http://www.redstate.com/warner_todd_huston Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:01:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In this report we get a nice one-two punch. Not only are we seeing Democrats once again refusing even a tiny compromise with Republicans on Obama's takeover of nearly 20% of our economy with his healthcare plans, but we also get to see another example of why Huffington Post is ... http://www.redstate.com/warner_todd_huston/2009/07/10/democrats-proving-again-that-compromise-is-not-an-option-on-healthcare/ For those that want universal healthcare, the panacea of "coverage" is expected to "give" all those currently without healthcare coverage the access they need to the medical care they now lack. This sounds wonderful all things being equal. It sounds caring and big hearted of them to want everyone to ... http://www.redstate.com/warner_todd_huston/2009/07/10/what-kind-of-care-anyway/ Representative Alcee Hastings (D, Fla.) is touting his amendment to H.R.2647, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010. Section 524 stipulates a "prohibition on recruitment, enlistment, or retention of persons associated or affiliated with groups or associated with hate-related violence against groups or persons of the United States ... http://www.redstate.com/warner_todd_huston/2009/07/08/alcee-hastings-amendment-prevents-hate-groups-in-armed-services-but-who-determines-hate/ OK, my headline is admittedly too simplistic. In fact, the whole medical malpractice milieu is sorely in need of a fix. We have unnecessarily large awards to aggrieved patients, crushing insurance costs to doctors to cover malpractice, a situation where defensive medicine drives up costs, and an entire industry of ... http://www.redstate.com/warner_todd_huston/2009/07/08/one-reason-our-healthcare-system-is-in-a-mess-trial-lawyers/ Orlando Sentinel movie reviewer Roger Moore was excited to report on the efforts of some Harry Potter fans that want to "change the world" based on their interpretation of Potter character Dumbledore's philosophy of life. He was happy, you see, because the group is all about "global transformation" and spreading ... http://www.redstate.com/warner_todd_huston/2009/07/07/harry-potter-fan-group-promotes-gay-marriage/ If you want to see the logical disconnect of unions and their lap dog lawmakers where it concerns costs to government, one need look no further than the over indulgent healthcare plan that New Hampshire's state workers have been lavished with. On July 4, the Boston Globe published a story ... http://www.redstate.com/warner_todd_huston/2009/07/07/state-workers-worried-about-losing-cadillac-medical-benefits/ We may know by the end of the week how the Democrats are claiming they will pay for their healthcare plans. News out of the House of Representatives is that they will introduce their bill on either Thursday or Friday of this week. In the mean time, on Tuesday a caucus ... http://www.redstate.com/warner_todd_huston/2009/07/07/democrats-will-reveal-how-they-want-to-pay-for-healthcare/ I have a few questions for all you non-union employees out there (which is 80% of America). Can you lobby your employer for a raise any time you feel like it even when your company is nearly bankrupted? And, do you have employees that can get off work to do ... http://www.redstate.com/warner_todd_huston/2009/07/07/seius-way-or-the-highway/ It seems that on July fourth, The New York Times saw fit to smirk at both American patriotism and Christianity. A recent Times article about the erection of a giant, though strategically altered, replica of the Statue of Liberty by a showman of a Memphis pastor presented a perfect ... http://www.redstate.com/warner_todd_huston/2009/07/06/nytimes-sneering-at-christianity-patriotism/ For the Associated Press, Tim Klass shows that taking liberties with facts by enveloping them in wild hyperbole can sex up a boring story into something much more alarming. Unfortunately, what one ends up with is not a presentation of news, but a promulgation of a narrative that befits a ... http://www.redstate.com/warner_todd_huston/2009/07/06/aps-hyperbole-masquerades-as-journalism/ Governor Schwarzenegger said it exactly right. Unions and lap-dog, Democrat legislators in Sacramento are doing their best to make sure that everyone but they have to sacrifice to save California's budget. The governor told reporters that unions and Democrats are telling Californians, "We want you to make the sacrifices but ... http://www.redstate.com/warner_todd_huston/2009/07/06/unions-stand-in-way-of-calif-budget-reform/ Amazingly, neither Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D, Nev) nor Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D, Calif) want to give Congress or the public much time to read the upcoming Healthcare bills they are rushing through their respective chambers before forcing a "yes" or "no" vote on them. In a ... http://www.redstate.com/warner_todd_huston/2009/07/06/reid-pelosi-dont-want-healthcare-bill-read-by-congress-public-before-vote/ So when you think Independence Day fireworks audio productions do you think of John Mellencamp, Kid Rock, and Neil Diamond as the musical accompaniment? Apparently the City of Chicago did. Either that, or the City of Chicago didn't care enough about the patriotism inherent in an Independence Day fireworks show ... http://www.redstate.com/warner_todd_huston/2009/07/06/city-of-chicago-fireworks-show-no-patriotic-songs-needed/ Here is the podcast version of my Independence Day feature. http://www.redstate.com/warner_todd_huston/2009/07/05/publius-podcast-lets-not-celebrate-the-fourth/ It is well known that John Adams had imagined that July second would be the day that future generations of Americans would remember as their day of independence from England, the nation's birthday, if you will. It was, after all, on the second that it was proclaimed "(T)hat these United ... http://www.redstate.com/warner_todd_huston/2009/07/03/lets-not-celebrate-july-4th/ If you listen to the blabbers and gossipers, the Huffington Post is the talk of the town. It is claimed that Arianna Huffington's "success" is the "new journalism," the future of the news. TechNewsWorld proclaimed it "appropriate" that Huffington appeared in the YouTube series on journalism apparently because she personifies ... http://www.redstate.com/warner_todd_huston/2009/07/03/what-passes-for-journalism-at-huffpo-isnt/ Meghan Daum of the L.A. Times has had an epiphany. The story of adulterous South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford is still in the news, she's decided, because America's men see themselves reflected in him. Yes, Daum apparently feels that all men are adulterers, so they sympathize with him causing the ... http://www.redstate.com/warner_todd_huston/2009/07/03/latimes-men-secretly-sympathize-with-adulterers-see-sanford-in-mirror/ The most insidious part of Obamacare is the backdoor taxes, and defacto control of our healthcare by the nanny state that President Obama's plan is loaded with. And here is another one that is not getting much play. Employers would be socked with requirements to pay for 72.5 percent of ... http://www.redstate.com/warner_todd_huston/2009/07/02/businesses-hit-hard-with-obamacare-say-goodbye-to-mom-and-pop-stores/ The left continually holds up the Canadian socialized healthcare system as the best example, one we should strive to emulate. But as each week passes we find more and more reason to doubt the panacea in the Great White North. Last week news came out that Canada forced an infant to ... http://www.redstate.com/warner_todd_huston/2009/07/02/if-canadas-system-is-so-great-then-why/ The San Francisco Chronicle is proving the old bromide true. That's the one that goes: "a lie can be half way 'round the world before the truth can pull its boots on" (often incorrectly attributed to Mark Twain). Then there is another one Twain didn't originate but aptly fits here, ... http://www.redstate.com/warner_todd_huston/2009/07/02/now-its-sf-chron-using-false-90-of-mexican-guns-from-us-line/