Archive for June, 2009

If you didn’t get the chance to see the ABC News/Barack Obama health care show at the White House, you will want to watch the Heritage Foundation’s video. It summarizes Obama’s points and offers counterpoints that you will find very interesting (via The Corner):

Earlier this month Iranians took to the streets to protest what they saw as being fraudulent elections perpetrated by the repressive Iranian regime. In response, the regime worked to squash the protests by beating and killing Iranians in the street. America’s president Barack Obama would not stand up and support real democracy in Iran. It [...]

This is a remarkable new technology. In the UK when you go to get an ultrasound, you can get a lifesize model of your unborn baby:
It’s a defining moment in a parent’s life: Seeing their unborn child’s image on an ultrasound for the first time. Now pregnant women could have the chance to hold a [...]

This is unbelievable. The House voted on a bill that is not even a bill yet. It’s still in the development stages.  David Freddoso has the details at The Examiner:
Through a series of parliamentary inquiries, the Republicans learned that the 300-plus page managers’ amendment, added to the bill last night in the House Rules Committee, [...]

It won’t apply to unions. Interesting how the collectivists stick together and watch each others’ backs. Link via Ace.
The U.S. Senate proposal to impose taxes for the first time on “gold-plated” health plans may bypass generous employee benefits negotiated by unions.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, the chief congressional advocate of taxing some employer-provided [...]

The UK’s National Health Service is racking up serious negligence claims filed by families of those patients who have suffered and/or died at the hands of its government run health care. Right now, those claims are at £2.2 billion (about $3.6 billion), with half of those claims come from maternity cases alone. With the government [...]

Anyone see the Obama health care infomercial last night? Well, it seems no one else did, either based upon its dismal ratings. However, one little thing stuck out that I hope gets a lot of attention, and that was a pointed question by a doctor and Obama’s answer:
The probing questions came from two skeptical neurologists [...]

Tomorrow June 26th, the House of Representatives votes on the Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade bill, a huge energy tax that will cause your energy bills to sky rocket. If you don’t believe me, listen to President Obama. He’s the one who said it:
“[U]nder my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily [...]

TMZ reports that Michael Jackson has died in UCLA Medical Center:
We’ve just learned Michael Jackson has died. He was 50.
Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon at his Holmby Hills home and paramedics were unable to revive him. We’re told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back.
A [...]

Neda’s very public death has resonated all over the world and as a result it has galvanized the support of millions of people for the Iranian protesters and their fight against their government’s repression and tyranny. If you haven’t seen the video of Neda right after she was shot and lay dying on the street, [...]