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More Choice for Consumers is Always Healthy

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:46:05 +0000

It is remarkable in the debate over health care reform how policymakers are ignoring the one thing that has been proven to work: consumer-driven health care (full article)

(FSB Magazine) — When John Trupiano and I co-founded our software company Smartlogic Solutions in 2005, we were college students who knew a lot about writing code but nothing about running a tech consulting business. Then a client took advantage of our ignorance, which taught us some valuable – and expensive – lessons.

Bailout Fallout

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:45:05 +0000

The next time he sees President Obama, Mayor Bloomberg should lay out how the White House’s auto-industry bailouts have hit hard at US financial markets — and so hurt New York’s future.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Paul Solarz is a real life Smokey the Bear who knows how to prevent and manage forest fires. And his company, PatRick Environmental, recently landed a contract, backed by stimulus money from the Recovery Act, to do just that.

PatRick won a bid to trim areas of Oregon’s Deschutes & Ochoco National Forest and Crooked River National Grassland. This controlled thinning will promote new growth and cut some trees so that natural wildfires don’t become unmanageable.

The project is just one of thousands being carried out across the U.S., in which stimulus money is being used to shore up the country’s infrastructure and generate much-needed business for local companies.

ABC News Teams Up With Obama White House to Present President’s Health Care Plan

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:43:16 +0000

ABC News will host an hour-long special on health care reform in the U.S. next Wednesday from the White House East Room — a move that ABC is defending but critics are calling a surrender to the Obama administration’s effort to control the debate.

Police found Timothy Murray at about 1 a.m. Sunday in a wooded stretch in the Folsom area of St. Tammany Parish, the release said.

Police returned Murray to the St. Tammany Parish Jail in Covington, north of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Murray, 29, is charged with murder, said Capt. George Bonnett of the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office.

Lawmakers Attack Feds’ Expanded Role

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:42:00 +0000

Lawmakers warned Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner on Thursday that President Obama’s plan to greatly expand the Federal Reserve’s powers to oversee financial markets might overburden the central bank and lead to future problems on Wall Street going unchecked.

The agreement discounts medications for Medicare beneficiaries facing high out-of-pocket expenses when their benefits reach a gap in coverage.

“This is a significant breakthrough on the road to health care reform, one that will make the difference in the lives of many older Americans,” Obama said at the White House.

“Today marks a major step forward, but it will only be meaningful if we complete the journey. … I have to repeat and revive an old saying we had from the campaign: Yes, we can. We are going to get this done.”

Obama Proposes New Agency to Oversee Financial Sector

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:41:04 +0000

President Barack Obama proposed sweeping new “rules of the road” for the nation’s financial system Wednesday, casting the changes as a critically important response to the economic crisis and the greatest regulatory transformation since the Great Depression.

Rush Limbaugh on ‘Hannity’ Discussing President’s “muslim nation” Comment

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:40:20 +0000

I sat down with Rush earlier today to get his thoughts on all the criticism that he has faced and his reaction to Obama’s Muslim nation comment. And also his thoughts on the country’s turn toward socialism.

Disapprove of Majority Government Ownership

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:39:18 +0000

A new Gallup Poll, conducted June 9-10, finds 55% of Americans saying they disapprove of the government’s investing $50 billion in General Motors to make the government the majority owner of that automaker.

More Federal Reserve Power Grab

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:37:41 +0000

Government, with the help of organizations like ACORN, forced banks to lend money to people who could not afford a home, and did so at sub prime rates.

Consent of the Governed: Hennessys View

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:24:45 +0000

In the battle between conservatives and statists, a fundamental difference seems to lie in the meaning of a concept found in the Declaration of Independence.

Couple Ordered to Stop Holding Bible Study at Home Without Permit

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:23:22 +0000

Pastor David Jones and his wife Mary have been told that they cannot invite friends to their San Diego, Calif. home for a Bible study — unless they are willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars to San Diego County.