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Rationing: In the recesses of the House health care "reform" bill is a provision for end-of-life counseling for seniors. Don't worry, granny, they're from the government and they're here to help.At a town hall meeting at AARP headquarters in Washington, D.C., President Obama was asked by a woman from North Carolina if it was true "that everyone that's Medicare age will be visited and told they have to decide how they wish to die." At first, the president joked that not enough government workers existed to ask the elderly how they wanted to die. The idea, he said, was to...

Gordon Brown, prime minister, and David Cameron, leader of the Conservative opposition party, on Friday both declared their commitment to the National Health Service. Some Republicans have ridiculed it as a bureaucratic and “Orwellian” system that often denies care to the elderly – with Sarah Palin, the former Republican presidential candidate, decrying it as “evil”. But in Britain, where since 1948 all citizens have enjoyed free healthcare from birth to death, the attacks are widely seen as wrong and insulting. Mr Cameron, who leads the Conservative party, once headed by Margaret Thatcher, on Friday described the NHS as one of...

Member of European Parliament Daniel Hannan warned Americans of the dangers of government-run healthcare on the Friday edition of the “Glenn Beck Program.” Hannan, a Conservative who represents Southeast England in the European Parliament, said of the British National Health Service (NHS), “The most striking thing about it is that you are very often sent to the back of the queue.” Beck noted the lengthy waiting times for care under Britain’s socialist National Health Service (NHS). These figures were provided by the BBC on May 27, 2009: *cataract surgery – 8 months *hip replacement – 11 months *knee replacement –...

Reform: If the world's most famous physicist, Stephen Hawking, is a shining example of British health care, how is it that others in the U.K. are repeatedly denied critical care and medicine?In commenting on efforts to overhaul American's health care system, we have tried to pull back the curtain and pay attention to those trying to clone the systems of Canada and Britain. But supporters of government-run health care frequently ignore some of the less-pleasant facts. Much has been made of this statement in one of our Aug. 3 editorials: "People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance...

A desperate intervention from a man who’s already seen this car crash up close, wondering why any free people would tolerate it short of a major war forcing them to. The words of one of the world’s most eloquent conservatives need no elaboration from me, but as companion reading to Beck’s point about how lame the arguments are for this boondoggle, try Ramesh Ponnuru’s piece on the paradoxes of ObamaCare in Time. Quote: There are two basic points about health-care reform that President Obama wants to convey. The first is that, as he put it in an ABC special in...

Date: August 6, 2009 Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon Speaker(s): Daniel Hannan Member of the European Parliament, South East England Host(s): Sally McNamara Senior Policy Analyst in European Affairs, Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, The Heritage Foundation Details: Location: The Heritage Foundation's Allison Auditorium On March 24, 2009, Daniel Hannan became an overnight internet sensation when a YouTube recording of his three-minute speech responding to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s remarks before the European Parliament went viral. As the most viewed video for two days running and with over 2.4 million hits to date, Dan Hannan’s speech opposing higher...

Very intelligent.

Sometimes it takes an outsider's perspective to help you appreciate your own blessings. So it was Tuesday evening when Daniel Hannan, a British, 37-year-old member of the European Parliament, spoke at the Army and Navy Club in Washington. Mr. Hannan made a convincing case that the American health care system is far superior to the British one, and thus should not move down Britain's path toward government control. "Ponder our example, and tremble," Mr. Hannan warned. "You see a grizzly picture of your own country's possible future. . .. Do not make the same mistakes we have." He continued: "I...

Some very interesting comments from British MEP Daniel Hannan to the American Legislative Exchange Council's 2009 Annual Meeting, last month. Link is part 1 of 3. Here are all the links: Part 1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuGPKnF0yjYPart 2http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sTlaP2TamcPart 3http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyMmANml6to

Several weeks ago, the BBC decided to start running stories about how well the Green Party would do at the Norwich North by-election. It is far from clear whether programme editors thought that this would happen anyway, or whether they hoped to make it happen. After all, what minority candidates most crave is airtime: to be treated as mainstream, and so to anticipate the “wasted vote” argument. The BBC obliged. Lord, how it obliged. Throughout the campaign, it ran programmes with Conservative, Labour, LibDem and Green spokesmen. Now don’t get me wrong: I rather like the Greens. But there was...

This morning's interview-callin with Daniel Hannen is scheduled for repeat on C-Span at 1:15 AM EDT. Hannen is the conservative Member of Parliament who pretty much demolished Gordon Brown in his speech earlier this week which was replayed widely on US television. He is in London for this interview and takes calls from US viewers.

Here is video from last night where Sean Hannity talked with British Member of the European Parliament Daniel Hannan, a conservative. Hannity talked with Hannan about President Obama and Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the G20 Summit, as well as the global financial oversight mechanism they want to create. Hannan talks about the danger of moving toward socialism, where he believes Obama is seeking to take America. . . . . (Watch Video)

Daniel Hannan Becomes Cult Hero March 27, 2009 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Daniel Hannan, the hero of the moment, the member of the British European parliament who really took it to the prime minister, Gordon Brown. Earlier in the week, we played the sound bites for you. He's been all over American media out there. He's become a cult hero, and a lot of people in this country are asking, "Why don't we have a Republican to stand up and say these kinds of things about Obama?""Why does it take this guy from the UK?" and I'm almost of the...

Dan Hannan MEP in the European Parliament speech of March 26, 2009. Daniel Hannan is a Conservative MEP for the South East of England and author of The Plan: Twelve Months to Renew Britain THIS IS A MUST LISTEN (only about 3 minutes) ------ A partial transcript: 'Prime Minister, I see you've already mastered the essential craft of the European politician: namely the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate. Perhaps you would have more moral authority in this House if your actions matched your words, and perhaps more legitimacy...

CNN senior White House correspondent Ed Henry says he asked his now-famous follow-up question about the AIG bonuses because “[t]he president, like any good politician, decided to pick and choose what to answer. So he swatted away the budget question and ignored the AIG stuff.” About Obama’s rejoinder to Henry that he needed time to get angry "because I like to know what I'm talking about before I speak," Boston Globe columnist Joan Vennochi retorts: “Being slow to anger is fine. Being slow to honesty is not.” Indeed. What Obama should have told Henry: “Because the teleprompter script had not...

Daniel Hannan speaks about the GOP. Pretty short clip, but always nice to hear someone who makes sense.

...Gordon Brown was in town in advance of the G20 summit. There were a couple of things I wanted to tell him on behalf of my constituents...

There was no link yesterday from the official Conservative party website to the internet sensation of the week: a speech by the 37-year-old Tory MEP Daniel Hannan denouncing Gordon Brown as a "Brezhnev-era apparatchik". By yesterday the speech - which Brown had to sit through after his own address to the European parliament - had passed 1.1m views. For Hannan, it was a triumph. For David Cameron, a headache - proof that not all parts of his party have changed. Opinions vary as to why the speech was a hit. Hannan says it shows how the internet is changing politics,...

I'm sure some of you have seen this, but it's absolutely a must see. Daniel Hannan calls out Gordon Brown like someone needs to do to Obama. He hits the same issues going on here, please watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs

Liberal Democrats, see what a British politician thinks about Obama's economic plan and Universal Healthcare. Daniel Hannan's speech to parliament was video taped and went viral on the internet. In less than 48 hours, the video had over 900,000 views(well over a million now). Feel free to download this video and upload to the video site of your choice. Pass it around to your friends and family. America needs to see this. Leave your "rational" comments and rate this video.