Heritage/Morning Bell: How Obamacare Robs Medicare and Hurts Seniors

The rhetorical Medicare wars have heated up this week, after President Obama declared in his Saturday radio address that his proposed reforms "won't touch your guaranteed Medicare benefits. Not by a single dime." ✧ This is incorrect. Obamacare cuts $716 billion from Medicare over the next 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), and uses these "savings" from Medicare to fund other entitlement expansions mandated by Obamacare. Medicare becomes a cash cow for Obamacare, and the Medicare "savings" from payment cuts are not put back into making Medicare solvent. Such massive payment cuts do impact Medicare benefits, as well as seniors' access to those benefits. Read more at Heritage/Morning Bell... Read More......

August 27: NFRW Public Relations Committee's Survey Results

Many of our NFRW women will attend the Republican convention in Tampa next week as delegates, alternates, guests, and credentialed participants. Excitement mounts as the NFRW Public Relations Committee rolls out the results of the NFRW's nationwide Republican women survey which was conducted between July 1 and August 6.

 Daily we hear the media and others perpetuate stereotypes about Republican women, who we are and what we believe. No comprehensive survey of Republican women had ever been taken to provide data for a substantive response. Thus, the NFRW's Table Talk Survey was born.

While a healthy response was expected, the PR Committee was quite surprised when more than 8,500 Republican women took the time to participate! Republican women from all 50 states and U.S. territories took the survey. Many survey participants are not affiliated with NFRW, which speaks volumes on about the Republican women across this country who want their voices heard. On Monday, August 27, the PR Committee will release an executive summary of the survey results, which addresses these five topics: demographics, policy, problems, perspectives, and elections. In addition, the full survey results will be available at http://www.nfrw.org/ Read More......

Sowell: A Powerful Movie

Thomas Sowell - "Dinesh D'Souza's 2016 is must viewing."
[Excerpt:] This D'Souza attributes to Barack Obama's great talents in rhetoric, and his ability to project an image that resonates with most Americans, however much that image may differ from, or even flatly contradict, the reality of Obama's own ideological view of the world.  ✧ What is that ideological view?  ✧ The Third World, or anti-colonial, view is that the rich nations have gotten rich by taking wealth from the poor nations. It is part of a much larger vision, in which the rich in general have gotten rich by taking from the poor, whether in their own country or elsewhere.  ✧ Whatever its factual weaknesses, it is an emotionally powerful vision... Read more at The American Spectator...

2016 is playing Friday, August 24th at Carmike 12 Theater, 750 NE Cirlce Boulevard in Corvallis. Showtimes are: 1:00 | 3:20 | 5:40 | 8:00 Read More......

George F. Will: The sky, apparently, continues to fall

 Sometimes the news is that something was not newsworthy. The United Nations’ Rio+20 conference — 50,000 participants from 188 nations — occurred in June, without consequences. A generation has passed since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, which begat other conferences and protocols (e.g., Kyoto). And, by now, apocalypse fatigue — boredom from being repeatedly told the end is nigh. Read more at the Columbus Dispatch...

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WSJ: UN Ends Arms Trade Treaty Talks Without Deal

[Excerpts]  Talks at the United Nations over a potential treaty limiting the illicit flow of weapons ended last week without a deal. [...] For the deal to be struck, all 193 U.N. nations had to agree on the text of the agreement. The New York Times reported that the U.S. faced internal pressure from gun-rights groups to walk away from the talks.  Read more at the Wall Street Journal Blog by Samuel Rubenfeld...

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