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THE LATEST IN ... GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE

Elderly U.K. Hospital Patients Left to Die of Thirst: Doctors Forced to Prescribe Water to Keep the Old Alive
So now the 'default' setting for one out of four U.K. government hospitals is to neglect basic survival needs of elderly patients

Mother Dies After U.K. Govt Health Service Delays Diagnosis and Treatment of Blood Clots in Brain for Over 4 Years
Facing life-threatening delays, she paid to see a neurologist privately but was again stymied when NHS failed to forward her scan and her GP's referral

 

THE LATEST IN ... POLITICS

An HONEST Obama Campaign
To match current reality, Obama's campaign speeches should have said this

Dr. Sanity: The Political Left and the Seven Deadly Sins of Narcissism - Part I
Pull up a chair. The doctor is in!

 

THE LATEST IN ... JUNK SCIENCE

Polar Ice Rapture Misses Its Deadline
Global warming alarmists wrong again and AGAIN

 

THE LATEST IN ... PROVEN SCIENCE

Paralysed Woman Takes First Steps With Robotic Legs
"I had to hold back my tears"

 

THE LATEST IN ... YOUR VANISHING FREEDOMS

Hey, Who’s up for Banning Conservative Web Sites?
If you call it "hate speech" they'll try to ban anything

A 62% Top Tax Rate?
Where Democrats are headed

 

THE LATEST IN ... TRUE HEROISM

Man Gave Life to Save Wife in Joplin, Missouri Tornado
With photo of unbelievable devastation

 

THE LATEST IN ... MIND BOGGLING FEATS

The Most Dangerous Campsite in the World?
Step 1; Pitch a tent on the side of a vertical 4,000ft cliff face. Wait -- what?

 Hanging around camp. Watch your step!

News & Buzz

 

SPREADING (GENDER) CONFUSION

Child Whose Parents Won't Call Boy or Girl Ignites Firestorm in Canada
Why do the parents assume the child is even human?  How narrow and bigoted!  Maybe it's really a tree trapped in a human body.  After all, if biological facts are irrelevant, and the key factor is how one feels inside, this new life form could easily be a sequoia, a whale, or a unicorn

Transgender Clownfish Controversy
What elementary school students NEED to know? 

 

NATIONAL SECURITY (AND LACK THEREOF)

GOP Lawmaker: I Saw TSA Pat Down 'Little Old Lady,' Child, But Not Arab Man
But of course!  Patting down the Arab man would be bigoted, while patting down a child or elderly woman shows how perceptive and fair-minded the screeners are.  Willful blindness is our BEST defense against terrorism.  After all, don't cops solve crimes by assuming that everyone is equally likely to be a suspect and investigating everyone for every crime?

 

THE WONDERS OF GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE

U.K. Parents Take Children to Emergency Room for Coughs and Colds 'Due to Failure in GP Care'
Centrally planned government health care working about as one would expect:  Competent family doctors are disappearing thanks to govt. healthcare, so now the solution is to leave weekend healthcare to substandard doctors.  Parents understandably prefer the emergency room  

Midwife Mentally Tortured Me, Grieving Mother Tells Hearing
More fun with British govt health care: verbal abuse, neglect, and a dead baby.  It's not just the substandard doctors you have to worry about.  Have you heard the one about the indifferent, condescending midwife who won't call the doctor while your baby is dying during labor and delivery?

 

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WOR -- AW, WHO ARE WE KIDDING?

Hey, Let’s Spend Millions to Save $116,000!
Electric cars for EVERYONE

 

BIGGER THAN ANY OF US

Shocking Before and After Images Reveal How Giant Tornado Ripped Apart Joplin's Landmarks
At least 89 dead as twister cuts 4-mile swath through Missouri town

‪First Person Video of Joplin MO Tornado 5/22/11‬‏
Harrowing

 

POLITICS TODAY

Who Said It?
A fun quiz

Gaffetastic… Obama Signs Wrong Date (Off by 3 Years) in Westminster Abbey Book
But Republicans are the dumb ones, right?

Fact-Checking the Fact-Checker
AP's "fact-checking" of Pawlenty's speech leaves a lot to be desired

 

POLITICS THAT MATTER 

Israel's Prime Minister Wows Congress
"Listening to Netanyahu was like listening to our collective conscience trying to remind us of who we really are."

Richard Milhous Obama?
Obama is creating an "enemies list" by executive order

 

YOUR VANISHING FREEDOMS

They Don’t Want You to Travel
"As I drove, I calculated that every 6 miles, I have spent another dollar"

 

ON A LIGHTER NOTE

How to Make Tim Pawlenty More Exciting
"... Change name to Snake Pawlenty ..." Hmmm.

 

Some People Will Believe Anything

 

 
 

Links Worth Your Time

 

AS LONG AS WE'RE PICKING SIDES IN THE MIDDLE EAST ...

But Don’t Forget, They’re Our Partners in Peace, You Piece of Filth
And did you hear about the Palestinian woman who tried to blow up the same Israeli hospital that saved her life?

Masada Shall Not Fall Again, Unless Obama Says So
“It is time for Jewish liberals to realize that they can no longer be both. Either their religion is Judaism or liberalism" (Eric Golub)

What Really Happened
Why does Israel exist?

Disturbing Questions about President Obama's Vision for Israel
Obama talks about Middle East democracy yet abandons the only democracy in the Middle East

Obama Tells Israel: Turn Over the Tomb of Jesus to Hamas
Obama's capitulation to violent Islamists moves toward its logical conclusion 

Yup, Obama Hates Israel
Impossible to miss

 

THEN THERE'S THE ECONOMY ...

Food Stamp Millionaire
Bread and circuses for EVERYONE!

Slow Impoverishment in Middle Class American Life
."You push a steel nozzle into a hole in your car and you stand there in the fumes with all the other vaguely pissed-off Americans. And you stare at the madly multiplying number panel that is draining your dollars from your debit card in a blur.... $20, $30, $40, $50, $60, $70....

Treasury to Tap Fed Govt Retiree Pensions to Fund Govt
Which I'm sure govt retirees will appreciate! Laugh line: "The measure won’t have an impact on retirees because the Treasury is legally required to reimburse the program."

 

POLITICS

Opinion: Obama the Desperate
Gas over $4 a gallon; unemployment over 9%; trillions added to the deficit ... the numbers don't add up

Survey: Recent College Grads Wising up About Obama
Most would not vote for him again

 

GOT FREEDOM?

Principles of Tyranny
Do any seem oddly familiar?

White House Approves 200 More Obamacare Waivers
But, unfortunately, won't tell us whose applications were rejected

 

SCIENCE AND PSEUDO-SCIENCE

Scientists Cast Doubt on TSA Tests of Full-Body Scanners
May emit far more radiation than claimed

Former “Alarmist” Scientist Says Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) Based in False Science
Its premises proved false years ago, the theory remains because it's a gravy train of funding and power

 

ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

The Annoyances of eBooks
And why they will win anyway

Nation Down To Last Hundred Grown-Ups
The Onion

 
 

I'm Glad There Are Still Men Such as This

Listening to Benjamin Netanyahu's public comments after his meeting with Obama, the contrast is startling.

Benjamin Netanyahu has a ring of confidence in his voice that is the genuine article. 

Netanyaho speaks firmly. 

He talks like a man.

He talks like a man who sees evil with clear eyes and confronts it.

I am proud that there are still men such as this in the world.

Recommended:  What Netanyahu Did Today

Links of the Day

California's New Obamacare Health Exchange Has Only Two Problems
1. There's no money. 2. It's guaranteed to be an abysmal failure

From Doug Ross:

"One problem:

“The state has no money,” Kimberly Belshe, a member of the board and secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency under former Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger,

Gee. How will they operate the exchange?

The antidote is “to get millions of people enrolled and start drawing down federal dollars on Day One,” said Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access, a statewide health care consumer advocacy coalition.

Brilliant. Democrats in action: a bankrupt state will suck money from a bankrupt federal government. Why didn't I think of that?"

Fineman: Obama Will Have to Run on “Values"
As opposed to, say, "results"

President Obama, Completely Wrong on Reason for High Unemployment
Blames "huge government layoffs," but government jobs are UP, not down

Why Don't We Hear About Soros' Ties to Over 30 Major News Organizations?
You're being spoon fed your news

Authorities "Do Not Yet Have a Motive" of Suspect Who Tried to Break into American Airlines Cockpit While Shouting "Allahu Akbar!"
Gee, that's a tough one. Let's appoint a task force

Losing the Ability to Speak
Christopher Hitchens

Due to Rent Control, S.F. Has 31,000 Vacant Housing Units As Frustrated Landlords Give Up
There goes John Galt

Terrific… Dear Leader Obama to Send You Text Messages
And you can't opt out

Los Angeles County Considers Time Limit on Cash Welfare Aid
Gee, ya think?

Percentage of Americans Who Say It's Important to Reduce the National Debt - 96%
And the vast majority say it should be done through spending cuts, not tax increases

MSM Uses Palin’s Own Children as Political Weapons Against Her
Sick

Bowles: Obama’s Plan ‘Doesn’t Stabilize the Debt’
That massive, growing deficit? Obama is not even trying

iPads and Restaurants: How Waiters Will Be Replaced by Tablet Computers
Bravo! No more waiting 20 minutes for the check

You Consent to Be Starved To Death
No, really, you've already consented

America's 'Food Stamp Recovery'
Scary numbers