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Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Thursday, September 24, 2009 1:53:48 PM
Gee, connections between Obama, ACORN, Chicago Democrats and banks?  Who could have imagined?
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Government work at its finest...

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 6:27:33 PM
God help us when these trainees start taking care of government-provided "health care."  The same government that cannot handle the paperwork for "Cash for Clunkers" is going to take over 1/6 of the entire American economy?

This quote from Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is priceless: "'I know some of you have a little heartburn, but you're all going to get paid,' LaHood said in a Sept. 16 speech to the National Automobile Dealers Association. 'Maybe not in the timely way you would have liked.'"

Now substitute ANY ailment for "a little heartburn," and "treated" for "paid," and you have Obamacare in a nutshell.

We are doomed.

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THIS is what's coming when government controls "health care"

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Monday, September 21, 2009 3:04:35 PM
I have said on numerous occasions that using the term "health care" in the current debate is a treacherous misstatement.  YOU are in charge of your own "health." When something catastrophic happens (an accident, or serious illness), and you are in need of professional intervention, then you need medical care.  But this sloppy terminology predates the current debate about Obamacare; for far too long, people have been expecting their insurance policies to pay for things far in excess of medical care, in a strict sense.

Calling the system "health care," and then arguing that the government should provide it, is arguing for the government to control much, much more than just your medical care (and God knows, that is bad enough).

This article from the United Kingdom - which has had government-provided "health care" for decades - demonstrates just what can - and will happen when the government starts paying the bills.  "Obesity is now viewed as a type of [child] abuse."  Are they kidding?

Nope.  And you thought death panels were bad?  Wait until they start appointing "obesity" panels to come take away your children.

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"Politics is the fact that tells a lie."

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Monday, September 21, 2009 12:02:48 PM
And more great lines from Alex Castellanos here at NRO.
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Bob Dole is the "Republican Ghost of Failures Past"?

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Monday, September 21, 2009 11:13:50 AM
One of the best lines I've heard in months.  Does that make John McCain the Republican Ghost of Failures Present?  So who would the Republican Ghost of Failures Yet to Come be?  (Please, please, don't nominate another weak-kneed, hapless, conciliatory RINO.  Because that's who it will be.)

Read the whole thing here.
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Poor Elizabeth Edwards

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Saturday, September 19, 2009 7:40:26 PM
I can think of few things more heartbreaking or dispiriting when you are fighting cancer than finding out that your husband is already planning to marry his mistress (and the mother of the illegitimate child he lied about) when you die.  If that story is true, then there isn't anything bad enough I can say about John Edwards.
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Jay Nordlinger on Obama's "foreign policy"

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Thursday, September 17, 2009 10:16:43 AM
"I thought Barack Obama would be a poor and troublesome president. Did I think he would yuk it up with Hugo Chávez, smirk with Daniel Ortega about the Bay of Pigs, turn his wrath on a Central American country trying to follow its constitution, denounce President Bush abroad, bow to the king of Saudi Arabia, endorse a radical Middle Eastern view of how Israel came into being, knock Western countries that try to protect Muslim girls from unwanted shrouding, invite the Iranian regime to our Fourth of July parties, stay essentially mute in the face of counterrevolution in Iran, squeeze and panic Israel, cold-shoulder the Cuban democrats in order to warm to the Cuban dictatorship, scrap missile defense in Eastern Europe, and refuse to meet with the Dalai Lama — in addition to his attempts to have government eat great portions of American society? No, I did not. You?"
 
Did I actually contemplate the possibility of these specific events?  No.  Am I surprised?  No.  Because Obama is, at his core, someone who believes in the power of oppressive authoritarianism, as long as it accomplishes his goals.  He rarely talks about freedom or liberty, because those concepts are impediments to his agenda.  He cares little for what goes on elsewhere, and isn't willing to expend whatever pitiful political capital he might have abroad.  And he sees America as a racist, oppressive, interfering, imperialist, warmongering menace whose "sins" he is only too happy to apologize for.
 
None of our allies can count on our support as long as Obama is President.
 
And all of those who hate us abroad are chuckling and lying in wait.
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Jon Stewart is more of a "real" journalist...

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 10:42:49 PM
than the "real" journalists he skewers in this video.


The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c
The Audacity of Hos
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show
Full Episodes		Political HumorHealthcare Protests


Kudos to Stewart for having the b@ll$ to call it like it is.
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Rick Santelli takes 'em on again

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Monday, September 14, 2009 3:56:28 PM
One of only a handful of decent journalists left. Uh -- I mean right.



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Does this mean Obama is "the a$$ of progress"?

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Saturday, September 12, 2009 3:29:24 PM
Hey, don't blame me.  It was an "unnamed White House Official."
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Why should business pay for this?

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Friday, September 11, 2009 8:56:05 PM
This story, out of Indiana, is precisely what is wrong with our current insurance system ... and WHY GOVERNMENT-PROVIDED INSURANCE WILL BE WORSE.

The man's employer offered to pay for the surgery to address the back injury.  But the employee is obese, and his doctor says he will have a much better prognosis on the back surgery if he loses weight.  So now the employee is arguing that the company he works for should pay for his stomach-band surgery to lose weight as well.  The employer disagrees, and an Indiana court has sided with the employee.

This demonstrates why it is critical to use the term "medical care" and not "health care" when discussing these issues.  YOU are responsible for your HEALTH.  And it is only when serious professional intervention is called for that insurance should kick in, for heavy-duty "medical care."

Because American culture "medicalizes" everything, we have come to believe that - unlike car insurance, home insurance, etc. - everything associated with maintaining one's "health" should be insured.  This is a prescription for bankruptcy.

If this Indiana man needs to lose weight, then he should LOSE it, and then have the back surgery.  His employer did not cause his obesity, and they should not be forced to pay for it.

Imagine what we will be looking at when a country where 30% of the population is obese starts claiming that they should be getting bariatric, or lap-band surgery, and the rest of us should pay for it.

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"Just the facts, Obama."

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Friday, September 11, 2009 7:48:26 PM
This is effing brilliant.


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I love you, Camille Paglia, but yes...

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Thursday, September 10, 2009 2:34:45 PM
... you ARE living in the past.  Still, if anyone wants to know what's wrong with the Democrat Party (I refuse to refer to that bunch of elitist, totalitarian, condescending ideologues as "democratic"), Paglia's article in Salon this week is a good place to start.

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Connect the dots.

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Tuesday, September 08, 2009 10:16:55 PM
It's like I - and a few others - have been saying since the beginning.  Obama is, at his core, a Marxist.  And he is surrounded by Marxists.  People who listen to the rhetoric aren't paying attention.  But Americans are catching on.
 
There is an excellent synopsis here, written by Jeffrey Lord at the American Spectator. When you look at the events, when you connect the dots, the picture is clear.  Obama wants to "remake America" into a "socialist workers' paradise."  And unlike the socialist states in Europe, Obama's basic inclinations are far more Communist than socialist.  He is an ideologue in the worse sense of the word.  And he has surrounded himself with like-minded others.
 
Every single one of those "czars" needs to go.
 
"Had enough"?  Hell, I'd had enough before the guy was even elected.  Our best hope now is to throw most of the liberals and otherwise limp-wristed RINOs in Congress OUT next year.
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It's not just liberal Catholic writer E.J. Dionne...

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Monday, September 07, 2009 12:31:23 PM
... it's what's wrong with most left-wing writers who ground their so-called "liberalism" in a distortion of Christianity.  (Although I would submit that "liberal" Catholics' views are the most inconsistent.)  Christ may have said that it was easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into Heaven, but it doesn't follow that He would advocate the creation of a government that takes a rich man's wealth by force.  And I have a hard time believing that Christ would defend abortion as a necessary evil that must be funded by the government, until we obtain perfect "social justice." 

Mark Judge writes a great article about it here.

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