Category Archives: Politics

Paging Doctor Marx?

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Today, Investor’s Business Daily published a cartoon by political cartoonist Michael Ramirez.  In this cartoon Karl Marx is pictured as a doctor making a house call on behalf of Government Health Care.  Marx is pictured putting on the glove and telling the patient, “Hello, I’m your new doctor…bend over.”  The cartoon is entitled, “The House [...]
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Mayo Clinic Reacts To House Health Care Bill

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The Mayo Clinic, which has been cited and touted by President Obama as an authority as he has sought to gain credibility on the issue of health care, has put forth a policy statement regarding the current Health Care bill in congress: Although there are some positive provisions in the current House Tri-Committee bill – including [...]
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The Universal Health Care Bias

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There will be a new bias inserted into the traditional Hippocratean practice of medicine if HR 3200 “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009″ (AKA ObamaCare) is signed into law.  The liberal policy makers will disregard the originalist approach to the Hippocratic Oath just as they have the United States Constitution.  The new approach will [...]
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A Doctor’s Letter To President Obama

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Dear President Obama, Would you please not put government bureaucrats between me and my patients?  Thanks! Sincerely, Doctor Horton
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Ronald Reagan Slams Socialized Medicine

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I recently stumbled across an old presentation by Ronald Reagan where he took on socialized medicine.  It is worth a listen.
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Obamacare facing physician opposition from the AMA

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The New York Times is reporting today that the American Medical Association will oppose the creation of a government sponsored insurance plan.  This news comes as the president is set to address the group Monday in Chicago.  This could get interesting. From the NYT: As the health care debate heats up, the American Medical Association is letting [...]
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Placing a Bureaucrat Between You and Your Hamburger

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The absence in this current culture of a right emphasis upon human dignity coupled with the driving economic force behind its government is a recipe for the control over its citizens’ basic decisions.  When most individuals consider universal health care I would bet they don’t take into account the affect it will have on their [...]
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The Government is Inefficient…Get Used to It!

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So NOW you are upset with government spending!? Seems like only a few years ago when people could care less that the GAO was writing “… it seems clear that our nation is on an imprudent and unsustainable long-term fiscal path that is getting worse with the passage of time.” Ok, so now that people [...]
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North Korea Wipes Out Iran

Filed Under: Culture, Other, Politics
Apparently North Korea has wiped out Iran…… from the World Cup.
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What happens when the government bails out the umbrella companies?

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This. Chinese plain-clothes officials block CNN cameras with umbrellas in Tiananmen Square
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