by Dave McGill
The impoverished nation of Yemen, Osama bin Laden’s ancestral home, keeps popping up in the news, and not in a good way. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian terrorist who tried to ignite a destructive device aboard Flight 253 on Christmas Day, is now suspected of having ties to elements of Al Qaeda [...]

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submitted by Bernard Schaer
Investors are seeing the Senate’s version of health care reform as a massive public subsidy for insurance companies — and as a result, are sending the sector’s stock prices shooting up, up, up. Stripped of a government-run insurance plan, the bill would give tens of millions of Americans no option but to [...]

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President Obama said the public option “has become a source of ideological contention between the left and right.” But, he added, “I didn’t campaign on the public option.” President Obama said this Tuesday while defending the indefensible Senate health care bill, which mandates that all Americans buy insurance from private providers.

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by Bernard Schaer
Harry Reid almost had me last night. As he talked about the Senate health care bill and why it needed to pass last night, he recounted some of the cases in Nevada where health care was desperately needed but not available because insurance coverage was denied, a job was lost, a decision between [...]

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by Dave McGill
It seems that the only thing Congress can agree on is war. War-funding defense bills sailed through both the House and Senate this week. The vote in the House was 395 to 34 while the Senate vote was 88 to 10. Evidently, the Republican senators haven’t completely forgotten how to say “yes,” at [...]

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