If you needed just a little more proof that longtime Detroit Congressman John Conyers isn’t quite there intellectually these days, the man offered it up himself this week with the sort of statement that, coupled with his inevitable landslide reelection next fall, almost makes you quake for the...
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Nick De Leeuw
on 07-28-2009
Filed under: Obama, health care, Conyers, read the bill
When medical decisions happen, the two most important people involved are always the patient and the doctor, period. Proposed "public health insurance" and other socialized health care components take decisions out of the hands of patients too often, and just as often take decisions out of...
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Justin Higgins
on 06-11-2009
Filed under: free market, Obama, health care, socialized health care, public healthcare, government, insurance
During the election, then-Senator Barack Obama was often compared to the last Senator to reach the Oval Office, John F. Kennedy. News stories and tabloids publicly wondered if Obama would bring forward another round of "Camelot", the sarcastic prestige that surrounded what many considered to...
It doesn't matter if you support or oppose the decision by General Motors (and apparently the decision of the United States Government) for the auto company to file bankruptcy. The fact remains, the highly touted bailouts which were intended to stave off bankruptcy failed, and the Obama administration...
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Justin Higgins
on 06-02-2009
Filed under: Obama, bankruptcy, auto industry, Troubled Asset Relief Program, bailout