Thursday, March 5, 2015
The revelations, reported
initially in the most left-wing newspaper in the nation, The New York Times,
that Hillary Clinton used her own private emails to conduct public business,
suggests that there are forces within the Democratic Party that do not want her
to be its candidate for President in 2016.
It’s not like Hillary did
not know she was supposed to use the State Department’s email system for
reasons of national security; her private emails could have been hacked by
forces unfriendly to the U.S. All government employees are routinely briefed on
the laws that require this.
For the record, I am no fan
of Hillary Clinton. On September 18 of last year, I wrote a commentary titled “Go Away, Hillary” in which I asked “Other
than earning her law degree, name one thing that Hillary Clinton has
accomplished on her own. Her accomplishments—slim as they are—have been
achieved on the coattails of either Bill Clinton or Barack Obama.”
Beyond Hillary, what I
object to is the necessity to raise millions with which to secure either Party’s
nomination and a billion to run for the presidency. We are electing someone who
has literally bought the election courtesy of donors who have made the
selection for the rest of us. There is something fundamentally undemocratic
about that. That
said, I don’t think Hillary Clinton will run in 2016……..
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
On Wednesday, March 4, the
Supreme Court will hear the King v. Burwell case. It is likely to
deliver a death blow to ObamaCare when the decision is announced in a few
months. About the only good thing ObamaCare demonstrated is that the federal
government should be kept from taking over sectors of the nation’s economy that
are working just fine without it.
Health care expert Edmund
Haislmaier and legal expert, both of The Heritage Foundation, provided an
explanation of the case. “The question before the Supreme Court is whether the
Obama administration overstepped its authority in issuing an IRS ruling that
conflicts with the ObamaCare statute. The statute allows payment of ObamaCare
subsidies only to individuals who obtain coverage ‘through an Exchange
established by (a) State.’”
ObamaCare got such a cold
reception nationwide that 34 States refused to set up an exchange, forcing the
feds to do it. Those exchanges distributed subsidies to individuals
participating in them, but the ObamaCare statute “seemingly did not authorize
subsidies in such cases.” Suffice to say that ObamaCare health insurance is
considerably more costly than what one could have previously purchased on one’s
own; thus the need for the subsidies gambit.
The February edition of Health Care
News, published by The Heartland Institute was filled with articles
attesting to the failure of ObamaCare. Here are a few excerpts from them…….
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
In 1933, approximately 9.5
million Jews lived in Europe, representing 1.7% of the total European
population which, in turn, was about 60% of the Jewish world population,
estimated to have been 15.2 million.
By 1945, in the wake of the
Holocaust, two out of every three Jews would be dead.
By 2012 the global Jewish
population had reached 13.75 million. That is less than 0.2 percent of the
world’s population.
The Israeli Central Bureau
of Statistics reported that 43% of the world’s Jewish community lives in
Israel. Sharing Israel as their home were 1,636,600 Arabs and a diverse
population of Christians and non-Jews, numbering around 318,000.
If the Iranians make good
on their threat to “wipe Israel off the map”, presumably with nuclear weapons
they would acquire by stealth and deception, the Jewish world population would
be cut nearly in half.
All of this will be on
Benjamin Netanyahu’s mind when, as the Prime Minister of Israel, he addresses a
joint meeting of Congress. It will be his third such speech. On July 10, 1996,
he said the world must act to prevent Iran’s nuclearization, since “the
deadline for attaining this goal is getting extremely close.” ………
Monday, March 2, 2015
The strangest thing about
Obama’s efforts to achieve friendly relations with Iran, something he has tried
to do since he first took office in 2009, is that Iran has made it abundantly
clear since its Islamic revolution in 1979 that it hates America and, in
tandem, Israel as well.
In an Iranian naval drill
on February 25, Iran blew up a mock U.S. aircraft carrier near the entrance of
the Persian Gulf. It was a full-size replica of the USS Nimitz. This is the
antithesis of friendship, but just to make their position clear, Iranian Rear Adm.
Ali Fadavi, commander of its naval forces, let it be known that “We have the
most advanced sea mines which cannot be imagined by the Americans.”
But the Americans—in this
case the President of the United States and his negotiators—have been making
every concession they can to get an agreement that would limit Iran’s ability
to produce its own nuclear weapons. Dr. Norman Bailey, an adjunct professor of
economic statecraft at the Institute of World Politics, Washington, D.C.,
recently wrote that “The U.S. looks set to present its allies with a dangerous
fait accompli on Iran’s nuclear program.”
“The most recent deadline
of March 24th means only one thing,” Dr. Bailey wrote in a World Tribune commentary. “A deal has
been reached between the U.S. and Iran, which will be announced to the other
five participants when the Obama administration decides it is convenient to do
so.” The other five obviously have nothing to say regarding the negotiations.
At one point, the French foreign minister stormed out of the initial meeting
proclaiming “This is a fool’s deal.” It’s
worse than a fool’s deal……..
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