The United States gets hammered on its global infant mortality rating. Liberals never tire of pointing out that the United States rates no higher than 29th compared to other nations.
And as we continue to debate health care in this country, this number continues to have relevance; at least to the uninformed.
Posted in Health Care, Politics: National
Tagged Infant Mortality, Politics, Preterm Baby
Was listening to the boys in Greensboro again yesterday. Topic made its way to health insurance and the ongoing debate. The same ol’ arguments on both sides were mentioned with the exception of two.
The first was the idea Brad threw out there that there aren’t folks who actually decide not to buy insurance. I think he literally asked for someone to provide data on that topic. Who would literally make the choice not to buy insurance?
The second was mentioned by Britt. And this is the one of pre-existing conditions, what they are and the stance people have on ’em.
Posted in Health Care, Politics: National
Tagged Brad and Britt, Politics, Pre-existing Condition, Uninsured Americans
It would seem that there IS a limit to what the Federal Government can mandate. There does exist a line that they may not cross. There does come a time, when the Rights and the Liberty of man is A-priori to the State.
Obamacare has been ruled Unconstitutional in Florida.
Long live the Republic!
Posted in Government, Health Care, Liberty, Politics: National
Tagged Abuse of Power, Barack Obama, Leftist, Politics
Well, virtually everything. This includes making money.
And now for the latest in 21st century news, women are even better at getting elected than men:
AMERICAN politics has a glass ceiling that keeps women down. This is a wisdom so conventional that Hillary Clinton, in conceding to Barack Obama in 2008, could safely earn cheers and tears by thanking her supporters for those “18m cracks in it.”
The only trouble is that empirical analysis has not found a bias against female candidates. In fact, a new study in California suggests that voters are, if anything, biased in favour of women. That glass thing in American politics, in other words, might be an elevator, not a ceiling.
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In the Democratic races, women fared much better than men. This might be expected, because voters seem to associate women with more “liberal” issues (starting with, well, women’s issues), and Democratic primary voters tend to be liberal. More surprising, perhaps, were the results of the Republican primaries. Conservative voters tend to be more concerned with allegedly manly issues such as law and order and defence. This should put female candidates at a disadvantage. But it didn’t. Even among Republicans, a male name carried no advantage.
In half of the political races, women had an advantage. In the other half, there was no advantage to be had; for men OR for women.
It might be time to put the bras back on ladies.
Yo! North Carolina Republicans [and, frankly, Republicans everywhere] we did NOT elect you to run around thinking that you can just treat people any ol’ way ya want.
Be consistent with the concepts of Liberty.
Liberty.
THAT is what we stand for.
Or, at least, what we should stand for.
Which makes me cringe and cry out in frustration when the Right is wrong.
We’ve gotten a bunch of attention lately. None of it very good.
Wake County has had its name drug through the mud, both here in the county, elsewhere about the state and then nationally on the Colbert Show.
For this week, we’ve become a laughing-stock.
At the center of it all seems to be one individual; John Tedesco.
In my life I have learned a number of things. Perhaps chief among them is the ability of people to demonstrate just how unlearned they are.
Amazing.
I have yet to learn that the most egregious of these examples come from our elected officials.
Check out Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee:
Posted in Government, Health Care, House of Representatives, Idiots on Parade, Politics: National
Tagged Constitution, Democrat, IOP, Leftist, Politics, Sheila Jackson Lee
As we transition from Global Warming into climate change, we continue to debate the science.
We point to historical levels of CO2 and the temperature at the time. We can look at the rise in the concentration of CO2 in recent years and watch as recent temperatures soar.
But can we use the data that we think we have and make a prediction that turns out to be accurate?
Time thought it did. I think they’re wrong.