Just in case you were still enough of a sucker to believe that the Palestinan Authority is not actually a terrorist regime, we have this lovely story about a high level terrorist being appointed to run the Palestinian Authority security forces. Which makes sense, because the PA security forces are loaded with “former” terrorists from...

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I know physicians in Canada who tell me that stories like this one about how long it can take to receive medical care in the socialized health care system there is all just par for the course. Now, imagine you’re this woman with cancer. You don’t know if you have terminal cancer or not....

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I’m obviously hoping that this prediction turns out to be incorrect. Prepare for more pain at the pump. Gasoline prices will keep climbing and could go as high as $4 a gallon this summer, energy analysts said. “It’s outrageous. . . . It’s going up right before our eyes,” said Sara Zegar, 23, as...

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I don’t know, but I can’t see this holding up in court if somebody decided to make a test case out of it. I also wonder whether this could be called discriminatory against women, as I don’t see anything that prohibits men from posing for Playgirl. This certainly looks like a First Amendment case...

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Add Saudi Arabia to the list of  nations that have stepped up to the plate to try to financially prop up the terrorist regime now in control of the Palestinian Authority. How long these countries will be willing to support  this group of Islamist thugs is unclear, but with all the corruption in the...

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Time Magazine sees fit to praise Illinois Senator Dick Durbin for his excellent debating skills, and his ability to speak off the cuff, which they say distinguishes him from many other Senators. In its ranking, released Monday, Time lauded Durbin for his debating skills. The magazine noted that he often challenges his colleagues on...

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One of the the official state run newspapers of Egypt, Al Gomhuria, whose  editor is appointed by the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, has published an editorial lauding yesterday’s suicide bombing in Tel Aviv by terrorists from the group Islamic Jihad. Now tell me why we give hundreds of millions of dollars in financial aid...

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There are two other good ways to take some of the sting out of high gasoline prices that aren’t mentioned in this article. One is to get a credit card that will give you a 5% cash rebate for gasoline purchases, so you’ll automatically be getting a 5% discount. I have one from Citibank...

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The Washington Post opines that a low approval rating for President Bush will lower the turnout of Republicans on the upcoming Election Day and result in the GOP losing seats in Congress in the 2006 midterm elections. “Angry voters turn out and vote their anger,” said Glen Bolger, a pollster for several Republican congressional...

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Defeating incumbent Florida senator Bill Nelson should have been a relatively easy feat for any competent candidate from the GOP. However, Katharine Harris, the only Republican in the race right now, is polling far behind Nelson because of persistent ire over her part in the ridiculous Florida recount of 2000. While I agree that...

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Iran was recently elected to one of the top leadership positions on the United Nations Disarmament Commission. How completely twisted is that? On April 10th the UN Disarmament Commission elected Iran as one of its three Vice-Chairpersons. Afterwards, the UN’s Under Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs, Nobuaki Tanaka, said the Commission “played a unique role”...

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Not surprisingly, a new poll taken recently shows that most Americans believe that they pay too much in taxes and those with high incomes don’t pay enough. Almost as certain as death and taxes is the public’s feeling that the U.S. income tax system is not fair. An Ipsos Poll released this week found...

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Because of Comedy Central’s cowardly censorship of last evenings South Park episode, Michelle Malkin and some of her readers have come up with new Comedy Central logos.  Look, I can understand that Comedy Central did not censor the episode because of issues of sensitivity, since the same episode has segments that would be highly...

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Robert Spencer links to a new CBS poll showing that a small minority of Americans have a favorable impression of Islam. It’s not too surprising, given that we watch terrorist attacks, riots, and other Muslim perpetrated violence on a daily basis. Although Americans believe they are better informed about Islam than they were five...

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Despite all the whining by the Democrats about the Medicare prescription drug benefit, a new survey of AARP members shows the overwhelming majority of people enrolled in the plan are satisfied with it. But, as California Yankee says, don’t expect to read about this in the mainstream media, since they’ll be very reluctant to...

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I have a few points to make regarding the recent brouhahha over lethal injection as a form of execution. First, why must a prisoner’s execution be completely pleasant? Torturing somebody to death is one thing, but a couple of minutes of unpleasantness is something else entirely as far as I’m concerned. And second, it...

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I’ve written about the travesty that is Massachusett’s new and wonderful universal socialized health care plan. And, it does my heart good to have Brandon Miniter go after the plan today as well. Miniter compares the Massachusetts plan to the ill-fated TennCare plan which became so bloated and expensive that major overhauls to the...

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The Social Security Administration’s disability program is losing billions of dollars a year because they are overpaying certain recipients, and paying disability payments to people who really don’t qualify for them. Meanwhile, I have patients who truly are disabled, and he get rejected by Social Security. Obviously, things need to change in that program....

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I love the headline of this article. This is a group of people who illegally entered the United States, violating federal law, and who want to be absolved of their crime and become citizens equal to those people who actually went through the legal process. And, The Associated Press has the gall to claim...

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A chiropractor in Ohio is performing treatment via internet or  telephone for a variety of conditions, and claims that nine out of ten patients are satisified with their treatment. He promises to refund the patient’s money if they’re not happy. We live in a country where people complain bitterly about the cost of medications...

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