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POPSThe Lying Liars of Socialized Medicine Presumably Daschle recommends the Federal Reserve-SEC-Politburo-style central planning model. On Page 179, Daschle writes, “The Federal Health Board (FHB) wouldn’t be a regulatory agency, but its recommendations would have teeth because all federal health programs would have to abide by them.” Although the FHB would have no official oversight of the two-thirds of health care delivered through the private sector, Daschle asserts that Congress could easily change that aspect of the Board: " could... link the tax exclusion for health insurance to insurance that complies with the Board’s recommendation.” Yesterday USA Today reported that Democrats are using just that approach. "The biggest tax break in America — tax-free health benefits from employers — could be scaled back to pay for President Obama's overhaul of the nation's health care system." By doing so, Congress would utterly and completely destroy America's private-sector health care system
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POPSRick Warren's Double Life Even the public relations firms responsible for burnishing Warren’s image seem mystified by the press’s worshipful portrayal of their client.
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POPSThe Push To "Otherize" Obama In Nicholas D. Kristof's column in the N.Y.Times he points out that "religious prejudice is becoming a proxy for racial prejudice".These are very sad times!!!!
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POPSWill The Real Barack Obama Please Stand Up? Without a TelePromTer staring him down, he's an inarticulate, bumbling mess. He lies continuously about his past and his present, including important details concerning his upbringing and personal associations. He shamelessly takes all sides of all issues, changing his public positions to suit what he thinks people want to hear -- far in excess of the boilerplate, mendacious blather put forth by most other politicians. Subjected to a rootless upbringing by a self-absorbed, radical leftist mother, and abandoned by a self-absorbed, hard-drinking philandering father, he sought refuge, meaning and personal grounding in drugs and in the hateful words and destructive ideologies of men like Jeremiah Wright, Michael Pfleger and William Ayers. What are the odds that the Times's Nicholas Kristof will release the tape recording of that Obama interview so that language experts can determine whether or not Obama's Arabic accent is indeed "first rate?"
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POPSObama's Indonesian Registration Document and Media Cover-Up Reasons for censorship? The Associated Press and the rest of the mainstream media probably had this photo of the registration document in their hands or databases but refused to touch it. After CNN published the facts that FOX incorrectly reported that the school was a madrassa, the entire issue of Barack Obama's name of 'Barry Soetero' was side stepped. It was probably decided that this material or photo shouldn't be available to the general public. (The same idea was probably applied to any audio or visual media related to a separate issue concerning an interview between Barack Obama and Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times.) Therefore the image lay untouched and untranslated in the Daylife.com photo repository for 18 months.
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POPSMore Diplomats- Less Soldiers More musicians in Military Bands, than Diplomats Let's go into more war with music, because the Diplomatic route failed? And too few speak other languages. Kind of shows the ignorance we display worldwide.
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POPSNYT op-ed piece on Obama's speech on race I thought, this is a pretty good op-ed piece about Obama's speech on Tuesday. I thought he spoke about things that people are afraid to really acknowledge & discuss. As a society we tend to forget about the perspectives of others, because everyone is so caught up in their own experiences (of course). But maybe this will open up passionate and heated discussions on the American experience, which is varied & as diverse as the people who make up this country.
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POPSWhite evangelicals: poverty no. 1 moral issue Religious right no longer dominates evangelical electorate; "evangelical leaders ... key to taking climate issue across the cultural divide;" in Africa, only "crazy doctors and crazy Christians" will brave some regions to bring aid
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POPSWin a Trip,and See a Different World How lucky the world is to have people like Nicholas D.Kristof to help us truly see and understand our basic responsibilities as humans.Let's spread the word about this trip -it is so special !
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POPSAn Escalation of American Blood An excellent editorial by Nicholas D. Kristof in today's N.Y.Times. Mr.Kristof point's out that this kind of strategy,involving a surge/escalation of troops has been tried before and failed.As he points out the only thing most likely to occur is the loss of more lives!!!
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POPSIn the Name of Honor: Mukhtar Mai I could hardly hold the tears in the bookstore while reading Nicholas Kristof's introduction in this book. This is an exceptional and unbelievable story from the remote village of Pakistan. I hope this book does well.
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POPSIraq And Your wallet An excellent editorial by Nicholas.D. Kristof in the N.Y.Times.Mr.Kristof points out that the tremendous amount of money that is being spent on the war in Iraq could be much better spent on health care,fighting AiDS,improving our schools,and other such worthwhile programs.
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