Even though government already pays 60% of all health care costs Medicare is losing money, and about 10% of all Medicare spending is waste, the Democrats are determined to expand government's role in health care. Of course, it is even more important to Harry Reid that he attend a fund raiser this weekend, so he asked the Republicans to take this weekend off. The House's bill would probably push states to opt out of Medicare, even with the big federal subsidies that come along with it.
In Copenhagen, rich countries are being accused of "climate colonialism" while the Chinese and now even a Canadian columnist are saying that the key to fixing global warming is population control. Meanwhile, the EPA is trying to tax termites while the upper Midwest freezes under four feet of snow. This piece is very long, but it proves that the warmers faked data to bolster their claims that the earth is warming.
Obama defended the United States' wars while accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, but the Norwegians are still ticked because he's not doing all of the things a Nobel Prize winner usually does.
Rep. Alan Grayson is at it again, this time telling Dick Cheney to "STFU."
Now Marco Rubio is admitting that he would have accepted the "stimulus" money. Political courage only goes so far.
The TSA posted online what is essentially a how-to for terrorists on getting through airport security.
The CEO of GE gave a speech yesterday attacking executive "greed." I wonder how much money he makes. Bankers in London are angry with plans by the UK government to tax bonuses at 50%.
The Democrats are going to lift the debt ceiling by $1.8 trillion.
Gibbsy yesterday complained about Republican playing the "blame game," then blamed the Bush Administration for the economy.
Forty-four percent of voters would prefer to have Bush back in the White House over Obama. This is part of the reason why Karl Rove believes that Republicans could retake the Senate next year.
China is going to raise the "earnings" of lower and middle-income subjects.
The White House was serving acorn-shaped cookies at their Christmas Party Monday.
The University of Minnesota wants to make sure that government educators are well-versed in issues like "white privilege" and "the myth of meritocracy in the United States." Who cares about reading, writing, and arithmetic?
This robber went after the wrong hot dog vender.
An 82-year-old woman hit and killed a 5-year-old girl in Cobb County this morning after hitting the wrong pedal.
A Dekalb County state senator is trying to end the mindless "zero tolerance" policies regarding weapons in schools. Maybe people could use some common sense instead.
Larry O'Neal sent an e-mail to his House colleagues yesterday announcing his intention to run for Speaker of the House, and Bill Hembree from Villa Rica did the same thing. Meanwhile, Rep. Jim Cole is trying to get all the candidates for speaker to sign a code of behavior and Rep. James Mill is going to propose a rule to expel from the caucus any Republican member who does not support their choice for Speaker.
Houston County District Attorney Kelly Burke says that there were no guns or money in the ceiling above Mayor Donald Walker's office.
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