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POPSA Tale of Two Soundbites “Mao’s responsibility for the extinction of anywhere from 40 to 70 million lives brands him as a mass killer greater than Hitler or Stalin.” Hey, that’s pretty impressive when they can’t get your big final-score death toll nailed down to closer than 30 million. Still, as President Obama’s communications director might say, he lived his dream, and so can you, although if your dream involves killing, oh, 50–80 million Chinamen, you may have your work cut out.
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POPSPresident's Speech - Short Form We know what the Congressional Budget Office has said about the price tag, and we know what Henry Waxman and Nancy Pelosi really really want and what the president himself has endorsed in the past, which is a single payer system
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POPSGod(?) Endorses Obamacare? now imagine that sentence coming from George W Bush and the spittle-flecked invective it would generate on say The Puffington Host
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POPSThe Words of The Messiah From last October. P.S. anybody who smokes sure got a tax increase. anybody who actually uses any energy will get a whomping doubling of their gas and electric bills through cap and tax. But he's a tax cutter - right there
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POPSTennessee and Universal Health Care TennCare's gold plated coverage included every doctor's appointment and prescription. As such, patients with a cold opted to charge the state hundreds of dollars for doctor visits and medicine instead of paying $5 out of pocket for over-the-counter cold medicine. Over-use caused TennCare's anticipated savings to evaporate and its cost to explode. To pay the TennCare bill, benefits were slashed and reimbursement rates for doctors and hospitals were reduced. Ultimately, 170,000 people were cut from the program. Since they weren't being paid; fewer physicians could afford to accept TennCare patients. So while a TennCare card guaranteed you access to care, it did not guarantee the availability of care.
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POPSMagical Realism personal popularity won't get you much if that's all you have. experience breeds contempt
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POPSOprompter's New Science Czar
This kook actually thinks putting sterilizers in the water supply would be a good thing On mass involuntary sterilization: Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control. Indeed, this would pose some very difficult political, legal, and social questions, to say nothing of the technical problems. No such sterilant exists today, nor does one appear to be under development. To be acceptable, such a substance would have to meet some rather stiff requirements: it must be uniformly effective, despite widely varying doses received by individuals, and despite varying degrees of fertility and sensitivity among individuals; it must be free of dangerous or unpleasant side effects; and it must have no effect on members of the opposite sex, children, old people, pets, or livestock. We wouldn't want livestock to be affected while we're snuffing out the human race. What would PET
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POPSPresidential Fictions America can be disarmed literally -- by cutting our weapons systems and our defensive capabilities -- as Mr. Obama has agreed to do. We can also be disarmed morally by a president who spreads false narratives about our history or who accepts, even if by his silence, our enemies' lies about us.
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POPSThe Obama Show The use of planted questioners is a no-no at presidential news conferences, because it sends a message to the world -- Iran included -- that the American press isn't as free as advertised. He already has every press person in DC kissing his butt and he still has to stage questions.
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POPSGrieving Widow Seeks Compensation From White House "I just get paralyzed wondering how I'm going to raise my larvae for the next six days, alone, without any kind of support," she said. "Most days I just end up on the clung to the ceiling, numb and crying, eating a rancid bowl of Ben & Jerry's."
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POPSAn Open Letter You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing. Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.
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POPSI'm Not Buying GM or Chrysler Should be interesting to see these two companies flounder to their evenutal government-run destruction. Of course it would be nice if they weren't burning up my money to do it. But The Messiah has stolen.
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POPSThe Presidency and The Constitution But all that protects the Constitution is the oath we swear to it. After decades of manipulation and mischief, we are getting a preview of what a post-constitutional government would look like: the Supreme Court makes policy, the White House takes over industries, the Treasury Department and IMF appropriate taxpayers dollars, and elected representatives divest their powers to unelected judges and bureaucrats. The dangers of our experiment in extra-constitutional politics are nearing a critical mass.
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POPSThe Messiah Portrays America As a Muslim Country support the hajib? What about being able to beat your wife with a stick as long as its not thicker than your thumb? Or its not rape unless you can get 3 witnesses? Or lashing 70 year old women because they met with men not their relatives?
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