I submitted my public comment on this issue as included below and encourage all concerned to do the same. Click here to offer your comments on these proposed regulations. _______________________ February 8, 2013 TO: US Department of Health and Human Services I offer the following as a public comment concerning RIN 0938-AR42: Coverage of Certain Preventive Services Under the Affordable Care Act. The proposed regulations | Read More »
Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Deputy Director of Policy and Regulation at the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (that title is 156 characters long) held a conference call on February 1, 2013 to announce revised proposed rules for socializing the cost of female contraceptives as those rules impact religious organizations. Per the Associated Press, the recording of | Read More »
Excerpt, Associated Press article January 31, 2013: ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek doctors, port workers and public transport staff in the country’s capital walked off the job Thursday in strikes against deeply unpopular austerity measures that have seen incomes slashed as the country struggles to emerge from a deep financial crisis. The country’s main unions also announced a nationwide general strike for Feb. 20, the | Read More »
Prior to performing a verse of America the Beautiful at Mr. Obama’s recent 2nd inaugural, singer/song writer James Taylor appeared on the Charlie Rose show and offered some interesting commentary on “corporate” America. Watch and listen here (his political commentary begins at about 28:35). As a former singer /song writer I greatly admire James Taylor’s music and his career. What struck me as odd, however, | Read More »
The opinion piece by Bjorn Lomborg in the January 24, 2013 edition of the Wall Street Journal begs the question, is Mr. Obama a self righteous ideologue with attendant bad judgment or is he knowingly lying to the world (not just the American public) in a Presidential inaugural address? Climate-Change Misdirection Fear-mongering exaggeration about effects of global warming distracts us from finding affordable and effective | Read More »
Mr. Obama’s second inaugural address has been characterized as “testifying to the power of government” and “a bold defense of his liberal agenda.” Perhaps Mr. Obama should have more honestly noted that the power wielded by government compels some people to redistribute the product of their work to others. These others then have a vested financial interest in electing politicians who write more laws compelling | Read More »
The United States Consumer Protection Bureau (CFBP) is a new agency accountable to no one, created by the Dodd-Frank financial legislation of 2010, and conceived by our long time Fairy Godmother and new Senator from Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren. I apologize if I seem a bit cynical and despondent at having to pay for a Federal agency whose primary purpose is to require providers of credit | Read More »
Mr. Obama publicly and accurately defined the essence of our entitlement/fiscal problems in his speech of April 12, 2011. It is clear that he fully understands the issues. In this speech Mr. Obama demagogues the Ryan entitlement reform plan, while claiming the power of government will squeeze suppliers to reduce health care spending, proposing to reduce military spending, and insisting on increased tax rates on | Read More »
When discussing Mr. Obama with a friend I found myself summarizing his Progressive agenda in what I know realize is the essential reality, “He diminishes us all.” Private individuals and businesses are now making investment decisions based on the reality of government control of education, banking, health care, power generation, energy, and transportation. You can argue about the relative extent of control by industry but | Read More »
Alexander Burns wrote an article about The Club for Growth for politico.com on December 22, 2012. I have supported The Club for Growth in the recent past and want to share my perspective on the reality compared to some of Mr. Burns’s reporting. The Club for Growth focuses on candidates and policies at the Federal level. Those candidates and policies must promote economic freedom and | Read More »
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