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This week's FRONTLINE: Dollars and Dentists. A "crisis" I'm dental care in the U. S. Expert saying it's a crisis and we need to "organize a new system of care." Same tactics to build up to Obamacare: Show average (mostly white) citizens who can't afford dentists. Kids suffering. A crisis! Demand government takeover. What industry will be next? Car repairs?

Woo hoo!! July is here and it's time for another FReepathon!! We're hoping the 2010 tea party sweeps continue in 2012 and beyond!! We need to increase the conservative majority in the House, take the majority in the senate and continue sweeping conservatives into as many state and local offices as we can all across this great land!! No matter who wins the presidency, we're going to need the states and the people and FR to hold their feet to the fire!! It's way past time to vote or impeach the corrupt bastards OUT!! If you enjoy reading and participating...

Rules, as everyone knows, really are made to be broken. So all those naive folks who argue that giving doctors the right to kill people who are tired of living is fine because – wait for it – all you need to do is make sure you have the right rules in place to protect the innocent. Yeah, right. That’s why a May 2010 study published in the Journal of the Canadian Medical Association found that 32 per cent – nearly one in three – of euthanasia deaths in the Flanders region of Belgium occurred without request or consent.Indeed, another...

The liberals are crowing about Robert's defection over on the "Straight Dope" message board where they "fight ignorance" by parroting socialist dogma and bashing the South. As they gloat, they betray the lie that ObamaCare is anything but the first step in complete government takeover. "We really should have let the Confederacy go back in 1861. Then we should have nuked them after 1945." "Wouldn't be any problem if we had a progressive/redistributive income-tax system like we had until the 1980s, but with no loopholes, if you're in the 70% bracket you actually pay 70%." "Give me some time and...

Rookie Democrat draws fire for Holder voteBy CHARLES MAHTESIAN | 7/1/12 8:00 AM EDT More fallout on the left against Democrats who voted last week to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. In this case, it’s newly elected Rep. Ron Barber who is under fire just weeks after he won the special election to replace Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. From an open letter to Barber posted on the liberal Blog for Arizona: **SNIP** True, you voted against the worst of the two contempt measures against Holder, the one calling for criminal contempt. But your vote for the...

Staff Sgt. Joshua Eisenhauer is a U.S. Army soldier who suffered severe and debilitating wounds while serving in Afghanistan. Joshua now suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as a direct result of those injuries and his combat experiences in Afghanistan. The PTSD has caused Joshua to have flashbacks on multiple occasions, including the night of January 13, 2012 when members of the Fayetteville, North Carolina Fire Department came to his apartment in response to a small fire in his apartment complex. When the firemen tried to forcibly enter the apartment, Joshua, experiencing a PTSD flashback instinctively resisted, believing that...

LITTLE ROCK — In Arkansas, it’s the Republicans who are trying to make political hay out of the U.S. Supreme Court’s affirmation of the federal health care law, a big victory for the Democratic president’s signature policy issue. Reaction from Arkansas Democrats has been muted, likely an election-year reflection that the law known as Obamacare is as unpopular in the state as its namesake. GOP officials brushed aside any notion that the high court’s ruling had repudiated their vehement opposition to the law as a takeover of health care. “To the people of Arkansas I say this: I heard your...

If you’ve been following my rants (and you three know who you are), you know how I feel about the current Marxist mess laughingly referred to as the government schools. While there are some exceptions, due to the homogenization of teacher training, textbooks, curricula, the threat by the DOE (which MUST be abolished!) to deny “federal money” (whatever that is) for not toeing the DOE mark, etc., they are very rare. Let’s flashback a few decades to a remark made by that radical Christian conservative/constitutionalist Dr. Gary North. It was he who opined – correctly based on recent events –...

Ohio storm victims in the Columbus area are more than likely welcoming the extension of help and assistance from the Romney presidential campaign, as they recover from the recent devastating storm which pummeled the area. This assistance comes on the heels of Governor Kasich State of Emergency declaration which covers the state of Ohio. Will Obama campaign join Romney campaign to assist Ohio storm victims? Although many in the Obama presidential camp may be cynical enough to label this a campaign ruse, for the many hundreds of families that were left battered and in need of emergency relief items like,...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Islamist rebels said Sunday they will continue to destroy historic sites in Mali's northern city of Timbuktu before they implement strict Shariah law, as Mali's government compared the destruction to "war crimes" and said they would seek international justice. Ansar Dine spokesman Sanda Abu Mohamed said Sunday that Islamists will continue the destruction they started Saturday. "We're going to destroy everything before we apply Shariah in this city," he said.

Bill Press anti-American hate our Anthem. I was thinking if China deports dissents to us, we can deport Bill to China. I am sure he would be happier there. He is a challenge by a band to "Bill the idiot Press" http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=c8C7i9kdEf8

It is time to drop the pretense of collegiality and time to start seeing the democrat party for what they really are, an existential threat to America, free enterprise and self determination. Collegiality is merely the means or tool by which democrats woo the opposition, us, to not reject out of hand that which would normally be seen as diametric opposition to our sense of Ameritocracy, i.e., the original intent of our founding. Freedom is antithetical to their view of how America is to be ordered. Individual freedom is a threat to their power base. Their ultimate aim is to...

With his every utterance, Jimmy Carter continues to make us grateful that he was only a one-term president and, therefore, limited in his ability to do the nation lasting harm. This past week Carter was spewing more nonsense on the op-ed page of the New York Times [NYT] — where else? And curiously he has chosen this moment to attack — although not by name — fellow Democrat Barack Obama. Of course, the president looks almost tough and sensible by comparison to the increasingly loony Carter. And, yes, we realize that’s damning with faint praise.

"Today is a temporary setback. The American people have hated Obamacare since its inception, and they can see that it is already driving up health care costs. The ruling that really matters will come on November 6, when "We the People" have the opportunity to replace the president and the Congress who created this monstrosity with new leaders who will replace it with measures that value market forces and free choice," Cain went on to say. "Mitt Romney has already vowed that he will issue waivers to all 50 states on his first day in office. That is an excellent...

In 2007 a staffer for Hillary Clinton came to attention of Washington’s wagging tongues. She was darkly exotic seemed to be thisclose to Hillary not only in her Washington office but when they went on road trips. Her name was Huma Abedin a Muslim with very close familial connections to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood. Their especially close relationship begged many questions. Among those raising questions about the relationship was Michael Musto a Village Voice columnist who writes about gay issues. Musto speculated as to whether Hillary Clinton might have been increasing Huma’s visibility to head off rumors of a lesbian affair...

In the U.S., July 4th is the day we celebrate our freedom. On that day in 1776, the Declaration of Independence was adopted, forever breaking America free from the shackles of the British government.But 236 years later, we find ourselves shackled again by our own overzealous government. State and federal regulators shackle us with regulations that drain trillions from the U.S. economy. States and the federal government have shackled American companies with the highest corporate income tax in the world. And excessive and wasteful spending by Congress has shackled America’s future with a debt that now equals our total annual...

The Orlando Women’s Center in Florida is offering a $50 discount to patients for abortions performed on Sunday. NARAL spokesperson Adora Slaughter praised the clinic’s “progressive marketing campaign. The frontal assault on the notion that somehow Sundays ought to be sacrosanct is a stroke of genius. I mean, consider the contrast. Instead of sitting in a church worshiping a nonexistent god a woman could be contributing to the health of the environment by reducing the Earth’s future population. If a $50 coupon is all it takes to shift our culture’s focus in this way I’m very encouraged about the progress...

by John HillStand With ArizonaIndiana is sick and tired of illegal aliens, and sicker still of the Federal failure to do something about them.Last year they passed their own version of Arizona's immigration law - which included mandatory E-Verify for all businesses, with penalties, verification of immigration status when passing out state welfare benefits, and a ban on the acceptance of Mexico's fraud-friendly "Matricula Consular" card. Part of the law was blocked by a Federal judge, but the bulk remains in effect. Part of that law also requires the state to calculate the annual cost of illegal aliens to the state - and...

So many "conservative" pundits have been polishing the turd that emanated from the SCOTUS on Obamacare, that I thought I'd have a go at it. Let us leave aside the notion that somehow this will energize the conservative base, and result in a thorough trouncing of all Democrats at the polls in November. After all, now that one of the fundamental tenets in the social contract between government and her citizens - that the government cannot force commerce -- has been shredded, how does it matter? Yes, our side may prevail, but can anyone guarentee that is a permanent condition?...

WHEN America's chief justice John Roberts told a conference on Friday he was fleeing to an "impregnable island fortress" for the summer, he was joking about his holiday in Malta. But the astonishing outpouring of vitriol against the conservative Supreme Court judge whose surprise support swung the vote to uphold President Barack Obama's healthcare legislation suggests that a bitterly divided America is heading for one of its nastiest elections in modern times. While leading constitutional scholars praised Roberts's decision for upholding democracy, leaving voters to decide the issue rather than the courts, one of the country's most popular radio hosts...