Last week, as President Obama explained health care reform was “a core ethical and moral obligation,” America’s physicians said his proposed reforms would challenge the ethical and moral obligations embedded in their professional standards. In a poll commissioned by the American Society of Medical Doctors, 70 percent of specialty physicians …
Read More »Miss California USA Should Quit or Be Fired
Sat, 02 May 2009 19:06:42 +0000 – By John TantilloMarketing Expert/Founder and President, Marketing Department of America It’s time for Miss California USA, Carrie Prejean, to turn in her crown or get fired. I might get some heat for this statement, since Miss Prejean has garnered quite a bit of …
Read More »Did Media Push GOP Gang of Three Over the Edge?
Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:55:55 +0000 – By Noel SheppardAssociate Editor, Newsbusters.org A new era of almost unprecedented government spending inched perilously closer to reality Tuesday when the Senate narrowly approved an $838 billion “economic recovery” plan. As FOXNews.com reported: The bill passed by a vote of 61-37. Sixty votes …
Read More »It Is Anti-American to Try to Keep Newspapers Afloat
Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:11:21 +0000 – By Glenn BeckHost, “Glenn Beck”, FOX News Channel “Extra, extra-read all about it!” Or . . . not. Yeah, these days you don’t see kids on street corners hawking their headlines in a marketplace where just about every good-sized city used to have …
Read More »Who's really stupid? What Jonathan Gruber got wrong about ObamaCare
Academics often believe they are the smartest people around, and they like to tell others how best to live their lives. Add the government’s power to control people’s lives and you have a dangerous combination. Americans got a taste of this elitism when MIT’s Jonathan Gruber mocked “the stupidity of …
Read More »Five reasons Americans can’t find jobs
Friday, the Labor Department is expected to report the economy added about 215,000 jobs in September, about half of what is needed each month to bring unemployment down to pre-financial crisis levels. The official unemployment rate is 6.1 percent, but that hardly provides a fair description of the jobs crisis. …
Read More »Want to attack income inequality? US must expand vocational training, cut back on college
Ahead of the midterm elections, Democrats have pushed back hard against Republican reluctance to raise the minimum wage. But to really address income inequality, federal and state governments should shift funds from colleges and universities and redirect resources and students into vocational programs. The U.S. economy supports many well-paying jobs …
Read More »You aren’t just surrounded by miracles, you are one
I know people who say they have never experienced a miracle. Maybe you’re one of them. But I would argue that you have never not experienced one. It may seem like you’re sitting still right now, but it’s an illusion of miraculous proportions. Planet Earth is spinning around its axis …
Read More »It may be impossible for Hillary Clinton to distance herself from Barack Obama
Barack Obama believed his legacy as president would be that he ended the Iraq war. It looks increasingly that his legacy could be that he lost it. By their admission, President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden inherited a war that had been won. In 2011 Mr. Obama said America …
Read More »Is country music dead?
As a platinum-selling country music artist and, more importantly, a lifelong fan of the genre, I’d like to send out this heartfelt plea to the gatekeepers of the industry: Enough already. I’d like to think that I am expressing what nearly every artist, musician and songwriter (with perhaps a few …
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