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Obamacare Is About Power
Members of the House of Representatives are scheduled to vote Thursday to repeal all of Obamacare. Given that the House voted to repeal the law last year, some commentators and observers have questioned the need for another repeal vote. However, the scandals coming to light over the last week perfectly make the case for why… Read more »
Untimely Controversy: Sacramento Bee’s Jack Ohman ‘stunned’ by Perry’s response to his hot-button cartoon.
JACK OHMAN wasn’t just surprised by his satirical target’s response. He was stunned. “Not just by the massive response,” Ohman tells Comic Riffs, “but to the willful misinterpretation of the cartoon.” That willful misinterpretation, the Sacramento Bee journalist says, was by Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who in the cartoon (published last Thursday) is depicted as… Read more »
Senate Gun Control Bill Erodes Your Rights and Privacy
Since the tragic shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, Obama and many in Congress have pushed a “do something” mentality on gun control. Heritage experts urged lawmakers to consider the host of complex factors that contribute to violent outbreaks and to steer away from untested ideas that would restrict the rights of law-abiding citizens. But the plan… Read more »
China, US to form group on climate change
The United States and China are to set up a joint working group on climate change and have a shared view on the “increasing dangers” of global warming. The two countries “recognize that the increasing dangers presented by climate change measured against the inadequacy of the global response requires a more focused and urgent initiative”,… Read more »
Keeping Americans Safe Online
Everything we do is online. If you’ve been the victim of identity theft or an email phishing scam, you know how quickly your personal data can be stolen or threatened. It’s important to know the difference between types of cyber threats and the right approach to fighting them. There are three tiers of cyber threats,… Read more »
Dissecting Health Care’s Unhealthy Work Environment
At some point, you have to ask yourself: Why can’t health care providers get it right? In 1999, the Institute of Medicine issued a scathing report, called To Err Is Human, which said almost 100,000 people die each year because of preventable medical errors. Ten years later, a follow-up report found little progress had been… Read more »
Keystone XL Pipeline Does Little Environmental Harm, U.S. Finds
The Obama administration today moved one step closer to approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, concluding in a draft environmental impact statement that the project would not accelerate global greenhouse gas emissions or significantly harm the natural habitats along its route. The report, done by the State Department, suggests that the proposed 875-mile pipeline, which… Read more »
In The Club
Probably everyone reading this has belonged to an organization or a club at some time in their life. Perhaps you have even started a club or two, especially when you were younger. Let’s start a club with the following rules and we’ll see who wants to join. Our club will start with 300 members. Half… Read more »
‘Obamacare’ health care reform ALREADY forcing doctors to close practices
After 25 years of practicing medicine, Dr. Tamzin Rosenwasser packed in her dermatology practice in 2011, barely a year after the passage of Obama’s health care initiative. The timing wasn’t coincidental. “I have interrupted practicing medicine because of Obamacare,” said Dr. Rosenwasser. “I’d read the bill. I was conversant with what had already happened with… Read more »
Getting a Meddling Government Out of Our Lives
The next time a cashier asks “paper or plastic?” think of Abbie Schoenwetter. He spent more than six years in federal confinement for shipping lobster in plastic instead of cardboard. There’s no American law against doing so. But thanks to a vague, overly broad, and otherwise unjust federal criminal law, the U.S. government claimed it… Read more »
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