Bill Would Give President Emergency Control of the Internet by Declan McCullagh

“Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.”

“They're not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors… which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.”

Unconstitutional Health Reform by David B. Rivkin, Jr. and Lee A. Casey

“President Obama has called for a serious and reasoned debate about his plans to overhaul the health-care system. Any such debate must include the question of whether it is constitutional for the federal government to adopt and implement the president's proposals.”

“The genius of our system is that, no matter how convinced our elected officials may be that certain measures are in the public interest, their goals can be accomplished only in accord with the powers and processes the Constitution mandates, processes that inevitably make them accountable to the American people.”

Obama's Health Rationer-in-Chief by Betsy McCaughey

“Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, health adviser to President Barack Obama, is under scrutiny. As a bioethicist, he has written extensively about who should get medical care, who should decide, and whose life is worth saving.”

“Dr. Emanuel is part of a school of thought that redefines a physician’s duty, insisting that it includes working for the greater good of society instead of focusing only on a patient’s needs.”

“Dr. Emanuel concedes that his plan appears to discriminate against older people… The youngest are also put at the back of the line: ‘Adolescents have received substantial education and parental care, investments that will be wasted without a complete life. Infants, by contrast, have not yet received these investments. . .’”

“Dr. Emanuel says the United States should erect a decision-making body similar to the United Kingdom's rationing body—the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)—to slow the adoption of new medications and set limits on how much will be paid to lengthen a life.”

 

Health 'Co-ops' Are Government Care by Michael O. Leavitt

“[T]he Obama administration is now signaling that it may dress up government health care in yet another set of clothes. This time, it will be called a health insurance ‘co-op.’”

“This ‘co-op’ would be federally controlled, federally funded, and federally staffed.”

Gov Rick Perry: Fiscal Conservatism and the Soul of the GOP by Emily Esfahani Smith

"I love Sarah Palin, I love her positions, I think she was a good governor. . . . I want her to be engaged in this rebuilding of the Republican Party. . . . She is substantially more the face of this country than some other people who might want to be the face of the Republican Party.”

“To me she's the face of America. I mean she's a hard worker, she didn't come from money, she didn't come from privilege, she just worked hard. . . . I have not seen another person who invigorated the Republican base [like she did] with the possible exception of Ronald Reagan in 1976—the speech he made at the Republican Convention. People were looking around and saying, 'we nominated the wrong dude.’”

White House Threatens Rush Limbaugh by Anthony G. Martin

“In yet another blatant example of Obama-bullying of conservative media sources, the White House has issued another threat against radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.”

“[T]he White House, the DNC, and others have warned Limbaugh in particular that HE IS ON ‘THIN ICE’ for consistently comparing Obama tactics to that of Nazi Germany. Click on the link to read from the Limbaugh website the comments of WH Press Secretary Robert Gibbs concerning Rush being 'on thin ice.'”

No Health Care "Reform" Without Legal Reform by Sarah Palin

“[W]e cannot have health care reform without tort reform. The two are intertwined.”

Sarah and the Death Panels by Pat Buchanan

(According to Sarah Palin), “The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.”

“And understandably so. For if Congress enacts universal health care coverage, we are undeniably headed for a medical system of rationed care that must inevitably deny care to some terminally ill and elderly, which will shorten their lives, perhaps by years.”

President Obama Misleads On Abortion Funding in Health Care Reform Family Research Council, Press Release

“President Obama deliberately misled the American people by dismissing the concerns of millions of Americans who have deep moral objections to their tax dollars paying for abortions. With this President, you must look at his actions because his rhetoric doesn't match his deeds.”

“President Obama has fully demonstrated his commitment to fulfilling his stated goal of funding abortion, articulated in last year's presidential campaign. He is now attempting to obscure this commitment because of an overwhelmingly public backlash. He fully intends to fund or subsidize abortion services in the health care overhaul.”

Tragic Tales from NHS

“A study by the British Patients Association tells the true story about socialized medicine in Britain. It's one of willful and woeful neglect of millions, missed diagnoses, and elderly patients left in pain.”

“[T]he Patients Association has been receiving calls on our help line from people wanting to talk about the dreadful, neglectful, demeaning, painful and sometimes downright cruel treatment their elderly relatives had experienced at the hands of NHS nurses.”

“[T]his is what inevitably happens under all forms of socialized medicine.”

P.S. on Hawking

“People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.”