Sarah Palin was correct (again)

So, it turns out Sarah Palin was absolutely correct when she spoke of “death panels” under Obamacare:

Death Panels Live! In his Politico piece calling for a revival of Obamacare’s original end-of-life-counseling provisions, Harold Pollack blames “Palin, Bachmann and McCaughey” for having “dragged comparative effectiveness research (CER) into the broader partisan knife-fight over health reform.” But of course the main person who dragged comparative effectiveness into the knife-fight was Barack Obama, expounding on red pills vs. blue pills to David Leonhardt in the NYT months before Palin’s “death panel” gibe (and doing it again in subsequent speeches and statements). … Obama also put cost saving through “comparative effectiveness” squarely in the context of end-of-life decisions when he questioned whether his terminally ill grandmother should have been given a hip operation. (While Pollack  says end-of-life treatment is not one of the top targets for savings, Obama says it’s a “huge driver of costs.”)

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/09/poor-malia/#ixzz37EbJ7im6

It looks like Netanyahu stood up to Obama’s pressure

Well, I certainly hope that Israel will simply finish Hamas off. I am glad that so far it seems that Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו is not bending to pressure and intends to continue going after Hamas.

Obama Talks to Netanyahu—Did Bibi Tell Barry to Stuff It?

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Well, maybe not stuff it, but finally someone may be standing up to America’s ultra-reactionary, fumbling, paleo-narcisstic and now hugely unpopular president — and his name is Benjamin Netanyahu.

For the Left, their perverted goal justifies the means

Whenever the Left thinks that they are acting for the greater good, they are willing to violate any laws, and destroy any institutions, organizations and individuals.  And they know perfectly well that they are walking all over people. But that’s fine by them: after all, they are destroying people for the greater good.  This actually shows that it was NOT an honest mistake: she actually knew that what she was doing was wrong.

GOP: Lerner warned IRS employees to hide information from Congress

www.washingtontimes.com

Just as the IRS tea party targeting scandal was erupting, Lois G. Lerner warned colleagues to “be cautious” about what information they put in emails because it could end up being turned over to Congress, according to an email message released Wednesday.

This is criminal

H/T Bookworm.

If the media did its job, majority of this administration, including the President, would be in jail by now. Or removed from office at the very least.

VA Employees Switched from Processing VA Applications to Obamacare Applications

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Truth Revolt “…we actually put incoming applications aside so we could focus on the ACA related applications that came in over last summer.” A Veterans Affairs whistleblower from Atlanta will testify before Congress next Tuesday about widespread destruction of applications, retaliation against whistleblowers, and people being shifted from processing VA applications last summer to working on Obamacare enrollment.

Scott Davis is a program specialist at the VA’s national Health Eligibility Center in DeKalb County, Georgia. His story was published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution this past Sunday and appeared on the Neil Cavuto program on Fox News Wednesday.  As opposed to previous whistleblower reports, which focus VA hospitals and getting to see doctors, Davis’ revelations are about the processing of applications by VA offices.
Read more at http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=242108#lGIDV828hsZ2Oqtj.99

Laws mean something only if there are people willing to enforce them

 often repeat that any law, including the Constitution, only means something if there are people willing to enforce it. If, however, the politicians find it inconvenient, and the people simply don’t care or don’t know any better because they are not paying attention, a law becomes just some words on paper.

Did the Founders foresee this?

Commenter “J.J.” wrote a comment that has much in it with which I agree. But I question this:

The Founders never envisioned that the citizens would elect a man with no ethics. A man who would not follow the law. At one time the media was well enough balanced between left and right to get the word out to people. Now it’s not. They never envisioned a situation where the balance of powers among the arms of government would be so ignored…The Founders could not have envisioned an electorate that was so ignorant of the process of government and their important role in it.

I agree that the Founders could not have envisioned the exact details of what’s happening now. But I think the Founders knew that something of the general sort was a distinct and perhaps even likely possibility. The Founders were not naive, and they were students of both history and human nature. They tried to design a government that protected liberty as best it could, knowing it might not succeed and that there would always be highly-motivated forces working against it.

 

Those on the Left, please explain to me why does your employer have to pay for your birth control? Because, nobody is denying your access to it.

Liberals’ Hobby Lobby Doublethink

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Jonah Goldberg writes: Abortion-rights protesters gathered outside the Supreme Court building on Monday holding signs that read “Birth Control: Not My Boss’s Business.” Much to their chagrin, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito agreed in his ruling in the Hobby Lobby case.

Overcoming the fear of guns

When I was a kid, we played with toy guns and played “war”. The bad guys were the Nazis, of course, and we pretended to shoot them. We also watched plenty of movies where good guys shot the bad guys, and we did not think much of it. My point is that there is nothing inherently good or bad about guns.
I’d like to pose the question in the article to my lefty neighbor and my non-lefty Canadian cousin who are both afraid of guns (you know who you are): would you pick up a gun to defend your family?

Winning The War On Fear

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Smith & Wesson officially becomes the second gun company to pull out of California over microstamping – Bearing Arms

Basically, the leftists in CA are trying to ban private firearms ownership by making it impossible to buy, sell and own guns.

Smith & Wesson officially becomes the second gun company to pull out of California over microstamping – Bearing Arms.

Firearm microstamping – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Here is the explanation of microstamping.  The technical issues just prove that the stupid leftists in CA legislature just don’t know what they are talking about.  The simplest reason why microstamping cannot work is the fact that firing pins are replaceable parts.  They wear out with use and have to be replaced.  Or, they can be replaced just to get rid of the stupid stamp.

Firearm microstamping – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.