Aug
23
Saturday Protest at Melissa Bean’s Office
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I dropped in and took some photo’s of this hearty gathering in Schaumburg. Here’s an embedded slide show from flickr:
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-Drew
Aug
19
by Matt Gauntt
With all the talk of townhall meetings, I was wondering if my own dear Congressman, Bill Foster was going to be speaking anywhere. In fact, I’ve been wondering, where in the heck is Bill?
You can go to his web site, where there is a page called “Where’s Bill”. That’s pretty informative, let’s look [...]
Aug
18
Conservative on Healthcare Reform
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by Dr. Andrew Weil, Founder and Director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine
I appeared on Larry King Live Wednesday night to discuss health care reform with a panel of respected, high-profile physicians. I sounded the themes I wrote about in The Wrong Diagnosis: that Americans must change the content of health care, not just [...]
Aug
17
by Peter Schiff:
The nationwide revelry surrounding our apparent economic recovery was disrupted this week by the release of lower-than-expected retail sales data. However, rather than sending a chill up the spines of those hoping for a quick end to the downturn, the numbers should be welcomed. Though this may come as a surprise to most [...]
Aug
14
No one asked the next generation their permission, yet they’ll be saddled with this oppressive, catastrophic debt. The liberals, the Democrats, the progressives — whatever they call themselves these days — purport to be compassionate; yet, they are enslaving our children, our grandchildren and succeeding generations in their relentless quest for more power. - Mark [...]
Aug
14
Crossposted from the Beacon News:
GENEVA — If you’ve been absent during the discussion on universal health care coverage in
America over the past year, two hours at a congressional constituent meeting here Thursday
afternoon could have caught you up.
Almost every aspect of the debate came to the fore during a sometimes contentious, sometimes loud, sometimes angry exchange [...]
Aug
13
Top Ten Lies About My Health Care Plan, by President Barack H. Obama
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Crossposted from Doug Ross Journal:
10 According to the Congressional Budget Office, under the House bill, in the year 2015 about 8 million uninsured Americans would remain uninsured and pay higher taxes. This would violate my pledge not to raise taxes on anyone earning less than $250,000 per year. Conclusion: The CBO is lying.
9 The [...]
Aug
11
The Next Fannie Mae Ginnie Mae and FHA are becoming $1 trillion subprime guarantors.
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Crossposted from WSJ Opinion page:
Much to their dismay, Americans learned last year that they “owned” Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Well, meet their cousin, Ginnie Mae or the Government National Mortgage Association, which will soon join them as a trillion-dollar packager of subprime mortgages. Taxpayers own Ginnie too.
Only last week, Ginnie announced that it issued [...]
Aug
10
by Kurt Schulzke on July 21, 2009
What ever happened to “first, do no harm”? As a husband, father and whistleblowers’ attorney, I am well aware of notable deficiencies in America’s current health care system. However, having read significant portions of HR 3200’s 470 pages, I am beyond surprised anyone would think this regulatory monster (or [...]
Aug
7
Utopia Versus Freedom
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By Thomas Sowell - August 4, 2009
“Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.” We have heard that many times. What is also the price of freedom is the toleration of imperfections. If everything that is wrong with the world becomes a reason to turn more power over to some political savior, then freedom is going [...]
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