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Santorum kills Impeachment proceeding against Bill Clinton- conservative purity in name only exposed

Santorum South Carolina Primary- How Rick Santorum stopped the impeachment proceedings against Bill Clinton- Collier Brothers

Rick Santorum tells South Carolina voters that he is the only conservative purist in the field, attacking Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney for being unreliable conservatives. Well, THE FREEDOMIST has already exposed Rick Santorum for his betrayal of a core conservative value, the right to work, the protection against Union thuggery. He is FOR right to work but NEVER votes for right to work legislation. He also endorsed Arlen Specter in his 1996 Presidential run, in 2004 against true conservative Pat Toomey, AND even endorsed Mitt Romney in his 2008 Presidential run.
Well, worse than even his right to vote betrayal and his endorsements of RINOS and future democrats was the work that he did as a Senator in the Clinton years, when he and Trent Lott undermined the Senate efforts to bring Bill Clinton to trial after the House impeached him for lying under oath.

That’s right, this pure conservative, who attacks like a tiny lap dog (see Thursday’s debate for a classic example of what an attack lap dog looks like when he nips at the heels of others), was instrumental, along with Trent Lott, in stopping the Clinton Impeachmment proceeedings, in rescuing Bill Clinton from facing a fair trial of his peers. This action should not be surprising to the people who remember how aggressively Rick Santorum worked to torpedo a true conservative, Pat Toomey, in 2004, from removing a future democrat and former RINO, Arlen Specter.

Here is all the proof you need to see that Santorum, in fact, killled the impeachment proceedings against Bill Clinton, just another reflection of how Santorum is the face of Conservative Purity in Name Only (CPINO- which also sounds like the name of an exotic small wolf dop that yips and yips and yips at everyon’e ankles):

Excerpts from “Catching Our Flag: Behind the Scenes of a Presidential Impeachment”

From the Diaries of Congressman James E. Rogan, House Manager, Clinton Impeachment Trial

Published May 2011

[After the House impeached Clinton, the House Managers brought the case to try before the U.S. Senate. Once they arrived to prosecute Clinton, Trent Lott and Rick Santorum did everything they could behind the scenes to destroy the House Managers’ case and guarantee Clinton would never face a fair trial. Under Lott and Santorum’s plan, the Managers were denied the right to call a single witness or place before the Senate any trial evidence to show why the House impeached the president. When outgoing Speaker Gingrich learned of this perfidy, he grew furious]

[Pages 272-274]

Diary, Telephone Call, Speaker Newt Gingrich,

December 30, 1998

Newt said he was livid with Lott and asked what I thought about the

Senate leader’s idea. I tore into the suggestion and said I would not be

a party to him tossing out our case. I said we should show up in their

chamber on the day appointed and demand to present our case. If they

refused, we would walk out. Under no circumstance would we give Lott

or any other pantywaist Republican senator cover. We would make them

commit this betrayal in public.

Newt agreed strongly: “The Managers must be firm on this. Henry

Hyde cannot give in. This is about much more than his reputation and his

legacy. It is about the Constitution and the defense of it.” Newt said that

if Lott pushes this, he will destroy his Republican majority in the Senate.

I told Newt that I thought our conservative base would torch Lott if

he forced this idea. Newt agreed that Lott risked losing his leadership

position if he tried. Newt volunteered to help fire up our troops,

suggesting we “unleash” Majority Whip Tom DeLay [called “The

Hammer” for his political hardball instincts] and get this story out to

conservative editors, columnists, and talk radio hosts. Newt then caught

himself and wondered aloud whether he should be involved, saying,

“I’m not there anymore.”

I reminded him he was still there: technically Newt remained as

Speaker and a Member of Congress until he resigned his seat formally.

“By the way,” I added, “we may need to swear you in to the new Congress

so you can vote with us on reappointing House Managers. We’ve heard

some of our anti-impeachment Republicans might not stand with us.”

When I told him that passing a reappointment resolution might be a

problem with some Republicans, Newt blew his stack:

“This is so fundamental that nobody—nobody—gets a free vote

on this,” he shouted. “If any member of our conference won’t vote to

reappoint Managers, we should drum them out of the Republican Party.

Let them become Democrats, and let Dick Gephardt become Speaker.

Let him then try to govern the House with a one-vote majority. This is

traitorous. We must enforce a party line vote….” Newt said, “Let these guys

become Democrats if that is their game and make them show their true colors.”

After this call, I took heart when a staffer handed me a message

that Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) wanted to speak with me.

Elected to the Senate just two years earlier, Santorum had been a

conservative House stalwart who appeared to be the rare exception

to my senatorial hypothesis about new members breathing the

ether in The Other Body. I felt sure that if anyone might go to bat

for us with Trent Lott, it was Rick.

Diary, Telephone Conversation with Senator Rick Santorum,

December 31, 1998

I told Rick that Trent Lott was trying to sell all of us out and dump

the impeachment case against Clinton. I said Lott was acting out

of expediency in wanting to make a political headache just go away,

despite the evidence.

“Oh, the Leader would never do that,” Rick said defensively.

“The Leader” would never do that?

The more Rick defended Lott, the deeper my heart sank in

realizing another good guy drank the Senate’s collegiality Kool-Aid.

I told Rick I would recommend to Henry Hyde that we flatly reject

participating in anything that resembled a one-day submission on the

record so the Senate could sidestep a public trial. I also made clear that

I would vigorously and publicly object to any attempt by Lott to define

impeachable offenses as a predicate to the Senate deciding whether to

let us to try our case.

Rick said Lott was concerned about the upcoming 2000 Senate

elections, and Lott’s fear he might lose Republican seats over this

unpopular cause. As one facing defeat myself, I told him I understood,

but our obligation was to the Constitution and not worrying about

elections two years away…. “I wonder what kind of man we have in the Oval

Office?” he asked.

“I’ll tell you what kind of man we have in the Oval Office, Rick,”

I replied. “We have an impeached man in the Oval Office. And we

need you guys to let us come over and show you why.”

[Note: near the end of this conversation, Santorum started backing off on his defense of Lott. However, it was a short-lived shot of courage. A few days later, he was planted firmly in Lott’s hip pocket, as the following excerpts show]

[Pages 292-293]

Diary, Telephone Call with Senator Rick Santorum,

January 7, 1999, 5:00 p.m.

Santorum said that Lott is proposing the senators have a bipartisan

caucus tomorrow morning to adopt his latest proposal: have the House

Managers and the President’s attorneys argue their respective cases for

four weeks, and then the Senate will vote on whether to allow a trial with

witnesses. However, the Senate will also entertain a White House motion

to dismiss the case outright.

Santorum confessed that under Lott’s plans, the House Managers

should “assume that you will get no witnesses.”

Trent Lott apparently stood nearby when Santorum told me this,

because as my colorful response blared from Santorum’s telephone

receiver, Lott took the phone from him and came on the line

with me:

Lott said he wanted to meet with all the House Managers at 6:00

p.m. tonight. “Jim, we want to give you your trial and let you call your

witnesses,” he told me. “So let’s all get together with your Managers

tonight and show you that we aren’t out to be the enemy. I should have

just done this myself the first time instead of using intermediaries.”

Did I just hear him correctly? After presuming Lott to be the

boogeyman wanting to scuttle our case before we could present

it, had all this been a misunderstanding from the start? With this

personal assurance, I felt a sudden ray of hope.

Our staff rounded up the other House Managers for the meeting

in our Judiciary Committee conference room. Before Lott arrived,

I related my conversation to the group, along with Lott’s assurance

that he wants to make sure we call live witnesses. Manager Chris

Cannon interrupted me:

“I just spoke to [Utah Republican Senator] Bob Bennett,”

Cannon said. “Bennett told me, ‘You guys just lost. The Senate

plans to kill off your hope of calling any witnesses.’” Manager Bill

McCollum shared that he just received the same message from

Senator Mike DeWine (R-OH).

Fuming over Lott’s apparent smoke blowing over the telephone,

I renewed my motion that we should refuse to participate in any

proceeding where the senators block us from calling witnesses. Bob

Barr agreed, and made a motion to give Chairman Hyde authority

to tell Lott we would refuse to proceed without witnesses. Henry

took the middle ground, saying we should take two days in the

Senate to make our case as to why we need witnesses. “Otherwise,”

he feared, “we might appear to be sore losers.”

Trent Lott and Rick Santorum interrupted our discussion when

they arrived together at 6:15 p.m. After expressing his love for the

House and claiming fond memories of his own days there, Lott

lamented that the Senate is a more complicated body to lead:

“I want you to have a chance to put on your case,” Lott told us. “But

‘putting on your case’ means opening statements and maybe some

evidence. There is no guarantee that you will get any witnesses. Maybe

you can get some witnesses later, but keep in mind you always face a

motion to adjourn the trial from the Democrats.”

Some of the Managers didn’t wait for Lott to finish speaking

before weighing in:

Chris Cannon accused Lott of trying to get us to participate in a sham

trial. Bob Barr snapped at Lott, “We don’t hear you guys on TV telling

everyone you are fighting for us to be able to call witnesses. All we hear

is you Senate Republicans saying we need to convince you that we need

witnesses.”

Growing defensive, Lott shot back, “I’m not prepared to agree to fight

for your right to call witnesses without justification. I’m doing my best

to hold the line on our moderate Republican senators. They may vote

against the Articles of Impeachment themselves if you keep pushing this

witness issue!”

“Without witnesses,” Bill McCollum interrupted, “Clinton stands no

chance of ever being convicted and removed.”

“At least you’ll stand a chance to have your side heard,” Lott replied.

When my turn came, I ridiculed his position, given that the Senate

routinely spends months on judicial impeachments, and reminded him

that in Judge Alcee Hastings’ recent impeachment trial, the Senate

heard from fifty-five witnesses. I accused Lott of wanting us to come

and argue why we should have a trial, and then he wants to call that

argument the “trial.”

Next, I said the White House and the Senate Democrats fought

so hard against having any live witnesses called: with witnesses, the

Democrats have no control over an otherwise preordained verdict of

acquittal. “The Managers understand why the Democratic senators

don’t want witnesses,” I goaded, “but why on earth are you Republican

senators afraid of them?”

Finally, I told Lott that if he really was fearful that moderate Republicans

would vote against impeachment articles out of revenge if we asked for

witnesses, then Lott should reverse the order of his proposal: have us

argue to the Senate why we needed witnesses for a trial, and then let the

Senate vote. If the Senate refuses our request, we should announce that

the Senate has rendered us unable to proceed and walk out.

Lott and Santorum shared a panic-stricken look.

Santorum blurted, “If we did that, then you guys could leave and say you never got a trial!”

With that comment, both Lott and Santorum tipped their hand. Here,

ultimately, was their plan: call their charade a trial, and then let the history

books record Clinton’s acquittal after an impeachment “trial.”

Lott distributed copies of his final “no-witness” trial plan. He

asked us to review it, and then he and Santorum stepped out of the

room to await our decision.

A glum-looking Henry Hyde said he was willing to go along

with Lott’s plan. Bob Barr spoke against it vociferously. I joined

Barr in suggesting we return to the Senate to argue for our right to

have a trial, but refuse to cooperate with this plan.

Henry summoned Lott and Santorum back to the room. “I’m

getting great resistance to your plan from my team,” Henry told

them, and repeated our willingness to come and argue for our right

to have a full trial. Lott then reiterated Santorum’s earlier concern

that if they agreed to this, and if the Senate later refused to give us

witnesses, “you guys might later say there never was a trial.”

There it was again. Stripped bare were all the earlier winks and

nods about calling witnesses later in the trial. Lott and Santorum

stalked out of the room amid hostile comments from our team.

[Pages 385-387]

Diary, U.S. Senate Floor During Impeachment Proceedings

against President Clinton,

Saturday, February 6, 1999

[After a long day of being battered by hostile senators who made sure the House Managers could not present evidence to convict Clinton, the House Managers gathered off the Senate floor for a quick strategy session]

Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) interrupted our meeting. When he said

he wanted to give us “advice,” some of us started grumbling. We all liked

Rick, but he was there to do Trent Lott’s bidding.

“You guys did a great job…,” Santorum gushed at

Asa [Hutchinson] and me. “For the first time, our Republican senators are listening to

the facts and thinking that having witnesses is valuable . . .”

I interrupted Santorum: “Rick, if your colleagues now find the testimony

so enlightening and valuable, why don’t you go back and tell them

there’s much more where that came from. Go back and make a motion

to open this up to live witnesses, and to have a real trial.”

Suddenly, Rick’s demeanor turned dour. “Oh, that will never do,” he

replied.

Wrong answer; I remember vividly taking out some pent-up

exasperation on my friend Rick:

“If you won’t make that motion,” I snapped at him, “then get the

fuck out of here.”

Some Managers laughed and jeered at Rick, who grew quite flustered.

“I was just trying to be helpful,” he said. “If you don’t want my advice,

then I’ll leave.” Henry tried to assuage Rick’s feelings as other Managers

continued heckling him [as he stormed out of the room]. Senate’s Republican led sell-out of our case.

* * * * * * * * * *

GINGRICH AND THE CLINTON IMPEACHMENT

Op Ed Published: 12/02/2011 at 6:31 PM

….In fact, if there is any presidential candidate running for the GOP nomination in 2011 who needs to come clean on his role in the failure to oust Clinton for high crimes and misdemeanors, it is Rick Santorum.

It was Santorum who worked side-by-side with Trent Lott to ensure no real impeachment trial, one where witnesses would be called and evidence submitted, would ever take place in the U.S. Senate. And that is exactly what came to pass.

Now, I generally like Rick Santorum. I think he is a feisty advocate for conservative principles. But on the impeachment of Bill Clinton, Santorum served as Trent Lott’s toady. Those are the facts. Read the story for yourself in “Catching the Flag,” without question the best historical record of the Clinton impeachment process, written by the man on point – House impeachment manager Jim Rogan.

Politics is a complicated business. Sometimes the good guys err, and the bad guys get it right….

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http://www.wnd.com/2011/12/373665/

The Rick Santorum CPINO (Conservative Purity in Name Only) exposed:
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Rick Santorum opposes Right to Work Legislation

State Senate Race In Illinois Garners National Attention- Lennie Jarratt

 

In the 31st State Senate District in Illinois Lennie Jarratt’s bid to be the new State Senator is getting national attention among rank and file conservative activists. Jarratt, a long-time proven fighter for conservative causes and values, has won the admiration and support of many of his peers as a faithful defender of freedom for all against the encroachment of big brother government.

Jarrat’s own story in private and public employment as well as in his own business, providing web design services, is a typical American story these days- an honest, hard-working citizen whose greatest obstacles seem to be the big brother government policies coming from Washington DC and Springfield Illinois. When Jarratt learned that his bank would get more money, thanks to government policies, to foreclose on him after an 11 month period of unemployment than to settle with him, his thoughts turned to the thousands of other citizens in Illinois who were probably facing the same problem, with NO help or support from their elected officials.

Jarrat’s campaign motto is “Supporting Families, Not Government” and this sets the tone for his whole campaign, a campaign that has been endorsed by Illinois Conservatives and is lauded on many national conservative blogs and websites.

Some of Jarratt’s stances include:

Pro Family

The family is the basic unit of our society and it must be preserved. Income tax hikes, property tax hikes and the continual raising of fees are sapping the hard earned money from the families and businesses of Illinois.

Property Taxes

Lake County has the highest property taxes in the Midwest and the 14th highest in the country according to Forbes magazine. Budgets are shrinking, yet taxing bodies never stop increasing these taxes. Families should not be squeezed any more. It is time to restore fiscal sanity to Springfield and reform this state sanctioned local tax.

Income Taxes

Illinois is currently is in the 48th worst financial position*. The 66% tax increase on individuals and 45% increase on the companies that drive our economy caused unemployment to rise to 10%.

Foreclosures

1 in 295 Lake County homes received foreclosure filings in September. In October, the rate climbed to 1 in 271. There are over 2500 active cases in the courts here in Lake County, of which mine is one. I too am living the reality of bad tax and spend policies destroying the jobs families rely on.

Education

Education is the key to the future. All children deserve access to a quality education to unlock their door to excel. We need to empower parents to be able to better direct their child’s education, be it public school, private school, charter school, home school, or other alternatives. The parents know their child best.

Honest Government

Every citizen has the right to expect open and honest government. We should never have to pay a corruption tax as the price of government graft and back room dealings.

Pro 2nd Amendment

It’s simple, the right to bear arms is enshrined in our Constitution and it should not be infringed upon.

Aside from his stance on particular issues, the Freedomist has found him to be capable, credible, honest, a man of his word, and consistently reliable. Often people give lip service to these things, make great promises, do little, and THEN insist on getting credit and glory for things they did not actually do! Lennie has often done more than he says he will while often letting others “get the glory” who did much less, and that without complaint.

But while Jarratt may have earned a good reputation, which explains some of the interest in his candidacy among national activists, there are other reasons for this interest.

Jarrat’s district, the 31st State Senate District, is in the region of northern Chicago and many conservatives believe that a Jarratt win here would prove that running on a conservative platform is in fact a “mainstream” value, contrary to the Karl Roves of the GOP who insist that one has to be center-left (what they call “moderate” or even “independent”) to win elections.

These two schools of thought, one that says that candidates can run on conservative values and win voters over and the other that assumes the media’s view of “mainstream” is the right view that candidates need to conform to, are looking at the 31st State Senate District as a bell-weather for the validity of their approach.

While polls have not been conducted in the district, Jarrat’s involvement in helping dozens of local conservative candidates win elections over the past 4 years seems to indicate that creating a solid “ground game” will not be a problem for his campaign, even if his financial war chest is not on par with the establishment candidates GOP progressives will run against him.

That being said, more and more conservative activists are going to http://www.lenniejarratt.com/donate/ to donate “$20.11” to help Jarrat’s campaign round out 2011 with a god-sized financial war chest.

Is Gloria Allred’s Lynch Mob Partner, Sharon Bialek, A Marketing Executive?- Sharon Bialek

Sharon Bialek, claiming to be a tea party supporter, made a lot of wild accusations against Herman Cain.

Her allegations have no basis of external proof, it is stricly a "she-said/he-said" deal, and her lawyer is the infamous Gloria Alred, who famously trumpeted the accusers of the Duke Lacrosse team, ruinbing their seaon, only to see her client exposed as an outright liar.

The whole thing smells of political fishiness, and now we may have discovered that Sharon Bialek is an acccount executive for a liberal leaning ad agency, see here: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/153340-Fates_Fortunes.php

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At Katz Marketing Dimensions: Judy Carlough, sales manager, Greater Boston Radio, Boston, named VP/manager, Atlanta; Jeanne Schad, account supervisor, Richards Group, Dallas, named account manager, Dallas; Sharon Bialek, NTR director, WGN Radio, Chicago, named account manager, Chicago.

Why would THIS matter?

If Bialek is a marketing executive whose firm worked on "branding" and "media communications". then this would make sense. No doubt Cain's accuser, if she IS a marketing executive, knows that she will be the darling of the liberal elite social circles and hereafter never lack for a good place of employment.

Is what she is saying TRUE?

So far the accuser has claimed that she is a registered republican and tea party supporter.

In Illinois there are no "registered" this or that, unlike in Pennsylvania where you delcare a party, in Illinois, you don't. So then nobody could ossibly substantiate this claim.

See the Illinoise voter registration here: http://www.elections.il.gov/Downloads/VotingInformation/PDF/R-19.pdf

Hat tip to Steve Eggleston for showing us this: http://norunnyeggs.com/  

We are hearing from LOCAL Tea Party groups, via http:/www.publiusforum.com that so far NO local tea party member has ever heard of this woman.

This is America, we are supposed to say "inocent until proven guilty", a principle Alred urged be abandoned during the Duke Lacrosse debace and that she is trying to set aside now.

Emails Show U.S. Copyright Czar Was Very Close With Content Industry

A few months ago, Hollywood and a few major record labels banded together. They did this to urge ISPs to disrupt the internet connection for anyone trying to break copyright laws. This means people illegally downloading music or movies. This coming at a time when peer-to-peer file sharing is increasing among kids, and even more lawsuits are being thrown around.

This is not very surprising, when you look at the surface. Hollywood banded together with some major record labels and implored ISPs to stop people from pirating stuff that is theirs. While some of the filters ISPs were using were rather vague, it was a good effort to try and stop people from illegally downloading music and films. When you look into the issue closer, though, you find something that is a little more sinister than companies looking out for themselves, you find the government.

According to documents released (internal e-mails), key administration officials, including the U.S. Copyright Czar all played active roles in the negotiations that lead to ISPs disrupting internet services to those suspected of illegally downloading music or film. One of these officials used her own personal email to speak with lobbyists from a variety of companies, one of those being AT&T.

Article Source: http://webtechpulse.com/2011/10/emails-show-u-s-copyright-czar-was-very-close-with-content-industry/

GOP JOBS BILL short on Dollar

GOP JOBS BILL

#GOP #JOBS #BILL

GOP JOBS BILL

The New York Sun had an interesting take on the GOP jobs bill that most media outlets, even “new media”, are not addressing at all.  What is the underlying issue behind America’s faultering economy?  What is the devil underneath the surface that is causing American jobs to go overseas?  What is the 800 pound gorilla in the room that NO ONE sees, the one that is tearing up American enterprise and building up Chinese economic war machines with all their yuen-subsidized guns pointed RIGHT at Wall Street (maybe they’ll miss and hit OCCUPY WALL STREET)?

The answer of course, and I know you all know this, is the weak dollar.  And why is the dollar so weak?  Well….read on my friend..read on..

 

The Hole in the GOP Jobs Plan

Editorial of The New York Sun | October 14, 2011

 

It’s encouraging to see the Republicans put forth a jobs bill, but — confound it — the measure as outlined by Senators Portman, DeMint, Paul, Jordan, and McCain is missing an essential element. This is sound money, the lack of which is emerging as a central cause of America’s current travail. The failure of the GOP jobs bill to address this point is all the more troubling, because leaders like Messr. DeMint and Dr. Paul understand so clearly the monetary issue, as they made clear when, earlier this year, they introduced a bill known as the Sound Money Promotion Act, which this newspaper was the first to endorse.

http://www.nysun.com/editorials/the-hole-in-the-gop-jobs-plan/87522/

Healthcare IT Interoperability- the debate

#healthcare #it #interoperability

Judy Faulkner’s quest to end Electrionic Medical Records Interoperabiltiy-

http://freedomist.com/2011/10/judy-faulkner/

healthcare IT interoperability and Judy Faulkner

healthcare IT interoperability and Judy Faulkner

ICMCC News Page » Hospitals, Home Health Fail IT Interoperability

www.icmcc.org/

4 days ago by Lodewijk
ICMCC, International Council on Medical & Care Compunetics.

http://articles.icmcc.org/2011/10/06/hospitals-home-health-fail-it-interoperability/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IcmccWebsiteArticles+(ICMCC+Newspage)

 

Merge network to enable online medical image sharing 

www.fiercehealthit.com/news

3 days ago by Ken Terry
Merge Healthcare, a provider of enterprise imaging and interoperability solutions, has announced its plan to launch a free, cloud-based network for sharing medical images among providers. The Read more…

 

Data Security and Interoperability Are Key to Transforming – HCPLive

Feb 23, 2011 by Dr. Joseph Kim
The lack of common interoperability standards and inconsistent approaches to security, privacy and trust are perpetuating an antiquated U.S. health care delivery system that has been largely unable to benefit from the 

 

The Business Case for Healthcare Interoperability | Hyland 

Sep 8, 2011 by Jared Blankenship
That means that a vast majority – 93 percent – already contend with a microcosm of that need for interoperability every day. You need your systems to play nicely with each other. You are no strangers to the concept or its 

 

Winning the Healthcare Information Revolution with Interoperability 

Aug 3, 2011 by Melody Smith Jones
The answer to this problem is interoperabilityInteroperability is the ability of two or more components, applications or systems to exchange and use information. In thehealthcare industry, interoperability more specifically 

 

Karos Health Sponsors Healthcare Interoperability Summit | Karos 

Jul 15, 2011 by Michel Pawlicz
As part of our ongoing efforts to remain on top of the latest trends in the Healthcare environment, Karos Health will be attending and participating in the Healthcare Interoperability Summit in Toronto on September 28th & 29th 

 

eHealthServer.com | GE Healthcare Demonstrates Interoperability 

May 15, 2011
GE Healthcare IT, a leading provider of health information technologies, announces the successful completion of interoperability testing at the Integrating the HealthcareEnterprise (IHE) Europe 2011.

 

Australian Health Information Technology: Texas Health Information 

Sep 27, 2011 by Dr David More MB PhD FACHI
The strategy will support interoperable health information management and exchange among unaffiliated organizations. Accenture also developed an enterprise architecture blueprint (EAB) for state-level HIE services and a 

 

Continua aims to make health games interoperable | mobihealthnews

May 31, 2011 by Brian Dolan
The Continua Health Alliance is working to ease that problem by offering up guidelines for ensuring interoperable connected health devices. The group has already released two sets of guidelines over the last five years, and 

http://mobihealthnews.com/11053/continua-aims-to-make-health-games-interoperable/

 

An Integrated Framework to Achieve Interoperability in Person 

Jul 24, 2011
If health and context data are shared and made interoperable, then they might be combined and the new knowledge thus generated could support innovative applications for the benefit of multiple institutions and users. Interoperability is 

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijta/2011/549282/

 

Intellect supports new emphasis on vibrant healthcare market and 

Sep 22, 2011
Intellect, the trade association for the ICT sector, has today welcomed the Dept ofHealth’s commitment to working with us to create a vibrant marketplace in health and social care which will deliver interoperable systems on a 

 

Lack of Interoperability Limits Personal Health Solutions

Apr 25, 2011
The report, “Enabling smart integrated care: Recommendations for fostering greaterinteroperability of personal health systems” contains recommendations for the advancement towards an interoperable personal health 

http://www.ehealthnews.eu/research/2577-lack-of-interoperability-limits-personal-health-solutions

RESIST THE OCCUPIERS!

What are you all doing about these “Occupiers” as I like to call them?
The following is our approach, anyone here is more than welcome to take this idea and use it for your own group or effort….

IT’S TIME TO RESIST THE OCCUPIERS!

America is under siege, socialist revolutionaries and their paid cadres are taking to the streets in a mad bid to end freedom as we know it and, once and for all, eliminate the free market! THIS IS NO JOKE and it is NOT A DRILL: they mean what they say and they say what they mean.

WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

We know from the Bible, a book sacred to our Founders but despised by the Occupiers, not to “return evil for evil”, so while they threaten to use violence against American patriots simply because they are successful, we need to SHOW UP in LARGE NUMBERS and show them how PEACEFUL Americans resist occupation of this nation by foreign and alien ideas that have their root in the writing of dead tyrants!

The Occupiers want to drag Americans, kicking and screaming if need be, BACK to the bad old days of the all-power socialist workers’ paradise that so many of us stood against during the Cold War. Their anachronistic slogans and Marxist-sounding rhetoric about “equality” at the point of a gun have not gone un-noticed by thoughtful Americans who embrace The Declaration of Independence and the Constititution over Mao Tse Tung or Hugo Chavez, or even Roseann Barr and Nancy Pelosi.

ARE YOU PREPARED TO STAND UP to the Occupiers?

We need to get organized and link arms QUICKLY with every freedom loving Amercian we can find to STAND UP and SHOW UP in these cities targeted by the OCCUPIERS to demonstrate that there are more of us, who love America and the values that made this nation great then those who hate America and want to impose the foreign and alien ideas of the OCCUPIERS on us all!

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Judy Faulkner- profile in Crony Socialism and Obamacare Fascism

healthcare IT interoperability and Judy Faulkner
Judy Faulkner- Epic Systems
Judy Faulkner- Epic Systems

#judy #faulkner

EPIC SYSTEMS, Judy
Faulkner, and the Obamacare Corporate Fascism she enables- http://freedomist.com/2011/10/stealing-your-medical-records-for-profit-and-political-gain-the-epic-systems-scandal/

 

Read more about the
Medical Records Czar and CEO of Epic Systems, Judy Faulkner, and her attempt to
destroy your medical records freedom to line her own pockets with govt-coerced
dollars:

 

PharmaGossip: Matt Herper speaks!

pharmagossip.blogspot.com/

Oct 2, 2011 by insider

1 comments: sallyhealthcaretech said… I’m
surprised with the appointment of Judy Faulkner,
EPIC founder and CEO, to the federal healthcare committee, there isn’t any EPIC
marketing that I’ve seen, on t.v. or in hospitals.

http://pharmagossip.blogspot.com/2011/10/matt-herper-speaks.html

 

Readers Write 9/14/11 | HIStalk

histalk2.com/

Sep 14, 2011 by Mr.
HIStalk

So why, despite their
public support for interoperability, did the administration appoint to the HHS
board Epic Systems CEO Judy
Faulkner
, who opposes the
broad consensus position on interoperability? As Lachlan Markey

More results
from HIStalk

http://histalk2.com/2011/09/14/readers-write-91411/

 

It’s Your Fault Doctors Don’t Like Hospital
EMRs | Hospital EMR and

www.hospitalemrandehr.com/

Oct 1, 2011 by
Katherine Rourke

EPIC SYSTEMS- Judy Faulkner- read about the CEO and Medical Records CZAR EXCERPT FROM EPIC
SYSTEMS ARTICLE-

http://www.hospitalemrandehr.com/2011/10/01/its-your-fault-doctors-dont-like-hospital-emrs/

[...]

http://www.hospitalemrandehr.com/2011/10/01/its-your-fault-doctors-dont-like-hospital-emrs/

 

Did EPIC CEO Judy Faulkner of Epic
declare that ‘healthcare IT

www.healthcareinternational.net/

May 30, 2010 by
Health-Care-International

Health Care International, Health Related, Did
EPIC CEO Judy Faulkner of Epic declare that ‘healthcare IT usability
would be part of certification over her dead body?’ featured in Health Care
International. HealthCare International is a

http://www.healthcareinternational.net/HealthRelated/Did_EPIC_CEO_Judy_Faulkner_of_Epic_declare_that_lsquohealthcare_IT_usability_would_be_part_of_certification_over_her_dead_body/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GNU Health : Open source Linux Hospital
Information System HIS

www.goomedic.com/

Sep 28, 2011 by Hamza
Emadeen

if Judy Faulkner takes over everyone’s EMRs via the company
she founded, Epic Systems – details here:

http://freedomist.com/2011/10/stealing-your-medical-records-for-profit-and-political-gain-the-epic-systems-scandal/

http://www.goomedic.com/gnu-health-open-source-linux-hospital-information-system-his-emr-and-ehr.html

 

Lux Libertas – Light and Liberty » Political
Connections and Health

www.luxlibertas.com/

Sep 16, 2011 by John
Frisby

So why, despite their public support for
interoperability, did the administration appoint to the HHS board Epic Systems
CEO, Judy Faulkner, who opposes the broad consensus position on
interoperability? As Lachlan Markey

 

Where Are My Keys?: Conflict of interest
here?

wherearemykeys.typepad.com/where_are_my_keys/

Aug 18, 2011 by
Madeline’s Dad

Markay reports that Judy Faulkner was appointed to a stimulus-created board that is charged with
disbursing billions of taxpayer dollars for health information technology
adoption despite her opposition to the administration’s

http://wherearemykeys.typepad.com/where_are_my_keys/2011/08/conflict-of-interest-here.html

 

Podcast: Gartner’s Vi Shaffer on HIE, ACOs
and meaningful use

www.meaningfulhitnews.com/

Aug 12, 2011 by Neil
Versel

research vice president and industry services director for
healthcare providers at Gartner, Judy Murphy, vice president of information
services at Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee, and Epic Systems CEO Judy Faulkner,

http://www.meaningfulhitnews.com/2011/08/12/podcast-gartners-vi-shaffer-on-hie-acos-and-meaningful-use/

 

Fight Health Worries » Blog Archive » Did
EPIC CEO Judy Faulkner

www.fighthealthworries.com/

May 30, 2010 by Admin

At one of the ONC Policy Committee meetings,
[founder and CEO] Judy Faulkner of Epic supposedly declared that usability
would be part of certification over her dead body. I wonder if she has similar
sentiments about making

http://www.fighthealthworries.com/did-epic-ceo-judy-faulkner-of-epic-declare-that-%E2%80%98healthcare-it-usability-would-be-part-of-certification-over-her-dead-body/

 

COMMENTARY: When 501(c)4s attack, it can get
explosive

www.wisconsinreporter.com/

Jul 28, 2011 by admin

in undisclosed seed money from wealthy liberals across the
nation with rumored assistance from big-money Wisconsin donors like Schlitz
brewing heiress Lynde Uihlein and Judy Faulkner
of Verona-based EPIC Systems.

http://www.wisconsinreporter.com/commentary-when-501c4s-attack-it-can-get-explosive

 

Colorado among states with opt-out options
for health information

www.patientpowernow.org/

Jul 20, 2011 by Brian
Schwartz

Last year during a meeting of the Health
Information Technology Policy Committee, Judy Faulkner
from Epic Systems said the policy about opt-in versus opt-out “should be based
on evidence, not on the ‘vocal minority’ of

http://www.patientpowernow.org/2011/07/colorado-among-states-with-opt-out-options-for-health-information-exchanges/trackback/

 

The Other Club: Corporatists or Crony
Capitalists?You can’t tell the

otherclub.blogspot.com/

Aug 15, 2011 by
Hershblogger

Update Oct 5-2011, 5:41PM A comment from
Veronica Alverston: I see here you’re talking about how Judy Faulkner got a health policy slot in the Obama administration. This
article explains how to contact a congressmen to

http://otherclub.blogspot.com/2011/08/corporatists-or-crony-capitalists-you.html

 

Faulkner Floats Conflict Charge in PCAST Debate

healthsystemcio.com/

Apr 14, 2011 by Anthony
Guerra

Judy Faulkner, CEO of Epic and a member of the HIT Policy
Committee, told other members of the committee and new National Coordinator
Farzad Mostashari, MD, she was concerned that forces promoting the PCAST vision
also stood to gain

More results
from healthsystemcio.com

http://healthsystemcio.com/2011/04/14/faulkner-floats-conflict-charge-in-pcast-debate/

 

Want to Improve EMR Usability? Change the
Vendors’ Business Model

www.ehrbloggers.com/

Jun 4, 2010 by Glenn
Laffel, MD, PhD

At one of the ONC Policy Committee meetings,
[founder and CEO] Judy Faulkner of Epic supposedly declared that ‘usability
would be part of certification over her dead body.’ I wonder if she has similar
sentiments about making software

http://www.practicefusion.com/ehrbloggers/2010/06/want-to-improve-emr-usability-change.html?doing_wp_cron

 

Did EPIC CEO Judy Faulkner of Epic
declare that ‘healthcare IT

healtharticles-izzy19.blogspot.com/

May 31, 2010 by izzy19

Did EPIC CEO Judy Faulkner
of Epic declare that ‘healthcare IT usability would be part of certification
over her dead body?’

http://healtharticles-izzy19.blogspot.com/2010/05/did-epic-ceo-judy-faulkner-of-epic.html

 

EHR War: Open vs. Proprietary

https://medsphere.org/blogs/inthenews

Sep 23, 2010 by
noreply@medsphere.org

“I am nervous that the government is
going to get into the EHR design business,” said Judy Faulkner, chief executive officer of Epic Systems and a member of the
Health IT Policy Committee, which advises the Office of the National

https://medsphere.org/blogs/inthenews/2010/09/23/ehr-war-open-vs-proprietary

 

news 06/08/06

histalk.blog-city.com/histalk_yearbook_2005.htm

Jun 8, 2006 by
histalk.blog-city.com

from anonymous:
“re: epic rumors. as per news on 5/30, i can confirm that judy faulkner does indeed read the histalk blog, among others. second, epic
is fighting acacia and essentially has slam-dunk evidence to back themselves up

More results
from histalk
References

http://histalk.blog-city.com/news_060806.htm

 

Vendors, this is your wake-up call |
Meaningful HIT News

clinicalit.blogspot.com/

May 23, 2009 by Neil

“It doesn’t work when you mix and match
vendors,” Faulkner says. “It has to be one system, or it can be dangerous for
patients.” Am I right in interpreting this to mean that Judy Faulkner believes that the

http://www.meaningfulhitnews.com/2009/05/23/vendors-this-is-your-wake-up-call/

 

Guest Article: Live from the HISsies, by
Billy “Biff” Jutjaw [HIStalk]

histalk.blog-city.com/

Feb 1, 2006

Let’s talk money, lots of it. Name the HIS-related Company in Which You’d Love to be
Given $100,000 in Stock Options that Can’t Be Cashed In for 10 Years
. Last year’s winner was “none of them” as a
write-in vote, although IBM won otherwise. Up on the podium is the Most Wired
crew. Hey fellas, put that survey away – it ain’t the size of the pencil, it’s
how you write your name! BA DUM PAH! Here comes the big wiener: congrats to Epic for
barely sneaking by GE and MEDITECH. If Judy had a feather down her blouse and I
had her Epic stock, we’d both be tickled! BA DUM PAH!More results
from Latest Comments from histalk.blog-city.com
References

http://histalk.blog-city.com/guest_article_live_from_the_hissies_by_billy_biff_jutjaw.htm

 

HIMSS10 – HIStalk Party at HIMSS10 | EHRtv
EHR / EMR / PHR

www.ehrtv.com/

Apr 5, 2010 by admin

Neal Patterson, Cerner. He always wins, it’s
not fair. Judy Faulkner, Epic. Never throw a pie in Judy’s face.
You’ll go to hell so fast,

http://www.ehrtv.com/histalkparty-apr-2010/

 

 

Corporate OWNed

wisconsintruthproject.wordpress.com/

Dec 2, 2009 by Flavius
Valerius Constantinus

Let’s start with one
of OWN’s primary benefactors of the present day, Judy Faulkner. Faulkner is the incredibly wealthy owner of a large
corporation known as Epic Systems, located near Madison . By any measure, Epic
has been a

- References

http://wisconsintruthproject.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/corporate-owned/

 

Stealing Your Medical Records For Profit and Political Gain- The Epic Systems Scandal

Judy Faulkner's EPIC FAIL!

Epic Systems doesn’t seem to care if your doctor and your surgeon can communicate about your medical history in an emergency- what they want is a monopoly strangelhold (worth BILLIONS in taxpayer dollars) over ALL medical records (thanks to a new rule being pushed by the Obama Administration and they’ll get it unless Congress stops them! CONTACT CONGRESSMAN ISSA ABOUT THIS NOW, ask him to investigate Epic Systems!

Judy Faulkner could gain a near monopoly over the entire “Health IT” sector through the leveraging of her insider political status with ruthless practices designed to give her company an unfair and unethical advantage in the marketplace. Faulkner, who owns Epic Systems, is getting paid by US Taxpayers to control digital access to hundreds of thousands of US citizens’ medical records and could soon control millions upon millions of medical records and get BILLIONS in taxpayer dollars.

This is theft by regulatory fiat and by insider politics, crony socialism at its worse.

CONTACT CONGRESSMAN ISSA ABOUT THIS NOW, ask him to investigate Epic Systems!

Judy Faulkner is a hyper partisan and big donor to ultra Progressive causes. In the past she has even called for virtual boycotts of businesses that supported other political causes or candidates and has even pulled contracts with providers for purely political reasons.

Judy Faulkner's EPIC FAIL!

Faulkner sees no problem, for instance, in being named to a panel that is in charge of handing out contracts to companies that provide digital record-keeping services while getting many of the best contracts herself.

What is more, Faulkner is supposed to be on this panel to provide expertise on something called interoperability. In a nutshell, that means that the government wants to ensure that different providers who NEED to see your medical records can access them easily, even if they all use different software platforms. The problem is that Faulkner’s company, Epic systems, sells a software platform that does not communicate with other software platforms.

In other words, if your doctor uses Epic Systems and your surgeon doesn’t they can’t share your information digitally in an emergency!

So why did Faulkner get named to a panel that is supposed to promote such “interoperability” when her company is the only major player in its field that explicitly, and ruthlessly, refuses to let its platform “talk” to other platforms?

The answer is simple: Faulkner is a big Obama supporter and fundraiser and has inside connections with the Obama administration.

In what amounts to a bad case of doublespeak, Faulkner is being asked to oversee the implementation of a policy goal, interoperability, that her company singularly refuses to participate in. This would be like having a KKK member being named to a panel that is supposed to promote the end of race-based separatism and discrimination.

What we see in Epic Systems is a dangerous mix of partisan extremism, and no doubt if they control your medical records they will not hesitate to use that power in partisan ways we can’t even imagine, while getting billions in taxpayer dollars, giving hundreds of millions back to Progressive political causes to finance more of the same kind of crony socialism.

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Rumors abound that Faulkner and Epic Systems will get the contract if a new rule requiring that ALL medical records be shared with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).Under this rule the federal government would require that insurance companies submit detailed health care information about their patients. (The rule is available online at gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-07-15/pdf/2011-17609.pdf)If Faulkner gets the contract to manage these records, which is a distinct possibility, then EVERY healthcare provider would be forced to use Epic Systems because Epic Systems does not let other software programs communicate with its software. The only way to send or receive information to an Epic Systems platform is to use Epic Systems!

Judy Faulkner should be removed from ANY government panel that has to do with Health IT and NO federal contracts should go to a company that refuses to meet interoperability standards.

CONTACT CONGRESSMAN ISSA ABOUT THIS NOW, ask him to investigate Epic Systems!

Crony Socialism Is An Epic Fail For Most Americans

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Voters Trust GOP Presidential Candidates On Jobs More Than Obama- After a recent poll claimed that voters trust Obama more than the House Republicans to create jobs, a poll that conveniently left out the Democrats in Congress, comes a new poll that shows a very different picture: GOP candidates Rick Perry and Mitt Romney are more trusted on jobs than Obama. Is crony socialism an epic fail in the eyes of most Americans?

The Quinnipiac poll was conducted from Sept. 27 to Oct. 3 and has a margin of error of 2 percentage points.

In this poll, voters were asked if they approved of the Democrats in Congress and the Republicans, and both scored low numbers at 24 and 23 recent respectively.

Asked about whether they approved of Obama’s handling of the economy and the number who approved is only 32 percent, an all time low. Interestingly, this number itself is buoyed by the Democrats who give him a 66 percent approval. His approval among independents is only 26 percent and among Republicans it is only 4 percent.

When voters were asked to choose between Obama and either Rick Perry or Mitt Romney, Obama loses. Obama loses 45-42 percent to Perry and 49-39 percent against Romney.

A total of 77 percent of voters think the economy will get worse or stay the same if Obama is re-elected and the same number of voters, 77 percent, think the economy is in recession.

Crony socialism, or “stimulus” is not working. In fact, it could even be deadly. As we are reporting, under Obamacare cronies are getting key positions in the implementation process of Obama’s socialiszed medicine plan which, in the case of Judy Faulkner and Epic Systems, could lead to patients’ records NOT being able to accessed by a surgeon who does not use Epic Systems if the doctor does. This story is of vital concern because it involves millions of Americans and BILLIONS of dollars, but so far is being ignored by the media. It is a story that is all too common under the policies of crony socialism.

Meanwhile, House Speaker, John Boehner, posted a graphic showing that “all roads lead to nowhere” for Obama’s stimulus package disguised as a  jobs bill, which the Senate Democrats panned and have since rewritten to try to shore up the number of needed votes. Their new plan is to raise taxes FIRST, then spend MORE money on more of the same programs, many of which are rife with crony socialism, to try to stimulate the economy.

Democracy Denied!

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Democracy Denied: How Obama is Ignoring You and Bypassing Congress to Radically Transform America – and How to Stop Him

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 “This is a must-read for everyone who values our nation’s bedrock principles. What Obama is trying to unilaterally impose on the American people is nothing short of regulatory tyranny. Phil Kerpen breaks down the Obama administration’s regulatory onslaught and shows those of us who love the Constitution what we can do about it.”
Mark Levin, bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio host

“Phil Kerpen offers both a warning and a lesson about a radical minority and its concerted efforts to control the lives and voices of all Americans. Democracy Denied is a literal guidebook on the progressive game plan—now it’s up to us to heed the warning.” Glenn Beck, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Democracy Denied demonstrates how President Obama is packing federal agencies with handpicked liberal activists who are rewarding campaign allies, punishing opponents, and pushing the failed Keynesian fiscal policies Americans rejected at the ballot box in 2010. Phil Kerpen’s must-read book provides much-needed solutions to the unaccountable bureaucrats who seek to control what cars we drive, the foods we eat, and even the lights we use.” —U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina)

“Obama is on a mission—to conceal his socialist record behind a veil of moderation. Phil Kerpen pierces that veil and shows the Obama beneath. He has broken the Obama code.” —Dick Morris, Fox News contributor

“President Obama has sought from day one to bypass elected representatives in Congress and impose his liberal agenda by regulatory fiat. This unchecked regulatory assault is draining the lifeblood from our economy and eroding our liberties. Phil Kerpen’s book is an excellent tool for anyone seeking to understand the consequences of regulatory tyranny and the story of the REINS Act—the most important reform that, if passed, will restore accountability and balance to the regulatory process.” —U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky)

“You know Team Obama is up to no good, but you don’t even know the half of it. Phil Kerpen takes you inside all the back rooms and back doors that these left-wing power-grabbers have used to subvert the will of the people—and trample the rule of law. Democracy Denied exposes you to the true size and scope of the Obama regulatory Leviathan. Kerpen’s comprehensive research will make your blood boil and stir you to action.”
Michelle Malkin, Fox News contributor and bestselling author of Culture of Corruption

“The American people are the most innovative in the world, but they are being held back by the Obama administration’s extreme regulatory agenda. Phil Kerpen cuts to the heart of this problem and shows us the path forward.” —U.S. Representative Mike Pence (R-Indiana)

“Federal regulations have the slippery tentacles of an octopus strangling businesses, families, and workers. Democracy Denied exposes the threats to economic freedom from Barack Obama’s gang of unelected regulatory zealots.” —Stephen Moore, senior economics writer and editorial board member at The Wall Street Journal

“The Obama socialist juggernaut is attempting to ride roughshod over the will of the people, skirt existing laws, and sideswipe the Constitution. In Democracy Denied, Phil Kerpen masterfully articulates the challenges we face, and, most importantly, provides common sense solutions and strategies you need to know.” —Jerry Doyle, nationally syndicated radio host

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“Phil Kerpen has accomplished the impossible: he’s given us a rousing polemic against President Barack Obama without being polemical. He exposes Obama’s hidden agendas with take-no-prisoners investigative spadework instead of conspiracy-theory guesswork. And he shows us from the forefront of the battle how to stop Obama with no-nonsense legislative and political strategies that any citizen can help with.”
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Warner Todd Huston interviews Neil Cavuto- is Neil the true ‘compassionate’ conservative?

neil cavuto interviewed by Warner Todd Huston

Warner Todd Huston’s unique perspective interview with Neil Cavuto is making the rounds in the blogosphere today.  In this interview, Warner shows a different side of Neil Cavuto, the side that has beat stage 4 cancer and is daily overcoming Multiple Sclerosis.  Who says conservatives lack ‘compassion’?  Certainly, after you read Warner Todd Huston’s interview, you can’t say Neil Cavuto does:

from http://www.publiusforum.com/2011/10/04/fox-news-15th-anniversary-mr-fox-neil-cavuto-hits-chicago/

 

A quintessential survivor Mr. Cavuto is a survivor of stage 4 cancer not to mention fighting Muscular Sclerosis for the last decade. So when it come to being embattled, Cavuto is no stranger to the concept.

The pressure he faces in his personal medical battles are naturally more pressing than the full-on, left-wing attack that he and his cable networks face on a daily basis, of course, but when ever one thinks of Fox News, one is inexorably drawn to those attacks by Fox’ enemies. I asked Neil if, after all these years, the vehemence of these attacks on Fox News surprised him any?

“Well it does, Warner,” Cavuto said, “because in the beginning, there was a time when we could have filled in hours with expletives and no one would have paid attention. I remember in the first four years no one was watching. It was like I was in the witness protection program and it took a while… I guess I’m surprised sometimes, Warner, with the vehemence with these remarks but I take it in stride. I try to focus on what I do. You know I bored people with this story many times but I repeat it for a reason. I’m not conservative or liberal, I’m not red or blue, I’m just green, I’m the nerd that follows the money; where it’s going where it’s not.”

While conservative ideals absolutely serve as Cavuto’s core, he told me that he was not bought and paid for by the far right. It really is all about the math.

“I was an intern for Jimmy Carter, I was critical of the bailouts when they began with George Bush, critical since… I guess I’m a cheapskate,” He admitted. “I don’t like money going out the door and not being held accountable. So, that’s my gig and people can take from it what ever they wish. But I have no agenda there, my only agenda is the money and where it’s going or more to the point not going.”

Israel Struggles For Its Right To Exist

What the State of Israel lacks is the spirit of Judah Maccabee.

What the State of Israel lacks is the spirit of Judah Maccabee.

“They are millions and we are thousands. They are coming with horses and elephants, with pikes, iron shields and swords and we are only with bows and arrows. They are with their idols, handmade gods and we are with the spirit of the true God – the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” – The words of Mattathias  166 B.C.

Israel Struggles For Its Right To Exist

Will G-d Bless Israel If Israel Rejects G-d? By William R Collier Jr- The Arab occupation of parts of Jerusalem, of Judea, and of Samaria has been going on for nearly at 1400 years and, at some point, it must come to an end. If human beings can’t manage it through a dialogue between Israel and the sons of Ishmael, whom G-d gave the Arabian peninsula, southern Iraq, Jordan, and most of Syria, then, ultimately, G-d will deal with this matter Himself.

To the Jews, the sons and daughters by blood of Jacob, G-d gave the land of Israel, with Judea and Samaria as the heartland. Indeed, to be clear, lest anyone doubt, G-d actually divided the land between the tribes of Israel, and ONLY Israel, and not once did He say the sons and daughters of Ishmael had any right or memorial in the land of Israel.

Mohammed has NO STANDING in Israel or Jerusalem and Ishmael has no right to occupy lands G-d has designated for the blood-heirs of the tribes of Israel, the sons and daughters of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Israel needs to deal with all the Arab powers as a bloc, NOT any group of Arabs, especially that band of Arabs who continue their occupation of Judea and Samaria and the lands of Manasseh on the East Bank of the Jordan river. The Arabs MUST give up all pretensions to any claim of sovereignty over the land of Israel. To do less is to incur the wrath of G-d.

Of course, there are some now, as in the days of the Maccabees, who want to make a loser’s peace with Israel’s enemies.

1 Maccabees 1

12 In those days there went out of Israel wicked men, and they persuaded many, saying: Let us go, and make a covenant with the heathens that are round about us: for since we departed from them, many evils have befallen us.

13 And the word seemed good in their eyes.

14 And some of the people determined to do this, and went to the king: and he gave them license to do after the ordinances of the heathens.

When the State of Israel decides to accept the notion of an Arab State over Judea, Samaria, and eastern Jerusalem, it is taking the council of these people who negotiated with Antiochus IV, the ruler of the Seleccid Empire. This man thanked them for their willingness to trade sovereignty for peace by trying to abolish the Jewish faith! Do not for a minute think that the Arabs, if they get their new state, won’t behave in the same manner!

Does this mean that Arabs in Judea and Samaria have to leave their homes if Israel (finally!) asserts its rightful sovereignty over the land?

There is no reason for those Arab residents to leave other than a determination on their part to end Israel’s sovereignty and their effort to claim Arab sovereignty of Jewish lands. As with any Nation, Israel has a right to punish or remove anyone who threatens its existence as a sovereign nation over lands it owns by birthright.

Of course, those people who don’t believe in ancient, G-d-ordained birthrights will reject these arguments as the basis of any claims, but this is irrelevant- it is the Jewish People who can and must press those claims, not before mere men, but before Hashem! Let G-d be the judge and let G-d be the one who does the work.

The Arabs have NO INTENTION of accepting a Jewish State in the holy Land of Israel, they are no better than Antiochus IV of old.

From YNet News.

Friday afternoon, Abbas said  he is adamant about not recognizing Israel as the Jewish state.

“They talk to us about the Jewish state, but I respond to them with a final answer: We shall not recognize a Jewish state,” Abbas said in a meeting with some 200 senior representatives of the Palestinian community in the US, shortly before taking the podium and delivering a speech at the United Nations General Assembly.

G-d cannot and will not bless the State of Israel with victory over her enemies unless and until the State of Israel stands on HIS promises, and His requirements of righteousness which every nation must adhere to. Israel must adhere to the Law of G-d in righteousness and truth, protecting those who do good, punishing evildoers, and taking proper care for G-d’s creation.

The State of Israel currently accepts sins which G-d hates, and now Israel seems willing to hand over the sovereignty of the land G-d gave to the children of Israel to another Arab state which rejects the G-d of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The State of Israel will not escape the judgment of G-d for this blatant rejection of His standards, requirements, and promises, but if the PEOPLE of Israel will walk as a People in G-d’s righteous standards He will bless them and protect them.

Recommended article and video, listen to a DEMOCRAT state assemblymen talk about WHY Obama’s policies on Israel are WRONG:  http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/148117

 

Contact Congressman Issa Now About The Medical Records Czar- Congressman Darrell Issa

Will Congressman Darrell Issa investigate Epic Systems?

Will Congressman Darrell Issa investigate Epic Systems?

Solyndra, Lightsquared, and Now Epic Systems- WILL CONGRESSMAN ISSA INVESTIGATE Epic Systems and Judy Faulker, the unofficial medica records czar?

What do Solyndra, Lightsquared, and Epic Systems all have in common? First, an Obama Bundler stands to profit if the company profits. Second, the company needs favors from the government to make money. Third, the company’s gain is America’s loss. And fourth, despite this, the Obama Administration gives that company favor because of its political support for him. SEE MORE BACKGROUND ON EPIC SYSTEMS HERE

While the nation has heard of Solyndra and Lightsquared, it seems that nobody on capital hill has noticed that Epic Systems, led by leftwing activist Judy Faulkner, is quietly getting what could amount to BILLIONS in tax dollars to ultimately CONTROL your medical records and force your doctor to use her inefficient and and closed software platform if they want federal dollars to pay for complying with the ObamaCare mandate to use digital medical records.

Obama has quietly given Judy Faulkner a huge boost as the unofficial medical records czar of the worse type- she is seeking total control over ALL medical records and she stands to get billions of tax dollars to do it!

We have sent over background information about this to Congressman Issa’s office and are awaiting a response. Perhaps you, the reader, can call him and ask him if he would kindly make an inquiry about Epic systems?

Epic systems, owned by Judy Faulkner, is getting all kinds of advantages and, thereby, big fat contracts, to set up a system that is actually the opposite of the medical records system called for by the law.

In other words, while the ObamaCare law calls for digital medical records systems that allow for what is called “interoperability” (the ability to connect with other software systems that provide digital medical records)  Epic Systems’ software is NOT interoperative.

What’s worse is that Judy Faulkner was appointed by Obama to a special ObamaCare central planning committee that is specifically tasked with assigning contracts to companies that provide software for digital medical records.

So Obama chose the head of one of the ONLY companies that does NOT meet interoperability standards to oversee giving out contracts and, conveniently, she is getting contracts that, in reality, her company is not qualified for because it fails to meet interoperability standards.

Contact Congressman Issa and ask him to inquire as to whether or not Judy Faulkner is getting favors because of her partisan support for Obama despite the fact that her company does not comply with Federal requirements for getting the contracts she is getting.

http://issa.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=597&Itemid=73

 

Crony Socialism Part Three- Meet The Medical Records Czar- Judy

Judy Faulkner Medical Records Czar wants your records and your money

Judy Faulkner Medical Records Czar wants your records and your money

Judy Faulkner, Medical Records Czar and Healthcare IT CEO of Epic Systems wants to control your records to make millions

Written by- The Collier Brothers

Judy Faulkner, Medical Records Czar, Healthcare IT, Obama Czar, Obamacare

It seems like everything comes in threes.

First Obama had the problem with Solyndra.

Then he ran into a buzz-saw with Lightsquared.

It all amounts to an EPIC Fail and “three strikes, you’re out!”

Meet Judy Faulkner. She’s not your average Obama-anointed czar.

Usually they just get a cushy job and the ability to network, which is pretty good while it lasts.

Judy is better than ALL THE REST of Obama’s czars because she doesn’t get the cushy job and a few perks- she is trying to quite literally have an iron-clad monopoly over not only your medical records but potentially over the whole Health IT industry!

WARNING: If it’s medical and has pixels, no matter where it is, Judy the medical records czar is going to OWN it- that is, if she gets her way.

Obama gave her a juicy spot in one of those special ObamaCare central planning committees and what do you know, that committee was tasked with giving government contracts to providers to manage the new requirement that your
medical records be digitized.

The thing is, and perhaps Judy thought nobody would mind, she happens to own the company that is getting a lot of the deals!

Here are a few of the growing list of deals:

http://www.fierceemr.com/story/report-epic-likely-get-massive-contract-replace-dods-ahlta-ehr/2010-08-19

http://www.informationweek.com/news/healthcare/EMR/227701093

http://m.host.madison.com/mobile/article_8aca9bb4-d085-11df-86ea-001cc4c002e0.html

http://www.icd10watch.com/headline/u-m-health-system-readies-it-transformation

BUT IT GETS BETTER!

Well, for Judy anyway.

You see her company, we prefer to call it EPIC Fail, because it doesn’t play nice with others  and she doesn’t exactly let her investors know what a true far-left radical she is.

Her company is almost the polar opposite of the political rhetoric she espouses- it is a top-down, profit-driven, and totally closed system that tells doctors and hospitals who are going to be forced to use her services to digitize medical records that they MUST use her software to do so!

That’s right folks, this Obama bundler thinks she’s Microsoft in the bad old days before Microsoft was forced, at the insistence of people on the left an right, to allow for “interoperability.”

Judy the medical records czar is telling companies that the only way to comply with ObamaCare, if SHE has the contract, is to use her expensive software because she refuses to let her precious software “talk” to other software platforms, as is the norm
in that industry.

I wonder if she will write a big fat check out of those monopoly-driven profits to help the government like Warren Buffet wants “the rich” to do?

This is incredible and we are certain that over the next few weeks we will have yet a third crony socialism scandal that will rock the White House, unless of course Judy and her EPIC Fail scheme are quietly sidelined before too many
people notice!

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Riding The Progressive Trojan Horse To Our Doom!

We let the Progressive Trojan Horse into our lives through media, entertainment, and academic, and it will be the death of our society!

 

We let the Progressive Trojan Horse into our lives through media, entertainment, and academic, and it will be the death of our society!

The progressive Trojan Horse And Its TRUE Agenda

William Collier 

What you might hear referred to as the news media, the entertainment industry, and academia is better referred to for what it truly is: the Progressive Trojan Horse that is used to sneak in the progressive agenda for a God-free, state-controlled world led by an elite few who “know better” than us.

Make no mistake; Progressivism is the 21st century’s greatest threat to freedom on the planet. In whatever guise you find it, Progressivism TAKES life, property, and freedom from everyone save those elite few at the top who are smart enough to make the right choices for everyone else. 

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Don’t get me wrong, Progressivism leaves some space open, and I mean WIDE open, for personal “choice.” It is odd, but while Progressivism takes economic freedom, religious freedom, and political freedom (often in the name of righting some imagined “injustice” or making things “equal”) there is ONE area where Progressivism wants us all to pretty much be able to do whatever suits our fancy at the moment.  

What area of life, of all those areas of life most precious to us, do the Progressives say we should have MORE “liberty”? That area is the bedroom! Anything related to satisfying whatever carnal desires we might have, and that might shield us from the consequences of carrying out those carnal desires, they want to give us complete “liberty” in. 

The mature, thinking person knows that carnal satisfaction, while high on the pleasure scale, is relatively low on the priority scale. People who sacrifice real freedoms, including economic, religious, and political, for “liberty” in this one small area of our cultural life are of the basest sort who have no concept of what truly matters in life. A man who would place the sanctity of his marriage below that of his carnal satisfaction is not the sort of man who should be trusted with important public affairs- if he is willing to sacrifice his own wife for a temporary pleasure, how much more would he sacrifice the public good for his own selfish gain? 

Our present top-down culture is being spoon fed the lies and so-called “values” of the Progressive worldview, a worldview that, if accepted by the People, makes the People easy pickings for “strong men” on top to run things without any real transparency or accountability. 

When people accept the type of ‘freedom” being sold by the progressive Trojan Horse in all of its elements (news media, entertainment, academia) they do not question the affairs of the state, they do not even concern themselves with the over-reach of the state into most of the important aspects of their private lives, so long as they are given the “liberty” to indulge their base lusts. This is nothing less than trying to reduce an entire People to an animalistic stage of human development, devoid of morals, cultures, family, and community. 

Understand this, and understand it well, the Progressives are at war against true freedom, their sham “freedom” is the “freedom” animals, which have no morality and no conscience, enjoy, but which is the very reason why they cannot overcome man or rise above their station of life. Progressivism is as old as the devil himself, told in a yarn spun straight from the depths of the forbidden tree of the “knowledge of good and evil”, with that sly, cynic, and, nowadays, “cool”, question, “did God REALLY say?” 

The true agenda of the Progressive Trojan Horse is to take away your freedom by, first, seducing you with the “liberty” of license to indulge your base, animalistic desires and thereby render you a fitting subject for their nanny-state tyranny. 

Any intellectually honest student of history can read in the stories of past people, nations, and states, indeed whole civilizations, how true freedom is never compatible with debauchery and license, and how those who are the loudest proponents of such things are often the chief advocates of a strong state that is answerable to nobody!  

To be sure, there have been those who have not only denied the “freedom” of moral license but other true freedoms as well, especially theocratic tyrants, but the point here is that license to commit debauchery has never been compatible with true economic, social, sacred, and civic freedom. This is precisely why those who are enriched by your loss of such freedom wish to imprison you with the promise of license to debauchery without consequences, when they know full well that the consequences are your loss of every other real freedom in your life! 

Let us not be fooled by the Progressive Trojan Horse in its bid to entice us with the loser’s deal whereby we trade license for our freedom!

 

Culture Crisis: Norway Tackles Muslim Immigration – World – CBN …

The face of Muslim extremism- women treated like worthless property

The face of Muslim extremism- women treated like worthless property

How is Norway going to tackle the question of Muslim immigration?

The one-man secular crusader who slaughtered dozens of inocents in his bid to kill Norwegians to stop “Islam” may have made the more logical and objective handling of this problem less politically feasible as ANY effort now to curb genuine Islamic radical abuses of Nroway’s lax immigration policies will now be lumped in with the shooting that rocked Norway last month.

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Will the Norwegian people find themselves the victims of a radical Islamic flood of imigrants and converts who use the shootings that were commited in the name of an anti-Muslim fanaticism as a shield to deflect genuine criticism of their intolerance, their masochism, and their lack of integration into, indeed hostility towards, Norwegian society?

The following article, on CBN’s website, depicts a Norway in crisis as Progressives, in the name of tolerating Islam, as opposed to their vile hatred of all things Christian, are facilitating and protecting the degeneration of Norwegian women who are being treated by radical Muslims, a sizable majority of the Muslim population, like expendable property.

Culture Crisis: Norway Tackles Muslim Immigration – World – CBN …

Baptist Churches Down Under call for Defense of Marriage Resolve

Those who think God's standard of righteousness is "relative" should do as Jesus baid us do, "remember Lot's wife"

Those who think God's standard of righteousness is "relative" should do as Jesus baid us do, "remember Lot's wife"

Australian Batists are none too happy with the present efforts by Progressives in Australia to dumb down marriage to include the licentious sins of homosexuality and lesbianism under the covering of “marriage.’

According to ab article in Christianity Today for Australia (Baptist Churches Down Under call for Defense of Marriage Resolve)…

“Australian Baptists strongly urge Prime Minister Julia Gillard, and politicians across the political spectrum, to oppose moves to change the current legal definition of marriage by extending it to include same sex couples,” Dr Beasy said.

“There are compelling cultural and heritage reasons for rejecting this proposed radical social reform, and for Baptists there are also deeply held theological convictions about the nature and purpose of marriage which preclude widening the definition of marriage to include same sex couples,” the Reverend Rod Benson, public issues spokesperson for Australian Baptist Ministries, said.
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Efforts to increase moral license, or license to commit acts of debauchery and have them protected by the State, is the Progressive method of distracting people with carnal indulgences while, with the other hand, the state takes away their true civic, social, sacred, and market freedoms.

Down Under defends the marriage principle- Baptist Churches in Australia are calling for members and pastors to remain strong in the resistence to same sex marriage: Church News- Christian Bias SOURCE: – http://au.christiantoday.com/article/australian-baptist-churches-do-not-re-define-marriage-to-include-homosexual-relationships/11843.htm … convictions about the nature and purpose of marriage which preclude widening the definition of marriage to include same sex couples,” the Reverend Rod Benson, public issues spokesperson for Australian Baptist Ministries , said. … Australian Baptist Ministries , representing more than 300000 Baptists in 950 local churches , supports the rights of all couples to justice with respect to property and like entitlements and acknowledges that people, … Church News- GOOGLE BLOGS- read full article: Australian Baptist churches: do not re-define marriage to include …- http://au.christiantoday.com/article/australian-baptist-churches-do-not-re-define-marriage-to-include-homosexual-relationships/11843.htm

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Say Goodbye to Pawlenty

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With doubt circling his campaign in recent weeks, the final nail in former governor Tim Pawlenty’s presidential campaign was hammered in with the release of the Iowa straw poll.

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty dropped out of the race for the GOP presidential nomination on Sunday, hours after finishing a disappointing third in the Iowa straw poll.

“I wish it would have been different. But obviously the pathway forward for me doesn’t really exist so we are going to end the campaign,” Pawlenty said on ABC’s “This Week” from Iowa shortly after disclosing his plans in a private conference call with supporters.

Pawlenty senior adviser Phil Musser told The Huffington Post that the Minnesota Republican “just wasn’t willing to risk debt to soldier on — part of why he would have been a good president.”
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Ames Straw Poll Puts Bachmann Slightly Ahead of Ron Paul

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The latest numbers are in for the Ames Straw Poll. While Bachmann took the lead, Ron Paul is nipping at her coattails.

AMES — Not surprisingly, charismatic Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn) took top prize the 2011 Ames Straw Poll with4,823 votes.

Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) placed second with 4,671 votes.

Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty took third with 2,293 votes.

Bachmann emphasized her Iowa roots during her remarks Saturday, and spoke little of her life and political record in the state of Minnesota. She preceded her Straw Poll presence Friday afternoon at the Iowa State Fair, where she took the opportunity to make one last Straw Poll appeal.

It worked.

Paul, a long-time Congressman and doctor also appeared to win over many attendees Saturday, as he received multiple standing ovations as he emphatically stated his anti-abortion, anti-war, limited-government platform. The Texan has campaigned heavily in Iowa prior to the Straw Poll, and won the poll’s auction, spending $31,000 on prime real estate that had been taken by 2007 Straw Poll winner Mitt Romney four years ago.

Pawlenty, often characterized as being too nice by political pundits, shed his “Minnesota nice” persona during Thursday’s presidental debate to lash out at Bachmann, saying her Congressional record is “non-existent.”

A total of 16,892 people cast votes in the 2011 Ames Straw Poll.

The full results:

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn) — 4,823

U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) — 4,671

Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty — 2,293

Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Penn) — 1,657

Businessman Herman Cain — 1,456

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney –  567

Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich — 385

Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, Jr. — 69

U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich) — 35

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who was not on the ballot, received 718 write-in votes.

Check out the Iowa Independent Monday morning for the latest edition of 2012 power rankings and full 2011 Straw Poll analysis.

World Stocks Lift Following Good News From Japan

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With last weeks extreme drop and slight correction at the end of the closing bell Friday, investors were looking forward to the coming week. With a growing number of positive influences, the markets began on a green note and continue to rise

 

LONDON (Reuters) – World stocks climbed further out of their August hole on Monday, lifted by signs of earlier-than-expected recovery in Japan and a growing belief that shares may now be cheap.

European shares, however, failed to keep early gains and dropped into negative territory.

Gold and the Swiss franc, two of the main beneficiaries of recent global risk aversion, fell.

Investors were also weighing calls by Italian Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti for a more coordinated response to the euro zone debt crisis, including the creation of euro bonds, against an immediate rejection of the idea from Germany.

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Cheap prices and Japan recovery lift world stocks

5 Killed and More Than 40 Injured in Indiana Stage Collapse

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At a concert earlier this weekend, a storm approached suddenly and without warning. Strong gusts of wind threatened to shut down the concert, but then suddenly it was announced that they would continue with the show. Five minutes later the stage collapsed killing 5 people.

 

Severe weather, strong gust of wind accompany collapse Indiana State Police say the main stage at the Indiana State Fairgrounds collapsed as the result of severe weather that pushed through Central   Indiana   around 8:45 pm Saturday.

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Stage collapse at Fairgrounds kills 5, injures more than 40

Michele Bachmann: Tea Party Incarnate

With Iowa’s Ames Straw Poll coming up on Saturday, Tea Party darling Michele Bachmann is glowing in the spotlight of two prominent magazine profiles. This week’s New Yorker and Newsweek ground their portraits of Bachmann in the emotional connection she makes with audiences on the stump. As Newsweek put it, “when others meandered or waffled, she shot back with answers that reduced Washington’s …

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Michele Bachmann: Tea Party Incarnate

Bachmann’s Love Affair with Revisionist History

The press finds photographs of Michele Bachmann looking like she has crazy eyes irresistible. On the cover of Newsweek this week, she looks like a disturbed woman in pearls staring into the hazy middle distance. But Bachmann’s media savvy and strong debate performance show she’s not nuts–and the plurality of Iowa Republicans agree, making her the current top choice for the 2012 nomination. On …

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Bachmann’s Love Affair with Revisionist History

Romney blames Obama for credit downgrade

Mitt Romney says the nation’s credit problem arose because President Barack Obama has failed to show leadership on the economy.

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Romney blames Obama for credit downgrade

The Reason Why Mitt Romney Was Once Pro-Choice

In 2005 Mitt Romney flipped his stance on abortion to pro-life in preparation for a run at the GOP presidential nomination. Before then, he maintained a muddled position: he wouldn’t impose his personal beliefs on others. He publicly-shaped this pro-choice position in a 1994 Senate debate against Ted Kennedy where he explained that “I had a dear, close family relative that was very close to me …

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The Reason Why Mitt Romney Was Once Pro-Choice

Obama to speak on economy in wake of downgrade

President Barack Obama plans to deliver a statement about the economy as the nation grapples with the first downgrade of U.S. debt in the country’s history.

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Obama to speak on economy in wake of downgrade

Doctor: Herman Cain is still cancer-free

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is still cancer-free, according to a review of his medical history provided to The Daily Caller.

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Doctor: Herman Cain is still cancer-free

Pawlenty downplays need to win Iowa straw poll

Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty says he doesn’t have to win the upcoming Iowa straw poll to come out of that contest with momentum for his campaign.

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Pawlenty downplays need to win Iowa straw poll

Obama discusses helicopter crash with commanders

President Barack Obama spent part of Sunday talking to top American commanders about the U.S. troops lost when a helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan.

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Obama discusses helicopter crash with commanders

McConnell tries to make Ky. gov. race about Obama

Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell is trying to make the Kentucky governor’s race about President Barack Obama.

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McConnell tries to make Ky. gov. race about Obama

Wisconsin recall votes may impact 2012 election

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Months of political rancor come to a head on Tuesday when Wisconsin holds recall votes seen as a referendum on the Republican governor’s fight against unions and a possible pointer for the 2012 presidential election.

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Wisconsin recall votes may impact 2012 election

Anonymous Romney Donor Comes Forward

A former fellow top executive at Bain Capital is behind a shell corporation that donated $1 million to a group backing Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign.Related: Pawlenty Pre-Announces 2012 Bid with Another Slick Video

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Anonymous Romney Donor Comes Forward

Obama mourns dead in likely Afghan shoot-down

President Barack Obama said Saturday that the deaths of Americans in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan are a reminder of the “extraordinary” price the U.S. military is paying in the decade-long Afghan war.

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Obama mourns dead in likely Afghan shoot-down

New love letter: TPaw lavished praise on Jon Huntsman

Jon Huntsman doesn’t just send letters of praise. He receives them, too — including from Minnesota Governor and presidential rival Tim Pawlenty.

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New love letter: TPaw lavished praise on Jon Huntsman

As tea party reshapes GOP, some cheer, some worry

The tea party is here to stay. The 2-year-old phenomenon’s muscular role in the debt-ceiling crisis made that clear, despite earlier predictions it would fade away when the national furor over health care cooled down.

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As tea party reshapes GOP, some cheer, some worry

Mitt Romney’s Tea Party Problem

The Nation — Mitt Romney is the Republican front runner in national polls and he has raised the most money, but he is lagging in support with an important Republican constituency, especially in the key early states: Tea Party activists. Tea Party leaders say Romney is not the leading candidate among their constituents, even in New Hampshire, which is considered a must-win for the former …

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Mitt Romney’s Tea Party Problem

Donors Use Outside PACs for Obama, Romney

What do you do if you’ve already maxed out your donations to Barack Obama and Mitt Romney? Give to their outside political action committees — and give big. According to an analysis by ABC News, about half the money given during the first six months of this year to Restore our Future, a PAC set up to support Romney, came from donors who also gave the federal maximum of $2,500 to his campaign …

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Donors Use Outside PACs for Obama, Romney

Daily News Roundup August 5, 2011

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Looking over today’s headlines, we see that those who rely on “the media” probably do not even KNOW about these important stories.

Unemployment Edges Down, But Not Enough
With a reported 117,000 new jobs created, unemployment edged down to 9.1% despite the “spending to prosperity” policies of the present Progressive administration. Cries for more taxes on the wealthy and more government spending to create job are increasingly falling on deaf ears as alarmed Americans consider the ramifications of such policies.

The perfect storm of a threat of new taxes, massive new regulations in multiple fields, and the present energy policy, which is seriously inhibiting the production of cheap energy, have become a millstone around the economy’s neck. The current progressive administration has essentially blamed former president George Bush, the Japan earthquake, and even the Arab Spring for the current crisis, while investors and economists cite the excessive government debt and spending as the primary cause of a loss of confidence in the economic future.

Since 2008, the average income for workers fell by $3,000 and while Progressives want to “tax the rich” there are only around 300,000 actual “millionaires” in America. There simply is not enough money being produced to BOTH support private individuals AND the current scope of government activities, regulations, and programs.

Kosovo Summer Heat Over Ban On Imports From Serbia
The native, but now minority, Serb population in Kosovo are protesting the Albanian-led government in Pristina’s decision to ban all imports from Serbia. Major General Erhard Buehler, NATO’s Kosovo commander, was actually blocked by Serbian protestors as he and a convoy of NATO personnel were transiting to a northern border control point.

Buehler is trying to get the Serbian leaders inside Kosovo and the Albanian leaders there to sit down to talk about their issues, however most Serbs believe that NATO’s mission is to prop up the Albanian-led government, not to broker any genuine and mutually agreeable peace.

Wisconsin Fair Site Race Riot
Black rage appears to be either on the rise or being manufactured as more and more incidents of large groups of black youths attacking white people, just because they are white, are occurring around the nation.

The latest incident occurred at the Wisconsin State Fair in Milwaukee. Local CBS affiliate, WISN, reported the incident but utterly failed to report the salient facts about the identity and motivation of the attacker, a move that has outraged local people who feel that this CBS affiliate failed to live up to its own basic standards of reporting the news objectively and fairly.

The attacks, by hundreds of black youth, were directed towards white and often accompanied by racial slurs. Local hospitals report serious injuries, but not deaths. Eyewitnesses describe scenes of barbaric terror as individuals were mercilessly beat until they were unconscious and then were tossed aside “like garbage.”

US Joint Forces Command CLOSES
While it is being lauded as a command that “worked itself out of a job”, the Joint Forces Command, based in Norfolk, Virginia, will be shutting down and no longer providing the vital service it did to the US military. Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, put a happy face on the decommissioning ceremony, but there is nothing to replace JFCOM in its work.

The tendency of different branches of the military to become parochial and work at cross purposes is a well-known tendency which JFCOM helped to prevent, at least for specific missions that require inter-service cooperation. For some, the dissolution of JFCOM is likened to the retiring the space shuttle without having a replacement.