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While some Americans, including politicians, continue to push for single-payer healthcare, a Canadian is helping people in his country get care in America – because the healthcare system where he lives, he says, "simply does not work." As many people know, Canada has single-payer healthcare. That means the government runs and controls the delivery of all healthcare. Under that system, people wanting plastic surgery – for example – would foot the bill; but procedures, including cardiac bypass, can be done, albeit not always in a timely manner. Will liberals in America ever be convinced that single-payer (government-run) healthcare isn't the...

Who's Keeping Score? There is an ongoing struggle between President Trump and the media. President Trump’s agenda is too serve as president. The media’s agenda delays implementation of a constitutionally elected president.

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Texas is closer than ever to joining 10 other states that bar private insurance plans and those offered through the Affordable Care Act from covering abortions, except through supplemental plans. The Texas House -- over strong objections from Democrats -- gave preliminary approval to House Bill 214, which prohibits health plans from providing coverage for abortion except in the cases where the life of the mother is in danger. The House voted 95-51 to send the bill to a third and final reading. "This isn't about who can get an abortion," state Rep. John Smithee, R-Amarillo, said of his bill....

The US military in 2017 is a weak sister: a feminized, waddling, knocked-up, lactating, transgender, homosexual, socially engineered weakling that is reeling from the PC madness of the Obama administration and from the embedded leftists at the Pentagon who are still intent on implementing the lunacy. The situation with North Korea and its madder than a barrel of monkeys leader, Kim Jong-un, has rapidly metastasized from SNAFU, to TARFU, to FUBAR. As the French say, ‘the merde has hit the ventilateur.’ Just today, a report in the Washington Post, using a DIA report as its source, claimed that North Korea...

President Donald Trump has endorsed Sen. Luther Strange in Alabama's Senate race. In a Tuesday night tweet, the President said "Senator Luther Strange has done a great job representing the people of the Great State of Alabama. He has my complete and total endorsement!"

Senator Luther Strange has done a great job representing the people of the Great State of Alabama. He has my complete and total endorsement!

Mark Steyn said all the aspects of "collusion" the Democrats and Robert Mueller are searching for regarding President Trump can be found in the ongoing story of a former IT staffer to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.). "It's about everything that the Democrats and the media spent months... trying to prove [with] the Russia investigation," he said. Steyn said Awan's story involved a powerful political figure trying to interfere in a federal investigation. "We have actual criminal elements," he said. "Everything they've been looking for is... staring them in the face with this mysterious guy." Steyn asked how "one guy...

Democratic members of Congress react to president’s provocative remarks about North Korean aggression MANCHESTER, N.H. — New Hampshire’s all-Democratic congressional delegation used terms such as “bellicose,” “chilling,” "dangerous” and "overly aggressive" to describe President Donald Trump‘s threat Tuesday to unleash “fire and fury” on North Korea if its provocative behavior continues. U.S. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan and U.S. Reps. Carol Shea-Porter said the president should chose his words carefully and act strategically in dealing with the increasingly volatile situation. U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster said his remark may undermine efforts to deescalate tensions in the region. Trump, during a...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley has requested copies of immigration files for the six Pakistani suspects in the House IT scandal, who allegedly stole equipment from Congress and accessed computers without permission.

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, August 8, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) -- “Confusion, division, and error” within the Catholic Church coming from “shepherds” even at the highest levels indicate that we “may be” in the end times, said U.S. Cardinal Raymond Burke in an address in Kentucky. The Cardinal, who spoke at the July 22 “Church Teaches Forum” in Louisville, said that, in his opinion, the times “realistically seem to be apocalyptic.” “We are living in most troubled times in the world and also in the Church,” he said. Burke, one of the Church’s leading canon law experts, outlined how evils now commonly accepted in...

; In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day". illation [ih LAY shun]hear it pronounced noun An illation is the act of inferring from data or the resulting inference or conclusion drawn.Illation introduces a conclusion from what has gone before. Illation is an opinion based on observation.

Addressing priests in the Philadelphia archdiocese, Archbishop Philip Tartaglia of Glasgow, Scotland, said that American Catholics should learn from the problems facing the Church in Great Britain. The Scottish archbishop predicted that “some version of the problems we face today in Scotland will be heading your way tomorrow.” In particular he warned that intolerance of the faith is likely to increase. Archbishop Tartaglia reported that Catholics now constitute the most active religious group in Scotland, because the Protestant churches are steadily shrinking. Thus the Catholic Church becomes the primary representative of Christianity—and the main target for the more aggressive opponents...

The Norks announcement of a Guam-area nuclear strike might not be a foolish, or even un-reasoned move on their part. Stop and think for a moment, and then game it. Remember, they did not say "Guam", as in that specific island with multiple US bases. It's been missed in many stories, but the DPRK's NCNA specifically said "near Guam" For example, this is from the BBC story: "North Korea says it is considering missile strikes NEAR the US Pacific territory of Guam, just hours after President Donald Trump threatened Pyongyang with "fire and fury". More: "The North's official news agency...

American employers are trying to hire, but they can't find the right workers for the right price. The U.S. boasted 6.2 million job openings in June, a record level, according to a Labor Department report published on Tuesday. The high number of job openings illustrates a strength and a weakness of the U.S. job market. On the good side, American employers are ready to hire. During the Great Recession, job openings plunged to as low as 2.2 million in 2009. The Labor Department began tracking open positions in 2000. On the downside, employers increasingly say they can't find skilled and...

Tonight Ed Rollins, the Reagan campaign director in 1984, said it was time for Mitch McConnell to step down as Majority leader. Ed Rollins: I thought it was pretty outrageous. He better look in the mirror.. As I said before was fairly good defensive person stopping things. He certainly isn’t very good at offense… It’s time for change. There are several other members of the he 52 who can step forward. I think he’s tired.

President Donald Trump needs to issue a new executive order immediately raising the ethical standards for all federal prosecutors, attorneys and investigators. Instead of firing Special Counsel Robert Mueller outright, Trump as president can change the rules by which Mueller and his staff operate, and he can do it today, unilaterally, taking effect immediately. Trump should issue an executive order raising ethical standards for all federal attorneys. He has authority and the duty as president under Article II, Section 3, of the Constitution to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” The prosecutors work for Trump, along with supporting...

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President Trump is the new "comeback kid," with his approval rating in a new national poll rebounding after a freefall. The latest Zogby Analytics survey, provided to Secrets, gave Trump a 45 percent approval rating, driven by big gains among Hispanics, union households and voters in the West. What's more, said Zogby, more men approve of Trump than don't. "The president's approval rating has rebounded somewhat since our July poll. Following a series of disastrous weeks, Trump's approval numbers have moved up slightly, especially among his base and a few other sub-groups not known for their support of the...