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| November 18, 2009 |
| AP REPORT ON ITS HEALTHCARE REFORM POLL REEKS OF PRO-HEALTHCARE BIAS |
| This is truly one of the most shameful "news" accounts of a poll that I have ever read. After reading the actual poll, we see that Americans are rejecting the Congressional plans for healthcare reform 43 to 41 percent, while the country is evenly split over the president's handling of the situation. The Democrat-controlled Congress is trying to take over one-sixth of the U.S. economy, despite the fact that the public generally does not want this. This is the stunning news. This should have been the headline. Instead, the AP's headline focuses on the one poll question result that favored the Democrats--a majority favor taxing the rich to pay for healthcare (although they reject all other proposals for paying for the bill). Obviously, what is most relevant is that the people are saying N-O to the overall plan. |
| Posted by Staff at 8:56 PM - Permalink | ShareShare | E-Mail
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| November 17, 2009 |
| REPUBLICANS WHO ENDORSED HOLDER HAVE SECOND THOUGHTS |
| Byron York: Last January, several Republican legal stars wrote a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee supporting Eric Holder's nomination to be attorney general. Now, some of those veteran lawyers are having second thoughts. |
| Posted by Staff at 6:56 AM - Permalink | ShareShare | E-Mail
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| November 16, 2009 |
| LET THE RATIONING BEGIN...WITH BREAST CARE |
| A new government recommendation that breast cancer screening is unnecessary until a woman reaches 50 is coming under fire. As a breast cancer thriver whose life was saved by early detection through diagnostic screening, I am deeply concerned about this. |
| Posted by Staff at 12:55 PM - Permalink | ShareShare | E-Mail
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| November 10, 2009 |
| STUDY: 3 IN 4 U.S. MOSQUES PREACH ANTI-WEST EXTREMISM |
| Sermons that preach that jihad or support of jihad is not only a Muslim's duty but the noblest way, and suicide bombers and other so-called "martyrs" are worthy of the highest praise; and that an Islamic caliphate should one day encompass the U.S. |
| Posted by Staff at 5:22 PM - Permalink | ShareShare | E-Mail
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| November 1, 2009 |
| CONSERVATISM'S COMEBACK ... IN NEW YORK !? |
Of course "Republican" Dede Scozzafava endorsed the Democrat in the New York-23 congressional race! When I first got word of her dropping out three days before Tuesday's special election, I knew it was only a matter of time.
Ten days earlier, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was a guest on my radio show. He was booked to discuss his new historical novel, but I sensed history was unfolding in upstate New York and wanted to hear his justification for endorsing the liberal Scozzafava over her Conservative Party challenger, Doug Hoffman. The Republican National Committee, in typical tin-ear fashion, also supported Scozzafava. During a rather spirited back and forth, Gingrich's main contention was that the people of NY-23 had rejected Hoffman in the primary, and thus his "conservative friends" should support that decision. Yet the "primary" Scozzafava won was determined not by "the people," but by a gaggle of party pooh-bahs who obviously have their heads up their posteriors. Had these people not seen, felt, and heard the spirit of this summer's townhall events? Where were Republican primary voters rallying for a politician like Scozzafava, who is pro-union, pro-abortion, and -- as we've since learned -- pro-Democratic Party? The Republican Party needs warriors ready to fight for conservative principles; and yet Scozzafava couldn't even muster the courage to discuss taxes with a reporter from the Weekly Standard.
Listeners' reaction to Gingrich was overwhelming. No less than 95 percent of callers and emailers were outraged. For them, the country is already way beyond party affiliation; why fight for the RNC if it no longer represents core conservative values -- like fiscal restraint, individual liberty, and a pro-growth agenda? "If he doesn't want to be part of the solution, he needs to get out of the way," wrote one listener in Kansas . And from a mom of five in Syracuse: "He may be a brilliant thinker and writer, but he's soooo '90s." Ouch.
President Obama has done something no GOP pol has managed since Ronald Reagan -- he's spurring a reinvigorated conservative movement that transcends party, geography, and its own internal factions. It's now obvious the country didn't move left alongside Obama's ascendancy. The pundits and intellectuals who delivered election night eulogies to conservatism owe the public, and their own credibility, one big mea culpa. Conservatism is the most influential political philosophy of the past 100 years because it's built upon essential truths. Here's to more triumphs of orthodoxy over oscillation. |
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