The Most Dangerous Man In the World

…is neither Russia’s Vladimir Putin nor China’s Xi Jinping, nor at this time, Ayatollah Khamenei – it’s none other than America’s Barack Hussein Obama. This is not because of any aggressive, risk-laden actions he has taken, far from it. It is because of those he has failed to take at critical times to credibly dissuade strategic competitors and potential aggressors, such as Russia and China, from actions that may suddenly compound into destabilizing confrontations, even war.

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Hiatt: Shirking cost control

WASHINGTON POST, 10/26/2009 by Fred Hiatt - The "public option" is dangerous not for what it might do but for what it allows the politicians not to do. ∴ From the start, the Obama administration has said that health-care reform has to make health care both more accessible and less costly . If Congress does the first without the second -- guarantees a new entitlement without controlling costs -- it will bankrupt us, because health-care costs are rising faster than the overall economy is growing. ∴ So far, though, that seems to be where Congress is headed, for two reasons: First, no one knows for sure how to control costs; and, second, the reforms that are likeliest to work are politically unpalatable. Read more at Washington Post... Read More......

Hiatt: Shirking cost control

WASHINGTON POST, 10/26/2009 by Fred Hiatt - The "public option" is dangerous not for what it might do but for what it allows the politicians not to do. ∴ From the start, the Obama administration has said that health-care reform has to make health care both more accessible and less costly . If Congress does the first without the second -- guarantees a new entitlement without controlling costs -- it will bankrupt us, because health-care costs are rising faster than the overall economy is growing. ∴ So far, though, that seems to be where Congress is headed, for two reasons: First, no one knows for sure how to control costs; and, second, the reforms that are likeliest to work are politically unpalatable. Read more at Washington Post... Read More......

Health: Frightening stuff in stimulus bill

Reading list from Rush Limbaugh, 2/10/08 - Outrage Over Socialized Healh Care Hidden Inside Porkulus Bill

Bloomberg: Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan - Betsy McCaughey
• Wall Street Journal: Despite Daschle, Health Reform To Be a 'Central Focus' of Obama Budget
• WT: Democrats using 'Stealth' to Re-Engineer Society with 'Stimulus' Package - Ed Koch
• Heritage.org: Comparative Effectiveness in Health Care Reform: Lessons from Abroad
• National Review: 50 De-Stimulating Facts Read More......