On the Massachussetts Senate Election — John Fund: By filling the seat vacated by liberal lion Ted Kennedy in a state Mr. Obama carried by 26 points barely over a year ago, Mr. Brown has certainly changed the political landscape. We sit down the morning after President Obama's State of the Union message, an address in large part shaped by what's been called "the Scott Heard 'Round the World." Read the entire article Andrew C. McCarthy: It was health care that nationalized the special election for what we now know is the people's Senate seat. But it was national security that put real distance between Scott Brown and Martha Coakley. "People talk about the potency of the health-care issue. . .but. . .the more potent issue here in Massachusetts was terrorism and the treatment of enemy combatants[," said Brown's top strategist.] There is a powerful lesson here for Republicans, and here's hoping they learn it. Read the entire article
On ObamaCare — Oregon Republican Party:
Reforma/OR from Oregon Republican Party on Vimeo. Kerri Houston Toloczko: Oregon's state-controlled care includes an official list that dictates what treatments will be covered based on annual budget constraints. If your disease is above the treatment line, you are covered. Below the line — you're not. However, patients being denied treatment often receive an additional note in their denial letters — the system telling them it will pay for "physician aid in dying." Oregon won't help you live, but it will help you die. Read the entire article Robert Tracinski: Obama has launched a war on private health insurance, and the Baucus bill contains every essential element of that war. Read the entire article Dr. John Goodman: In 2012 ... Social Security and Medicare will need one out of every ten general income tax dollars to make up for their combined deficits. By 2020 ... the federal government will need one out of every four income tax dollars to pay for these programs. By 2030, the midpoint of the Baby Boomer retirement years, it will require one of every two income tax dollars. Read the entire article John Stossel:
On Cap and Tax — George Will: The Times says "a short-term trend gives ammunition to skeptics of climate change." Actually, what makes skeptics skeptical is the accumulating evidence that theories predicting catastrophe from man-made climate change are impervious to evidence. The theories are unfalsifiable, at least in the "short run." And the "short run" is defined as however many decades must pass until the evidence begins to fit the hypotheses. Read the entire article
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