In This Dimension

The Unmasking of Barack Obama

The below was posted as noted. The world - if not the American Left - yet - has begun to figure out our childish president.

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Posted By Peter Wehner On November 30, 2009 @ 11:17 AM In Contentions

The overseas reviews for President Obama’s foreign policy are starting to pour in — and they’re not favorable. Bob Ainsworth, the British defense secretary, has blamed Obama for the decline in British public support for the war in Afghanistan. According to the Telegraph:

Mr. Ainsworth took the unprecedented step of publicly criticizing the U.S. President and his delays in sending more troops to bolster the mission[…]

Remember - We’re Doing this to SAVE Money… ROFLMAO!!!!

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has finally unveiled his massive 2,074-page health care bill. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports that the insurance-expansion provisions would cost the feds $848 billion over 10 years, says Michael F. Cannon, director of health policy studies with the Cato Institute.

To raise those funds:

• The bill would tax wages, medical devices, prescription drugs, sick people, health insurance premiums (twice), health savings accounts (HSAs), flexible spending accounts (FSAs), health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs), and cosmetic surgery.
• The remainder would supposedly come from $491 billion of Medicare cuts, even though Medicare’s chief actuary says such cuts are “unrealistic” and “doubtful.”
• The $848[…]

New EU President: ‘Copenhagen First Year of Global Governance”

I know many of you scoff at the idea that the Left wants to run the world, that the Left really has global government on their agenda. It’s just a bogey-man dreamt up by the Right, isn’t it?

No.

The new President of the EU is an unaccountable bureaucrat from the teeny-weenie country of Belgium – the crossing of which by the Germans began WW1, which begat the USSR and WW2, which begat the Cold War which begat Korea, which begat Vietnam, which begat the idiocy of the American and European Left in 1968 and the Sixties generally, which begat Carter, who[…]

Doctor Shortage, Healthcare and Mass.

From THE HILL today.

Joseph Stubbs, president of the American College of Physicians — the second-largest doctors’ group in the country — confirms that “the supply of doctors just won’t be there” for the 30 million new patients President Barack Obama wants to cover. Noting that the doctor shortage is “already a catastrophic crisis,” Stubbs noted that underserved areas in the U.S. currently need almost 17,000 new primary care physicians even before Obama’s proposals are enacted.

In the meantime, according to Bloomberg News, a 2009 survey by Merritt Hawkins & Associates, a recruiting and research firm in Irving, Texas, found that “the average[…]

Letter from Grandpa

John G. is 63 years old and owns a small business. He’s a life-long Republican and sees his dream of retiring next year has all but evaporated. With the stock market crashing and new taxes coming his way, John assumes now that he will work to his dying day.

John has a granddaughter. Ashley is a recent college grad. She drives a flashy hybrid car, wears all the latest fashions, and loves to go out to nightclubs and restaurants. Ashley campaigned hard for Barack Obama. After the election she made sure her grandfather (and all other Republican family members) received a[…]

A Few Details of Pelosi/Obama-care

I know there are many who support the concept of Obamacare or Pelosicare - whatever you call it. But do you think these people are aware of the following that are IN THE BILL passed by Pelosi’s House?

NO?

Then perhaps we should ensure they know about things like a MANDATORY $15,000 policy for their family, or a fine of 2.5% of their income for not buying one?

Do YOU have FIFTEEN GRAND to give to the government in the midst of this government-caused recession?

Do YOU really believe that lowering your standard of living to provide healthcare benefits to people too dumb or too[…]

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — on Trial?

So now we are going to put this warmonger on trial. He attacked America with WMD, killing thousands. HE and his terrorists created about 15,000 orphans in an instant.

Everyone - even Democrats - know this was an act of war. Democrats, however, don’t accept our going to war - they’re OK voting for the odd combat mission (which is NOT war; we are not AT war in Afghanistan, for example, we are applying martial law - the differences are huge - but Democrats don’t get that).

As always, Powerline gets to the point with the only salient question:

“Ask yourself this question: suppose that[…]

America Leaves Itself Behind

In the event you aren’t paying lots of attention to international trade, here’s an update: The world is busily signing bilateral trade treaties that each signing country sees as in their favor… and American Democrats in Congress and the White House, in thrall to their union compatriots, are not signing anything, dragging America farther and farther behind in international trade and the prosperity that ALWAYS comes from such trade.

Anyone who actually thinks other countries will pay attention to our bleats about human rights, women’s rights, the environment, nuclear weapons, etc., when we are totally disengaging from that world is just[…]

More on Democrats, News Censorship and Intimidation

Yep - this is Holder and Obama going after a news site, subpoenaing all their traffic for a day, and doing so in violation of Justice Department procedures and, of course, the First Amendment.

Yep - they even told the site owner (a lefty aggregator of lefty articles and columns already published elsewhere)  ”not to disclose the existence of this request” - a gag order - on a journalist - from the LEFT! Trying to gag her from telling people what a Lefty government is trying to do to a Lefty news site!!!!

How cool is that!

I keep telling you the Left generally, and[…]

Obamacare, Education, Jobs and the Future of a Divided America

What Obamacare really means:

As the two largest state budget items are Education and Medicaid, and since the Pelosi/Obamacare bill will put huge new requirements on states for additional Medicaid funding, the only way to get those funds will be for the states to lower the amount of money spent on education (most states have constitutional requirements of balancing their budgets).

By expanding Medicaid in the health care bill, Congress will set off political tornadoes across the country that will leave governors and state legislators to clean up afterward.  The math is simple, says Heritage:

• State revenues are still in a slump and will[…]