November 29, 2009   by Ken Connor In anticipation of Senate Democrats’ introduction of an $849 billion dollar plan to overhaul the nation’s health care system, Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn last week announced his intention to press for a full reading of the 2,074 page bill on the floor of the Senate, a process estimated [...]

November 30, 2009   by Star Parker “The Blind Side” is a beautiful new film based on a magnificent and heartwarming true story. But I hope that the many who see it do not simply walk out all aglow. It should also produce concern. This story about hopelessness transformed into achievement should be a typically [...]

November 30, 2009   by Carol Platt Liebau Democrats have long complained about the “wedge issues” that Republicans allegedly exploit to “divide” the country. Perhaps it’s no coincidence that these so-called “wedges” are the issues where majorities or large pluralities of Americans are at odds with “enlightened opinion” as defined by liberals and the media: [...]

By Burt Prelutsky (Archive) · Monday, November 30, 2009 Some friends were trying to convince me that Major Nidal Malik Hasan will surely be executed for conducting his one-man massacre at Fort Hood. I was willing to bet he wouldn’t be. For one thing, why would he be the exception? Sirhan Sirhan wasn’t executed, Charles [...]

Nov 30, 2009 By Peter Landesman The forecasts of global warming are based on the mathematical solutions of equations in models of the weather.  But all of these solutions are inaccurate. Therefore no valid scientific conclusions can be made concerning global warming. The false claim for the effectiveness of mathematics is an unreported scandal at [...]

Peer review appearances can be deceiving Nov 30, 2009 By Mark Steyn My favorite moment in the Climategate/Climaquiddick scandal currently roiling the “climate change” racket was Stuart Varney’s interview on Fox News with the actor Ed Begley Jr., star of the 1980s medical drama “St. Elsewhere” but latterly better known, as is the fashion with [...]

Democratic plans will exacerbate Medicaid coverage problems Nov 30, 2009 By THE WASHINGTON TIMES President Obama has angrily denounced those who warned that Democratic health care proposals will reduce Medicare benefits. “Medicare is another issue that’s been subjected to demagoguery and distortion during the course of this debate,” he said during the course of his [...]

Government health care will explode costs Nov 30, 2009 By THE WASHINGTON TIMES Sen. Mary L. Landrieu, Louisiana Democrat, provided one of the last two votes needed to bring the government health care takeover to the Senate. She didn’t even blush about selling her vote. “I am not going to be defensive. And it’s not [...]

Employers fund insurance Nov 30, 2009 By Stephen Dinan Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants could receive health care coverage from their employers under the bills winding their way through Congress, despite President Obama’s explicit pledge that illegal immigrants would not benefit. The House bill mandates, and the Senate bill strongly encourages, businesses to extend [...]

Fed ‘reform’ we don’t want   By Robert J. Samuelson Monday, November 30, 2009   Ever since its creation in 1913, the Federal Reserve has grappled with a daunting political contradiction. The Fed is charged with preventing the collapse of the banking and financial system, whose health is essential for the “real economy” of production [...]