The Associated Press has done the job of checking some of Obama’s statements against what I like to call “reality.” You shouldn’t be surprised that Obama doesn’t come out looking especially honest. You should read all of them, but this whopper I’ve just got to share with you. OBAMA: "You haven't seen me out there […]
The classic TV show “Hogan’s Heroes” featured a stocky Sgt. Schultz who could be counted on at least once an episode to unequivocally state: “I know nothing. Nooothinnngg!” In a conference call with liberal bloggers this morning, Obama revealed that he’s “not familiar” with the House version of the health care reform bill he’s been […]
You know the one, about no person making less than $250,000 having any of their taxes raised. Well, forget about it. The Senate Health, Labor and Pensions committee unveiled its plan today – and it should come as little surprise that this plan would break Obama’s tax promise. (The Senate did unveil that plan, but […]
It's a perennial problem with politicians -- they have one set of rules for the people they govern and another for themselves. This fact was one of the reasons the "contract with America" back in 1994 was so popular. Republicans vowed to no longer exempt Congress from the rules they passed for the rest of […]
Being unemployed means more normal-human "working" hours and the opportunity to see President Barack Obama's morning news conference -- the first one that hasn't cost the major networks millions of dollars in lost advertising revenue. President Obama just defended the so-called public plan from criticism that it would drive private insurance companies out of business […]
On June 24, ABC News is going to devote an amazing amount of coverage to President Obama's healthcare reform plan. ABC News’ Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer to Moderate a Primetime Conversation with President Barack Obama about the Future of the Nation’s Healthcare System Special Edition of “Primetime” to Air from the White House Wednesday, […]
Mark Steyn shares an article from the French-language Montreal newspaper about the wait time for a basic medical treatment in single-payer Canda. This story from Le Journal de Montréal is en français, but you don't have to know the lingo of the Continent to figure out the meaning of le mot "incontinent": Des patients souffrant […]
Sen. Arlen Specter's megalomaniacal push to be Senator-for-life from Pennsylvania has taken an ugly turn. If last weekend's odious suggestion that Jack Kemp would still be alive if only Specter's former party had spent more on cancer research wasn't bad enough, it turns out that Specter is perpetrating a scam on people concerned about cancer […]
It took less than a week for now-Democrat Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania to start sounding like his cohorts Sen. John Kerry and former Sen. John Edwards who once said that if you elected them to the White House, actor Christopher Reed would walk again. Speaking on CBS' "Face the Nation," the "crapweasel" had this […]
Charles Krauthammer's latest column on what you old people can expect in your later years: rationing of health care. Pressure on the Presses -- the Wall Street Journal's helpful graphic on the decline and fall of the newspaper industry.