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Meltdown: A health care scholar estimates that if ObamaCare is fully implemented, including the employer mandate, 129 million people will not be able to keep their plans. The train wreck has become a nuclear meltdown. The never-ending and ever-changing story line emanating from the damage control room at the White House has morphed from you can keep your plan, period, to we said you could keep the plan you liked at the rates agreed upon only if we decide it's not substandard. That, we were told, would only apply to some 5% of Americans. They would get a better plan...

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PANGUITCH — A buck surprised a sheriff and a driver after it ended up in the trailer the woman was hauling. About 3 p.m. Sunday, a woman driver hauling a travel trailer called the Garfield County Sheriff's Office saying she had hit something while traveling on Highway 89 just outside of Panguitch. When Conservation Officer Micah Evans arrived, he noticed a hole about 2 feet in diameter in the front of the trailer, a sheriff's office spokesperson said. "To me, it looks like someone pushed a 50-gallon drum through her trailer," he said. The hole was about 4 ½ feet...

This is the big unexploded landmine in the ObamaCare mine field. There have been little booms about it here and there — the NYT story last week about rural counties suffering under O-Care is one, as was that U.S. News story about high-end hospitals being excluded from many plans on the exchanges — but it hasn’t fully detonated yet. That’s because most consumers are still comparison-shopping for plans, which means cost is foremost in their minds right now. Not until next year, after they’ve received their new coverage and begun making doctor appointments, will they start focusing on the shrinking...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Now, let's hit the audio sound bites. We shared with you yesterday excerpts of a column in the Wall Street Journal by Edie Littlefield Sundby, who has stage-4 gallbladder cancer, and it was all about how she's not political, she doesn't care about any of that. She's losing her health care, losing her doctor, losing her great team of oncologists. She doesn't like it. And Erin Burnett, CNN, got hold of her and asked her about it. She said, "When we're talking about whether Obamacare's the problem here, you're saying you've gone through the whole market. The...

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This is the terrifying moment a wildlife cameraman comes face-to-face with a fierce 1,000kg polar bear looking for its next meal.

Chris Christie crushes Barbara Buono to win second term as N.J. governor By Jenna Portnoy/The Star-Ledger Email the author | Follow on Twitter on November 05, 2013 at 8:02 PM, updated November 05, 2013 at 8:03 PM TRENTON — Chris Christie easily won a second term as governor of New Jersey tonight, trouncing state Sen. Barbara Buono in a race viewed as precursor to a bid for the White House. The Associated Press called the election for Christie at 8 p.m — just as polls closed across the state.

I realize that delving into the world of assassination research and a belief in a conspiracy will lead some to brand me as an extremist or a nut, but the facts I have uncovered are so compelling that I must make the case that Lyndon Baines Johnson had John Fitzgerald Kennedy murdered in Dallas to become president himself and to avert the precipitous political and legal fall that was about to beset him. Snip When Lodge was in his eighties, he served vigorously as the chairman of Ronald Reagan’s campaign for President in Connecticut, a post I had recruited him...

>BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I want to address something here, and I might botch it at first. I just got an e-mail during the break, and the subject line was: "I'm skeptical. Well, you say that there are gonna be ramifications. Obama's not gonna get hurt by any of this. I mean, you know, America was nice while it lasted." I had an e-mail exchange with some friends today about an admission that I made to them about my naivete. One of the things that I have been really naive about -- I'm sad to admit this -- for the entire...

Brad Gaddy owns a trucking company in the little town of Double Springs, Alabama that hauls wood chips, lumber, logs, and other freight for a number of customers in Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee. In fact, with 17 trucks and 30 employees, Gaddy Logistics, Inc. is one of the larger employers in Double Springs, accounting for 4-5% of the total jobs in this small town. Imagine Gaddy’s surprise one Monday morning two weeks ago when he learned that the Federal Government had effectively closed his business. Gaddy had received an early-morning call from a customer in Tennessee who “asked how I...

The mysterious bay cat, also known as the Bornean cat, is a wild cat endemic to the Indonesian island of Borneo. Adults grow as long as 50-60 cm with a 30 – 40 cm long tail, and can weigh over 3.5 kg. Until now, this species had been recorded on camera traps just a handful of times in Borneo and was only photographed in the wild for the first time in 2003. But more images of this animal have been captured than ever before, together with evidence of four other wild cat species – the Sunda clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi),...

There are, generally speaking, two kinds of sin. There are sins of commission and there are sins of omission. From my perspective – and I think it's the biblical perspective – we Christians commit a sin of omission if we remain passive as our culture becomes "given over to a reprobate mind." When we seek to be loved by the world – when we follow the Princeton model and take the wide path to "mainstream" acceptance – we abdicate our duty to "fight the good fight." Indeed, we are in a spiritual war for our culture. It is a war...

"[Obama] was walking into a huge, huge challenge. Like a lot of people who read and care and follow, I can't say that I agree with every decision, but I feel his leadership has been sound, I feel like the administration has worked in constructive ways and continues to," Howard said. "I certainly have no reservations of my having supported him." Howard said governing is hard for anyone when politicians go to partisan extremes, as the country saw with the recent federal government shutdown. The director said he champions a "militant middle" where people can come together and compromise their...

GEORGE WILL: Someone has to tell the president it's not clever to be seen trying to be clever. In all the prevarications and the equivocations of politics, one tries to be economical in the use of the word lie. That's why Churchill once said an opponent was guilty of terminological inexactitude. Well, it's hard to avoid the feeling that even if the president really didn't know on September 26th what was going to happen on the first of October, now he knows what he actually said then, and he's not telling the truth about what he said then. In the...

With every passing day since the ObamaCare rollout, I feel more and more like I'm living in some sort of alternate universe where the laws of nature, physics, and truth no longer apply. First we had to deal with all the spin from the media and the progressive liberals over how great ObamaCare is and how people were signing up in droves to get it. They hoped that layer after layer of lie would somehow cocoon the awful truth that ObamaCare is a total disaster. We've since learned that a grand total of six people signed up in the first...

The newborn resuscitation room was uncomfortably hot — the thermostat was set high to prevent a just-born baby’s body temperature from dropping rapidly. Our neonatology team was finishing up paperwork on a baby we had just resuscitated and stabilized when a nurse from obstetrics popped her head in: “Don’t leave yet! A 23-weeker just rolled in; she might deliver soon!” The nurse practitioner on the team groaned. There was no need for him to say anything more. All of us in the room felt exactly the same. A baby born before 37 weeks of pregnancy is considered premature and has...

The ENDA Bill is one that strips Catholics and Christians of their Religious Freedom. Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana is one who has helped pass this Anti-Catholic/Anti-Christian Bill. Below is info on the Bill and articles about it: From LifeSiteNews.com: Catholic Bishops say ENDA could ‘punish’ traditional religious views [Excerpt] by Ben Johnson Tue Nov 05, 2013 13:14 EST WASHINGTON, D.C., November 4, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A bill to forbid “discrimination” against homosexuals and transgender employees could “punish” those who hold to traditional views about sexuality and biology, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) warns. The Employment Non-Discrimination Act...

When I went to RH Reality Check yesterday to read an article, I was greeted by this (click to enlarge)… 2013-11-04_1053 Sure enough, liberals are up in arms about a comment Jim Bob Duggar made during Family Research Council’s recent Values Voter Summit… Transcript: I heard Governor Huckabee speak and he was sharing how he had taken his daughter Sarah over to one of the concentration camps…. He said, as they were walking out of that concentration camp, he said little Sarah… looked up at him and said, “Daddy, why didn’t somebody do something?” And, you know what? That’s where...

JAY CARNEY: White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough met with a group of the nation's largest health insurers to discuss the ongoing efforts to improve healthcare.gov so that it works as effectively as possible for consumers and participating insurance companies. -snip Finally, he emphasized the need for all involved in the marketplaces, including the administration, issuers and other stakeholders, both federal and private, to ramp up communication and education efforts to consumers who have received or might receive letters about their individual market plans changing.