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As frustration grows, airports consider ditching TSA
Earthquakes and climate change: Stupidity of the day
Intelligence is for stupid people
Insty noted this Harry Stein Book: I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next to a Republican: A Survival Guide for Conservatives Marooned Among the Angry, Smug, and Terminally Self-Righteous [Paperback]
Synthstuff reports from the small biz arena
The Alexandria Church Bombing: The Plot Thickens
Iconoclast: Don't blame the West - The 'root causes' of Islamist terrorism do not lie in poverty or western imperialism
In The Arena:
D-Day is coming for Republicans. They can't keep this charade of being the party of fiscal discipline much longer without showing America their plan for cutting the deficit. The won an election without doing it but they can't govern without doing it. They have been big talkers up to this point but no specifics. America awaits how they plan on cutting spending and taxes at the same time and making a dent in the deficit. Maybe it is not their D-Day but their Waterloo.
Reason on Obamacare: The law will penalize doctors to pay patients and penalize patients to pay doctors. A quote:
... the administration is defining Medicare fraud down to include “unnecessary” and “ineffective” care. And to root this out, it plans to make expanded use of private mercenaries—officially called Recovery Audit Contracts—who will be authorized to go to doctors’ offices and rummage through patients’ records, matching them with billing claims to uncover illicit charges. What’s more, Obamacare increases the fine for billing errors from $11,000 per item to $50,000 without the government even having to prove intent to defraud.
This is utter insanity. And it has been caused by the transformation of health care into a government-controlled industry where the natural, self-regulating forces of the market have been badly subverted.
George Will: Sarah Palin Cannot Be Elected President
If she tries to run, she will damage her brand. She's a fine spokesperson, for now. She should run for some other office if she wants to be a pol. I think she's better as a voice in the wilderness.
Salcedo: The Spaghetti Strategy: Advice to Republicans - A strategy to advance freedom by keeping President Obama and his radical appointees on the defensive
Gateway: Russia to Lay Off 200,000 Federal Employees, Cuba to Lay Off 1,000,000 Federal Employees, Obama Hires 25,000 More Federal Employees
Europe starts confiscating private pension funds
