Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell summed up what all the Americans with whom I’ve spoken think about health care reform today on the Senate floor:
“The American people want health care reform — not with more government, but with less. They don’t want a new government-run system; they want us to repair the system we’ve got. [...]

Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius values politics and her oath to the people (whom, she implies, expect her to be pro-choice) over her religion.
The video is only about a minute and a half–and worth a watch.
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Why did the World Economic Forum rate America as less competitive than it has in the past? In part, the WEF report demonstrated “particular concerns on the part of the business community about the government’s ability to maintain arm’s-length relationships with the private sector and in the perception that the government spends its [...]

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Michael Kruse, a reporter from the St. Petersburg Times, found it necessary to mention Rifqa Bary’s “dark red nail polish” in his news story about a hearing regarding Bary’s family. Bary recently converted to Christianity and ran away for fear that her Muslim parents would kill her. She’s been living with a [...]

What I really noticed most about this story, though, is that it fits this administration’s “gaffe template” almost perfectly. Here’s how the template looks:

The administration overreaches and tries to do something it can not or lacks the authority to do.
When called on it, the administration either lies about what it is doing or attempts to [...]

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As some of you may know, liberals are boycotting Whole Foods because the CEO and co-founder came out against a government-takeover of health care. Conservatives are leading “buycotts” to support the store for taking an unpopular position. The video here, posted by Dana Loesch, is raw footage from one such buycott.
Dana and [...]

Last night a seemingly spontaneous group of conservatives and Republicans started playing a game on Twitter. I first saw a message from Stephen Green (@Vodkapundit) with the hashtag (a code that enables an easy, quick search for similar Tweets) #liberalchildrensbooks that said, “Oh the Thinks You Can’t Think!” I searched the hashtag to see what [...]

The timing of two new studies seems awfully convenient for those pushing for government-run health care. Or does it?
Sketchy study #1: Canadian researchers are questioning the usefulness of clinical breast exams in conjunction with mammograms, saying yes, they increase early detection, but the rate of “false-positives” increases, too. It’s a “steep price” to pay. They [...]