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The union packed town halls, the boycotts organized against Glenn Beck and Whole Foods, and the entire  smear campaign against critics of ObamaCare demonstrates all too clearly that it is the Obama administration and its allies that are afraid of a real debate on health care. After all people who aren't afraid of a real debate don't need to try and force critics off the air or boycott an entire chain because its CEO ran an op-ed pointing out what's wrong with ObamaCare. The Obama administration tried to peddle ObamaCare as an infomercial product, promising that it could do everything, while refusing to actually address the details, the contradictions and the problems involved with rolling out a national health care program. The administration was betting that the public would forget or ignore that the administration had botched every initiative to date, that the budgeting was being contradicted even by the Congressional Budget Office, and that despite a tanking economy, e

Unemployment is up and the economy is down. The price of flour is up by 5 percent, the price of ground beef is up by 4 percent and the price of wine has gone up a whopping 8 percent. Even the price of bread has gone up from Obama's inauguration. Obama had promised "bread" and in six months in office, he has delivered nothing but circuses. The Roman poet Juvenal wrote in his collection of satirical poems, "Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties. For the People... now anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses ." And a people that hopes for nothing more than a bread dole and entertainment are a people who no longer rule, but are ruled by those who dispense the grain and crack the ringmaster's whip. In his time Lenin promised the Russian people, " Bread, Land and Peace ." He delivered none of these three things, there was neither land, nor bread and nor peace under Communism. Inste

Obama ushered in Ramadan with a greeting stating: " That is why we are unyielding in our support for a two-state solution that recognizes the rights of Israelis and Palestinians to live in peace and security ." The question is who is Obama not yielding to? The answer is rather obvious. Israel and Pro-Israel Jews in the United States. Which is Obama's rather subtle way of greeting Ramadan with a promise to support Palestinian Arab terrorism and oppress Israel. The second paragraph of Obama's happy funtime Ramadan message though runs like this; Ramadan is the month in which Muslims believe the Koran was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad, beginning with a simple word – iqra. It is therefore a time when Muslims reflect upon the wisdom and guidance that comes with faith, and the responsibility that human beings have to one another, and to God. While vague pleasantries like that may not mean much to American liberals, who will read and nod their heads, what Obama i

The media has already begun unrolling its wave of commemorations for Woodstock, or what is euphemistically referred to as "The Legacy of Woodstock", which for some reason is described in vague terms as "Peace and Love", instead of more accurately, hundreds of injuries, of which only three were fatalities, not counting the miscarriages, the rapes, the drug addictions and all of Sullivan County being shut down. Defenders of the festival naturally argue that it could have been much worse if not for all the "peace and love", they might do better to admit that it might have been much worse had local residents not stepped in with food and water, for hundreds of thousands of wannabe hippies and the cynically mismanaged music festival they tried to attend. But Woodstock's real legacy is not in the relative handful of fatalities, or the people who got stoned and stared at the sun, or those who cut their feet open on broken glass. They were the lucky ones, bec

It was only two days after 9/11 when "respected columnist" Robert Novak began by promoting Trutherism, writing in his column, titled, " This is No Pearl Harbor ", " Security experts and airline officials agree privately that the simultaneous hijacking of four jetliners was an "inside job," probably indicating complicity beyond malfeasance. This makes all the more ominous Tuesday's national consequences ." Novak of course was wrong, but like most Truther propaganda, its larger purpose was to serve as an excuse for the actual Islamic terrorists. The column went on to suggest that Bin Laden wasn't even responsible for the attacks, " Unlike Pearl Harbor, however, there is no clear foe... Private sources indicate that the terrorists could be a splinter group of Osama, its identity and whereabouts as yet unknown ." The idea being that the terrorists were an "extremist wing" of Al Queda, and not the "moderate" Al

ObamaCare has only been the latest and largest trigger for the government's growing concern over how Americans live their lives. If conservatives focus their fire on sexual promiscuity, liberals seem positively obsessed with obesity. Hardly a day goes by without the news media running a story declaiming how overweight Americans are in comparison to the rest of the world, and how something must be done about it. Even the grotesquely obese Michael Moore got in on the act, touring England and proclaiming that all Americans were fat and stupid, while unconsciously presenting himself as a chief example. Some US cities are considering a new generation of "sin taxes" on donuts, sodas and other products declared to be inappropriately fattening. The proposed taxes naturally target "junk food" associated with the lower and middle classes, rather than the sort of thing you might find Ted Kennedy or Al Franken consuming at taxpayer expense. Which is the point. Like so muc

As the Obama Administration tries to drag the rotting corpse of the peace process out from under the table and into public view, accompanied by the expected Israel bashing and phony rhetoric about everyone learning to get along, it might be time to revisit why the peace process failed in the first place. Unlike the accord with Egypt, the "Middle East Peace Process" expected Israel to negotiate not with a country, but with the PLO terrorist organization, as supposed representatives of the Palestinian Arabs living in Gaza and the West Bank, who were to be given an autonomous territory in exchange for an end to the violence. Though the violence did not end, only escalated, the autonomous territory became a state. Now the PLO\Fatah is fighting for its life against Hamas, and the only thing keeping it in power is American and Israeli backing. The day America and Israel withdraw their support, is the day that Abbas, or whoever is running the giant fraud and terror network of the

Was the best of the Bush admin really Cheney? The Washington Post story on Cheney's upcoming memoirs raise that question. Few close observers could have failed to notice the transition away from the dream team of the likes of Rumsfeld, Cheney and Ashcroft... to a White House that seemed to be run by Condoleeza Rice and a handful of minor weak figures like Gonzalez. This transition also saw marked changes in the administration's approach to the War on Terror and domestically. Cheney's memoirs can only give us a snapshot of what really went wrong, and the internal conflicts that turned the Bush Administration from the most promising administration since the Reagan era into a neo-liberal weak-kneed government, which almost made McCain's candidacy look good by comparison. The internal conflicts that sabotaged the Iraqi reconstruction, beginning with the FBI and State Department taking over from the Pentagon are part of a larger puzzle, and will likely form the recurrin