Pelosi: ‘Are You Serious? Are You Serious?’

(CNSNews.com) – When CNSNews.com asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday where the Constitution authorized Congress to order Americans to buy health insurance–a mandate included in both the House and Senate versions of the health care bill–Pelosi dismissed the question by saying: “Are you serious? Are you serious?”

Pelosi’s press secretary later responded to written follow-up questions from CNSNews.com by emailing CNSNews.com a press release on the “Constitutionality of Health Insurance Reform,” that argues that Congress derives the authority to mandate that people [...]

Obama’s Own Doctor Slams ObamaCare as ‘Failure’

In a revealing new book, The Amateur, author Edward Klein interviews President Barack Obama’s physician, Dr. David Scheiner, MD, who blasts the president’s health care plan and says that President Obama has an “academic detachment” that he could never break through.

The doctor fears that if the health care plan is “the failure” he believes it will be, because of runaway costs and other problems, then any health reform will be set [...]

Here are seven things that a good attempt at Health Insurance reform should do:

by StychoKiller

1. Equalize the tax laws so that employer-provided health insurance and individually owned health insurance have the same tax benefits.  Now employer health insurance benefits are fully tax-deductible (for the Employer, that is!), but individual health insurance is not (So sorry, middle-class, wage-slave!).

2. Repeal all state laws which prevent insurance companies from competing
across state lines. We should all have the legal right to purchase [...]

From WaPo today: Our distracted commander in chief

By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, September 3, 2010

Many have charged that President Obama’s decision to begin withdrawing from Afghanistan 10 months from now is hampering our war effort. But now it’s official. In a stunning statement last week, Marine Corps Commandant James Conway admitted that the July 2011 date is “probably giving our enemy sustenance.”

How did Obama come to this decision? “Our Afghan policy was focused as much as anything on domestic [...]