Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP,MACE As the healthcare debate heats up the meaning of consumer driven healthcare (CDHC) needs repeating. The true meaning of CDHC has been bastardized by the healthcare insurance industry as represented by Health Savings Accounts (HSA). The healthcare......

Steve Schippert of Threatswatch, Matt of Blackfive, John of Op-For, and Ace (of Spades) and I have been chatting in email regarding the fallout of Secretary Shinseki's testimony before Congress that ignited the shite-storm that is spreading around.  Steve made a nice "wrap-it-all-up" ...

ObamaNomics The Patriot Post.US Digest- Vol. 09 No. 09 THE FOUNDATION “The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. … I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.” –Thomas ...

The BBC is reporting that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown who was visiting the United States (and President Barack Obama earlier this week) has condemned Proposition 8 as "unacceptable" and urged his suporters to be vigilant against all forms of discrimination. Mr Brown made the comments at a re...

John Hinderaker at Power Line writes: The Economy is in the tank...the stock market is collapsing and our enemies are still out to get us. And in the White House, we have a newbie who doesn't trust himself to introduce a Cabinet secretary without reading off a teleprompter. It's really a bit...

Premier Colin Barnett made a speech about funding cuts yesterday at a “business luncheon”. The full transcript is here; it was also reported in the Australian. Barnett was speaking at the CEDA-hosted 2009 “Economic and Political Overview”, billed as “Australia’s p...

    First Michael Steele, GOP Chairman , thought he was a bad a#@ by calling Rush Limbaugh ’ugly’ and an entertainer . Then Limbaugh called him out  and instead of holding firm as a good leader should or is expected to do particularly when he’s right he ran to Limbaugh with...

I know I don’t normally talk about local Arizona politics on this blog, but recent state-wide idiocy has really gotten me up in arms. Arizona is one of this country’s last true bastions of Spaghetti Western libertarianism, where “get your government off my guns” meets “...

I hardly agree with all of Pat Buchanan's political views, but he nails it today in condemning Barack Obama's budget plans. In a nutshell, Buchanan basically says that when one half of a country pays the freight for the other half, we're not "on the road to socialism." We...

The FBI hasn't been the only group continuing to investigate lobbying firm PMA Group, which specializes in securing federal earmarks for its clients. At the Center for Responsive Politics, we've expanded our original analysis of contributions from the lobbying firm to lawmakers, specifically those o...