US Politics and Current Events

By Alan Caruba Other than the complete destruction of the U.S. economy, one sixth of which is generated by the healthcare profession, I cannot see any reason for the bill that Harry Reid is pushing for a Saturday evening vote in the Senate. It has taken less than a year for the Democrats, led by Barack Obama, to saddle Americans with such enormous debt that your grandchildren will be paying it off. The so-called “bail-outs” have proven to be a bonanza for Wall Street firms on good terms with the Secretary of the Treasury, Tim Geithner, whose mantra is “It’s all Bush’s fault.” The ... Read Full Story

W hy, you could have knocked me over with a feather when I checked out the Real Clear Politics Blog today and saw that Tom Bevan — conservative Tom Bevan — wingnut Tom Bevan who NEVER had a nice thing to say about Obama or his administration — is raising money for “Organizing for America!” It’s TRUE! Oh, he starts the column snarkily enough… The title is “Obama group raising money off of Palin; says she’s dangerous.” The lede reads: I was a bit surprised to see the following email in my inbox from Mitch Stewart, the director of Organizing for America, which in ... Read Full Story

Laconia Radio Station Fires Host Doug Lambert for Hurling the Six-Letter F-Bomb at Chairman of Granite State's Democratic Party -- Who is Gay -- and Denouncing Him as a 'Reprobate;' Conservative Also Loses His Newspaper Column PLUS: After 40 Years, The Washington Blade -- 'The New York Times of the Gay Media' -- Suddenly Stops the Presses Doug Lambert (left photo), a conservative New Hampshire political activist, newspaper columnist and radio talk-show host, lost both his radio show and his newspaper column this week after Lambert made highly derogatory anti-gay comments about Raymond Buckley (right photo), chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party. Lambert ... Read Full Story

Bill O’Reilly: Bill’s Column – Hammering Sarah . With the possible exceptions of Richard Nixon and George W. Bush, no politician of the modern era has been more derided by the media than Sarah Palin. And the attacks did not stop with her; they included nasty rumors about her family and even the mocking of her children. – Bill O’Reilly Read Full Story

Check out this section from the 2,074 page Senate health care bill: SEC. 2006. SPECIAL ADJUSTMENT TO FMAP DETERMINATION FOR CERTAIN STATES RECOVERING FROM A MAJOR DISASTER. Section 1905 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396d), as amended by sections 2001(a)(3) and 2001(b)(2), is amended— (1) in subsection (b), in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘subsection (y)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsections (y) and (aa)’’; and (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection: ‘‘(aa)(1) Notwithstanding subsection (b), beginning January 1, 2011, the Federal medical assistance percentage for a fiscal year for a disaster-recovery FMAP adjustment State shall be equal to the following: ... Read Full Story