The Washington Independent
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The Democrats downplaying the gravity of new recommendations for breast cancer screening have left out an inconvenient fact: their health care bills would automatically adopt them.
Dave Ghen
Dave Ghen
Rationing is on the way. How else can cost be controlled in a government run system? We now know how the left will govern this Country. Hopefully things will change next November.
10 hours ago
Chriss R Miller
Chriss R Miller
Rationing is here right now--ask those on a "government run" health plan how they like it---surveys show they are WAYYY more satisfied than those of us on private plans that exist now--how can cost be controlled? by acting like a business unlike what the RIGHT did when they passed a law forbidding government entities from negotiating drug prices by buying in bulk just like private plans do--yes, let us hope the left will govern differently
10 hours ago
Irene Budoff
Irene Budoff
Try to get "experimental" treatments today from the insurance companies. Practices that have been in place for years are still considered too new or too risky for most insurance companies. There has been rationing on a MAJOR scale for years...has no one noticed? People denied treatment because of "existing conditions" or policies dropped when a specific disease becomes too expensive for an insurance company...then the dropped person can't get covered by other companies either.
4 hours ago
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The new unit created by the Obama administration to interrogate the highest-value terrorism targets is unlikely to play a role in the case of the highest-profile new potential terrorist target in U.S. custody: Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged Fort Hood shooter.
Dave Ghen
Dave Ghen
Political correctness will bring down this country. A Muslim hears jihad is OK, in particular killing is sanctioned and kills soldiers and wounds 30 or 40 more and it seems inappropriate to call that terrorism. Lieberman got it right. Hasan is a homegrown terrorist.
10 hours ago
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Mortgage giant Fannie Mae’s recent announcement that it will give homeowners facing foreclosure the chance to stay in their properties as renters for as long as a year is the latest aggressive move by the government to help troubled borrowers and tenants avoid being evicted. ...
The Washington Independent
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Attorney General Eric Holder surely knew he’d be facing a tough audience when he prepared to testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. That may be why instead of delivering the written testimony ...
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President George W. Bush with judicial nominees Priscilla Owen, Janice Rogers Brown and Carolyn Kuhl in 2003 (whitehouse.gov archives)
Patrick Kennedy
Patrick Kennedy
Does anyone really care what conservatives think? Elections have consequences...
Thu at 12:39pm
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If President Obama orders an additional 30,000 to 40,000 troops to Afghanistan, he will be deploying practically every available U.S. Army brigade to war, leaving few units in reserve in case of an unforeseen ...
The Washington Independent
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It happens in every recession: Medicaid enrollment leaps at precisely the same time that states are least able to afford the additional costs. The structural flaw has left state lawmakers threatening program ...
The Washington Independent
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Carly Fiorina announced her 2010 campaign for California’s U.S. Senate seat in the usual way. She rolled out a new Website. She bounded across a stage at a “green detergents” factory ...
The Washington Independent
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The Democrats’proposal to terminate the Children’s Health Insurance Program would hike health care costs for some of the country’s low-income families, likely increasing the number of uninsured ...
The Washington Independent
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On October 30, the Justice Department for the first time applied its new “state secrets” policy to a case charging the government with breaking the law. Open government advocates hoping for ...
The Washington Independent
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On Saturday, 64 Democrats backed Rep. Bart Stupak’s (D-Mich.) amendment to prevent abortions from being funded with taxpayer money in the comprehensive House health care bill. On Wednesday morning, ...
Hal Rosene
Hal Rosene
This is the Democratic Party's blessing and its curse: We don't march in republican-style lockstep. We are free and indepedent thinkers, and we pay the price for it.
November 12 at 2:56pm
Ellen Johnson
Ellen Johnson
No kidding. A poll out today asks would you vote for a generic Dem or a generic Repub? Repubs beat the Dems. & the pundits were saying the Dems need to not tackle the hard issues b/c it makes them unpopular. I disagree. It's b/c Reid, et al have (to use a Cheney word) dithered.
November 12 at 6:31pm
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After nearly 11 months of allowing the top U.S. foreign-development bureau go without permanent leadership, the Obama administration decided Tuesday afternoon on the unconventional choice of Rajiv Shah, ...
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Election night was bittersweet for Andrew Moylan. The young government affairs manager of the conservative National Taxpayers Union was watching returns in Asheville, N.C., with fellow attendees of the conservative State Policy Network’s annual meeting. ...
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Twenty-four-year-old Amir Meshal, the son of Muslim immigrants from Egypt, was a lifelong resident of New Jersey when, after living briefly in Cairo with extended family members, in 2006 he decided to go to Somalia to study Islam and experience living under Islamic law. ...
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To hear the Democrats tell the tale, the extension of jobless benefits enacted over the weekend will provide those living in high-unemployment states with an additional 20 weeks of insurance.
David Moore
David Moore
You cannot make states like South Carolina support their obligation. Todays line At opening eas 100 deep. Turn downs and brush offs for most in Anderson County.
November 9 at 6:12pm