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Given the many alternative health care reform options that have been proposed by conservatives, some Democrats, the health care industry and the insurance industry, why are they not even on the table for debate? There are government supported health insurance plans in other countries that work pretty well (Switzerland come to mind), but they aren’t [...]

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The Heritage Foundation dispels the out-and-out lies and the stretched truths in Obama’s “townhall”: “I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter.” This is directly contradicted by candidate Barack Obama’s own website which quotes Obama at a rally in Ames, Iowa form 2008: “If I were designing a system from scratch I would [...]

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It’s very easy when frolicking in the tropics to forget the news. Indeed, I understand the willful ignorance of soany Americans. If ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise. On the other hand, reality will intrude. Mr Bookworm, who worked out this morning, told me he watched Obama’s presser re healthcare. He further told [...]

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     I lied a bit when I said I’d taken a break from blogging.  At Bookworm’s urging I did write one American Thinker piece with ideas on how to turn around the image of the Republican Party.   And, boy does the old GOP need an image make-over.  As Bookworm likes to say, the problem is in [...]

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Bookworm is right that I’ve been on vacation from all things blog-related for some time now, but I’m happy to come back and see what interesting discussions we can stir up while she’s on a well-deserved vacation. As always, I’ll just throw topics out there and rely on the Bookwormroom’s intelligent and thoughtful readers to [...]

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With luck (that means “weather permitting”), I’ll be away for a week or so, and will be paying minimal attention to the news.  (Even obsessive fanatics need a break now and then.)  I’ll almost certainly have access to the internet, though, and would love it if you guys would use this week to email to [...]

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If you want an up close and personal look at the angry racists mobs protesting Obama Care, check this out:

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Something is wrong with Jake Tapper.  He’s a reporter for ABC and he doesn’t seem to have a bias one way or another.  I think the man needs a career change.  This kind of objectivity shouldn’t be tolerated in one with his access to the halls of power. Tapper’s latest example of clearly deranged, honest [...]

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JOIN US IN WELCOMING MS. BARBARA BOXER* BACK TO MARIN!! Wednesday, August 12 Assemble by 6:15 p.m. Book Passage 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. (which basically parallels Hwy 101 in Corte Madera (Marin County).) Corte Madera, CA 94925 Please bring your own signs Please remember to be respectful of the bookseller and other businesses in shopping [...]

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AUGUST 14th SAN FRANCISCO TEA PARTY HEALTHCARE PROTEST!!! DATE: Friday, August 14th TIME: 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Show up and leave when you want/can. WHERE: Meet at Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco. Directions, parking, maps are all available at http://www.embarcaderocenter.com/ec/about/directions.html#maps. For additional parking: http://www.parkingquest.com/~kenq/cgi-bin/i.cgi?L=n18r01&B=FN PLANS: A “Mock Town Hall Meeting.” Since the Speaker [...]

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My one and only experience on a cruise ship was some 20 years ago, when I went on a fairly neat Caribbean cruise.  I’m not much of a “lie on the beach” person, so I opted for a cruise that would take me to places that offered something to see.  Aside from some pretty white [...]

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Bruce Kesler, one of the most levelheaded guys I know in the blogosphere, thinks we’re nearing a flashing point: During the past week, I’ve had conversations with old friends – leftist, centrist, and conservative – with whom I experienced the political battles of the 1960’s. All of us have a similar take on what’s happening [...]

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It’s beach reading because it’s well-written, in plain (often sharp and amusing) language.  It’s for thoughtful people, because it describes the collection of rogues and crooks in Obama’s wake, all desperate for power and your money: Other People’s Money By Bookworm Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies By [...]

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In one of his usual delightful articles, Jonah Goldberg exposes the logical fallicies in the mean-spirited attacks our elected representatives (and their minions) are making against the American people: Nancy Pelosi, who will get her own bound volume in the annals of asininity, has outdone herself. When asked by a reporter whether the protests at [...]

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For the eight years of the Bush presidency, we saw almost non-stop protests. These protests were characterized by speakers being shouted down; fake blood; fake waterboarding; crude, obscene and violent picket signs, etc. Not the American way we said. Freedom of speech is one thing. Ugly, violent, obscene speech is something else. We need to [...]

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Hat tip:  The Daily Dish

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My blog slogan is “Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.”  In a scathing article at PJM, Jennifer Rubin details one area after another in which the Obama administration announces a conclusion, markets it as a fact, and spends all of the taxpayers once and future money [...]

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It’s time to put on my Council hat and read all these great posts and articles from the Watcher’s Council:

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I’m pretty consistent.  On the day I vote on this week’s Watcher’s submissions, I post last week’s winners:

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Obama truly thinks his words are so magical they can change reality.  It’s true that, as to the people over whom you have control, changing and shrinking vocabulary can affect thoughts, but Obama doesn’t seem to grasp that he has no control over the jihadists.  If he did grasp that, he wouldn’t have his administration [...]

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AllahPundit explains what’s really and truly going on in Washington, D.C.: Let me remind you again: They can pass any bill they want any time they want. Conservatives can scream their heads off at these things and there’s not an ounce of good it’ll do if Democrats are united. This whole partisan “war” Obama and [...]

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A nanny state with government health care has a vested interested in protecting its citizens from the physical injuries that can happen in ordinary life.  Denmark has a plan to require people on the street to wear helmets.  Mind you, that plan is not aimed at bicyclists or motorcyclists on the street.  It’s just aimed [...]

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It was only last week that I wrote about the fact that the AARP’s weird support for Obama Care, a plan that is likely to ration care its members, might be connected to the fact that at least one branch of its management, the magazine editorship, is to the left of Left.  I think that [...]

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A few days ago, I quoted from some representatives saying that those attending town halls are an ill-informed mob that must be ignored.  The editors at National Review nicely sum up the Democratic party attitude and its profoundly anti-democratic meaning (links omitted): President Obama likes to pose as the tribune of the common people, but [...]

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Melissa Clouthier caught Obama’s friends (well, we’re almost certain they’re Obama’s friends) taking his image to make a political point.  I don’t want to give anything away.  You have to go check it out.

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