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Three years ago, Dr. Keith Smith, co-founder and managing partner of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma, took an initiative that would only be considered radical in the health care industry: He posted online a list of prices for 112 common surgical procedures. The 51-year-old Smith, a self-described libertarian, and his business partner, Dr. Steve Lantier, founded the Surgery Center 15 years ago, after they became disillusioned with the way patients were treated at St. Anthony Hospital in Oklahoma City, where the two men worked as anesthesiologists. In 1997, Smith and Lantier bought the shell of a former surgical center with...

After his YouTube video in which he blasted Obamacare and the Republican establishment in Washington for not combating it fiercely enough went viral late last year, conservative Nebraska Senate candidate Ben Sasse has rocketed from obscurity to holding a virtual tie for the party's Senate nomination. A Harper Polling poll released Wednesday found that Sasse, the former Bush administration official who is the country's youngest president of a university (Midland), trails former Nebraska state Treasurer Shane Osborn by only one percentage point in the race to replace retiring Sen. Mike Johanns. Osborn is at 30 percent while Sasse is at...

Every American needs a United States Senator who can articulate and passionately fight for a return to constitutional government and economic freedom. I met such a candidate a few weeks ago in the person of Dan Bongino, seeking to unseat Maryland's Ben Cardin in the U.S. Senate. In Dan's words, "The ability to take your money is the ability to take everything you represent. If they take everything you make, you don’t work for yourself. That’s called servitude. That’s not liberty.... Their fair share is EVERYTHING...they believe if they regulate you to death and can tax you at confiscatory rates,...

Sounding increasingly like a candidate, Donald Trump repeatedly told a raucous tea party crowd today he has the qualities needed in the White House and the conservative ideals necessary to seal the Republican nomination should he decide to run. Trump struck familiar themes and talked about his own business acumen in his speech to hundreds gathered at a park here, where his name festooned signs, buttons and T-shirts of supporters. The real estate mogul even talked about the type of people he'd have serve as diplomats and said he was looking forward to releasing his financial disclosures. "Most very successful...

The state of Kansas recently asked to join the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Obama health care plan filed by 20 state governments and the National Federation of Independent Business. Ohio, Wisconsin, and Wyoming are also seeking to join the multistate lawsuit, while Virginia and Oklahoma have filed separate challenges to the law. That brings the total number of state governments litigating against the plan to twenty-six. We now have a historically unprecedented situation where a majority of state governments are challenging the constitutionality of a major recently passed federal law. In our two hundred year history of constitutional...

This is currently running on PJTV. It runs about 5 minutes and is well worth watching. Pass is on. It is an updated spoof on the 1985 hit "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits. http://www.pjtv.com/v/3542

Some of you may remember when Will Ferrel made this PSA to push Obamacare...In response to Ferrel's effort this PSA Was Released Today. So far its the best Anti-Obamacare commercial I have seen, it smacks Will Ferrel right between the eyes