Saturday, March 27th, 2010
The Daily Camera asked its editorial advisory board members their view of ObamaCare, formally HR 3590. My response was published in the March 27 edition: ObamaCare is a scam. It further empowers politicians to dictate how you seek medical care and support charities. Politicians should protect, rather than ...
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Tim Phillips at Americans for Prosperity summarizes the situation and has links to quick ways to contact your Senator and Representatives. An excerpt:
President Obama finally made it official yesterday: he wants Congress to ignore Senate rules - and the American people - and use a parliamentary trick called ...
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Sunday, January 31st, 2010
A "speech from the throne." That's how Thomas Jefferson viewed public delivery of the annual speech. Starting with Jefferson's presidency, and ending in 1913, a clerk read the president's message to Congress.
How times have changed. Now the president reads the address, but others write it. Nor is the address to ...
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Saturday, November 14th, 2009
From Pajamas Media TV:
"Barack Obama ran an unprecedented Presidential campaign - utilizing the power of design to help secure the seat of the President of the United States of America. However, his iconic emblem, the ever present "O", holds more power than even Obama knows. Bill Whittle points out the ...
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
Yes, their grimy hands are already on it, and that's the problem. From Patients First:
While millions of Americans spoke up during the summer against a government takeover of health care, Congress has retreated to its bubble and ignored your concerns. We need to remind them we still oppose a trillion ...
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Gene Healy of the Cato Institute says it quite well:
The president isn't a benevolent father-protector, charged with the welfare of all creatures great and small — and educators do kids a great disservice if they help promote such a childish notion. Still less was he supposed to be the educator ...
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Monday, July 6th, 2009
"The 'public plan' will be the only plan" says health care economist Scott Harrington of the proposed government-run health plan. Be suspicious: "public plan" supporters want it to be the only plan.
President Obama uses rhetoric of "choice" and "competition" to push the "public plan." But he has declared his ...
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
Tad DeHaven at Cato:
Time-out. The administration accurately states that federal spending and debt have increased at a detrimental pace this decade. Then it says we’re in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
And the solution to the economic downturn caused in part by too much spending and debt ...
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Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
As published in today's Daily Camera:
Do you want politicians to put you "in it together" with others, or would you prefer to reserve that choice for yourself?
Last Tuesday guest editor Clay Evans wrote that one of President-elect Obama's "great challenges" will be to "bring us together." While defending Social Security, ...
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Sunday, December 28th, 2008
John Stossel writes eloquently on the danger and injustice of deficit spending:
Obama must realize that government has no wealth of its own and that commandeering scarce resources from the private sector only stifles the economy. Deficit spending does this two ways. When the Treasury borrows money, it outbids private borrowers ...
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