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The ACLU's Unholy War on Catholic Hospitals
Monday, December 27, 2010 Ho, ho, ho! Just in time for Christmas, the American Civil Liberties Union has launched a new salvo against people of faith. Even as billions around the world celebrate the birth of Christ, joyless, Abortion-obsessed secularists never take a holiday. On Wednesday, the ACLU sent a letter to federal health officials urging the government to force Catholic Hospitals in the U.S. to perform abortions in violation of their core moral commitment to protecting the lives of t...

The ACLU's Unholy War on Catholic Hospitals
Monday, December 27, 2010 Ho, ho, ho! Just in time for Christmas, the American Civil Liberties Union has launched a new salvo against people of faith. Even as billions around the world celebrate the birth of Christ, joyless, Abortion-obsessed secularists never take a holiday. On Wednesday, the ACLU sent a letter to federal health officials urging the government to force Catholic Hospitals in the U.S. to perform abortions in violation of their core moral commitment to protecting the lives of t...

Moral Issues, Legal Issues, Surrounding St. Josephs Hospital in Phoenix
It’s easy for me to get pissed off about the ACLU, and given that I was trying to be in Christmas mode and they were making it harder, I tossed out a bit of Michelle Malkin’s post and left it at that. Sarah W, long-time reader, commenter, one-time (so far) contributor and friend, wrote the following in the comments yesterday evening: There are true emergencies, and cases where futility and/or serious risks to a pregnant woman necessitate treatment…. I’m most concerned abo...

States Now Incentivized to Ensure that Poor Kids Get Health Care
The Health Care issue encompasses a lot of ground. But one point on which there should be little disagreement is the merits of providing Health Care to poor kids. Poor kids aren’t poor because they’re lazy or stupid, they’re poor because their parents are poor. And providing Health Care to Children is cheap, and since Children are young the ratio of costs to benefits is very high. And now, as Kevin Sack explains, states that succeed in actually delivering coverage to poor kid...

CNN/Opinion Research Poll December 17-19 Health Care
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60% favor health care repeal
Rasmussen Reports: For the second time this month, 60% of Likely Voters at least somewhat favor Repeal of the national Health Care law, while the number who expect Health Care costs to increase is at its highest level since August. ...I think this number is going to get worse for the Democrats, especially as the Republican House keeps passing bills to Repeal it and the Democrats in the Senate have to take tough votes to support it. Obama may even have to Veto the Repeal at some point which wil...

CNN Poll: Controversial health care provision unpopular
Washington (CNN) - As a crucial component of the nation's new Health Care law requiring all Americans to buy Insurance faces an uncertain fate in Federal Courts, a new National Poll indicates that a majority of Americans oppose that provision in the bill Congress passed earlier this year. And a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday also indicates that a majority of the public still opposes the new law, but by a smaller margin than earlier this year. According to the poll, six i...

The Year In: Health Care.
When 2010 began, "Death Panels" were all the rage, Scott Brown was soon to gain Ted Kennedy's Senate seat, and Health Care reform looked to be on the ropes. Within a few months, however, reform, the culmination of decades of work by Progressives, became law. But the debate didn't end when the Affordable Care Act was signed, and TAP covered it from almost every angle imaginable: We celebrated the final passage of reform, because while the bill could have been better, we now have a foundation for...

Medicare Regulation Revives End-of-Life Planning As Part of Obamacare
Monday, December 27, 2010 By Staff, Associated Press Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, rests her arm on an autographed copy of the Democrats’ Health Care bill after it passed the House on Sunday, March 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Washington (AP) - A new health Regulation issued this month offers Medicare recipients voluntary end-of-life planning, which Democrats dropped -- under pressure -- from their Health Care overhaul last year. The provision allows Medicare to pay for voluntary...

Here We Go, All Over Again
Several Democratic members of Congress, led by Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon and Senator John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia, had urged the administration to cover end-of-life planning as a service offered under the Medicare wellness benefit. A national organization of hospice care providers made the same recommendation. Mr. Blumenauer, the author of the original end-of-life proposal, praised the rule as “a step in the right direction.” “It will give people more ...

Stepping Outside of the Box
The New York Times wonders...Did the bill pledging federal funds for the Health Care of 9/11 responders become law in the waning hours of the 111th Congress only because a comedian took it up as a personal cause? And does that make that comedian, Jon Stewart — despite all his protestations that what he does has nothing to do with journalism — the modern-day equivalent of Edward R. Murrow?It's interesting that since Mr. Stewart is not alone in being a media personality with an agenda...

Zandar's 2010 Scorecard
Time to take a look at my 2010 predictions to see how I did. Here's what I said would happen in 2010: Democrats maintain control of the House and Senate. The teabaggery is just too much for the middle to take and Republicans filibustering the Jobs Bill is just too much. Harry Reid and Chris Dodd lose however. Thompson Prison in Illinois gets some Gitmo inmates. The plan to close Gitmo proceeds...slowly. Health Care reform passes, but gets tied up in court immediately by Republicans and threatene...

The Setoff Problem
An article in Saturday's NY Times called attention to a seeming perversity in the legal system, especially in New York State: Indigent persons confined in mental Hospitals who are the Victims of serious torts committed by the State may win a damages judgment but end up having their award substantially reduced or collecting nothing because the State offsets the judgment award by the value of the care which the State has provided gratis. The Times story Recounts some truly horrific stories--includ...

Enlisting the Dying for Clues to Save Others
Dr. Roger Lo removing a tumor that he hopes will help researchers find drugs to treat relapsing Cancer patients. By AMY HARMON NYT Los Angeles — They had told him on his last visit: the experimental drug that had so miraculously melted his tumors was no longer working. His legs were swollen, the Melanoma erupting in angry black lumps. The patient, a computer consultant in his 40s, had little time left. And now the man’s doctor, Roger Lo of the Cancer center at the University of California...

GOP influence seen in NH bill filings
Some of what you'll see in the new-look New Hampshire Legislature is a Republican majority trying to undo the work of the past Democratic majority. That is evident from the Legislative Service Requests currently on file. These are placeholders that legislators use in advance of filing bills. There is proposed Legislation among the more than 1,000 LSRs, for example, to undo the law passed last year by the Democrat-controlled Legislature and signed by Democratic Gov. John Lynch to legalize same-se...

Doc Says Teen Unfit for Stabbing Trial
TYLER, Texas - A teenager accused of fatally stabbing his teacher in an East Texas classroom last year has a "low probability" of maintaining a level of competence required for trial, a forensic psychologist wrote to the juvenile judge considering the case. Dr. Emily Fallis observed that the 17-year-old boy remained delusional and dangerous and had few lucid moments in a 2 1/2-hour interview, according to a seven-page report submitted in November and obtained by The Dallas Morning News for a sto...

2011's hottest job you never thought of
Hiring next year will heat up in several fields, including one with a decidedly unglamorous image: supply chain management. Everybody has heard by now that Health Care companies are promising hunting grounds for job seekers, and the New Year will see hiring perk up elsewhere, too. But when you think of fields where there just aren't enough skilled Candidates to go around, one that probably doesn't come to mind is supply chain management: The complicated, behind-the-scenes work of getting goods ...

'They Really Have No Shame'
No wonder New York Democrats were so desperate to shove through the so-called 9/11 health bill. One of their fatcat contributors was making millions off it.The Law Firm that pocketed more than $100 million suing the city over Sept. 11 is trying to cash in on the just-passed Zadroga 9/11 health bill. The hunt was on even before the House put its final stamp of approval on the $4.3 billion James Zadroga Health and Compensation Act last Wednesday - and long before President Obama signs it next we...

Frank Rich then and now
Posted by Scott at 7:14 AM This morning RealClearPolitics serves up Frank Rich's Sunday New York Times column "Who killed the Disneyland dream?" RCP pairs Rich's column with Byron York's Washington Examiner column "Frank Rich rewrites history." York contrasts Rich's current column praising the Disneyland dream of the 1950's with Rich's 1995 column portraying the 1950's as a "phony nirvana" if not a nightmare decade. The contrast between Frank Rich then and now suggests why Rich can't be taken ...

NYT: 'Bundle Up, It's Global Warming'
Manhattan seems to be filled with foolish people who bitterly cling to their pagan religion. From the New York Times: "Bundle Up, It's Global Warming." The headline is attached to a bizarre article by Judah Cohen. Since he is the director of seasonal forecasting at an atmospheric and environmental research firm, I guess he has to come up with some plausible explanation for why the global warming doomsday has been proved wrong. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to int...

Check Out Etsy's Adorable Office
Etsy's spacious office in DUMBO is as whimsical as the site. The desks, checkered office curtains and office embellishments like a six-foot pair of wooden eyeglasses were all purchased on the site, which The New York Times calls an "online bazaar" from a "crafty company" in a story today about how Etsy "eats its own dogfood" by buying some of the vintage and handcrafted items on the site. New employees get $100 to spend on quirky accoutrement. How about a personalized trashcan? Or a pen that l...

The New York Times Concedes 'Decades of Overspending' by State Governments
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. You know Conservatives are winning when the most dogmatic and obdurate liberals (inadvertently) throw in the towel. In the midst of an otherwise predictable editorial today on "The Looming Crisis in the States," in which the New York Times calls for state tax hikes and more aid from Washington, we find this sentence: "Starved for revenue and accustomed to decades of overspending, many states have been overwhelmed." "Decades of overs...

LA mean streets lose some killer instinct
LOS ANGELES: For the first time in more than four decades, Los Angeles is on track to end the year with fewer than 300 killings, a milestone in a steady decline of homicides that has changed the quality of life in many neighbourhoods and defied predictions that a bad economy would lead to higher crime. As of mid-afternoon on Sunday, the Los Angeles Police Department had tallied 291 homicides for the year. The city is likely to record the fewest killings since 1967, when its population was almost...

This Is A Class War. Guess Which Side Obama's On?
From Time for Change at Democratic Underground, part of a very long piece about the division among Democrats. I thought this nailed it: Yes, the administration and Congress have accomplished a lot -- but where are the programs and Legislation that will help the people who are drowning out here? This is the difference. The priorities are not the same, and the upcoming attack on Social Security and the Austerity proposals to come will prove it: Obama’s supporters note that many of us donR...

Government 'warned' over NHS cuts
The Department of Health was warned by advisers that the NHS could face a Budget shortfall of up to £10bn a year unless it delivers greater efficiency. In a letter seen by the Guardian, the Independent Challenge Group also said savings for England as projected might not be achievable. The DH said the issues in the letter dating from September had been addressed in the Spending Review. The letter, sent to Treasury Chief Secretary Danny Alexander, questioned whether efficiency savings from qu...