Liberty Belle from Creators Syndicate

Holding Obama Accountable for Benghazi and IRS Abuses for 05/22/2013

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

President Obama uses weasel words to explain deaths in Libya and IRS abuses. The usual press conferences and congressional hearings are likely to drag on without answers unless the U.S. House Republicans take action. Here are two action items to get to the bottom of why four Americans died in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, 2012 and to protect the public from an ever more powerful IRS that could e ...

Updated: Wed May 22, 2013

Sebelius' Monkey Business for 05/15/2013

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius was criticized last week for soliciting private contributions to Enroll America, a non-governmental organization run by former Obama campaign operatives. The real monkey business is what the secretary is doing with taxpayers' money. She's pouring it into community organizations. The pretext is that community organizations will do a better ...

Updated: Wed May 15, 2013

Biggest Breakthrough in Healthcare for 05/08/2013

Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

A 180-degree change in how doctors and hospital administrators think about germs is likely to almost eliminate the biggest risk of being hospitalized: getting an infection.

Until now, doctors and hospital administrators routinely dismissed questions about cleanliness by saying "germs are everywhere." But at last week's meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiologists of Am ...

Updated: Wed May 08, 2013

Senators in Charge of Asylum for 05/01/2013

Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Only the first 151 pages of the 844-page Senate immigration bill deal with border security and a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. No matter where you stand on those hot button issues, you need to know what's in the rest of the bill. This is the third article of a series exposing some of the shockers.

The bill could double legal immigration in the U.S. over the next decade. Imm ...

Updated: Wed May 01, 2013

Read the Fine Print in the Immigration Bill for 04/24/2013

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The nation's dysfunctional immigration laws need reforming. But the Senate bill unveiled last week would explode the number of people on food stamps and Obamacare. Shockingly, the bill also would put left-wing community organizations in charge of educating immigrants about citizenship — a blatant attempt to herd future voters into the Democratic Party. Senators John McCain and Marco Rubio ...

Updated: Wed Apr 24, 2013

Gang of Eight's Proposal Will Make Obamacare Costs Soar for 04/17/2013

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

A little noticed provision of the Obama health law is likely to become a big roadblock to immigration reform. Obamacare makes legal immigrants eligible for subsidized private health plans on the exchanges, regardless of how recently they arrived.

The Gang of Eight immigration plan — proposed by four Republican and four Democratic U.S. senators — is expected to double the numb ...

Updated: Wed Apr 17, 2013

Assimilation Reform, not Immigration Reform for 04/10/2013

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Gang of Eight — four Democratic and four Republican U.S. senators — have been meeting behind closed doors since January to produce "comprehensive immigration reform." That will mean a multi-thousand-page bill that no one reads.

You know the saying "fool me twice." Americans got bamboozled in 2010 when the 2,572-page Obama health law was rushed through ...

Updated: Wed Apr 10, 2013

Mortgage Defaults, College Loan Defaults, Now Premium Defaults Ahead for 04/03/2013

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Last week, one of the world's leading consulting firms, Milliman, warned about sticker shock ahead for individuals and families buying health insurance.

How did the White House respond? In its usual Orwellian fashion, it said, "health care costs are falling thanks to the reform law." Falling is correct only if you're standing on your head.

President Obama repeatedly prom ...

Updated: Wed Apr 03, 2013

Blue States Sinking for 03/27/2013

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Last week, the National Republican Party issued a report on why it lost the 2012 presidential election. The report belongs in the paper shredder. Look at a map of the U.S., and you'll see why. The Republican Party is already on the way to dominating presidential politics. Red states are on the rise, and blue states are sinking.

In politics, demography is destiny. The biggest mis ...

Updated: Wed Mar 27, 2013

The Nation Will Reexamine Obamacare for 03/20/2013

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The weasels that wrote the Obama health law postponed the pain until after the 2012 presidential election. Popular provisions were put into effect immediately, such as allowing children to stay on their parent's plan until age 26, offering "free" colonoscopies and mammograms (in truth, forcing you to pay for them in your premium, whether you get them or not) and giving women the thril ...

Updated: Wed Mar 20, 2013

Return the CDC to Its Core Mission for 03/13/2013

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

On March 5, CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden warned that "nightmare bacteria" called CRE (carbapenem-resistant Enterobactericeae) are raging through healthcare facilities. CRE is untreatable by most antibiotics and kills up to 50 percent of patients infected with it. It's five times as deadly as the notorious MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) infections that have plagu ...

Updated: Wed Mar 13, 2013

Anti-Obesity Programs Fatten Government for 03/06/2013

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

On Feb. 26, First Lady Michelle Obama walked into the produce section of a Walmart in Springfield, Mo. to announce the three-year anniversary of her Healthy Food Financing Initiative, a program to bring stores that fresh fruits and vegetables to neighborhoods deemed "food deserts." Making it easier to buy produce will reduce obesity, Mrs. Obama claimed. Had you been there, you would h ...

Updated: Wed Mar 06, 2013

Private Insurance but Government Control for 02/27/2013

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

If you think the Obama health law won't affect you because you have private insurance, keep reading. The Department of Health and Human Services announced final rules for private insurance last week. The federal government will have control over your care. Sec. 1311 of the law empowers the Secretary of Health and Human Services to dictate how doctors treat privately insured patients and what qu ...

Updated: Wed Feb 27, 2013

Big Brother Obama for 02/20/2013

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

In his famous novel "1984," George Orwell warned that it doesn't take a military boot against your neck to oppress you. Government can do it by using talking points — what Orwell called "newspeak" — to hide truth, distort language and keep the public in the dark. Orwell cautioned that this manipulation poses the biggest threat to freedom, whether the government d ...

Updated: Wed Feb 20, 2013

Medicaid Is a Verb: Milking the Taxpayer for 02/13/2013

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Last week, the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform disclosed how state officials in New York scammed federal taxpayers out of billions of dollar by exploiting the Medicaid system.

The federal government matches dollar for dollar what a state spends on Medicaid. New York politicians have turned Medicaid into a verb: it means to spend profligately, label i ...

Updated: Wed Feb 13, 2013

The Unaffordable Care Act for 02/06/2013

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

On Jan. 30, the Obama administration unveiled a long list of exemptions from the Obamacare insurance mandate. Flaws and contradictions in the law will cause millions of people to be uninsured. The administration also estimated that the cheapest family plan will cost $20,000 by 2016. This new information indicates that the Affordable Care Act is failing in both goals: making insurance affordable ...

Updated: Wed Feb 06, 2013

The 8th Circuit's Eloquent Recitation of 'Advice and Consent' for 01/30/2013

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

On Jan. 25th, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals rapped the President's knuckles for disregarding the constitutional limits on his power. If the Court's unanimous opinion, Noel Canning v. NLRB, is upheld on appeal, it will reverse the century-long trend toward unfettered presidential power and breathe new life into the checks and balances the framers devised.

The president picked this lega ...

Updated: Wed Jan 30, 2013

Minimum Wage Hypocrisy for 01/23/2013

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Battles are brewing in New York, California, Minnesota and the nation's capitol over hiking minimum wages. In all three state legislatures and in Congress, Democrats have the votes to ram the hikes through.

These politicians are claiming the moral high ground, saying it will help the poorest in our communities. Don't be fooled. Hiking the minimum wage hurts — not helps — the ...

Updated: Wed Jan 23, 2013

Privacy Only for Gun Owners for 01/16/2013

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Section 2716 of the Obama health law bars the government from making doctors or hospitals collect information on who owns a gun. Suddenly this little known provision tucked into page 776 of the law is provoking outrage from gun opponents objecting to the National Rifle Association's political clout. In truth, the NRA should be applauded for insisting on privacy protections in the Obama health l ...

Updated: Wed Jan 16, 2013

Obama Loses Moral High Ground for 01/09/2013

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Article 1 Sect 7 of the U.S. Constitution begins, "All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives." The framers put the House in charge of taxes because House members — elected every two years from small districts — would be the first to know if a tax were unfair or burdensome. House Republicans who voted for the fiscal cliff bill, despite it ...

Updated: Wed Jan 09, 2013