Author: Amy Ridenour

Obama Breaks Health Care Pledge… Before He Makes It

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Everyone expects politicians to break their promises, but Barack Obama may have set a record yesterday by breaking one before he made it. In his speech before the American Medical Association's annual meeting in Chicago Monday, President Obama pledged: ...no ...
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Obama Disses Kennedy

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The White House is running away from Senator Ted Kennedy's health care reform bill, now that the bill is receiving adverse publicity. I don't believe any of the liberal bills calling for an increase in the government's role in our ...
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Regarding Cap and Trade, Is Caterpillar CEO in Over His Head?

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Timothy Carney of the Washington Examiner has taken a look at our Tom Borelli's question to Caterpillar CEO Jim Owens last week. Carney believes Owens may be in over this head. Read it for yourself here ...
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No Boo-Hoo-Hoo for California’s Money Woes, If It Can Still Afford Public Parties

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California's free-spending ways have led it to seek the money of federal taxpayers, but don't think that means Los Angeles is trying to stop spending money on frivolities. The city intends to spend a million dollars on a victory parade ...
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Backyard Puddles to be Regulated by Feds?

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The American Farm Bureau is reporting, correctly, that if the Clean Water Restoration Act (Senator Russ Feingold's S.787) becomes law, the federal government will claim the authority to regulate "all water" in the United States. "S. 787 would remove any ...
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CBO: Kennedy’s Health Care Bill Would Increase Deficit by $1.0 Trillion from 2010-2019

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The Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation staff released this evening (PDF) a "preliminary analysis" of Title I of the draft of the Affordable Health Choices Act, which was created by Democrats on the Senate Committee on Health, ...
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Raising Taxes by the Mile

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Project 21's Ak'Bar Shabazz has an op-ed opposing a new federal tax on driving in Sunday's Washington Examiner. It begins: During the 2008 presidential campaign, President Obama endeared himself to many voters with a promise that 95 percent of Americans ...
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Universal Health Care Immoral?

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Smart Girl Nation examines the question: Is universal health care a moral issue? Kimberly Moore says "yes," and adds, "the United States already has a universal health care plan. It is Medicaid and Medicare." ...
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George Will’s Dirty Little Secrets of Universal Health Care

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Writing on Newsbusters, Noel Sheppard does us the service of transcribing George Will's dirty little secrets of universal health care from today's broadcast of ABC's "This Week." Worth reading (or viewing, as the post contains a link to the video) ...
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Outrage of the Day: Pork in the Health Care Bill

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A liberal crusade for decades has been the transfer of the U.S. health care system to government hands. So when the liberals are about to make their most serious run at their cherished prize in 16 years, you'd think they'd ...
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