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As a staffer to an Illinois Democrat Congressman who voted for ObamaCare, Sue Klinkhamer "had constituents scream at me, spit at me and call me names that I can't put in print." Still she supported the health care take over engineered by the President and Democratic Congressional Leadership. But, no more. Now it's personal. And, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Klinkhamer is talking. Because of the provisions of ObamaCare, Klinkhamer has been notified that her insurance premium will more than double – from $291 per month to $647, a 122 percent increase. Following is the story of...

Journalist Jonah Goldberg asserts that Obama's claims about the costs of healthcare under the Obamacare will go down as the 'biggest, single, domestic policy lie in history,' will a plethora of video evidence to prove it.

The official line from the White House, the State Department, and the Pentagon about the US response to the attack on our consulate in Benghazi has been that we didn’t have time to send in troops to fight the terrorists that were killing Americans. A new report from Washington Times reporter Rowan Scarborough undermines that argument, and once again raises the question about the lack of response. Two American commandos have received medals for fighting in Benghazi after volunteering to accompany five security contractors from Tripoli, and Scarborough wonders why the US didn’t mobilize other forces at the same time:

He’s got three rings now, but it’s No. 3 that David Ortiz can wear with the most pride.Pride for this city he plays in, and pride in the way he plays for this city.David Ortiz won the 2013 World Series Most Valuable Player award in a decision that could only be described as a complete lock midway through the series. It was as much of a lock as this entire Red Sox season came out of the blue in so many ways, both tragic and ecstatic.Ortiz dominated Cardinals pitching in the first five games to the point that, by Game 6...

My mother is being shoved off her plan (1-2014). She's 90 and I have called them twice to get her onto their BS Supplement and Part D. Both times, people with heavy accents answer and say they'll research ... while the line immediately goes to dead air! NICE For THIS she worked her entire life!

If you believe that there is high inflation in the United States, you are just imagining things. That is the message that the U.S. government and the Federal Reserve would have us to believe. You might have noticed that the government announced on Wednesday that the cost of living increase for Social Security beneficiaries will only be 1.5 percent next year. This is one of the smallest cost of living increases that we have ever seen. The federal government is able to get away with this because the official numbers say that there is hardly any inflation in the U.S....

Listen Live to Glenn Beck while he reads "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe.

U.S. natural gas production has experienced a boom over the last decade due to new drilling and extraction techniques allowing gas companies to extract minerals more efficiently. This has resulted in a glut in the market for natural gas such that the industry anticipates storage capacity will be completely exhausted in the near future. Just how significant is the increase in production, and how has the massive surplus come to be? And, to our concern, how does this affect mineral owners? The growth in U.S. natural gas production averaged 63 billion cubic feet per day in 2012, representing a 24...

Be honest: When his lie is so blatant and so clearly exposed, with no conceivable way of covering it up, with the videos of his false promise spliced together and playing over and over on YouTube, with even his MSM cheerleaders reporting what a liar he turned out to be . . . did you allow yourself to think, just for a moment, that maybe, just maybe, he might for once in his life man up and admit what he did? Just for a moment? Ha! Speaking in Boston, Obama said those who are getting dropped will be able to...

GROTON, Conn., Oct. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- General Dynamics Electric Boat will christen North Dakota (SSN-784), the U.S. Navy's newest and most advanced nuclear-attack submarine, at its shipyard here on Saturday, Nov. 2, at 11 a.m. Electric Boat is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD). - SNIP - A live video and audio webcast of the North Dakota christening will be accessible online at www.gdeb.com. Webcast coverage will begin Saturday at 10:30 a.m. EDT; the ceremony will begin at 11 a.m. and conclude at approximately 12:15 p.m. The program will be available for on-demand replay for one...

Remember George W. Bush’s “16 words” in his 2003 State of the Union address making the case for military action in Iraq? Sen. John Kerry charged that Bush “hoodwinked the American people.” Sen. Hillary Clinton said Bush “misled” the country. And Sen. Barack Obama accused the White House of “shading intelligence reports to support its case.” Well, now it seems President Obama has his own 16 words to answer for: “If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan.” (Actually, it was a little more than 16 words if you include what the...

Redskins Boycott: 76 Media Outlets and Journalists Oppose Name of Washington NFL Team By Sara Morrison San Francisco Chronicle, Slate, Rachel Maddow, Peter King and Bill Simmons among those boycotting the name, according to new study At least 76 media outlets and journalists are boycotting the name of Washington D.C.-based football team considered by many to be a racial slur, according to a Pew study released on Wednesday. Rachel Maddow, Peter King and Bill Simmons were among the 12 journalists who have publicly announced a boycott of the name, while 12 media outlets, including the San Francisco Chronicle, Slate and...

“Beware, my lord, of jealousy: It is the green-eyed monster….” (Othello) Three weeks after the opening of our government, I finally realized why there is so much hatred for Senator Ted Cruz and company: Jealousy. Cruz’s words and actions served as the political equivalent of Dramamine by freeing Americans from the motion sickness that comes from Washington, DC’s normal spin cycle. Cruz’s critics are jealous of his ability to cut through their spin, grab the American people's attention, and draw their focus to a conservative mission. This jealousy explains the hours between the end of the filibuster and the beginning...

A West Palm Beach woman threatened to distribute naked pictures of her roommate unless the roommate forked over $1,500, police said. LaTasha Currington, 38, told the alleged victim, a teacher, that an exchange of cash would be way the only way to stop her from distributing the nude photographs to the woman's colleagues and students, according to a West Palm Beach police arrest report.

“Has there been a coup? Could you please point us to the people who are actually running this country because the President doesn’t seem to know anything that’s happening? He didn’t know about Benghazi. He didn’t know about gun-running, about the IRS. He didn’t know about anything. Obama claims he didn’t know about any of the scandals, and in fact, he didn’t know about Fast and Furious until he read it in the newspaper. Administration spokesperson says Barack Obama was not told the National Security Agency (NSA) was tapping German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s phone. President said “If you like your...

In recent years, midstream U.S. crude oil infrastructure has adapted to increased onshore oil production, leading to some changes in crude oil and petroleum product movement around the country. To help users understand and keep up with changes in petroleum infrastructure, the U.S. Energy Information Administration has added new petroleum layers to the maps on its State Energy Profiles and Energy Disruption pages. EIA's State Energy Profiles and Energy Disruption pages have always included map layers for petroleum refineries, petroleum-fired power plants, and government stockpiles of crude oil (the Strategic Petroleum Reserve) and heating oil (the Northeast Home Heating Oil...

Women in the workplace isn't just about feminism, it's economic necessity with the GOP-shredded safety net During a HuffPost Live segment last week titled “Masculinity Now,” Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes aired a series of expletive-laden perspectives on modern femininity, none of them positive. While McInnes’ host and co-panelists maintained their calm, the blogger and publisher ranted that “feminism has made women less happy,” citing cultural pressure to “feign” toughness and inappropriate presence in the workforce as culprits. In short, McInnes’ claim is that the majority of women are naturally predisposed to derive satisfaction from “being domestic and shaping lives” rather...

The Obama Administration has been claiming that insurance companies will be competing for your dollars under the Affordable Care Act, but apparently they haven't surveyed the nation's top hospitals. Americans who sign up for Obamacare will be getting a big surprise if they expect to access premium health care that may have been previously covered under their personal policies. Most of the top hospitals will accept insurance from just one or two companies operating under Obamacare. "This doesn't surprise me," said Gail Wilensky, Medicare advisor for the second Bush Administration and senior fellow for Project HOPE. "There has been an...

HELENA – In Montana, as many as 20,000 holders of individual health insurance are getting or will get letters from insurers saying their current policy doesn’t comply with "Obamacare" regulations, and is being “discontinued.“ But insurers say the letter is not a cancellation, and that they’re instructing those policyholders how to get comparable coverage, which may or may not cost more. Blue Cross sent notices to about 13,500 individual policyholders in Montana this fall, telling them their current policies are being discontinued because of the ACA. PacificSource, which has more than 5,000 Montana customers with individual policies, is sending letters...

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