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Job is Taking its Toll on the Messiah

Posted by Defend America on Friday, January 01, 2010 8:53:17 AM

President Barack Obama gets in the car after going to the movies in Kaneohe, Hawaii Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009

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It's Only the Beginning

Posted by Defend America on Friday, January 01, 2010 8:51:14 AM
Mayo Clinic in Arizona to Stop Treating Some Medicare Patients
 

By David Olmos

Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) -- The Mayo Clinic, praised by President Barack Obama as a national model for efficient health care, will stop accepting Medicare patients as of tomorrow at one of its primary-care clinics in Arizona, saying the U.S. government pays too little.

More than 3,000 patients eligible for Medicare, the government’s largest health-insurance program, will be forced to pay cash if they want to continue seeing their doctors at a Mayo family clinic in Glendale, northwest of Phoenix, said Michael Yardley, a Mayo spokesman. The decision, which Yardley called a two-year pilot project, won’t affect other Mayo facilities in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota.

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Misleading is the Game

Posted by Defend America on Friday, January 01, 2010 8:49:50 AM
TSA nominee misled Congress about accessing confidential records
 
By Robert O'Harrow Jr.
Friday, January 1, 2010

The White House nominee to lead the Transportation Security Administration gave Congress misleading information about incidents in which he inappropriately accessed a federal database, possibly in violation of privacy laws, documents obtained by The Washington Post show.

The disclosure comes as pressure builds from Democrats on Capitol Hill for quick January confirmation of Erroll Southers, whose nomination has been held up by GOP opponents. In the aftermath of an attempted airline bombing on Christmas Day, calls have intensified for lawmakers to install permanent leadership at the TSA, a critical agency in enforcing airline security.

Southers, a former FBI agent, has described inconsistencies in his accounts to Congress as "inadvertent" and the result of poor memory of an incident that dates back 20 years. He said in a Nov. 20 letter to key senators obtained by The Post that he had accepted full responsibility long ago for a "grave error in judgment" in accessing confidential criminal records about his then-estranged wife's new boyfriend.

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Tell the Truth

Posted by Defend America on Friday, January 01, 2010 3:02:47 AM
Resolved: Tell the Truth
by Cal Thomas

No one I know makes New Year's resolutions anymore. In part this may be because the resolutions often deal with our weaknesses -- lose weight, quit smoking -- so that when we fail, we resolve to stop resolving rather than be reminded of our inability to keep them.

Would that Congress might resolve to tell the truth. Most members probably know what truth is, but they cannot speak it for fear of offending groups that traffic in lies and fund their re-election campaigns. Lies usually raise more money than the truth. It is easier to believe a lie than to embrace virtue as more than its own reward.
 
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'War? What War?'

Posted by Defend America on Friday, January 01, 2010 2:26:50 AM
War? What War?
by Charles Krauthammer

WASHINGTON -- Janet Napolitano -- former Arizona governor, now overmatched secretary of homeland security -- will forever be remembered for having said of the attempt to bring down an airliner over Detroit: "The system worked." The attacker's concerned father had warned U.S. authorities about his son's jihadist tendencies. The would-be bomber paid cash and checked no luggage on a transoceanic flight. He was nonetheless allowed to fly, and would have killed 288 people in the air alone, save for a faulty detonator and quick actions by a few passengers.

Heck of a job, Brownie.

The reason the country is uneasy about the Obama administration's response to this attack is a distinct sense of not just incompetence but incomprehension. From the very beginning, President Obama has relentlessly tried to downplay and deny the nature of the terrorist threat we continue to face. Napolitano renames terrorism "man-caused disasters." Obama goes abroad and pledges to cleanse America of its post-9/11 counterterrorist sins. Hence, Guantanamo will close, CIA interrogators will face a special prosecutor, and Khalid Sheik Mohammed will bask in a civilian trial in New York -- a trifecta of political correctness and image management.
 
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'Underreported Stories of 2009'

Posted by Defend America on Friday, January 01, 2010 2:25:04 AM
Underreported Stories of 2009
by Michelle Malkin

 

Most news outlets end the year with extensive reviews of their top headlines and scoops. But the stories they didn't cover deserve much greater attention. Journalistic sins of omission are often far more damning and more telling than sins of commission.

Let's start with President Obama's ongoing radical czar problem. Until Bay Area Marxist agitator-turned-green-jobs-czar Van Jones resigned in September, most Americans hadn't heard of him. Mainstream newspaper readers and network news viewers were left in the dark about his cop-killer-supporting activism, his endorsement of nutball Sept. 11 conspiracies and his advocacy of using capitalism-sabotaging environmental policies as "the engine for transforming the whole society."

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Culture Winners and Losers

Posted by Defend America on Friday, January 01, 2010 2:22:18 AM
Cultural Winners and Losers, 2009
by Brent Bozell

 
It was a year in which the dominant cultural story was the sad but eerily almost-predictable drug-addled death of Michael Jackson. But there were a few good moments sprinkled in with the outrageous and the tawdry in 2009. My choices for cultural winners and losers this year:
 

Winner: Farrah Fawcett. Unlike Jackson, she fought and ultimately lost her battle with cancer with extraordinary grace, faith and dignity.

Winner: "Up." The elite and the people agree that Pixar films are sublimely entertaining. The eight-minute montage near the beginning of this film sweetly chronicling a loving marriage moved millions to tears from coast to coast.

In fact, animated movies continued to earn massive box-office receipts. "Up" drew almost $300 million, "Monsters vs. Aliens" and "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" came very close to $200 million, and the offbeat "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" grossed more than $120 million.

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'Capitalism Fingered as Fiend of the Past Decade'

Posted by Defend America on Friday, January 01, 2010 2:20:13 AM
Capitalism Fingered as Fiend of the Past Decade
by Jonah Goldberg

 

On the last day of 2009, that awful year, I was listening to a report on National Public Radio (yes, I'm a listener). Reporter Tamara Keith presented a by-now-familiar recap of the worst financial and corporate scandals of the decade, from Enron and Martha Stewart to Tyco and Bernie Madoff. It was a depressing slog of greed, venality and theft. When the report was over, "Morning Edition" host Steve Inskeep summarized the report with a tart: "The decade in capitalism."

I don't want to single out Inskeep, since he was doing what pretty much the entire media establishment has done, particularly of late: reducing "capitalism" to its alleged sins.

And that's the point. There are few areas of life where a thing responsible for so much good gets so little credit for it.
 
 
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Year that Was and the Year that is to Be

Posted by Defend America on Friday, January 01, 2010 12:20:38 AM
The last few days everybody has been doing their year end wrap up of the year and the year's events, well I guess I would like to do the same. A lot has changed this year for the worst, but what has not changed, but increased, is my desire to continue blogging and linking to stories. I thought that this would get tiresome and boring, but everyday that I can find an important story about ACORN or anything that relates to our preservation as a country, I am very happy and excited that I have a place to share that information. I also have to say thank you to all who read my blog, those who comments and those who don't. I know it is being read and for that I am grateful.
 
Another year has come and gone and another awaits, we don't know what awaits us, but one thing is for certain is that I will still be here on this blog and I hope you will join me too. Whether it is discussions that relates to the Obama Administration or what Congress is doing or elections or how liberals continue to destroy this country or issues that are important to conservatism, I will be here writing about them and I hope you will continue to join me. I want to wish everybody a happy and healthy new year.
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