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6 years ago @ http://gadfly-buzz.blo... - Time To Revisit EPA Re... · 0 replies · +1 points

We need to fix this to have comments on main page.

10 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - How to Cut Medical Cos... · 0 replies · +4 points

The Surgery Center of Oklahoma has the solution to rising health care prices - they post their very competitive prices online.

10 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Can Christie Be Christ... · 0 replies · +4 points

"One of Christie’s biggest assets is his authenticity . . . '

Here is authentic Christie denigrating the only Speaker who ever succeeded in nationalizing a House of Representatives election and who effectively slashed welfare in favor of work. Christie's opinion was a deliberately harsh, vague and misleading attack on Newt in order divert attention from the liberal policies of the RINO who invented Mass-Care.

"I think Gingrich has embarrassed the party over time. Whether he'll do it again in the future, I don't know. But Gov. Romney never has.

If you are looking for "authentic," you will find it in Sarah Palin,Ted Cruz and Scott Walker.

10 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - A Republican Alternati... · 0 replies · +2 points

As Rush Limbaugh explained last week, the GOP alternative to Obamacare and before that, Hillarycare, is and was NO GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT whatsoever. Newt and company had little problem convincing the American public in the Clinton era, so lets all get out there and sing the "lesser government is better" song.

10 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Wrong on Paul? Christi... · 1 reply · +5 points

" [Rand Paul's] disdain for the sensibilities of the Washington establishment is matched only by his refusal to play its rules . . . ." Since when did politicians become sensitive?

The Washington establishment is the problem and its rules are not the solution. Eastern liberals hiding under the guise of conservatism - such as Chris Christie - are not to be trusted with leadership in the Republican Party where the base (at least for the time being) remains conservative.

We know longer have the money nor the economic prosperity to be the world's police force, Spending must stop. Keeping troops in Korea, Europe, Iraq and Afghanistan is no longer in our best interest. Giving away our wealth to the Arabs and guaranteeing viable economies in the European Union must be removed from our foreign policy. The world is full of isolationist countries, so who made the rule that America cannot adopt such a stance if it is the best way to get back its former strengths?

If we have foreign relation problems, they begin with the apparent perception by Obama, driven by delusional narcissism, that the world is his to rule.

10 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Why Non-Profit Hospita... · 0 replies · +4 points

Market forces indeed! This story about the Surgery Center of Oklahoma is all the proof that is needed.
Patients began to travel to Oklahoma from as far away as Canada to take advantage of the Surgery Center’s low prices, sometimes as low as one-fifth of what other facilities charged. Other patients used the Surgery Center’s prices to successfully bid down their own doctors.

Since then, other medical providers have posted their prices. McBride Orthopedic Hospital, Oklahoma Heart Hospital, Digestive Disease Center, Cancer Specialists of Oklahoma, Breast Imaging of Oklahoma, and Comprehensive Diagnostic Imaging are among the facilities demystifying their prices . . .

10 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Paul, Christie, and th... · 0 replies · +4 points

It looks to me like Rush is right again. Chris Christie sounds and acts like the frontrunner to be the 2016 Democratic candidate for President. At this point, Ted Cruz needs only to sit back and keep his back to the wall.

10 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Phyllis Schlafly and t... · 0 replies · +9 points

The 40% of largely Mexican-descent citizens who voted for Bush were either born here or went though the immigration process. The 20 million or so illegals who would benefit from blanket amnesty and unearned citizenship, represent a lower-wage, lower-skilled quarter of society which generally favors government-provided assistance. That simply translates to voting Democratic.

Will they all vote for Democrats? No, but the group grope mentality works well for the recruiters from the jackass party. Logic does not always follow, however, since the majority of the smartest group of people in America (and the the world) - the Jews - somehow vote for socialism and the Democrats.

10 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Beck Crosses the Line ... · 1 reply · +1 points

Gosh - why such a big defense of Mayor Doomberg? Randy Newman made the first assault on the mayor when he sang "short people have no reason to live" and it has been downhill ever since. Just because the libs like his politics does not mean that we can't refuse his request for another slice of pizza.

Beck is a nutcase, sometimes entertaining even but the content of his NRA speech was all Beck with no input from a speech writer or the NRA (according to Glenn, which is the reason he talked for an hour and forty minutes). Psst, Bloomberg is all in for hellacious gun control laws so the NRA members wouldn't like him much in any case.

11 years ago @ Angry White Boy - A Matter of From Whom ... · 1 reply · +2 points

So much stuff and so little honesty. Not you, Jim, just the politicos and their paid allies. I can't let the Scipio Township go by without mentioning that Wiki says there are 414 people and a cemetery there - so it is a definite threat to attract industry.

So every citizen wants to continue paying for everything being dished up by the City? Like paying to have a commercial building erected? Like paying for the State Street redo? Like playing favorites with the unions on too high prevailing wages - what continuing discussions could possibly make sense?

Nowhere do I read that the uninspired bureaucracy is efficient or that headcount is too high or that continuing some services using cheaper private companies might be worth investigating. Instead we are being treated like children - quite successfully, it would seem.