Jonathan Clarke, a former senior British diplomat, discusses the reaction in Great Britain to the release of the man convicted in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. How did the public react to the release and to the raucous welcome home for the terrorist in Libya? Should we believe reports that this release happened to facilitate British oil interests in Libya? What would be the political fallout of such a revelation?
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What is the health care system really like in nations that experimented with government health care only to watch it devour the entire system? What are typical stories of patients needing life-saving tests and treatments in Canada, Britain, Australia, Sweden, New Zealand and elsewhere? What type of care that is easily available here will we we have to wait months for if the Feds take over? Why are liberal politicians so insistent on demanding a health care system that is proven to be a disaster everywhere it’s been tried? And is President Obama right when he says the status quo is far scarier than anything in the Democrats’ health reform bill?
You get these answers and a whole lot more in my interview with Amy Ridenour, president of the National Center for Public Policy Research. Ridenour is also co-author of ‘Shattered Lives: 100 Victims of Government Health Care’. The book is free you can download it right now at this link http://nationalcenter.org/shatteredlives.pdf
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The Capitol Steps are here for their weekly visit – this time poking fun at Nancy Pelosi and Dick Cheney over what they admit and don’t admit knowing aout the CIA.
Concerned Women for America President Wendy Wright explains why taxpayers will be footing the bill for abortions even though that’s not mentioned in the health care bill. And what in this bill suggests the government wants to control the number of children you have?
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Anesthesiologist Dr. Ronald Dworkin says Obamacare would endanger patients and widen the gap in quality of care between rich and poor. Why? What problems in the plan would cause these things to happen and why could many doctors be looking to leave their jobs just when millions more people need care?
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Louisiana Rep. Bill Cassidy, also a practicing physician, says Democrats would be making a huge mistake by ignoring the Republicans and the American people by ramming through government-run health care on a party-line vote through a procedural gimmick. What does he say about President Obama’s vow that this plan would be deficit-neutral? And does he believe this would expand patient choice or cripple it?
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Ron Pollack, executive director at Families USA, explains why he likes the public option and why he’s not fearful that it will swallow up private competition. He also says the commotion over the public option is drowning out other good provisions contained within the bill.
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Retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Tom McInerney says the convicted Pan Am 103 bomber deserves no compassion and should never have been released. Why is he so adamantly opposed to the Scottish court’s decision? What message does this send to the Islamic radicals of today? And what does Gen. McInerney think of the current security operations in Iraq and Afghanistan?
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John Gizzi of Human Events says organized labor was outraged by the possibility of the public option being removed from the health care bill and forced Obama to run away from compromise by threatening to stay out of the 2010 campaign. Gizzi also explains why he thinks splitting up the bill will not be a successful strategy for Senate Democrats. And he weighs in on the Afghan elections, the release of the Lockerbie bomber and the passing of legendary reporter Robert Novak.
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A new report from Stanford University says the $15 billion Bush administration program to fight AIDS in Africa is responsible for saving as many as one million lives that would otherwise be ravaged by the deadly disease. What this tell us about Bush as a president and as a man? And what does it say about the mainstream media that this report is getting virtually no coverage? We discuss it all with Dr. Paul Kengor of Grove City College.
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