Friday, November 19, 2010
The Verdict on Holder
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The Verdict on Holder: "
The Verdict on Holder: "
Unlawful enemy combatants captured on the battlefield deserve to be held in Guantanamo and tried in military commissions. And if Mr. Holder can’t tell the difference, he should find a new job.-WSJ
Wall Street Journal Editorial
EXCERPTS:
“Terrorist Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani was acquitted Wednesday on 284 of 285 counts associated with murdering 212 innocents, but the verdict on Attorney General Eric Holder was guilty as charged. His strategy of force-feeding terrorists into the civilian court system has turned into a legal and security fiasco.
The blunder was Mr. Holder’s decision to dump Ghailani into the civilian system when a perfectly adequate military tribunal was available. Despite interminable legal challenges from white-shoe law firms and the political left, the Supreme Court has ruled that military commissions are lawful and part of a long U.S. tradition from revolutionary days through FDR. Their advantage is that military tribunals have somewhat more liberal rules of evidence and are designed to handle classified material in a way that protects national security without disqualifying pertinent facts.”
FULL STORY
"Governors push back on Obamacare
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Governors push back on Obamacare: "
Governors push back on Obamacare: "
Citing additional costs of $100 million to a billion dollars in their states newly elected governors speak out against Obamacare and what they plan to do about it.
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Who Should Control Your Health Care, You Or The Government?
Paul Krugman Recommends ‘Death Panels’ to Help Balance Budget
‘He has erected a multitude of New Offices’
150 new agencies with thousands of new rules in Obamacare alone.
"Democrats prioritize radical feminists over low taxes
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Democrats prioritize radical feminists over low taxes: "
Democrats prioritize radical feminists over low taxes: "
Rather than trying to fix the tax hike that will hit Americans on Jan. 1, Reid wanted to give the government unprecedented power over employers’ compensation decisions and cause endless litigation, discouraging hiring.
By: Diana Furchtgott-Roth at Washington Examiner
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If signed into law, the bill would have required all employers with more than two employees to submit data on sex, race, national origin, and earnings of employees to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, even if no complaint has been filed.
Women would have been included in class-action suits against employers unless they specifically opted out, a windfall for trial lawyers.
Even though the Paycheck Fairness Act won’t yet become law, the task force plans to implement selected provisions through regulations. It’s planning to “institute a strategy to collect pay data from federal contractors” to identify contractors out of compliance, even if no workers have complained.
FULL ARTICLE
"O Canada: The Epitaph for Single Payer Health Care
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O Canada: The Epitaph for Single Payer Health Care: "
O Canada: The Epitaph for Single Payer Health Care: "
“[H]ealth care system is coming apart at the seams….On the ground, there is too often a glaring lack of execution: long waits, bed shortages, unequal access to medication. Those failures are compounded by the fact that the ever-rising medicare bill is squeezing out education and other social priorities.”
By STANLEY GOLDFARB at The Weekly Standard
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No, that’s not from an item in the New York Times; rather, that’s from a piece in the Toronto Globe and Mail on Nov 7, 2010 about Canada’s health care system. Its problems provide a glimpse of what a fee-for-service medical care produces in a single payer system
As the Canadian system shows, central control leads to, for example, a one-year wait to have a colonoscopy in Quebec. It might make sense from an economist’s perspective, but the populace is not that happy about it and demanding better government care.
So think again about a single payer plan. It is struggling in a nation with about 1/10 the U.S. population. Plan B is needed. Ideological arguments about how we need to eliminate insurance companies and do away with a competition-based system simply do not square with the results of the Canadian experience.
FULL STORY
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