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The ink had not yet dried on my last column that discussed the fact that Barack Obama was woefully unprepared for the presidency and as a result is making deadly missteps in the execution of that role, when news broke of General Stanley McChrystal in essence saying the exact same thing to Rolling Stone magazine. This isn’t just a story to be brushed off. This is a bombshell.
Don’t be distracted by the media comically chastising the General for daring to speak out against “The One” (yes, the same media that hailed military officers who were willing to “speak truth to power” in criticizing George Bush). That isn’t the story.
The true meaning of the McChrystal episode is titanic, because it is quite apparent the General was sending a stern message directly to the American people.
For more reasons than I can count, it is beyond obvious that McChrystal’s public criticism of Obama was not a lapse in judgment or a mistake. It was unquestionably intentional. First, four-star generals have not achieved that rank without knowing the chain of command and the expectation of subordination to superiors. Second, all of McChrystal’s advisers were touting the same message, demonstrating this was no fluke, nor an offhand comment taken out of context. Third, McChrystal spoke the inflammatory words to Rolling Stone, a well known anti-war, anti-military magazine. Fourth, reports are that McChrystal actually saw the piece before it went to print and offered up no objections to its content. Read more…
Majority of Americans Believe Future of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Should be Left Up to Military Commanders
Zogby Poll Finds
Thursday, May 27, 2010
By Nick Dean
Homosexual activists on the West Lawn of the Capitol during a rally in Washington on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
(CNSNews.com) – Fifty-nine (59) percent of Americans think military leaders, rather than Congress, should be making the decision about the military policy on homosexuality, according to a poll released Tuesday by the Family Research Center.
The Zogby International telephone survey, which was conducted May 17, asked 2,063 people: “As pertains to homosexuals openly serving in the military, do you believe this decision is best made by military leaders or Congress?”
Only 21 percent said Congress should make the decision — and 18 percent answered neither or “not sure.”
Despite that majority, Senate Democratic leaders announced plans on Monday to fast-track a bill that would repeal the current “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. A vote on that bill could come this week.
On Monday night, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), along with Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Pa.), announced they had developed a compromise amendment to their legislative proposal that initiates a fast-paced process to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Levin is expected to add the amendment to the Defense Department authorization bill. Read more…
Why Donald Berwick is Dangerous to Your Health
By &Hal Scherz
President Obama’s nomination of Donald Berwick M.D. to head HHS’s Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) eliminates any lingering doubt he seeks to impose state-run medicine and a European style health care system on America . But before Dr Berwick gets an official nod of approval for the federal government’s most important health care appointment — the CMS covers over 100 million Americans, has an annual $800 billion budget that is larger than the defense department’s and is the 2nd largest insurance company in the world, the US Senate may want to consider the nominee’s remarkable and quite literal attachment to the socialist health-care model.
“I am romantic about the NHS. I love it.” Dr Berwick says about probably the best-known case of socialized medicine — Britain ’s National Health Service (NHS). “All I need to do to rediscover the romance is to look at healthcare in my own country,” he says about a US health care system that is “bloated,” runs in “the darkness of private enterprise,” and has “tremendous excess capacity.”
Rationing — Dr Berwick uses the “r” word himself — is why he much prefers the “politically accountable” British system. About Britain’s rationing board, The National Institute for Clinical Health Excellence (NICE), Dr Berwick says: “NICE is not just a national treasure; it is a global treasure”. In using “quality adjusted life years” per British pound to make treatment decisions, NICE mandates that Britain cannot afford to spend, except in unusual cases, more than $22,000 to extend a life 6 months. But despite its Orwellian acronym and properly polite British exterior, NICE harbors a deep bureaucratic aversion to extended care for the elderly and those with chronic disease, an approach which Dr. Berwick explicitly endorses. Read more…
By TODD ACKERMAN
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
May 17, 2010, 11:02PM
Texas doctors are opting out of Medicare at alarming rates, frustrated by reimbursement cuts they say make participation in government-funded care of seniors unaffordable.
Two years after a survey found nearly half of Texas doctors weren’t taking some new Medicare patients, new data shows 100 to 200 a year are now ending all involvement with the program. Before 2007, the number of doctors opting out averaged less than a handful a year.
“This new data shows the Medicare system is beginning to implode,” said Dr. Susan Bailey, president of the Texas Medical Association. “If Congress doesn’t fix Medicare soon, there’ll be more and more doctors dropping out and Congress’ promise to provide medical care to seniors will be broken.”
More than 300 doctors have dropped the program in the last two years, including 50 in the first three months of 2010, according to data compiled by the Houston Chronicle. Texas Medical Association officials, who conducted the 2008 survey, said the numbers far exceeded their assumptions. Read more…
Justice Department: Border Patrol Agents Assaulted Daily, Kidnappings Every 35 Hours in Phoenix, 1 in 5 Teens Using Drugs Predominantly Supplied by Mexican Traffickers
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
By Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief, CNS News
A Customs and Border Patrol agent patrols along the international border after sunset in Nogales, Ariz. Thursday, April 22, 2010. Illegal immigration and border security are heating up as issues after the slaying of a border-area rancher and imminent passage of state legislation to crack down on illegal immigration. (AP Photo/Matt York)
(CNSNews.com) – Three Border Patrol agents are assaulted on the average day at or near the U.S. border. Someone is kidnapped every 35 hours in Phoenix, Ariz., often by agents of alien smuggling organizations. And one-in-five American teenagers last year used some type of illegal drug, many of which were imported across the unsecured U.S.-Mexico border. Read more…
I’m Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen. I want to explain SB 1070 for which I voted yes. Rancher Robert Krentz was murdered by the drug cartel on his ranch a month ago. I participated in a senate hearing two weeks ago on the border violence, here is just some of the highlights from those who testified.
The people who live within 60 to 80 miles of the Arizona/Mexico Border have for years been terrorized and have pleaded for help to stop the daily invasion of humans who cross their property . One Rancher testified that 300 to 1200 people a DAY come across his ranch vandalizing his property, stealing his vehicles and property, cutting down his fences, and leaving trash. In the last two years he has found 17 dead bodies and two Koran bibles. Another rancher testified that daily drugs are brought across his ranch in a military operation. A point man with a machine gun goes in front, 1/2 mile behind are the guards fully armed, 1/2 mile behind them are the drugs, behind the drugs 1/2 mile are more guards. These people are violent and they will kill anyone who gets in the way. This was not the only rancher we heard that day that talked about the drug trains. One man told of two illegal’s who came upon his property one shot in the back and the other in the arm by the drug runners who had forced them to carry the drugs and then shot them. Daily they listen to gun fire during the night it is not safe to leave his family alone on the ranch and they can’t leave the ranch for fear of nothing being left when they come back. Read more…
Franklin Graham: Obama ‘Giving Islam a Pass,’ Warns of Persecution
Monday, 03 May 2010 08:16 PM
By: David A. Patten
Evangelical leader Rev. Franklin Graham issued his toughest remarks yet Monday on the administration’s role in revoking his invitation to speak at the Pentagon’s National Day of Prayer event, charging that President Obama is “giving Islam a pass” rather than speaking openly about the “horrific” treatment women and minorities receive in many Muslim countries.
In an exclusive telephone interview with Newsmax.TV, Graham called revoking his invitation to the prayer service “a slap at all evangelical Christians.”
And he clearly placed the blame on the Obama administration, telling Newsmax that the Pentagon would never revoke such an invitation without first consulting with the White House.
“I’m being restricted from my religious rights, and from what I believe,” Graham warned, as he complained of a growing “secularization” in the government. Read more…
Dick Lamm is the former Governor of Colorado. Former governor Dick Lamm recently gave this speech on how to effectively destroy America. Here is his speech that he gave to an awestruck audience, as he describes the way our nation is quickly being dismantled and destroyed. On the eve of nationwide immigration protests, Lamm’s speech is quite an eye-opener.
He said, “If you believe that America is too smug, too self-satisfied, too rich, then let’s destroy America. It is not that hard to do. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and fall and that “An autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide.” Lamm describes how they do it,” Lamm said:
“First, to destroy America, turn America into a bilingual or multi-lingual and bicultural country.” History shows that no nation can survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism of two or more competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; however, it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. The historical scholar, Seymour Lipset, put it this way: “The histories of bilingual and bi-cultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension, and tragedy.” Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, and Lebanon all face crises of national existence in which minorities press for autonomy, if not independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficulties with Basques, Bretons, and Corsicans.” Read more…
For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress. Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress could retire with the same pay after only one term, that they didn’t pay into Social Security, that they specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must live under those laws. The latest is to exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform that is being considered…in all of its forms. Somehow, that doesn’t seem logical. We do not have an elite that is above the law. I truly don’t care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. The self-serving must stop. This is a good way to do that. It is an idea whose time has come.
Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution
“Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States .”
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