tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37823852833879772062024-02-01T01:23:45.297-07:00Never Fear...Conservatives are Here!A place where a Conservative can freely express his or her opinion. An island in a vast wasteland of left leaning mediocrity. A lighthouse, if you will, to show us the way back to safety.Red State Timehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382300579618915783noreply@blogger.comBlogger185125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3782385283387977206.post-72623123913339932412010-02-01T07:30:00.001-07:002010-02-01T07:30:48.241-07:0016 Lies in 7 Minutes<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HmN0hAA6-20&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HmN0hAA6-20&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Red State Timehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382300579618915783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3782385283387977206.post-74299264133592152142010-01-22T11:51:00.004-07:002010-01-22T17:05:13.936-07:00Anniversary<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAjURTFB1v1I4Bo10ih0URXthofNOyYqzKViWMwrQpY8CghUpGuw7GOSpc034SAP-D4PDj9ov_VHnDGWGUDMMaPLLgceSflFecuk4DnjudGQgkHNKUJEF5hi3uTYBU6fcHEzheq35LD6M/s1600-h/fig19.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAjURTFB1v1I4Bo10ih0URXthofNOyYqzKViWMwrQpY8CghUpGuw7GOSpc034SAP-D4PDj9ov_VHnDGWGUDMMaPLLgceSflFecuk4DnjudGQgkHNKUJEF5hi3uTYBU6fcHEzheq35LD6M/s320/fig19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429639833100752162" /></a><br />Today is the anniversary of Roe v Wade, so I thought that I would mark this occasion by reposting an old post and a video that could help explain how I feel about today.<br /><br />The picture is an untouched photograph of a being that has been within its mother for 20 weeks. Please do me the favor of looking at it carefully.<br /><br />Have you any doubt that it is a human being?<br /><br />If you do not have any such doubt, have you any doubt that it is an innocent human being?<br /><br />If you have no doubt about this either, have you any doubt that the authorities in a civilized society are duty-bound to protect this innocent human being if anyone were to wish to kill it?<br /><br />If your answer to this last query is negative, that is, if you have no doubt that the authorities in a civilized society would be duty-bound to protect this innocent human being if someone were to wish to kill it, I would suggest—even insist—that there is not a lot more to be said about the issue of abortion in our society. It is wrong, and it cannot—must not—be tolerated. <br /><br /><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7PPamlX4HQ0&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7PPamlX4HQ0&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Red State Timehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382300579618915783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3782385283387977206.post-1208138030891030492010-01-18T08:02:00.000-07:002010-01-18T08:03:45.279-07:00John Stossel on Health Insurance<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3WnS96NVlMI&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3WnS96NVlMI&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Red State Timehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382300579618915783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3782385283387977206.post-67698975489026975092009-12-13T22:15:00.000-07:002009-12-13T22:16:16.362-07:00The Debt Limit, Made Simple<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7yJRci2pARk&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7yJRci2pARk&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>Red State Timehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382300579618915783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3782385283387977206.post-19758990550984224292009-10-22T09:07:00.001-06:002009-10-22T09:07:32.249-06:00No, Mr President<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/O68MByaMVdM&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/O68MByaMVdM&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Red State Timehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382300579618915783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3782385283387977206.post-45860330359831697792009-10-06T06:26:00.003-06:002009-10-06T06:30:01.258-06:00Astroturf?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTUPmq0wuKZ5tUYxvIklZ-GfnAmkEaBrX6lOeKBksP9hWJ1xpZ3bM1jETr3DIq4IqBgQZvrkU4igfgammvOCbPmmu75VzDIM0EA3bnEbEQq0e6MVm8kpRRu_nqqUdQ5-eFkAMGpPaZgvg/s1600-h/obama1--300x300.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389462881915362802" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTUPmq0wuKZ5tUYxvIklZ-GfnAmkEaBrX6lOeKBksP9hWJ1xpZ3bM1jETr3DIq4IqBgQZvrkU4igfgammvOCbPmmu75VzDIM0EA3bnEbEQq0e6MVm8kpRRu_nqqUdQ5-eFkAMGpPaZgvg/s320/obama1--300x300.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>I always find it funny that when a grassroots protest against a government take over of healthcare happens, that someone like Nancy Pelosi calls it astroturf. But when the President of the United States, stages a photo op and personally hands out lab coats to a TOTAL of 1 doctor that showed up from EACH state to make the photo look better, it's representative of the population. What's happened to us?</div>Red State Timehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382300579618915783noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3782385283387977206.post-40886335853114582532009-10-02T14:15:00.001-06:002009-10-02T14:21:50.041-06:00Top 10 Reasons Chicago Didn't Get the Olympics-From National Review<br /><br />10. Dead people can't vote at IOC meetings<br /><br />9. Obama distracted by 25 min meeting with Gen. McChrystal<br /><br />8. Who cares if Obama couldn't talk the IOC into Chicago? He'll be able to talk Iran out of nukes.<br /><br />7. The impediment is Israel still building settlements.<br /><br />6. Obviously no president would have been able to accomplish it.<br /><br />5. We've been quite clear and said all along that we didn't want the Olympics.<br /><br />4. This isn't about the number of Olympics "lost", it's about the number of Olympics "saved" or "created".<br /><br />3. Clearly not enough wise Latina judges on the committee<br /><br />2. Because the IOC is racist.<br /><br />1. It's George Bush's fault.Red State Timehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382300579618915783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3782385283387977206.post-78818557406404995362009-10-01T06:49:00.000-06:002009-10-01T06:50:26.631-06:00Listen to Overpaid Celebrities<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AJ9Te1XP8RM&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AJ9Te1XP8RM&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Red State Timehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382300579618915783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3782385283387977206.post-78717780549148352052009-09-28T12:25:00.003-06:002009-09-28T12:29:21.169-06:00Does Cap and Trade actually work?There is only country in the world that has actually attempted a cap/trade plan that is currently being proposed in Congress and that is in Spain. So how has it fared? Does it create a booming green economy that President Obama espouses? Not so much. It actually loses 2.2 current jobs for every new job it creates. Take a look at this <a href="http://www.juandemariana.org/pdf/090327-employment-public-aid-renewable.pdf"><span style="color:#3333ff;">report</span></a> on a study that a university in Spain just completed for the results.<br /><br />So the question should be that if it didn't work there, how could it possibly work here?Red State Timehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382300579618915783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3782385283387977206.post-77449774583989269462009-09-25T11:25:00.001-06:002009-09-25T11:25:22.712-06:00An Inconvenient Question<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6-cvK9vxA6M&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6-cvK9vxA6M&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>Red State Timehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382300579618915783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3782385283387977206.post-36090552273015088042009-09-21T08:49:00.000-06:002009-09-21T08:50:53.408-06:00Scientists pull an about face on global warming<a href="http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Scientists%20pull%20about%20face%20global%20warming/2010571/story.html"><span style="color:#3366ff;">By Lorne Gunter</span></a>,<br /><br />Imagine if Pope Benedict gave a speech saying the Catholic Church has had it wrong all these centuries; there is no reason priests shouldn't marry. That might generate the odd headline, no?<br /><br />Or if Don Cherry claimed suddenly to like European hockey players who wear visors and float around the ice, never bodychecking opponents.<br /><br />Or Jack Layton insisted that unions are ruining the economy by distorting wages and protecting unproductive workers.<br /><br />Or Stephen Harper began arguing that it makes good economic sense for Ottawa to own a car company. (Oh, wait, that one happened.) But at least, the Tories-buy-GM aberration made all the papers and newscasts.<br /><br />When a leading proponent for one point of view suddenly starts batting for the other side, it's usually newsworthy.<br /><br />So why was a speech last week by Prof. Mojib Latif of Germany's Leibniz Institute not given more prominence?<br /><br />Latif is one of the leading climate modellers in the world. He is the recipient of several international climate-study prizes and a lead author for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He has contributed significantly to the IPCC's last two five-year reports that have stated unequivocally that man-made greenhouse emissions are causing the planet to warm dangerously.<br /><br />Yet last week in Geneva, at the UN's World Climate Conference--an annual gathering of the so-called "scientific consensus" on man-made climate change --Latif conceded the Earth has not warmed for nearly a decade and that we are likely entering "one or even two decades during which temperatures cool."<br /><br />The global warming theory has been based all along on the idea that the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans would absorb much of the greenhouse warming caused by a rise in man-made carbon dioxide, then they would let off that heat and warm the atmosphere and the land.<br /><br />But as Latif pointed out, the Atlantic, and particularly the North Atlantic, has been cooling instead. And it looks set to continue a cooling phase for 10 to 20 more years.<br /><br />"How much?" he wondered before the assembled delegates. "The jury is still out."<br /><br />But it is increasingly clear that global warming is on hiatus for the time being. And that is not what the UN, the alarmist scientists or environmentalists predicted. For the past dozen years, since the Kyoto accords were signed in 1997, it has been beaten into our heads with the force and repetition of the rowing drum on a slave galley that the Earth is warming and will continue to warm rapidly through this century until we reach deadly temperatures around 2100.<br /><br />While they deny it now, the facts to the contrary are staring them in the face: None of the alarmist drummers ever predicted anything like a 30-year pause in their apocalyptic scenario.<br /><br />Latif says he expects warming to resume in 2020 or 2030.<br /><br />In the past year, two other groups of scientists--one in Germany, the second in the United States--have come to the same conclusion: Warming is on hold, likely because of a cooling of the Earth's upper oceans, but it will resume.<br /><br />But how is that knowable? How can Latif and the others state with certainty that after this long and unforeseen cooling, dangerous man-made heating will resume? They failed to observe the current cooling for years after it had begun, how then can their predictions for the resumption of dangerous warming be trusted?<br /><br />My point is they cannot. It's true the supercomputer models Latif and other modellers rely on for their dire predictions are becoming more accurate. But getting the future correct is far trickier. Chances are some unforeseen future changes will throw the current predictions out of whack long before the forecast resumption of warming.<br /><br />Lorne Gunter is a columnist with the Edmonton Journal and National Post.<br /><br />© Copyright (c) The Calgary HeraldRed State Timehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382300579618915783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3782385283387977206.post-5675485708671474932009-09-15T16:33:00.001-06:002009-09-15T16:33:22.722-06:00The Empirical Evidence Against Big Government<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4pdmNynEwYA&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4pdmNynEwYA&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Red State Timehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382300579618915783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3782385283387977206.post-32127392582178171252009-09-15T14:16:00.002-06:002009-09-15T14:16:56.193-06:00President Obama stating that ACORN would help shape his agenda<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8vJcVgJhNaU&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8vJcVgJhNaU&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Red State Timehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382300579618915783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3782385283387977206.post-32198905569486745712009-09-11T12:28:00.000-06:002009-09-11T12:29:02.358-06:00A Black Hole Called the Federal Reserve<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/u-54Y-A9iBo&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/u-54Y-A9iBo&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Red State Timehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382300579618915783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3782385283387977206.post-64398937773171569362009-09-08T07:54:00.000-06:002009-09-08T07:55:03.286-06:00Had Enough?<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NtEpmNcycOE&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NtEpmNcycOE&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Red State Timehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382300579618915783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3782385283387977206.post-73002172155175131142009-09-04T12:45:00.001-06:002009-09-04T12:45:15.201-06:00I Pledge<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eAGme2p9eXw&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eAGme2p9eXw&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Red State Timehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382300579618915783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3782385283387977206.post-68032905924996652252009-09-03T11:45:00.001-06:002009-09-03T11:45:22.927-06:00Goal is Complete Revolution Away From Capitalism<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fh4Z0V0zNQg&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fh4Z0V0zNQg&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Red State Timehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382300579618915783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3782385283387977206.post-83539124628858921912009-08-30T15:13:00.001-06:002009-08-30T15:13:27.170-06:00The Government Can!<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LO2eh6f5Go0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LO2eh6f5Go0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Red State Timehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382300579618915783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3782385283387977206.post-53026332871923063102009-08-28T15:38:00.000-06:002009-08-28T15:39:18.358-06:00President Obama's First Year in Office1. Offended the Queen of England .<br /><br />2. Bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia .<br /><br />3. Praised the Marxist Daniel Ortega.<br /><br />4. Kissed Socialist Hugo Chavez on the cheek.<br /><br />5. Endorsed the Socialist Evo Morales of<br />Bolivia .<br /><br />6. Sided with Hugo Chavez and Communist Fidel<br />Castro against Honduras .<br /><br />7.. Announced we would meet with Iranians with<br />no pre-conditions while they're building their nuclear<br />weapons.<br /><br />8. Gave away billions to AIG also without<br />pre-conditions..<br /><br />9. Expanded the bailouts.<br /><br />10. Insulted everyone who has ever loved a<br />Special Olympian.<br /><br />11. Doubled our national debt.<br /><br />12. Announced the termination of our new<br />missile defense system the day after North Korea launched an<br />ICBM.<br /><br />13. Released information on U.S. intelligence<br />gathering despite urgings of his own CIA director and the<br />prior four CIA directors.<br /><br />=0 A 14. Accepted without comment that five of his<br />cabinet members cheated on their taxes and two other<br />nominees withdrew after they couldn't take the heat.<br /><br />15. Appointed a Homeland Security Chief who<br />identified military veterans and abortion opponents as<br />"dangers to the nation."<br /><br />16. Ordered that the word "terrorism"<br />no longer be used and instead refers to such acts as<br />"man made disasters."<br /><br />17. Circled the globe to publicly apologize for<br />America 's world leadership.<br /><br />18. Told the Mexican president that the<br />violence in their country was because of us.<br /><br />19. Politicized the census by moving it into<br />the White House from the Department of Commerce.<br /><br />20. <br />Appointed as Attorney General the man who orchestrated the<br />forced removal and expulsion to Cuba of a 9-year-old whose<br />mother died trying to bring him to freedom in the United<br />States .<br /><br />21. Salutes as heroes three Navy SEALS who took<br />down three terrorists who threatened one American life and<br />the next day announces members of the Bush administration<br />may stand trial for "torturing" three 9/11<br />terrorists by pouring water up their noses.<br /><br />22. Low altitude photo shoot of Air Force One<br />over New York City that frightened thousands of New<br />Yorkers.<br /><br />23. Sent his National Defense Advisor to Europe<br />to assure them that the US will no longer treat Israel in a<br />special manner and they might be on their own with the<br />Muslims.<br /><br />24. Praised Jimmy Carter's trip to Gaza<br />where he sided with terrorist Hamas against Israel .<br /><br />25.. Nationalized General Motors and Chrysler<br />while turning shareholder control over to the unions and<br />freezing out retired investors who owned their bonds. <br />Committed unlimited taxpayer billions in the process.<br /><br />26. Passed a huge energy tax in the House that<br />will make American industry even less competitive while<br />costing homeowners thousands per year.<br /><br />27. Announced nationalized health care<br />"reform" that will strip seniors of their<br />Medicare, cut pay of physicians, increase taxes yet another<br />$1 trillion, and put everyone on rationed care with<br />government bureaucrats deciding who gets care and who<br />doesn't. (See cartoon.)<br /><br /><br />Daschle says, "Health care reform will not be<br />pain free. Seniors should be more accepting of the<br />conditions that come with age instead of treating<br />them," while former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm says<br />seniors have "a duty to die."<br /><br /><br />If this does not sufficiently raise your ire, just remember<br />that the President, Senators and Congressmen have their own<br />special gold plated health care plan which is guaranteed the<br />remainder of their lives and they are not subject to this<br />new law if they pass it.Red State Timehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382300579618915783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3782385283387977206.post-39011417729365771692009-08-26T08:21:00.002-06:002009-08-26T08:21:29.111-06:00Charming Liar<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IgZsgLa2ntE&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IgZsgLa2ntE&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Red State Timehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382300579618915783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3782385283387977206.post-76731723153863544472009-08-19T10:07:00.000-06:002009-08-19T10:08:13.814-06:00Milton Friedman on Spending Someone Else's Money<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nBWXuptwJpg&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nBWXuptwJpg&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Red State Timehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382300579618915783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3782385283387977206.post-69445994328947868122009-08-16T19:00:00.001-06:002009-08-16T19:00:57.760-06:00Congressman Ron Paul on Healthcare<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/foXQbmZxWYY&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/foXQbmZxWYY&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>Red State Timehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382300579618915783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3782385283387977206.post-88077132658861097102009-08-04T19:32:00.002-06:002009-08-04T19:34:00.278-06:00Glenn Beck's "The Story Of Barack Obama" On His Birthday<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XZqCLzbWhRo&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XZqCLzbWhRo&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Red State Timehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382300579618915783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3782385283387977206.post-66830170295810537002009-08-03T13:45:00.000-06:002009-08-03T13:46:47.703-06:00Ten reasons why America’s health care system is in better condition than you might suppose.<a href="http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/49525427.html">By Scott W. Atlas.</a><br /><br /><br />Medical care in the United States is derided as miserable compared to health care systems in the rest of the developed world. Economists, government officials, insurers, and academics beat the drum for a far larger government role in health care. Much of the public assumes that their arguments are sound because the calls for change are so ubiquitous and the topic so complex. Before we turn to government as the solution, however, we should consider some unheralded facts about America’s health care system.<br /><br />1. Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers. Breast cancer mortality is 52 percent higher in Germany than in the United States and 88 percent higher in the United Kingdom. Prostate cancer mortality is 604 percent higher in the United Kingdom and 457 percent higher in Norway. The mortality rate for colorectal cancer among British men and women is about 40 percent higher.<br /><br />2. Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians. Breast cancer mortality in Canada is 9 percent higher than in the United States, prostate cancer is 184 percent higher, and colon cancer among men is about 10 percent higher.<br /><br />3. Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries. Some 56 percent of Americans who could benefit from statin drugs, which reduce cholesterol and protect against heart disease, are taking them. By comparison, of those patients who could benefit from these drugs, only 36 percent of the Dutch, 29 percent of the Swiss, 26 percent of Germans, 23 percent of Britons, and 17 percent of Italians receive them.<br /><br />4. Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians. Take the proportion of the appropriate-age population groups who have received recommended tests for breast, cervical, prostate, and colon cancer: <br /><br />Nine out of ten middle-aged American women (89 percent) have had a mammogram, compared to fewer than three-fourths of Canadians (72 percent).<br /><br />Nearly all American women (96 percent) have had a Pap smear, compared to fewer than 90 percent of Canadians.<br /><br />More than half of American men (54 percent) have had a prostatespecific antigen (PSA) test, compared to fewer than one in six Canadians (16 percent).<br /><br />Nearly one-third of Americans (30 percent) have had a colonoscopy, compared with fewer than one in twenty Canadians (5 percent). <br /><br />5. Lower-income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians. Twice as many American seniors with below-median incomes self-report “excellent” health (11.7 percent) compared to Canadian seniors (5.8 percent). Conversely, white, young Canadian adults with below-median incomes are 20 percent more likely than lower-income Americans to describe their health as “fair or poor.”<br /><br />6. Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the United Kingdom. Canadian and British patients wait about twice as long—sometimes more than a year—to see a specialist, have elective surgery such as hip replacements, or get radiation treatment for cancer. All told, 827,429 people are waiting for some type of procedure in Canada. In Britain, nearly 1.8 million people are waiting for a hospital admission or outpatient treatment.<br /><br />7. People in countries with more government control of health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed. More than 70 percent of German, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, and British adults say their health system needs either “fundamental change” or “complete rebuilding.”<br /><br />8. Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians. When asked about their own health care instead of the “health care system,” more than half of Americans (51.3 percent) are very satisfied with their health care services, compared with only 41.5 percent of Canadians; a lower proportion of Americans are dissatisfied (6.8 percent) than Canadians (8.5 percent).<br /><br />9. Americans have better access to important new technologies such as medical imaging than do patients in Canada or Britain. An overwhelming majority of leading American physicians identify computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as the most important medical innovations for improving patient care during the previous decade—even as economists and policy makers unfamiliar with actual medical practice decry these techniques as wasteful. The United States has thirty-four CT scanners per million Americans, compared to twelve in Canada and eight in Britain. The United States has almost twenty-seven MRI machines per million people compared to about six per million in Canada and Britain.<br /><br />10. Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations. The top five U.S. hospitals conduct more clinical trials than all the hospitals in any other developed country. Since the mid- 1970s, the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology has gone to U.S. residents more often than recipients from all other countries combined. In only five of the past thirty-four years did a scientist living in the United States not win or share in the prize. Most important recent medical innovations were developed in the United States.<br /><br />Despite serious challenges, such as escalating costs and care for the uninsured, the U.S. health care system compares favorably to those in other developed countries.Red State Timehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382300579618915783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3782385283387977206.post-60306969028803562152009-08-03T11:46:00.001-06:002009-08-03T11:46:33.622-06:00Glen Beck and Peter Schiff<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ky__B3rs9FA&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ky__B3rs9FA&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Red State Timehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382300579618915783noreply@blogger.com0