Angry Bear (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt The Changing Face of Health Care Fraud Every President since Gerald Ford has campaigned against Medicare and Medicaid “waste, fraud and abuse.” Ditto many people campaigning for Congress. The primary fraud prevention systems are aimed at providers, with the Office of Inspector General (DHHS – CMS) and the FBI taking the lead on large fraud cases. States are...
The Key Monk (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Twenty years ago today, the Berlin Wall fell. Ronald Reagan's moral clarity resonated in the four words he spoke in West Berlin in 1987: "TEAR DOWN THIS WALL." But Obama did not deem the 20th anniversary of the fall of the preeminent symbol of Communist evil significant enough as the president of the country that fought such evil for 44 years to fly to Berlin to commemorate its fall, signifying...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
There is No Frakking "Scientific Consensus" on Global Warming: Canada's Tar Sands & Cancer Rates From this morning's paper: Report casts doubt on MD's claims about Alberta reserve's cancer rates To some, Dr. John O'Connor is a whistleblower in the finest tradition - calling attention to environmental impacts others would prefer not to think about. To others, he's an activist who has permitted...
Extra Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Katie Couric wore a Kate Gosselin wig on Halloween, and Taylor Swift slapped one on to poke fun at the mother of eight on "Saturday Night Live," but which woman wore it best? See what other stars dressed up as on Halloween 2009 Tell "Extra" -- Who wears Kate Gosselin's funky hairdo the best? Best 'SNL' Celeb Impersonations Darrell Hammond as Bill Clinton Will Ferrell as George W....
California Conservative (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The first quote I remember from presidential campaigns was Gerald Ford declaring that Jimmy Carter would soon become a “one-term wonder.” He said it with such confidence that it’s stuck with me all these years. That quote was triggered this morning because, in his first hour as a congresscritter, Bill Owens declared that he’d be [...]
The Plank (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
From a new cover story on Sarah Palin by Weekly Standard hack Matthew Continetti,: Last week, when Joe Biden traveled to upstate New York to campaign for Democratic congressional candidate Bill Owens, the vice president took aim at Sarah Palin. "The fact of the matter is that Sarah Palin thinks the answer to energy was 'drill, baby, drill,' " Biden said. "No, it's a lot more complicated,...
Action 4 Equality Scotland (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Headline of the week must go to today's Daily Express ( www.express.co.uk ) for its front page splash - which says that MPs are looking for a £40,000 pay rise - to compensate for the loss of their allowances and expenses. Now a backbench MPs' salary (£64,766) is not exactly a king's ransom - but it's not poverty pay either. An MP gets paid four or five times more than a Home Carer or Classroom...
Saber Point (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
From her Facebook page (hat tip Another Black Conservative ), Sarah Palin commends Doug Hoffman and remembers Ronald Reagan in his political defeat of 1976: The race for New York’s 23rd District is not over, just postponed until 2010. The issues of this election have always centered on the economy – on the need for fiscal restraint, smaller government, and policies that encourage jobs....
MyDD (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Gallup has produced a useful graph listing Presidential approval and midterm election results over the past 60 or so years that's worth taking a gander at. The numbers that stand out to me the most are those of President Eisenhower. Unlike the other Presidents on the lists, whose parties' fortunes rose or fell with their approval ratings (with the exception of Gerald Ford, who was President for just...
The Brad Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Guest Blogged by Frank Schaeffer I grew up in a fundamentalist missionary family that in the 1970s and 80s morphed into my father's activity as one of the founders of the Religious Right. We would hobnob with Republican leaders from Ronald Reagan to Gerald Ford and the Bush family, Jack Kemp and many others. [...]
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
DOWNLOADS: (90) PLAYS: (171) From the great mind that brought us both Sarah Palin and Dan Quayle, Bill Kristol first does his best to build up what electoral successes in Virginia and New Jersey might mean for the Republicans in 2010, even though he claims that’s not what he’s doing. Republicans managing to pick up a Governor’s seat in Virginia or having an unpopular Governor in...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
"Gerald Ford will always be president." That's a cynical piece of Washington wisdom that you can find a) discomfiting, or b) reassuring. But c), it...
The Swamp (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
by Mark Silva A lot of things have moved pretty quickly in the Obama administration. But not presidential pardons. This week, according to one of the nation's authorities on presidential pardons, President Barack Obama passes Richard Nixon in the lineup of presidents slowest to grant their first pardons. In two and a quarter centuries, only four presidents have proven slower than Obama in exercising...
Michael Goldfarb - The Blog (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
The boss writes at the Washington Post: The moderate-conservative divide in the GOP was never more evident than in 1976-1980. Ronald Reagan challenged President Gerald Ford for the nomination in 1976, conservatives knocked of Republicans in Senate primaries in 1978...
The Next Right (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
For the better part of today, I have been reading reactions among the right to the news of Dede Scozzafava's withdrawl from the NY-23 race. Probably the most oft repeated commentary I have seen is that the developments of this race once again prove that, "moderate Republicans rarely succeed, and true conservatism wins every time". Scozzafava dropping out is indeed a great thing for the conservative...
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