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Turbulence ahead: Senate opens health care debate

(Associated Press) The 60 votes aren't there any more. With the Senate set to begin debate Monday on health care overhaul, the all-hands-on-deck Democratic coalition that allowed the bill to advance is fracturing already. Yet majority Democrats will need 60 votes again to finish. Some Democratic senators say they'll jump ship from the bill without tighter...

The Legislative Trigger and the Public Health Care Option

(Heritage Foundation) With Democrats joining Republicans in the Senate in saying that a public plan should not be a part of the final health care reform bill, attention has moved to the idea of keeping a public plan in reserve as a last resort if other reforms fail to work as advertised. The idea is that a "trigger" would implement...

We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future

(Intercollegiate Studies Institute) In the midst of frenzied efforts to remake our nation—of endless government initiatives involved in virtually every aspect of our daily lives—Americans are increasingly concerned: How did we get so far off track? And how can we get America back on course? This book explains and brings to life ten core...

Out of Control: How the Government Overspends on Capital Projects

(Taxpayers' Alliance) Numerous official reports have attacked big government projects. From IT systems to public buildings and military aircraft, many projects have been late and over budget, and have not delivered on their initial promise. This report shows that failures in managing public sector capital projects continue to...

The Clean Energy Act of 2009: A Missed Opportunity for Real Nuclear Energy Policy Reform

(Heritage Foundation) Senators Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Jim Webb (D-VA) recently introduced their bipartisan Clean Energy Act of 2009, which aims to create a business and regulatory environment to double nuclear power production in just two decades. While their reform...

Glenn Beck discussing the ClimateGate Scandal

Will Federal Health Legislation Cause the Deficit to Soar?

(Cato Institute) Enacting a $1 trillion entitlement program would greatly increase the burden of government spending. In addition, promises of lower deficits are a triumph of hope over experience. Government forecasters have a very poor track record of predicting costs. More realistic assumptions suggest that health legislation...

1919: Betrayal and the Birth of Modern Liberalism

(Manhattan Institute) Making a decisive break with Woodrow Wilson, disenchanted progressives renamed themselves “liberals.” The progressives had been inspired by a faith in democratic reforms as a salve for the wounds of both industrial civilization and power politics. New liberals, on the other hand, saw the American...

Green Jobs: Hope or Hype?

(National Center for Policy Analysis) The president has proposed spending $150 billion over the next decade on programs that create green jobs. These projects would include subsidies for wind and solar power, increased energy efficiency standards for appliances and buildings, retrofitting homes, and upgrading the electrical grid. But the president’s proposal does not consider several...

Bending the Productivity Curve: Why America Leads the World in Medical Innovation

(CATO Institute) The health care issues commonly considered most important today—controlling costs and covering the uninsured—arguably should be regarded as secondary to innovation, inasmuch as a medical treatment must first be invented before its costs can be reduced and its use extended to everyone. To date, however, none...

Wherefore Art Thou, Green Obama

(American Enterprise Institute) The key to Americans meeting the challenges of the past has been their willingness to believe in a vision of change, hope, and growth to justify the risk and sacrifice. President Obama made a grievous tactical mistake by hyping green jobs as a recession palliative. We all know that the president can play the tiny man behind the green curtain spinning a...

MS-13 SMUGGLES THOUSANDS OF MUSLIM TERRORISTS INTO U.S.

(TheLastCrusade.org) The situation at the border now poses a grave threat to national security. Agent Mike Scioli of the U.S. Border Patrol confirms that the Tucson sector of the Border Patrol is facing a worsening problem with Mara Salvatrucha, a Salvadoran street gang that now controls the flow of arms, drugs, and illegal aliens into...

MS-13 Gang Member with Arabic tatoos (Police Photograph)

Deadly docs: Obama advisers

want to ration health care

(NY Post) Emanuel(brother of White

House Chief of Staff) says medical

care should be reserved for the non-

disabled, not given to those "who are

irreversibly prevented from being or

becoming participating citizens . .

Health Care Reform: A Better Plan

(by Charles Krauthammer) In 1986, Ronald Reagan and Bill Bradley created a legislative miracle. They fashioned a tax reform that stripped loopholes, political favors, payoffs, patronage and other corruptions out of the tax system. With the resulting savings, they lowered tax rates across the board. Those reductions, combined with the elimination of the enormous inefficiencies and perverse...

UK to Michael Savage: Apologize for Your Views and We Might Lift Ban

(WND.com) The government in the United Kingdom has dispatched a letter to talk radio icon Michael Savage that he must "repudiate" the views the government has attributed to him before he even can be considered for removal from a banned-in-Britain government list. "Any such repudiation must be genuine and comprehensive"...

Derivatives Overhaul Seeks to Reduce Risk

(WSJ.com) The Obama administration

detailed a sweeping plan to more

closely oversee the giant market for

derivatives by forcing many of the

products to trade on regulated

exchanges or electronic venues.

Obama health-care plan destroys cheap health care options, raises taxes

(Examiner.com) In 2008, Obama

promised not to raise taxes on

anyone making less than $250,000 a

year. But he is now breaking that