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Entries from June 2009

Nuggets of News Cause Blogger to Pause

June 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Surfing through the morning news headlines, I found some nuggets of news that caused me to pause for a moment and thought they might have a similar effect on you: NO CHRYSLER DEALERS LEFT IN DETROIT:  Last week, Lochmoor Chrysler Jeep on Detroit’s East Side stopped selling Chrysler products, one of the 789 franchises Chrysler [...]

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Obama Health Care Reform Full of Deception

June 16th, 2009 · No Comments

In a post yesterday, I shared a video about the “real goal” of the so-called “public” health care reform plan conceived by Dr. Jacob S. Hacker and embraced by President Barack Obama. Today, I offer another video, “The Public Plan Deception: It’s Not About Choice,” that highlights the same “real goal” — that is, to [...]

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Obama Inspires Fun & Games Photo Manipulation

June 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Though unable to produce much in the way of positive results elsewhere, President Barack Obama has been able to inspire conservative, artistic bloggers like the ones at America Is An Obamanation! Examples of their work appear below: Hat tip: Moonbattery

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Jerusalem Post Publishes ‘Must-Read’ Editorial

June 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Amidst serious post-election turmoil in Iran, President Barack Obama has been quoted during the last 24 hours as saying that the United States respects that country’s sovereignty.  It’s too bad he doesn’t care as much for the people of Israel. One person who has taken notice of President Obama’s apparent “cold shoulder” toward the Jewish [...]

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Obama’s Health Care Reform Architect ‘Would Not Be Upset’ If Private Insurers Are ‘Squeezed Out’

June 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment

A health care reform plan developed by Dr. Jacob S. Hacker is, according to this article at The New Republic, widely considered the rough model for the reform plans many Democrats, including President Barack Obama, have embraced. If it winds up putting private insurers out of business and forcing everyone to rely upon the government-run [...]

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President to Doctors: ‘Don’t Get Too Excited Yet’

June 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment

“Don’t get too excited yet.” Delivered to an audience of doctors and other medical professionals at the Annual Conference of the American Medical Association in Chicago this morning, those five words are perhaps the best advice ever given to medical doctors by President Barack Obama. Delivered soon after the halfway point of his near-hour-long speech [...]

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Broadcast Television Industry In Same Place Newspaper Industry Was Five Years Ago

June 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Harry Blodget says the traditional broadcast television industry (i.e., cable companies, networks, and broadcasters) is in the same place traditional newspapers were about five years ago:  In denial. Here’s the best part, according to Blodget: You won’t have five channels, or 50 channels, or 500 channels. You’ll have millions of channels. You’ll be able to [...]

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