By Douglas J. Hagmann Whether you are at the doctor’s office, hospital, or clinic awaiting treatment for you or your loved one, how many of you read the fine print on those multi-page legal notices pertaining to privacy practices? I suspect…
Month: December 2012
GOP: Hurling Conservatism Over A Cliff
The GOP machine has become a bunch of liberal Democrats whose only care is to retain their power. If this were not the case, they would have pulled out all the stops and fought Democrats’ excessive spending over the last four…
RINOs Had Better Start Looking Over Their Shoulders
Jim DeMint’s departure from the Senate for the Heritage Foundation will put an end to a key promise the confrontational conservative made his peers: Not to attack incumbent senators. In fact, Senate Republicans up for reelection in 2014 who have tangled…
The Devil Made Dem Do It?
Liberal Hypocrisy
Sign The Petition: Obama Should Stay Home
“Somerset County is Maryland’s poorest county. The towns of Crisfield, Fairmount and Deal Island were devastated by hurricane Sandy, with flood waters causing widespread damage. These poor, working, waterfront communities were already fragile from the decline of the seafood industry. Superstorm…
ObamaEd: Killing Innovation
President Obama’s bid to control what your children learn in school is surely one of the most important and disturbing of his many transformative plans. Not only is Obama’s attempt to devise what is in effect a national K–12 school…
DeMint Resigns for Heritage Foundation
Washingtontimes reports: Sen. Jim DeMint said Thursday he’ll resign from the Senate to go run the Heritage Foundation, the powerhouse conservative think tank that dominates Republican policy circles. “It’s been an honor to serve the people of South Carolina in United …
Precision Guided Firearms Technology Making Shots Out to 1200 yards
TrackingPoint is developing Precision Guided Firearms technology and will soon launch its revolutionary technology where the scope helps determine when to take a shot that can be in excess of 1000 yards. Anyone will be able to make sniper shots…
Patent Filed by Verizon to Listen and Watch YOU Watching TV
Verizon not only wants to provide your cable television service, but also stick around and observe everything you do while watching TV. Verizon has filed a patent, published last week, for a system designed to be used in the home…
Bless Your Heart: Drop Your Drawers and Bend Over
According to Reuters, the Internal Revenue Service has released new proposed regulations for investment income taxes on capital gains and dividends earned by high-income individuals that passed Congress as part of the 2010 healthcare reform law. The 159 pages of…
“High Noon” for America
“There’s a jihadist enemy that’s coming at the West and at America and at Israel. There’s the threat of stealth jihad and also violent, physical jihad. And … political correctness and the leftist ideology has completely blinded the West and…
Medicare: What you need to know
Heading into your retirement years brings a slew of new topics to grapple with, and one of the most maddening may be Medicare. Figuring out when to enroll, what to enroll in and what coverage will be best for you…
Protester in Egypt Sends Obama a Message
To Obama from an Egyptian Protester in Cairo
John Kerry: To Forgive Is Divine, To Forget Is Stupid
While seemingly to joke, Senator John McCain recently referred to his good buddy John Kerry as the next Secretary of State. Has Senator McCain’s let us in on the secret to his disdain for front-runner, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice or are…
Socialized Health Care: Backdoor Euthanasia
I wrote in a previous article about problems associated with the UK Socialized health care program, in particular a program instituted to save money, the “Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP). The LCP was initially instituted to care for patients close to…