Expert: Healthcare Reform Hidden Costs To Trigger ‘Massive’ New Taxes
Congress is using “every budget gimmick in the book” to conceal hundreds of billions in healthcare-reform costs that will lead to “massive tax increases” and higher insurance premiums, one of the country's leading healthcare experts warns.
Dr. Robert E. Moffit, a senior official in the Department of Health and Human Services during the Reagan administration, who [...]
Unemployment Rate Hits 10 Percent For The First Time Since 1983
WASHINGTON — The unemployment rate has surpassed 10 percent for the first time since 1983 – and is likely to go higher.
Nearly 16 million people can’t find jobs even though the worst recession since the Great Depression has apparently ended. Many economists worry that persistently high unemployment could undermine the recovery by restraining consumer spending, [...]
Iraqi Woman In US Dead After Father Runs Her Over For Being Too Westernized
PHOENIX — A young Iraqi woman whose father allegedly hit her with his car because she had become too Westernized died from her injuries Monday after laying in a coma for nearly two weeks.
Noor Faleh Almaleki, 20, underwent spinal surgery and had been in a hospital since Oct. 20, when police say her father ran [...]
Gorbachev: Bush 41 called Reagan ‘extreme,’ said GOP supporters ‘blockheads’ | Raw Story
Vice President George H. W. Bush confided in Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that he believed Ronald Reagan was an “extreme conservative” supported by “blockheads and dummies,” the former Soviet leader claims.
“In 1987, after my first visit to the United States, Vice President Bush accompanied me to the airport, and told me: ‘Reagan is a conservative. [...]
Public option would lead him to filibuster, key senator says
Washington (CNN) — Independent Sen. Joseph Lieberman said Tuesday he would join a Republican filibuster to block the final vote on any health care bill that has a government-run public health insurance option.
Lieberman’s vote is crucial to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s hopes of passing a health care bill that includes the controversial public option. [...]
RealClearPolitics – Irate and Independent
A poll of opinion polls shows Americans’ attitudes are changing rapidly.
They are less and less thrilled about the country’s direction and Congress, according to Tom Bevan, executive editor of national polling aggregator RealClearPolitics. He says independent voters are shifting away from the polices of the Obama administration and Democrats.
“Independents have flipped negative,” warns Bevan. “That’s [...]
Mexican cartel leader pleads guilty to drug charges
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A Mexican cartel leader, best known as the brother of the man who killed DEA Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, pleaded guilty in Denver, Colorado, to drug trafficking charges on Friday.
Nearly 20 years after his indictment, Miguel Angel Caro-Quintero, 46, admitted trafficking more than 100 tons of marijuana, and sending more than $100 [...]
Lou Dobbs: John Stossel A “Self-Important Ass”
If Lou Dobbs really is heading to Fox Business, he isn’t looking to make any friends there.
On his radio show Thursday, Dobbs slammed Fox Business’ latest high-profile hire, John Stossel, calling the former ABC News correspondent a “self-important ass” who has “his own brand of myopic idiocy.”
Stossel had taken Dobbs to task for what he [...]
Grayson launches Names Of The Dead.com
Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson has launched a website, NamesOfTheDead.com, to honor the 44,000 people who die every year because they don’t have health insurance.
“I have created this project in their memory. I hope that honoring them will help us end this senseless loss of American lives,” Grayson writes on the site. “If you have lost [...]
Police: Man ran down ‘too Westernized’ daughter
(CNN) — Arizona police are looking for an Iraqi man who they allege ran down his daughter and her friend because he believed his daughter had become “too Westernized.”
Peoria, Arizona, police said Wednesday that Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, struck his 20-year-old daughter, Noor Faleh Almaleki, and her friend Amal Edan Khalaf with a vehicle he [...]
