tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-248292 2009-07-05T18:36:49-04:00 NEWS ~ OPINION ~ PERSPECTIVEThe news and opinion that matters TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c2c6053ef011571c3587c970b 2009-07-05T18:36:49-04:00 2009-07-05T18:42:54-04:00 Gina Cobb Well done, Doug. Read it and share it. People need to understand that there's no such thing as a free lunch -- or a free doctor. In fact, your "free doctor" will likely turn out to be the most expensive doctor you've ever had. You'll pay in time spent on a waiting list or in an emergency room. You'll pay in poorer quality service at every stage. You'll pay in lost freedom of choice. And is it really free? Not quite. You'll pay in taxes not just for your "free doctor" but for the bureaucracy, government waste and fraud that...<br/> <br/> Continued at website. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/QtltfKc0IgTiPxEqudlAvKCg__g/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/QtltfKc0IgTiPxEqudlAvKCg__g/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/QtltfKc0IgTiPxEqudlAvKCg__g/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/QtltfKc0IgTiPxEqudlAvKCg__g/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c2c6053ef011571af7cea970b 2009-07-03T16:19:39-04:00 2009-07-03T16:19:39-04:00 Gina Cobb Apparently to run for the presidency in 2012, but speculation about other possible motivations is runing wild.<br/> <br/> Continued at website. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/tetvSNhYQL6f_phF3aBZUlnolUI/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/tetvSNhYQL6f_phF3aBZUlnolUI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/tetvSNhYQL6f_phF3aBZUlnolUI/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/tetvSNhYQL6f_phF3aBZUlnolUI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c2c6053ef011570acc678970c 2009-07-02T10:35:35-04:00 2009-07-02T10:35:35-04:00 Gina Cobb Don't look now, but the Obama administration and his Democratic Party pals who have controlled Congress for years have "saved or created" so many jobs that the U.S. now faces its worst unemployment rate in 26 years. That's right -- nothing George W. Bush ever did was as bad for the U.S. unemployment rate as what Obama and Dems in Congress have accomplished together. Why, nationwide unemployment has now reached 9.5%, with another 467,000 jobs lost in June alone. It's almost as if the trillion-dollar "stimulus" passed by Democrats in Congress was a joke. It's almost as if crushing regulation...<br/> <br/> Continued at website. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/5tKbtpY0BJMRzksiJV4Q9oGa7Y0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/5tKbtpY0BJMRzksiJV4Q9oGa7Y0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/5tKbtpY0BJMRzksiJV4Q9oGa7Y0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/5tKbtpY0BJMRzksiJV4Q9oGa7Y0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c2c6053ef011570a699eb970c 2009-07-01T19:32:32-04:00 2009-07-01T19:43:42-04:00 Gina Cobb The Wall Street Journal explains it better than I could: The 'Absentee' Senator The problem extends far beyond the state of Minnesota. Democrats have shamelessly opposed voter identification requirements and have encouraged and lavishly funded groups like ACORN that have been charged with voter registration fraud around the country. When you combine some or all of the following: (1) fraudulent and last-minute voter registration, (2) widespread use of absentee ballots with no showing of necessity for such a measure, (3) total absence of voter I.D. checks when ballots are cast, and (4) courts and officials allowed to change rules after...<br/> <br/> Continued at website. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/o20AQ74ApFXQrmBkRHPYh_8ScWk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/o20AQ74ApFXQrmBkRHPYh_8ScWk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/o20AQ74ApFXQrmBkRHPYh_8ScWk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/o20AQ74ApFXQrmBkRHPYh_8ScWk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c2c6053ef0115709b7ec9970c 2009-06-30T12:08:06-04:00 2009-06-30T12:23:28-04:00 Gina Cobb <br/> <br/> Continued at website. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ahkKHjnjWvtcx-4IadpLFQA_yec/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ahkKHjnjWvtcx-4IadpLFQA_yec/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ahkKHjnjWvtcx-4IadpLFQA_yec/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ahkKHjnjWvtcx-4IadpLFQA_yec/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c2c6053ef011571897752970b 2009-06-29T17:56:17-04:00 2009-06-29T18:01:02-04:00 Gina Cobb Why isn't this horrible story being covered? The Duke official involved is the university's associate director of Center for Health Policy. The story is already three days old.<br/> <br/> Continued at website. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8fU7xt_dqNFSgp75VMWOjCBJwlE/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8fU7xt_dqNFSgp75VMWOjCBJwlE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8fU7xt_dqNFSgp75VMWOjCBJwlE/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/8fU7xt_dqNFSgp75VMWOjCBJwlE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> tag:typepad.com,2003:post-68408933 2009-06-27T03:07:00-04:00 2009-06-27T03:07:00-04:00 Gina Cobb Why, he'll have the receipients of taxpayer money tell him how many jobs were "created"! Not that the receipients of easy federal money have an incentive to exaggerate or embellish how they spent the free money. If "stimulus" money is used to fund a nice Tahiti vacation for the CEO and his family, you won't hear about it at all. And if a company uses the money to pay 10 workers who would have been doing other productive private sector work anyway before the free "stimulus" dollars came along -- why, that's ten jobs "saved" by the Great Obama! You're...<br/> <br/> Continued at website. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/XFqnVuDIdFmkqcj4SBxEN2T2pg0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/XFqnVuDIdFmkqcj4SBxEN2T2pg0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/XFqnVuDIdFmkqcj4SBxEN2T2pg0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/XFqnVuDIdFmkqcj4SBxEN2T2pg0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c2c6053ef0115706acad4970c 2009-06-26T02:01:22-04:00 2009-06-26T02:06:29-04:00 Gina Cobb "Halfacarafe" had an excellent comment on my previous post, so I'm repeating it here: Please don't take your eyes off of real news. Gina I respect your news. Iran - keep them in you prayers, this is GWB's Reagan moment, every person has a God given right to liberty. Keep it in the news. Cap and Trade: passing Friday, 535 people in DC don't care what you think. Call anyway. N. Korea nuclear sites will have to be taken out about 3 minutes after the patriot defense system from Japan, take out the Taepodong-2. Total takeover of the health system...<br/> <br/> Continued at website. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Gt3AenC1im8lF5pQkSiMBkM1RA8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Gt3AenC1im8lF5pQkSiMBkM1RA8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Gt3AenC1im8lF5pQkSiMBkM1RA8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Gt3AenC1im8lF5pQkSiMBkM1RA8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> tag:typepad.com,2003:post-68410191 2009-06-25T07:21:00-04:00 2009-06-25T12:37:56-04:00 Gina Cobb 700 NYC Teachers Paid To Do Nothing NEW YORK – Hundreds of New York City public school teachers accused of offenses ranging from insubordination to sexual misconduct are being paid their full salaries to sit around all day playing Scrabble, surfing the Internet or just staring at the wall, if that’s what they want to do. Because their union contract makes it extremely difficult to fire them, the teachers have been banished by the school system to its "rubber rooms" — off-campus office space where they wait months, even years, for their disciplinary hearings. The 700 or so teachers can...<br/> <br/> Continued at website. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/RIE8CByHM_-s09fQ2VQLlIDO8K4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/RIE8CByHM_-s09fQ2VQLlIDO8K4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/RIE8CByHM_-s09fQ2VQLlIDO8K4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/RIE8CByHM_-s09fQ2VQLlIDO8K4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> tag:typepad.com,2003:post-68434915 2009-06-24T17:09:00-04:00 2009-06-25T01:45:21-04:00 Gina Cobb It may all come down to a bad case of adolescent angst. And when one considers the recent embarrassment of a 40-something pal of Obama videotaping hmself skateboarding down the halls of the White House, the term "adolescent" seems particularly fitting. When it comes to Iran, Obama is still determined to try hot dog diplomacy. Inviting Iranian diplomats to share in U.S. 4th of July celebrations was bizarre when first announced, but in light of the recent regime brutality against protestors in Iran, it is downright ghoulish. Today's massacre may finally be awakening someone in the Obama administration to the...<br/> <br/> Continued at website. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/IdQEcoi9bA7EsdTQNHFK1dISohY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/IdQEcoi9bA7EsdTQNHFK1dISohY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/IdQEcoi9bA7EsdTQNHFK1dISohY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/IdQEcoi9bA7EsdTQNHFK1dISohY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> tag:typepad.com,2003:post-68448753 2009-06-24T11:50:39-04:00 2009-06-24T11:50:39-04:00 Gina Cobb Is it my imagination, or have the headlines gotten much, much worse since Bush left office and Obama settled into the White House?<br/> <br/> Continued at website. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/qSgvyyQ7tH1m3B5aMp2JYjCGJkw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/qSgvyyQ7tH1m3B5aMp2JYjCGJkw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/qSgvyyQ7tH1m3B5aMp2JYjCGJkw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/qSgvyyQ7tH1m3B5aMp2JYjCGJkw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> tag:typepad.com,2003:post-68415887 2009-06-24T03:17:00-04:00 2009-06-24T03:17:00-04:00 Gina Cobb No more soccer for you, the Iranian regime announces But of course. As needed in a mullahcracy, the velvet hand turns into a pounding iron fist. For a reminder of how much harsher it can get, read about the Iranian regime's torture of a 17-year-old. (Warning, graphic pictures)<br/> <br/> Continued at website. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/36_iPpEP_i42id7DwyYqaetU6zc/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/36_iPpEP_i42id7DwyYqaetU6zc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/36_iPpEP_i42id7DwyYqaetU6zc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/36_iPpEP_i42id7DwyYqaetU6zc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> tag:typepad.com,2003:post-68413347 2009-06-23T14:08:09-04:00 2009-06-23T14:10:00-04:00 Gina Cobb Obama calls on HuffPost for Iran question In what appeared to be a coordinated exchange, President Obama called on the Huffington Post's Nico Pitney near the start of his press conference and requested a question directly about Iran. “Nico, I know you and all across the Internet, we've been seeing a lot of reports coming out of Iran,” Obama said, addressing Pitney. “I know there may actually be questions from people in Iran who are communicating through the Internet. Do you have a question?” Pitney, as if ignoring what Obama had just said [Ed. or awkwardly unable to veer from...<br/> <br/> Continued at website. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ErSlh4kF7B4TqXcU-9msaHXRtno/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ErSlh4kF7B4TqXcU-9msaHXRtno/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ErSlh4kF7B4TqXcU-9msaHXRtno/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ErSlh4kF7B4TqXcU-9msaHXRtno/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> tag:typepad.com,2003:post-68409549 2009-06-23T12:25:15-04:00 2009-06-23T12:25:15-04:00 Gina Cobb <br/> <br/> Continued at website. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/FnjGINY7V35GGoSCkH_FrLAYA3k/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/FnjGINY7V35GGoSCkH_FrLAYA3k/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/FnjGINY7V35GGoSCkH_FrLAYA3k/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/FnjGINY7V35GGoSCkH_FrLAYA3k/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>