About Those “47 Million” Uninsured

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We are reminded by Democrats every day that there are “47 million uninsured” people in America. Out of a population of 300 million, that therefore means that 84% of Americans in fact do have health insurance. Democrats do not like to remind us of this, or to remind us that even uninsured people must by law be treated in hospitals.

But let’s consider the 47 million that Democrats say are not insured:

How many millions of these people lacking health insurance have led a derelict life as criminals, drug addicts, alcoholics etc.?

Many, friends, many millions. Yet Democrats claim that drug addicts and alcoholics have “a disease” and that criminals are decent people who just have had bad breaks.

How many millions of people without health insurance grew up poor because they did not have a father in their home, as Democrats and feminists have insistently maligned the presence of men in the home, and advocated a lifestyle of single motherhood, with its vastly higher rates of poverty? Read more

Sleepwalkers in Dangerous Times

I am intimately surrounded by enemy propaganda and I’ve only myself to blame. For example, I have been reading Publishers Weekly (PW) for a very long time. I don’t have to but I won’t give it up. Yes, I have noted the leftward drift of their reviews but, like the New York Times, whose editors and book reviewers have drifted similarly left-ward, PW remains a “must” for all those who want to read reviews of upcoming book titles and who want to know what publishing deals are in the works.

In their March 10th issue (I am behind this month), there is an image on page 66 and a glowing review on page 74. The photograph is titled “Palestinians waiting to be processed at an Israeli checkpoint, West Bank.” Yes, another image, another work. The book is titled Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation. The anonymous reviewer finds the book “urgent,” and focuses on how many Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli military operations-as if Israelis planned to kill the children.

This image, this idea, this reality has been burned into Western and Eastern brains. The Chinese Occupation of Tibet, the Sudanese genocide, the thousands of Muslim on Muslim atrocities and Islamist acts of terrorism all pale by comparison. The “Israeli checkpoints” was an accusation hurled at me when I spoke at Barnard in 2003. As I described the features of Islamic gender and religious apartheid, (honor killings, arranged marriage, polygamy, forced veiling, female genital mutilation, etc.) the assembled feminist crowd kept yelling at me to “admit” or to “focus on” the checkpoints. No matter what I said, they shouted back: “What about the humiliation at the checkpoints?” Continue Reading >>

Ron Paul calls Obama a fraud

Ron Paul takes exception to Barack Obama’s voting record and views on the war.

Red State Update: Earth Hour

Jackie and Dunlap give in and go with the Earth Hour flow by turning the lights off on Red State Update.

Also see:

• Black is the New Green?
• Earth Hour is Completely Ungrounded

Lou Dobbs on Race–Mad as hell

Lou Dobbs loads up with ammo and lets it fly against those who use race politically.

Sheila Jackson Lee Gets Booed by Obama Supporters in TX

U.S. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee from Texas (D-Houston) gets booed at Texas Senate District 13 Democratic Convention on March 29, 2008. Though her congressional district is overwhelmingly in support of Senator Barack Obama for President, Congresswoman Jackson Lee is a superdelegate and supporter of Senator Hillary Clinton in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Race. When she took the stage, she had to wait a couple of minutes for the booing and Obama cheering to subside and kept remarking, "I’ll wait for you to stop

The trouble with institutions and people that are vastly inferior to me. No, really.

The wilfully clueless and Dhimmi Western elites, dream on that all is well with the fifty-eight million Muslims in Europe alone, and rising. (By an average 3.5 plus births per Muslim couple, plus legal polygamy with welfare for each wife in Britain! I kid you not.)

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. -W. Somerset Maugham

Article 18. Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Article 19. Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers”. -UN declaration of human rights

I must be a God. Not THE God, but one of the Gods. I’m just not that smart. -Bill Murray as Phil Connors in ‘Groundhog Day’.

Firstly, I’ve always found our current [Australian] Prime Minister when compared to me, to be terribly under par, and not just physically but morally. Not only is his full height a metre beneath his knees, but he’s only the width of a hair ribbon and his head is of the same dimensions as your common dust mite or at best, a ceiling clinging Gekko. Morally he is completely bankrupt and feels no shame in living the lie that all men do, who hide furtively in the shadows, waiting for a fleeting chance at dirty love with a caterpillar in an insect club. Yes, he was there, as they cavorted with their lascivious antennae and swelling pudenda.

As an example of his pernicious and relentless darkness, of which there are many terrible examples, I will tell you of a particularly appalling episode. As per usual, I went around to the Lodge to have dinner with the Prime Minister around seven, and turned up a little earlier than this, having changed into the required formal dress of the evening. Gowns for the women and for the men, full Luftwaffe uniforms… Continue Reading >>

Real Facts about Flight 93

Conspiracy theorists use the call from Edward Felt on Flight 93 to prove their point, claiming he was calling from the bathroom and said he heard an explosion and saw white smoke. However, the only thing they got right is that Mr. Felt was calling from the bathroom- the dispatcher who took the call and Felt’s younger brother Gordon say there was no mention of an explosion or white smoke ( source).

While there were two planes in the vicinity of Flight 93 when it crashed, they had nothing to do with the crash (reference).

One plane was a C-130 cargo plane that was about 25 miles from Flight 93 when it went down ( source). Read more

Superdelegate Leahy Urges Clinton to Quit Race

Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, a Barack Obama supporter, says Sen. Hillary Clinton “has every right, but not a very good reason” to remain a presidential candidate.

BBC Radio 4 News Hit by Giggling Fit…

Hundreds of listeners have contacted BBC Radio 4 after newsreader Charlotte Green dissolved into giggles while reading a bulletin on Today. She lost control after playing a clip of the oldest known recording of the human voice.

Presenter James Naughtie intervened as she struggled to tell listeners about the death of screenwriter Abby Mann.

I’m afraid I just lost it, I was completely ambushed by the giggles," said Green.

Later on in the programme Green’s fit of the giggles was repeated as presenter Ed Stourton remarked they had been besieged with calls begging them to play it again. Apparently the BBC press office is in meltdown with calls about it, he said.

Hillary Clinton’s New Video Game: 3AM Call of Duty

Here’s a nice spoof of Hillary Clinton’s sniper fire whopper.

Typical Liberal: Obama Thinks some Babies are “Punishment” for making “Mistakes”

U.S. Senator and Presidential hopeful Barack Obama, Johnstown, PA, March 29, 2008:

Look, I got two daughters — 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby. I don’t want them punished with an STD at age 16, so it doesn’t make sense to not give them information.

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Press One for English

This song is written and performed by Ron and Kay Rivoli of the Rivoli Revue.

Judgepedia

In January, we posted about Ballotpedia.org, which is a wiki about citizen initiatives (petition drives, ballot access legislation, etc.). Well, now the Sam Adams has rolled out a related beta, called Judgepedia:

Judgepedia is an online encyclopedia that strives to be a consummate source for authoritative articles, open and respectful discourse, and reputable research for all things judicial. Because Judgepedia works like any other Wiki, we encourage the contribution and discussion of anyone who wishes to speak honestly about the role of the judiciary in America. Your support and collaboration are enthusiastically encouraged.

The wiki is still in beta stage, so there is not as much content there right now as there will be soon, but what is there so far is great info. The site uses MediaWiki, which is the same software used by Wikipedia, so anyone familiar with Wikipedia will be comfortable moving around here.

The site is broken down into State Hubs and State Supreme Courts. One of the currently-popular pages in the State Hubs is the page of Judge Michael Gableman, who is a Circuit Court Judge in Burnett County, Wisconsin, who is known as a “traditionalist.” Judgepedia provides a brief bio, information about his early career, awards, memberships, and civics acivities, campaign, news, issues, and endorsements.

In the State Supreme Courts Hubs, the most popular page right now is the Louisiana Supreme Court:

The Louisiana Supreme Court has its judicial roots in 18th century French and Spanish governments.

There is information about the jurisdiction of the court, the Roman, and French influence, and the Alcades and Regidors. There is also information about the history of the court, the current justices, and how they can be removed.

Good info. Check it out.

Howard Dean in 2004: “Military experience is vital”

Kevin Gregory at McClatchy Watch has a great quote by Howard Dean in 2004:

“The real issue is this,” Dean said in March 2004, when endorsing formal rival Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., “Who would you rather have in charge of the defense of the United States of America, a group of people who never served a day overseas in their life, or a guy who served his country honorably and has three Purple Hearts and a Silver Star on the battlefields of Vietnam?”

McCain, by the way, has been awarded the Silver Star, the Legion of Merit, two Bronze Star Medals, a Purple Heart and the Distinguished Flying Cross.

Original Post at McClatchy Watch

Also see: The Cluemeter – Howard Dean on Military Experiance for the CinC

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