Health Care

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Big government’s auto industry failures

For years I have criticized the government for its interference in the auto manufacturing business, from the ill-conceived café standards, the expediting of electric cars, the cash for clunkers program, and of course the auto bailout.  And, I have not forgotten CEO’s who became weak-kneed under big government pressure, put aside the free enterprise system and bowed to corporate welfare.

Two recent announcements appear to support my position.  On the heels of a study that labelled the Cash for Clunkers program a failure, comes a report that Cadillac can’t keep up with demand for its gas-guzzling Escalades, news that is sure to shake up environmentalists.

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A National Bureau of Economic Research working paper has revealed facts that the $3 billion, yes billion, two-month government Cash for Clunkers program subtracted between $2.6 and $4 billion from the auto industry.  The program offered $4,500 if people turned in their old cars for destruction and bought a new car.

You will recall that goals were to lift manufacturers during the recession by subsidizing sales, while mollifying “greenies” by putting more fuel-efficient cars on the road. The report from a group of Texas A&M economists, shows that the subsidy didn‘t really create any extra auto business since those who participated were likely to purchase a car during that period anyway, and any environmental benefits couldn’t be justified. Continue reading →

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Obama has full confidence in lying CIA director

When the shoe is on their foot, Democrats want you to look the other way and pretend it didn’t happen.

Take the case of CIA spying on the Senate.  “As far as the allegations of CIA hacking into Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth,” said CIA Director John Brennan, appearing before the Council on Foreign Relations on March 11, 2014.… read more

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Pelosi’s statement backfires

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s statement, “Really, we should be afraid of this court … the five guys who start determining what contraceptives are legal,” was ruled “false” by PolitiFacts. (Win McNamee/Getty Images North America)

Regular readers of this blog and my op-eds will recall that I have often written about the bogus war on women Democrats claim Republican are waging.

A host of liberal women took to the microphones to assault the Supreme Court Justices who decided in favor of Hobby Lobby in its recent ruling.  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, was so incensed she called a press conference, only to have it backfire.

If you didn’t see Megyn Kelly’s powerful response to Pelosi on the July 10, 2014 Kelly File, I invite you to click here.  Again, Pelosi is caught commenting on something without any knowledge of the facts and with no compunction to lie.

“She misspoke,” Pelosi’s spokesman Drew Hammill acknowledged to PolitiFacts, “Obviously the impact of the court’s decision is not to make these four contraceptive methods illegal –i.e. no longer allowed to be sold,” he confessed.

PolitiFacts called Pelosi’s sweeping claim “false.”  Isn’t it convenient how someone can go before the press and make a blatant untruthful statement only to have someone else say, ‘Oops, she misspoke.’ And, of course, the correction is rarely covered by the press. Continue reading →

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Kagan’s liberal view of justice

While writing my previous blog on the 5-4 Supreme Court Hobby Lobby decision I was reminded of an earlier decision by Justice Elena Kagan,  one of those liberals who opposed it.  She failed to recuse herself in March of 2012, when the Court considered the constitutionality of ObamaCare.

Despite Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts’ focus on recusals during his year-end annual report, when he acknowledged that while the Code of Conduct for United States judges applies to all federal judges except Supreme Court justices, she failed to do so. … read more

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Why regaining the senate is so vital

The 5-4 vote by the Supreme Court in the so-called Hobby Lobby case should serve as a wake-up call for conservatives who still haven’t understood the importance of gaining Republican control of the Senate in the mid-term elections this fall.

If you needed a clearer reminder why a Republican senate is so imperative, the vote in opposition by liberals on the Court, including Obama appointees Elena Kagan and Sonya Sotomayor, is it.  Continued Democrat control of the senate will assure the nomination of left-leaning individuals should one or more vacancies occur during the remainder of Obama’s term.

Regular readers of this blog know that I have been reminding you that we need to win six seats in November, most likely in Arkansas, Montana, Louisiana, South Dakota, North Carolina and West Virginia, where incumbent Democrats are most vulnerable.

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Fox’s Bill Reilly captured my thoughts so powerfully that they are quoted here today. (blogs.wsj.com)

From time to time I happen to be on the same page with Fox’s Bill O’Reilly and, his June 30, 2014 Talking Points on this subject was one of those occasions.  It was refreshing because most of the media is inaccurately reporting the implications of the Court decision.  And, I noted Hillary Clinton, speaking in Aspen, also misinterpreted the decision; undoubtedly to support her “war on women” agenda.

“The Obama administration wants all corporations to fund things like the morning after pill, which many religious Americans believe is an abortion-inducing medication,” said O’Reilly, but adds, “the national media did not report that … (continuing) to say the Hobby Lobby case is about birth control per se, which it is not.”

Disturbed by the Court opinion of the four liberal justices, O’Reilly states they “apparently believe that American taxpayers should fund abortions.”  Noting the fact that religious freedom is a hallmark of the Constitution, he points to the liberal vote as contradicting the Constitution, and “that’s frightening.” Continue reading →

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Will GOP learn from Brat win?

First, let’s get it straight.  It wasn’t Tea Party financial support that enabled Dave Brat to beat GOP Majority Leader Eric Cantor in the Virginia primary last night as the media has been saying.

Putting it simply, Brat did campaign on principles Tea Partiers and true Republicans stand for – primarily adherence to the Constitution –   not moves to be Democrat-lite, to appear more moderate.… read more