Sunday Open Thread: Katrina Edition
Who knew that this was the beginning of government health care in this country? We may never fully appreciate the full costs of Hurricane Katrina.
Who knew that this was the beginning of government health care in this country? We may never fully appreciate the full costs of Hurricane Katrina.
A step closer to reality: Doubtful any had read the bill, either.
From tonight’s Politico: Sen. Blanche Lincoln is a yes for debating health reform, but a no for the public option, and she and fellow centrists are making clear they expect Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to scrap his current plan
From The Hill: Opponents of today’s motion to proceed on healthcare legislation who are pressuring others to vote no are practicing “Orwellian” tactics, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said today. Reid appeared to take a shot at Senate Minority
Over at the Los Angeles Times, naturally, we find ACORN’s statement on the latest video: Los Angeles ACORN statement, as prepared by the organization: 1. The tapes are clearly doctored and highly edited and it is our hope this will
Today, Sen. Harry Reid will move his government takeover of health care a bit further down the field: Fortunately, the bill doesn’t take full effect until 2014. Lots of chances to undo the harm that is about to be closer
From the Columbia Journalism Review: Watch the latest business video at FOXBusiness.com Memo to Sean Hannity, who is calling for James O’Keefe, Hannah Giles, and Andrew Breitbart to get a “journalism award” for their video sting of ACORN: Generally, when
From The Hill: ACORN and its affiliates received $200,000 in Justice Department grants between 2002 and 2009, according a report issued today by the department’s Inspector General. No DOJ grants went directly to ACORN, but a handful of grants were
Earlier this week, we brought you the story of SEIU’s alleged ballot fraud during a union election in Fresno, CA. SEIU’s fraud wasn’t against political opponents or some evil capitalist. No, SEIU’s fraud was against a brother/sister labor union. SEIU
Below is the best picture we’ve seen of the Air Force Jet that shuttles Speaker Pelosi between DC and San Fran: The Speaker of the House historically hasn’t been assigned a special government plane. That changed after 9-11, when the
Earlier tonight Andrew Breitbart, James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles discussed the final chapter of the ACORN L.A. saga on “Hannity,” but more interestingly, Breitbart disclosed where the story goes from here. Transcript (below) starts from 3:50 into the clip: Watch
This morning, in testimony before the Joint Economic Committee, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said that, by any measurement of the strength and stability of the US economy, the economy today is better than it was when Obama took office. Sheesh,
Today, in 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, dedicating a new national cemetery. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
Sarah Palin’s book blitz continues. Anyone who can cause leftists and political elites to further slip the surly bonds of sanity is alright in our book! And watching them react to her selling freight-car quantities of books is what we
House Republican leaders today sent the AARP a letter calling on the organization to reconsider its endorsement of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) 2,000-page government takeover of health care in light of a new Obama Administration report that unequivocally shows the
A must read piece by Peter Wallison in today’s Wall Street Journal: It’s hard to imagine a worse piece of financial regulatory legislation than the bill Barney Frank and the administration put before the House Financial Services Committee last month.
From ABC News: Here’s a stimulus success story: In Arizona’s 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have beensaved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that’s what the Web site set up by the Obama administration to
Today, in 1903, the Bolshevik party was born, splintering from the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party.
A letter from California Attorney General Jerry Brown has surfaced that deals a tremendous blow to sham internal investigations everywhere. Brown, also a California gubernatorial candidate, has requested the Alameda County district attorney look into secret tapings his office conducted
Today, in 1914, the Federal Reserve officially opened for business. What a weird, strange trip it’s been…
Initially, we weren’t certain whether Obama’s deep bow to the Japanese Emperor was an excessive execution of standard protocol, or yet another stop-over in Obama’s apparent World Apology Tour. The University of Connecticut Republicans have cleared this up for us.
From the National Union of Healthcare Workers: Today’s Wall Street Journal and Fresno Bee report that SEIU engaged in illegal threats, ballot-tampering, and other serious violations of election rules during a June union election for 10,000 homecare providers in Fresno,
From the Washington Post: A plan to slash more than $500 billion from future Medicare spending — one of the biggest sources of funding for President Obama’s proposed overhaul of the nation’s health-care system — would sharply reduce benefits for
From the Associated Press: The government paid more than $47 billion in questionable Medicare claims including medical treatment showing little relation to a patient’s condition, wasting taxpayer dollars at a rate nearly three times the previous year. Excerpts of a
