Year: 2009
A Public Option in Health Care Doesn’t Mean Low Overhead
One of the arguments proponents of the so-called "public option" in health care reform often make is that health insurance company executives make too much money. I wonder how many of these people realize that almost 60 administrators in the ...
Climategate Should Put a Halt to Duke Energy’s Lobbying for Cap-and-Trade
The National Center's Free Enterprise Project has called on Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers to cease lobbying for cap-and-trade in the wake of revelations regarding the integrity of processes underpinning the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s climate conclusions ...
Project 21’s Council Nedd on MSNBC’s “Dr. Nancy” on Wednesday
Project 21 member Bishop Council Nedd II is scheduled to appear on MSNBC's "Dr. Nancy" program that airs at 12:00 PM eastern on Wednesday, December 2. Council's segment is expected to be in the second half of the program. Council ...
“An Animal Would Have Been Treated with More Compassion”
Debra Luck, the widow of Ian Luck, believes the medical staff at the British government's Princess Alexandra Hospital was so neglectful of her late husband's care during his last days that he effectively "was murdered... because people couldn't be bothered ...
Health Care Bombshell: ObamaCare Would Doom Medicaid
Writing for the Heritage Foundation, Dennis Smith and Ed Haislmaier have today exposed a huge political drawback to the liberal health care bill: ObamaCare -- without intending to -- could, almost certainly would, be the death knell of Medicaid, America's ...
ConservaCare: An Alternative Health Reform Plan, by Matt Patterson
On November 3, Republicans in the House of Representatives unveiled an alternative health care reform plan,1 which they claim contains "common-sense health care reforms our nation can afford."2 The bill was introduced as a substitute amendment by House Republican Leader ...
The Return of Race-Based Voting, by Bishop Council Nedd II
The Return of Race-Based Voting by Bishop Council Nedd II (bio) Atlanta is called the "city too busy to hate." But some political activists found the time. Kasim Reed, a state senator, just won a runoff election to become ...
Obama Buys The News, by Matt Patterson
Is ABC News a legitimate news organization? Not, apparently, by the standards of the Obama administration. Speaking of Fox News, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn told The New York Times, "We're going to treat them [Fox] the way we ...
Tiger Woods and the Problem of the “Great Black Example,” by Lisa Fritsch
Tiger Woods and the Problem of the "Great Black Example" by Lisa Fritsch (bio) There's an interesting wrinkle in the Tiger Woods scandal. There are some blacks who are angry that none of Tiger's mistresses were black. For example, a ...
Don’t Shortchange Your Kids at Christmas, by Mychal Massie
Don't Shortchange Your Kids at Christmas by Mychal Massie (bio) Christmastime is supposed to be a time of good cheer, but what I have to say about it will likely offend some and infuriate others. More often these ...
