast numbers of young people can be seen marching. The parade was reported
locally in New York ,
but not nationally.
This enormous parade was not the
only event in support of our troops in New
York . On March 31, 1973, “Home With Honor Day” was
celebrated at a parade with more than 150,000 people. (My experiences are
quite different from this report. Washington
and the surrounding areas were not supportive when I was sat the barracks in
69-73. The colleges were especially my experiences do not support this. I was
at the barracks in Washington
in 69-73 and that area was not supportive. --Don)
The Truth about the
Vietnam War
Excerpt: Did the United States win or lose the
Vietnam War? We are taught that it was a resounding loss for America , one
that proves that intervening in the affairs of other nations is usually
misguided. The truth is that our military won the war, but our politicians lost
it. The Communists in North
Vietnam actually signed a peace
treaty, (This short video should be seen by each and every American!
--Don)
The Town that
Privatized Everything
Excerpt: In 2005, Sandy Springs
outsourced almost all functions of the city government (with the exception of
police and fire) to a single company, which runs the town. That company is in
charge of running all the vital functions of government, from the running the
parks, to paving the roads, and even 911 calls! The town is run very
efficiently, with zero backlogs in permit requests.
Obama’s 2012 straw
man: Bain Capital. By John Ruberry
Excerpt: Two years later President Obama, who of course
defeated Romney in ’12, faces multiple crises, including scandals involving IRS
targeting of conservative groups, deadly waiting lists at VA hospitals, as well
as a collapsing Iraq, Russia’s seizure of Ukraine, a still stagnant economy,
and 300,000 illegal alien children crossing over our lightly watched southern
border. None of these hotspots have anything to do with Bain Capital, other
than, remotely, the rotten Obama economy.
Excerpt: The UK
government is making a fresh bid to overturn a decades-long US import ban
on traditional Scottish haggis. ... Haggis imports have been outlawed in the US since 1971.
(I make my own--in the microwave--no lungs, no stomach. Happy to share the
recipe. ~Bob)
The explanation Hillary Clinton
gives to the “income inequality” crowd for her high speaking fees would raise a
lot of questions among the MSM if her last name wasn’t “Clinton ,” so instead the media just lap it up:
Hillary Clinton donates speaking fees to the Clinton Foundation. Oh, well
that’s that I guess. You just knew they’d find a way to turn “$200k per speech”
into “selfless solicitation for charitable donations“:
... Just imagine how that headline would have read if Sarah Palin didn’t pay
taxes on her speaking income because she donated it to her own foundation that
just happens to pay for family, friends and cronies to fly all around the world.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: I don’t know if we sufficiently understand how
weird and strange, how historically unparalleled, this presidency has become.
We’ve got a sitting president who was just judged in a major poll to be the
worst since World War II. The worst president in 70 years! Quinnipiac University
If only they would go away … well … hmmmm … what would
happen if all the Republicans went away? There are places where there aren’t
any Republicans – or at least there are very few. And I’ve noticed that one of
two things happens. Fearful of how bad things might get, voters in some
Democratic cities vote for Republicans anyway. That is, they elect mayors who
either are Republicans or at least govern like Republicans. This has been the
pattern in New York City
for the past 40 years (up until the last election) and in almost all cases the
mayor the city elected had the endorsement of the Gray Lady herself. ... But
there are other times and places where this doesn’t happen. In these cases,
Democrats elect mayors and city council members who think just like they think.
That’s when you get …. Detroit .
Scary Weekend: Holiday
"Thug-ology"
Excerpt: For those of you good people who occupied
yourselves with parades and fireworks and picnics, here's a little recap of
what the American minority underbelly, those cretins who failed to absorb even
a smidgen of American goodness, those thugs who could have been Obama's son, were
up to. In a Detroit suburb a Black thug, one who could have
been one of Obama's sons, walked up to a little two year old girl playing with
her teddy bear, and shot her dead, point blank. (Is not race, it's culture.
Most of the victims of black violence are black. ~Bob)
Family to Lose
Everything because of "Endangered" Mouse
http://lastresistance.com/6395/family-lose-everything-endangered-mouse/
http://lastresistance.com/6395/family-lose-everything-endangered-mouse/
Excerpt: The federal government and the environmental
regulators who act capriciously in its name continue their assault on innocent
American citizens. The most recent horror story proving that the federal
government has grown far too big and far too powerful comes to us from New Mexico . A family in
the southwestern state is in danger of losing everything – their home and their
livelihood – because the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has decided that a
mouse that lives on their land is an endangered species
Police Chief in Uniform Told to Leave Gun Outside Ikea.
By Chris Gordon
Excerpt: Takoma Park Police Chief Alan Goldberg said in 35
years in law enforcement he's never had a store tell him that he would have to
leave his service weapon in the car or leave — especially when he was in his
police uniform. But that's what happened July 4 in the Ikea in College Park when Goldberg had stopped in
with his daughter.
Excerpt: China’s military rise, and its increasingly
assertive claims to sovereignty over these largely uninhabited lumps of rock,
coral and sand, have set it on a possible collision course with its neighbors,
which also make various claims on the archipelagos, and with the United States,
which has important alliances with three of the rival claimants and would be
obliged to defend them in the event of an attack. (Well, when Obama
"pivoted to Asia ," I expected
trouble there. ~Bob)
Excerpt: More than 1,000
stranded Chinese workers are being evacuated from war-torn
northern Iraq
today via helicopters and buses, according to Chinese state media, as a violent
Sunni insurgency threatens to tear the country apart. The emergency operation
highlights China ’s heavy
investment in Iraq , as
well as the drawbacks of China ’s foreign
investment strategy that focuses on less-explored and often
unstable regions. China arguably benefited
the most from the US
invasion of Iraq
and the bloody insurgency and civil war that followed. (Wait--the
progressives said we invaded Iraq
so we'd get the oil...~Bob)
Booming Shale Energy
Supply Sectors Supporting 450,000+ U.S.
Excerpt: America’s shale energy revolution is creating
hundreds of thousands of jobs in diverse sectors of the economy that supply
construction, equipment, supplies and services to shale energy operations; and
making the U.S. manufacturing sector more competitive by reducing energy input
costs, according to the EEIA (Energy Equipment & Infrastructure Alliance)
President & CEO Toby Mack.
California’s Hydromania. By Victor Davis Hanson
Exerpt: Two events now characterize the California agrarian heartland, the richest
and most productive farm belt in the world. One, of course, is the third year
of drought. I refer here to nature’s lack of rain and snow. But also factor in
the state’s additional man-made drought, through diversions of precious stored
reservoir water from agriculture and community use to environmental causes that
demand more river water must flow out to the sea. The state’s environmental fanatics over thirty years ago cancelled the critical
tertiary phases of the California Water Project and the federal Central Valley
Project. I guess those in the Bay Area whose lives rest on Hetch Hetchy delivered
reservoir water deemed reservoirs for all others passé and so 19th century. (That natural resources can be
and often are very definitely limited, and can be abused into becoming near
useless, should not be news to anyone with an IQ higher than room temperature. (In
degrees C.) One of the reason to have a government is for it to look to
the long term good of the people, and prevent or control stupidity and greed
from doing the kind of damage short-term that everyone will pay for dearly in
the long term. That doesn't seem to be working very well in southern CA. You
start to wonder what the elected officials really have for priorities, other
than getting re-elected. --Del.
There are other priorities? Who knew? ~Bob)
Vote probe aimed at
419 Cedar Avenue S. in Minneapolis
Excerpt: No one lives at the address, which is a
Somali-dominated commercial building housing several small businesses and a
popular mail center. Several dozen apartments upstairs use a different building
number. Records also show that more than 90 of the registrants at that address
have voted in previous elections, although it’s unclear how many voted while
registered at 419 Cedar. The investigation reignites a long-running debate
about voter fraud in Minnesota
and is the latest flash point in the highly competitive race between Capitol
stalwart Rep. Phyllis Kahn and Mohamud Noor, who would become the first
Somali-American elected to the Legislature if elected. Kahn was denied the DFL
endorsement in April due in part to Noor’s ability to turn out Somali
supporters. An August primary will decide the fate of the race. (Voter Fraud in
a Democrat primary? Never! ~Bob)
Undocumented Democrat News
Border Security and
the Immigration Colander. By Michael W. Cutler
Excerpt: In point of fact, it has been estimated that 40% of
the illegal aliens who are present in the United States did not run our border
and evade the inspections process that is supposed to prevent the entry of
aliens whose presence would be harmful to America or Americans but entered the
United States through ports of entry and went on, in various ways, to violate
the terms of their admission into the United States.
Rick Perry Refuses
Obama's Offer For A Tarmac Handshake
Excerpt: Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) won't be on hand to greet
President Barack Obama when Air Force One lands in Austin on Wednesday. The governor's
office says the White House extended an invitation to Perry to meet Obama on
the tarmac when he arrives for Democratic fundraisers(~JB) in Dallas and
Austin. However, Perry refused the offer, asking instead to meet
with Obama in private to discuss the high number of unaccompanied children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico
border in recent months. (And maybe enticing him to visit the border after all.
This is Obama's his number one priority just ahead of golf ~JB).
Scabies Spreads
Among Border Detainees: “Management’s more concerned about
processing and getting rid of them as quickly as possible than looking at
decontamination,” a Border Patrol agent says. By Ryan Lovelace
Excerpt: Approximately 40 immigrants in detention at one
center in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s San Diego Sector have active
cases of scabies, a source tells National Review Online, and they could
soon be spreading it to the general public.
Top General Says Mexico Border Security Now ‘Existential’ Threat
to U.S.
Excerpt: A top United States
general in charge of protecting the southern border says he’s been unable
to combat the steady flow of illegal drugs, weapons and people from Central America , and is looking to Congress for
urgent help. Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, commander
of U.S. Southern Command, has asked Congress this year for more
money, drones and ships for his mission – a request unlikely to be met.
Obamacare News
Excerpt: The Left’s cherished new idea is that if someone
doesn’t give you something for “free,” such as birth control, they are “denying
your access” to it. That’s clearly absurd on the most basic common sense level,
the kind of thinking a reasonably clever child would shred in a matter of
moments, but it’s becoming something like a religious imperative for liberals –
a new commandment written into the holy book of collectivism. Its pedigree can
be traced to the centuries-old idea that people should not be forced to work
for goods they are “entitled” to, as some basic human right, because that
compromises our emotional authenticity; we are taught to think of ourselves as
slaves to the cruel taskmaster who pays us for our voluntary labor, but expects
us to buy our own bread.
Get ready for an even
bigger threat to Obamacare. By Jonathan Turley
Excerpt: In crafting the act, Congress created incentives
for states to set up health insurance exchanges and disincentives for them to
opt out. The law, for example, made the subsidies available only to those
enrolled in insurance plans through exchanges "established by the state."
But despite that carrot — and to the great surprise of the administration —
some 34 states opted not to establish their own exchanges, leaving it to the
federal government to do so. This left the White House with a dilemma: If only
those enrollees in states that created exchanges were eligible for subsidies, a
huge pool of people would be unable to afford coverage, and the entire program
would be in danger of collapse. (I don't think "crafting" is quite
the right word. ~Bob)
Excerpt: A woman with a brain tumor who sued Nevada ’s Obamacare
exchange contractor for delayed coverage died earlier
this week. Linda Rolain was among 150 Nevadans suing the contractor Xerox for
lack of coverage. She is the first to die of complications from an illness,
according to the Las Vegas
Review-Journal.
ObamaCare: A
‘Signature Achievement’ of Unaccountable Bureaucracy. By Arnold
Excerpt: On Tuesday, the consequences of that ongoing fiasco
were revealed. A pair of reports released by the Department of Health and
Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) reveal “internal”
controls for evaluating healthcare applications are ineffective, and
85 percent of 2.9 million data “inconsistencies” on ObamaCare applications
cannot be resolved,
even after nine months of attempting to do so.
It’s Not True that 20
Million Americans Gained Coverage Under Obamacare. By Alyene Senger
Excerpt: First, the authors, Dr. David Blumenthal, president
of Commonwealth, and Vice President Sara Collins, get to the 20 million by adding
together 1 million young adults who gained coverage under a parent’s policy, 8
million consumers who selected a marketplace plan, 5 million who purchased
directly from an insurer, and 6 million who enrolled in Medicaid or the
Children’s Health Insurance Program. lso, the authors admit the 20 million
figure does not distinguish between those who were previously insured and those
who were not – even though the previously insured would not be “gaining”
coverage but merely replacing one form of coverage with another.
A rude Obamacare
awakening. By Jennifer
Rubin
Excerpt: The
New York Times recently reported: Some New Yorkers are in sticker shock
after receiving notices from their insurance companies saying that they have
asked for significant rate increases through the state’s health exchange next
year. The exchange, which has prided itself on being affordable, is now facing
requests for increases as high as 28 percent for some customers of MetroPlus, a
new entry to the individual insurance market and one of the least costly — and
most popular — plans on the exchange this year.
How Much Should Your Health Insurer Know About Your Health?
By John C. Goodman
Excerpt: The modern insurer wants to be involved in your
health care. At a minimum they want to steer you to providers and facilities
that…well, that might have higher quality care, but for sure will cost less
money. What insurers don’t know. There’s just one problem. The health
insurers who are enrolling folks in the newly created health insurance exchanges
don’t have any more information about the health condition of their enrollees
than Blue Cross had about its enrollees back in the 1950s. Why? Because of
health reform. (ObamaCare.)
Religion of Peace News
Taliban insurgents
set oil tankers ablaze in Afghanistan
Excerpt: Taliban insurgents set fire on Saturday to about
200 oil tanker trucks supplying fuel for NATO forces in an attack just outside
the Afghan capital Kabul ,
police said.
Excerpt: Israel
and Hamas escalated their military confrontation on Tuesday, with Israel carrying out extensive air attacks in
response to heavy rocket fire and authorizing a major call-up of army reserves
for an extended campaign against militants in Gaza . Late Tuesday, Hamas took responsibility
for a new wave of up to 40 longer-range rockets, some of them intercepted over
Tel Aviv and even Jerusalem ,
where sirens sounded around 10 p.m.
Excerpt: A Twitter post Thursday by supporters of
the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), now calling itself the Islamic
State (IS), has promised a Holocaust against the Jews.
"The Real Zionist Holocaust is Predicted in the
Hadiths! The Hour [resurrection] will not take place until the Muslims fight
the Jews and the Muslims kill them, and the tree will say: "Oh, Muslim,
servant of God, there is a Jew behind me, kill him!
White House debating
whether to ally with… God help us… Syria Moe Lane
Excerpt: There’s a battle raging inside the Obama
administration about whether the United States
ought to push away from its goal of toppling Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad
and into a de facto alliance with the Damascus
regime to fight ISIS and other Sunni extremists in the region.
Excerpt: The Islamic State extremist group has taken control
of a vast former chemical weapons facility northwest of Baghdad ,
where remnants of 2,500 degraded chemical rockets filled decades ago with the
deadly nerve agent sarin are stored along with other chemical warfare agents, Iraq said in a
letter circulated Tuesday at the United Nations.
Excerpt: Iran 's
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said his country needs to significantly
increase its number of centrifuges, underlining a gap in positions between Tehran and world powers as
they hold talks aimed at clinching a nuclear accord. Iran and world powers have
less than two weeks to reach an agreement on the future scope of Iran's uranium
enrichment programme and other issues if they are to meet a self-imposed July
20 deadline for a deal. (If they reach agreement--highly unlikely--Iran won't keep
it. But Obama will brag about it. What difference, at this point, does it make.
If we lose New York City .
~Bob)
Iraqi American man
arrested while burning Qur'an in Dearborn
Excerpt: On Wednesday June 25, police arrested an Iraqi
American who was trying to burn the Qur'an in front of the Karbalaa Islamic
Educational Center on Warren
Avenue . Ali Hassan Al-Asaidi, 50, of Detroit , also admitted to burning three Qur'ans at the Karbalaa Center Florida and made national headlines.
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