And our local rag/fishwrap gives it the Page A1 above-the-fold lead headline - damn near 'Dewey Defeats Truman'.  They don't even bother to disguise the game plan - the webpage name reads '...health- rollout ...'.  So we can look forward to more sales snow jobs to come.  Can't wait.

The meat, emphasis mine: One of the GOP's handful of black candidates for Congress condemned President Barack Obama of exploiting race for political gain. Allen West, the Republican challenging Rep. Ron Klein (D) in Florida's 22nd congressional district, sharply criticized the Obama administration for having allegedly declined prosecuting the New Black Panther Party on voter tampering charges for political reasons. "For an Administration that promised a new era in race relatio...

I'm 61, a Republican since Nixon lost to Kennedy.  I've never been more ashamed to be a Republican than when Boehner and other Republican leaders threw Joe Barton under the bus for speaking his honest opinion, not to mention the truth, about the 'shakedown' of BP.  Not even during the height of Watergate.  I can't believe what cowards our party's so-called 'leaders' are. The Constitutional issues here are real and deserve to have a very bright light shined on them.  Bo...

A telling quote from today's NYT article on the woes of being David Axelrod these days, about the administration's 'perception problem': Chris Lehane, a former top aide to Vice President Al Gore , says the administration should tell a clearer story. “They have been enormously capable in dealing with the day-to-day challenges of the government,” Mr. Lehane said. “But they don’t seem to get the credit they deserve for that because they’ve communicated no over...

Who can possibly dispute his utter contempt for the Constitution now?  What chutzpa and disrespect, with the members of SCOTUS sitting right in front of him.  I knew he had an ego, but this went so far beyond the pale I'm having trouble believing what my eyes saw and my ears heard.  And for the Dems to give him a standing O for it was breathtaking. Absolutely disgusting.  Maybe not the last nail in the coffin, but close.

The irony of CNN deriding her 'death panel' comment as 'Lie of the Year' during the same week that the Senate healthcare bill itself confirms the truth of her accusation is just too rich. The IMAB will be real, unelected, unaccountable, unassailable - and forever untouchable if Reid has his way.  Not that you'd ever know from reading the NYT or watching NBC/ABC/CBS.  So confident in the merits of the idea are the Senate Dems that they are trying to immunize it against future repeal....

I apologize for the length of this article but the subject matter doesn't lend itself to brevity. There has been a lot of back and forth about 'death panels' in the course of the healthcare reform debate and those who've raised concerns about the likelihood of faceless government bureaucrats making individual patient care decisions have been dismissed as right-wing kooks, haters, uncaring, venal, mean, etc.  (Many of you will recognize the foregoing as a classic Obama rhetorical tic, but ...

H1N1 will largely have been here and gone by the time any meaningful number of people get vaccinated. That fact has been met mostly with yawns, which I happen to think is the appropriate response, though now it's a Federal Emergency, after a fashion. Wasn't always so . Ah, the good old days.

From a reply in a thread @ HotAir on the just-released Finance Committee Healthcare Reform Bill: Liberalism is immoral. Liberalism at its core is coercion and force. For all the moral preening the Left does about how much they care and how heartless we conservatives are the truth is quite the opposite. There is nothing kind about using the force of government to compel ostensibly free citizens to surrender significant portions of their labor and property (income) to the state to serve th...

The juiciest tidbit: "One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages. That one party can just impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward in the 21st century." Gonna love hearing the spin on this.

Too well-done to not share. Enjoy!

Some of you know I'm a practicing physician. I have, until last week anyway, tolerated representatives of the pharmaceutical industry (drug reps) as a necessary evil in order to make available sample medications to patients, both to help defray their costs and as initial trials to be sure a particular medication both works and is well-tolerated before a patient has to incur cost.  Despite the widespread belief that doctors are in the pockets of the drug companies, the truth of the matter...

Alright, everybody - let's rally in support of John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, a guy with a whole lot of common sense, which the lefty granola crowd apparently finds offensive and worthy of a boycott.  They actually believe that he should be a slave to the political views of some of his customers, like he owes them because they choose to shop there. So.  Go buy some healthy food, today, and help stimulate the economy.  We should adopt Whole Foods as our official 'Grocer to the...

At least they're consistent - I vividly remember all those articles fearing for the welfare of President Bush.

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