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  • Ben Stein is so wrong about health care it’s hard to know where to begin

    05/09/2017 10:14:13 AM PDT · by Sean_Anthony · 16 replies
    Canada Free Press ^ | 05/09/17 | David Hogberg
    Part 2: “Health is a basic American right,” makes for nice rhetoric but lousy policy. In the first post in this series I took Ben Stein to task for suggesting on “Your World with Neil Cavuto” that single-payer health care protects people with preexisting conditions. During his appearance, Stein also let this gem drop: “It is a basic American right to have decent health care. That is a basic right. We live in a very rich country…and the idea that any parent who sees his child born with a serious defect will think, ‘My God, I might not be able...
  • San francisco Mayor Newsom : Wireless Serice is a Basic American Right

    10/07/2005 10:00:04 AM PDT · by SirLinksalot · 43 replies · 778+ views
    Yahoo News Via Reuters ^ | 10/07/2005 | Eric Auchard
    S.F. mayor sees wireless service as basic right By Eric Auchard San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who became internationally known for his campaign a year ago to legalize gay marriage, said on Monday he considered wireless Internet access a fundamental right of all citizens. Newsom told a news conference that he was bracing for a battle with telephone and cable interests, along with state and U.S. regulators, whom he said were looking to derail a campaign by cities to offer free or low-cost municipal Wi-Fi services. SNIP SNIP "This is inevitable -- Wi-Fi. It is long overdue," Newsom told a...