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Jeff Jacoby's op-ed in The Boston Sunday Globe, "Healthcare shouldn't be linked to employment," should be required reading for every voter before Election Day. In terms everyone can understand, he walks readers through the history of health insurance and explains Sen. John McCain's reforms better than the candidate does. Mr. Jacoby's main point: "De-linking medical insurance from employment is the key to reforming healthcare." The coupling began through a quirk in the U.S. tax code. Federal wage controls during World War II barred employers from increasing workers' wages, but the controls did not extend to fringe benefits. So companies began...

As NewsBusters has been reporting since we were at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has been a strongly outspoken critic of how the mainstream media have covered Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin since she was first announced as John McCain's runningmate. On Wednesday, appearing on Fox News's "On the Record," Gingrich called recent press reports involving the Republican vice presidential candidate "factually wrong, intellectually dishonest, totally biased, worthy of the Polish state news media attacking Lech Walesa back in the 1980s." Moments later, he put an exclamation point on his criticism: "This...

October 10, 2008 Can America Afford Another Jimmy Carter? When former President Carter took office in 1977, the Shah of Iran was a staunch ally of the United States, a mainstay in our standoff with the Soviet Union, thwarting the dream held since the time of the czars of pushing south toward the warm waters of the Persian Gulf. Former president Carter's human rights deal, gave rise to one of the worst rights violators in history -- the Ayatollah Khomeini. Thanks to Jimmy and company, Khomeini's successors are preparing for nuclear war with Israel and the West. When President Carter...

The race has tightened slightly in recent days to an average Obama lead of 6.8 points yesterday. And there are a few things bending toward Mr. McCain. The emergence of "Joe the Plumber" and the likelihood of an agreement with Iraq on a continued U.S. troop presence are two of them. Both are opportunities for Mr. McCain to contrast himself against Mr. Obama. ... Mr. McCain might gain by arguing that in this time of consequence for America's economy and security he has been right and Mr. Obama demonstrably wrong on the biggest issues facing the country. Mr. McCain's economic...

[snip] But one of the most famous political fashion designers of the year, Susanna Chung Forest, who designed Hillary Clinton’s pantsuits says it would be unusual for a candidate as famous as Sarah Palin to need to buy clothes. “Why do you need to pay for it?” Forest told CBS News from her boutique Susanna Beverly Hills saying that most designers would offer to clothe a candidate for free. “It’s an honor, you are going to design for someone who could be the president of the United States,” noting that the exposure any designer would get from dressing someone as...

Conservatives are excited tonight about a new AP poll showing that Obama and McCain are now in a statistical dead heat: Obama 44% - McCain 43%. But it gets even more interesting. Looking at the data behind the data, the same poll shows that 71% of likely voters believe McCain has "the right type of experience" to be president (20% do not), whereas only 46% believe Obama has "the right type of experience" (44% do not). In another words, the country overwhelmingly believes McCain is qualified to be president, but is evenly split as to whether Obama is qualified. That...

Michael Savage is talking about the Barack Hussein Obama lawsuit. He is really getting it stoked up. You know that now Drudge and the other Media channels will have to get Phil Berg and Andy Martin on air. Funny how nobody want to touch this but now Savage has gone nationwide with it. Yea for Savage. MICHAEL SAVAGE IS BREAKING THE BERG LAWSUIT! October 22, 2008 on his Web page and Radio Main Street Media embarassed about missing this opportunity as they thought Barry was a nice guy with nothing to hide. Why IS BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA really Headed to...

Obama is a Burberry Man UNAMERICAN FINERY Barack Presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama, who some people feel isn't qualified to be leader of the free world because he knows what arugula is, may have once been a Men's Vogue coverboy, but he's no clotheshorse. He buys his suits off the rack! At, um, Burberry. Obama seemingly admitted as much to a Philadelphia Daily News reporter last month, adding that Chicago tailor Hart Schaffner Marx had offered to make him some suits, but he can never find time for fittings. Perhaps he should have found time: suits by Marx actually average...

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Sen. Barack Obama claims that if only we let him raise taxes on a measly 5 percent of "working Americans," he could do great things. Well, that sounds just peachy. Tax the rich, give to everyone else. Except there's one little detail the national media don't seem to like pointing out. The math doesn't add up. Numerous organizations, including the Associated Press, have noted that Obama's proposals spend hundreds of millions of dollars more than his tax hikes raise. What is less well known is that Obama's tax plan itself sends out of Washington far more than it brings in....

Wow. Send this link to everyone you know. www.americaschoicenow.com Very powerful message and the music sets the intense mood of this collage of evil. One soundbite after another. Alan Keyes is awesome. Where's his voice been? And the final scene is conviction in digital imagery.

Americans could be attacked and killed because the bad guys will want to test Obama… “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy…I guarantee you, it’s gonna happen.” — Joe Biden Students of history and those old enough to remember will...

Despite the fact that leading polls continue to indicate a close Presidential election, and point to the very real chance of an upset victory for the McCain-Palin ticket, too many conservatives have begun to embrace a bizarre form of defeatism. According to this destructive logic, a Republican defeat in 2008 counts as not only inevitable, but necessary; some disgruntled voices on the right argue that a decisive win for Barack Obama might actually help the conservative cause in the long run. This notion contradicts both common sense and historical precedent and rests on five deeply damaging and ultimately demented myths....

Would Obama Pass a Standard Security Clearance?   By Daniel PipesFrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, October 21, 2008 Obama's Indonesian school registration listing him as Muslim. With Colin Powell now repeating the lie that Barack Obama has "always been a Christian," despite new information further confirming Obama's Muslim childhood (such as the Indonesian school registration listing him as Muslim), one watches with dismay as the Democratic candidate manages to hide the truth on this issue.Instead, then, let us review a related subject – Obama's connections and even indebtedness, throughout his career, to extremist Islam. Specifically, he has longstanding, if indirect ties...

Republicans, alarmed by the prospect that Democrats could take back the White House and expand their majorities in the House and Senate, are starting to warn of the perils of one party controlling Washington. It's a striking argument for Republicans, who have held all the levers of federal power for most of the past eight years. While even GOP leaders admit the Republican brand has been tarnished during President Bush's two terms, they believe they can convince voters that total Democratic control would be worse, leading to higher taxes and an expansion of government. In his new campaign stump speech,...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colorado (CNN) -- As the presidential campaigns enter their final days, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is getting getting the rock star treatment, drawing much bigger crowds than her running mate, Sen. John McCain. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was greeted like a rock star by supporters at a rally in Colorado on Monday. But it's still a mystery whether the "Palin factor" will drive enough conservatives to the polls to offset Sen. Barack Obama's gains with independent voters. During her stops in battleground states, Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, has continued her role as the main attack dog....

The past month has been dominated by concern over the economy and America’s long-term financial solvency — and rightfully so. But our country’s national security is inextricably linked to our economic vitality — especially in an increasingly interconnected world. In order to project power, we must have the ability to build wealth at home. However, the credit crisis has overwhelmed any serious debate on the merits of the presidential candidates’ competing foreign-policy approaches. From engaging our adversaries to our global military posture, Senators McCain and Obama have significant differences that merit thorough public examination.

Obama sent shock waves through political circles when announced on Monday that he had amassed $150 million in campaign contributions in September, giving him upwards of $600 million for his campaign. While his fund raising makes a mockery of McCain's paltry $100 million in taxpayer funded campaign money, the real advantage to Obama in the election is not likely to be decisive. Obama is, of course, still the front runner. But McCain is closing hard as the race enters its second to last week. If Obama ultimately wins, it will have a lot more to do with the Dow Jones...

Obama sent shock waves through political circles when announced on Monday that he had amassed $150 million in campaign contributions in September, giving him upwards of $600 million for his campaign. While his fund raising makes a mockery of McCain's paltry $100 million in taxpayer funded campaign money, the real advantage to Obama in the election is not likely to be decisive... Obama's lingering problem is that with all his money, he does not have anything new to say...But McCain's advertising is powering a bold new message, inspired by Joe the Plumber: That Obama will use the tax code to...