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By Terence P. Jeffrey CNSNews.com The Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the final Senate health care bill indicates it would slap a mandatory annual fee of about $15,000 on middle-class families that earn an annual income greater than 400 percent of the federal poverty level ($88,200 for a family of four) and are not provided [...]

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By Michelle Malkin Townhall.com The Democrats are right. Sleazy bribes and pork payoffs didn’t start with their government health care takeover bill. They’ve been doling out taxpayer-funded goodies for votes all year. Harry Reid’s latest Cash for Cloture deals are the culmination of Washington’s 2009 shopping spree at our expense. Go back to January and [...]

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By Mona Charen Townhall.com Does anyone remember the TV show “Supermarket Sweep”? Contestants would compete with one another by careening through a supermarket and grabbing as many products as they could toss into a basket. The winner was the shopper whose cart carried the biggest price tag when the bell sounded. It’s a fitting image [...]

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By Rich Lowry & Robert Costa National Review Online Harry Reid got his 60. Ben Nelson resorted to the typical Washington expedient in such situations and bought into a few window-dressing compromises, in exchange for an enormous Medicaid benefit to his state. The Cornhusker Kickback joins the Louisiana Purchase as the latest evidence that there’s [...]

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By Scott Walter Catholic Education Resource Center If we wanted to add a twentieth-century name to the list of prophets, I would nominate Robert Nisbet (1914-1996), who would not be surprised by recent revelations that an elite group of global-warming experts have been reckless with their “science” and ruthless towards their scientific peers I refer [...]

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By Max Schulz City Journal The Obama administration’s EPA ruling is an attempt to force Congress’s hand. Typically, when a law is passed or a regulation proposed, its champions believe that the action will be beneficial to society. But that’s not the case when it comes to steps that the Obama administration took last week, [...]

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By Brad Templeman examiner.com President Obama is about to accomplish what many previous Democratic presidents have tried to do, and failed. At least that’s what the White House spin would be, and it will largely be echoed throughout the Democratic Party. No, they will say, the health care reform bill won’t have a public option, [...]

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By Ann Coulter AnnCoulter.com The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof recently wrote a column about John Brodniak of Oregon, who developed a cavernous hemangioma, causing him great pain as blood leaks into his brain. According to Kristof, Brodniak can’t get medical help because we don’t have universal health care. Senators who vote against ObamaCare, Kristof [...]

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By Douglas Turner The Buffalo News WASHINGTON — Today’s fight with the Catholic bishops over abortion in the health insurance bill is a far cry from a quarter century ago, when they could defeat a constitutional amendment giving equal rights to women and draw scarcely a peep of complaint. Then-Rep. Geraldine Ferraro, D-Queens, wanted Congress [...]

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