This Saturday evening, the Senate faces it’s first tough vote on Harry Reid’s version of Obamacare. With no room for dissent, the Democrats hope to garner the needed 60 votes to push the bill to the floor. Can the GOP and Moderate Dems stop them?
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Families of the 9/11 victims and the people of New York are about to relive the terror of 2001 all over again. The mother of a victim said this week after talking to AG Holder, “We’d like to close a chapter on this book at some point, but they keep opening this wound and rubbing our faces in it.”
Two years ago New London, Conn. leveled the Fort Trumbull neighborhood after a controversial SCOTUS decision on eminent domain allowed them to confiscate the property for a new Pfizer research park and fancy new neighborhood. Now, Pfizer is leaving and the neighborhood is empty. How’d that work out for ya New London?
AOL, the once ubiquitous ISP, is losing more than 20% of their subscribers every year. In an effort to stay relevant in a changing tech world, AOL wants to be a “next-generation content publishing empire.” Can AOL become an empire of anything?
The mainstream media has never like Sarah Palin, but Newsweek’s treatment of her in their latest issue is noting less than a sexist assault. A former Governor and Vice Presidential candidate deserves more respect. Was it necessary to show the “Sarah Palin-as-a-slutty-schoolgirl doll”? Absolutely not.
“It’s another record-high for the U.S. National Debt which today topped the $12-trillion mark. Divided evenly among the U.S. population, it amounts to $38,974.34 for every man, woman and child.” Much of this is thanks to out of control government spending. Thanks Barry.
The true story that served as the inspiration for “Slumdog Millionaire” shows how companies in India have learned to profit off it’s poorest citizens while helping close the “digital divide”.
As Obama and Holder move to try KSM and four other Al Queda terrorists in NYC civilian court, Andrew McCarthy points out that their motivation is nothing but politics. Forget that it’s unsafe or that it will expose classified intelligence to our enemies, it’s the “reckoning” that the Left wants.
“The more President Barack Obama examines our options in Afghanistan, the less he likes the choices he sees. But, as the old saying goes, to govern is to choose — and he has stretched the internal debate to the breaking point.” It’s time Mr. President.
“Despite the president’s “Don’t worry, trust me” assurances that the reforms will deliver universal coverage with superior care and at a lower cost without disrupting current coverage, more than half of Americans aren’t buying. They know what snake oil smells like.”
- November 21, 2009 -
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POLITICS
- Reid’s Massive Health Care Mess
- Jobs: An Economic Problem or a Political Problem?
- Nine Reasons Why the New York City Terror Trials are a Bad Idea
- Is America Becoming More Like China?
- Obamacare vs. the American Entrepreneur
- The Losing Side
- Prosperity and Capitalism After the Berlin Wall
- Is Joe Klein Nuts?
- Democrats Divided on Abortion and Health Care
- Berlin at 20: Neither Impossible Nor Inevitable
MARKET
- Negative Interest Rates, Fed Audits, and Geithner in the Dock
- Retail, Ben Bernanke, and Auditing the Fed
- China, Prosperity, and the Berlin Wall
- Christopher Dodd’s Big Regulation Push
- GDP Grows, Consumer Spending Plummets on the Eve of the Holiday Season
- Is the Recession Over? And AIG’s 100 Cent Payoff
- George Soros’s War on the Free Market
- The Executive Pay Crackdown and Too Big to Fail Policy Explained
- Hank Paulson’s Secret Goldman Sachs Meeting
- The New Home-Buyers’ Big Tax Credit Fraud
BLOGS
- David Broder On The Cost Of Health Care Reform
- Charles Krauthammer On Civilian Trials For Terrorist Suspects
- Of Global Warming And Potential Scientific Fraud
- Obama Steals Football from Children in NFL PSA
- I Realize That People May Be Tired Of Me Pointing This Out . . .
- Bribery
- Surprise! (Trade Policy Edition)
- Health Care “Reform” Will Cost Us
- Lindsey Graham Devastates Eric Holder
- Sino-American Communiqué Failures
EDGE
- Four Seasons of Awesome: Urbaniak on Venture Bros
- The Invention of Lying and Religion
- Gold For Oil and Son of Cash For Clunkers
- Polanski and the Crux of Art and Excess
- Tarantino: Hollywood’s Most Righteous Gentile
- Those Cursed Mets and the Book of Fred
- Why Michael Bay Is So Incredibly Awesome
- Goodell, Vick, and the Unforgiveable Crimes of the NFL
- Baseball’s Big Problem: Bill James on Steroids
- Public Enemies: Michael Mann’s Moral Relativism
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