Recycling the Contempt

by Wesley Pruden

Recycling is so popular that even our congressmen, unaccustomed as they are to practicing what they preach, do it. They're reaching back into the dark past to recycle contempt. Never waste a crisis, even if you have to manufacture the crisis.

Health Care Furor at Fever Pitch

Besides blasting Republicans, the Democratic National Committee is attacking insurance companies in its latest TV ads to promote President Obama's health care overhaul, accusing the industry of shamefully putting profits above Americans' health.

Abortion Will Be Covered

by Gary Bauer

We have been warning for some time that the healthcare reform bill would likely include taxpayer subsidies for abortion-on-demand. In recent days, many folks have emailed us responses they have received from their members of Congress who deny that abortion is being covered in the bill. At least one congressional liberal is now publicly suggesting otherwise.

Back To Bizarro World

by Gary Bauer

When President Obama first waded into the public debate over healthcare reform, he insulted pediatricians by suggesting that they were ripping out children's tonsils for extra cash.  In New Hampshire this week, he suggested that some doctors are cutting off feet, rather than encouraging diabetes patients to lose weight.  Both the AMA and the American College of Surgeons shot back.

A Price to Pay for the Town Hall Rage

by David S. Broder

Watching the muscular tactics being used in congressional town meetings by some opponents of health-care reform, I keep thinking somebody should remind the Republican leaders who are reveling in the scenes about Bruce Alger.

Reject White House Eeffort to Squelch Health Debate

by Newt Gingrich and Nancy Desmond

Just months after Islamic terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon with the deadliest attack on American soil in U.S. history, Attorney General John Ashcroft attempted to establish a "TIPS" program in hopes of catching any future terrorists

Pace of Stimulus Spending Plummets

Stimulus bill spending has slowed to a trickle, despite President Obama's June order to his Cabinet to speed it up.

Palin Target Renounces Care Rationing

Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, the White House official targeted by Sarah Palin and other conservatives as an advocate for health care rationing and "death panels," said Thursday his "thinking has evolved" on the need to decide who gets treated and who does not.