Post Scripts

Posted by Tina

Canadian Health Care We So Envy Lies In Ruins, Its Architect Admits, by David Gratzer IBD Editorial

Back in the 1960s, (Claude) Castonguay chaired a Canadian government committee studying health reform and recommended that his home province of Quebec then the largest and most affluent in the country adopt government-administered health care, covering all citizens through tax levies. ** Four decades later, as the chairman of a government committee reviewing Quebec health care this year, Castonguay concluded that the system is in “crisis.” ** “We thought we could resolve the system’s problems by rationing services or injecting massive amounts of new money into it,” says Castonguay. But now he prescribes a radical overhaul: “We are proposing to give a greater role to the private sector so that people can exercise freedom of choice.” ** Castonguay advocates contracting out services to the private sector, going so far as suggesting that public hospitals rent space during off-hours to entrepreneurial doctors. He supports co-pays for patients who want to see physicians. Castonguay, the man who championed public health insurance in Canada, now urges for the legalization of private health insurance.

IBD Editorial writer David Gratzer, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a physician licensed in both the U.S. and Canada, has written a book: “The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care,” now available in paperback.

Posted by Tina

There are a handful of midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy, according to the ACLU, who object to prayer being served up with their mid-day meal:

The American Civil Liberties Union is threatening to sue the U.S. Naval Academy unless it abolishes its daily lunchtime prayer, saying that some midshipmen have felt pressured to participate. In a letter to the Naval Academy, Deborah Jeon, legal director for the ACLU of Maryland, said it was “long past time” for the academy to discontinue the tradition. She said the practice violates midshipmen’s freedom. – Jacqueline L. Salmon, The Washington Post

What about the freedom of the several hundred others in the room? At the very least the midshipmen involved in this proposal have been taught to be extremely selfish and ill-mannered. But this is not just about tradition, it is a rabid assault on the Constitution:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

The ongoing attacks on prayer are a wicked betrayal to the very ideal of freedom.

A Donation Management Desk has been established to channel donations of money, supplies and services for the effort to evacuate, shelter and protect Butte County residents during the current wildfire emergency operation.

Individuals, businesses or organizations who wish to make financial donations, or donations of materials and supplies, or of services, are asked to call 530-538-2760 beginning at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 25. ** The Donation Management Desk will be manned from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. each day. When the desk is not attended, information can be left on a recording.

Hat Tip: KPAY

Posted by Tina

Pro McCain reasoning:

I support John McCain for president. But that doesn’t mean I support the Republican Party. Had the GOP nominated anyone else this year, I’d be struggling to rationalize a vote for the Democrats in November. I back McCain because we need integrity, experience and courage in our next president. I view the Democrats’ candidate, Barack Obama, as a Ferrari without an engine, wonderfully shiny but with nothing under the hood. – Ralph Peters, USA Today

Posted by Tina

Please note this is a statement of Barack Obama’s record.

Barack Obama is the most pro-abortion presidential candidate ever. ** He is so pro-abortion that he refused as an Illinois state senator to support legislation to protect babies who survived late-term abortions because he did not want to concede — as he explained in a cold-blooded speech on the Illinois Senate floor — that these babies, fully outside their mothers’ wombs, with their hearts beating and lungs heaving, were in fact “persons.” ** “Persons,” of course, are guaranteed equal protection of the law under the 14th Amendment. – Terence P. Jeffrey, CNSNews.com

Hat tip, NewsBusters: The Illinois bill that Obama refused to support had language identical to the Born Alive Infants Protection Act that passed the U.S. Senate 98-0, with such senators as Barbara Boxer voting in favor.

Posted by Tina

MADRID – Spain’s parliament voiced its support on Wednesday for the rights of great apes to life and freedom in what will apparently be the first time any national legislature has called for such rights for non-humans. Parliament’s environmental committee approved resolutions urging Spain to comply with the Great Apes Project, devised by scientists and philosophers who say our closest genetic relatives deserve rights hitherto limited to humans. Martin Roberts, Reuters

Does this mean if one accidentally kills another in a food fight (or over a woman) he will be tried for manslaughter? If found guilty will he be taken to Ape jail or people jail or ???

What say you?

by Tina Grazier

When asked, Barack Obama said that energy supply would be the most important concern for the next president:
“It’s not a problem I think we can drill our way out of,” said Obama. “It can be a drag on our economy for a very long time unless we take steps to innovate and invest in the research and development that’s needed to find alternative fuels, to make our transportation system more energy efficient, retool our industry and our buildings.”

Senator Obama wishes to be the leader of this nation. We are faced with high energy prices that are hurting families and American businesses and affecting economies all around the world. By his own acknowlegement, the number one priority is the present but his focus is on the futureon change, on new products and technology, on green solutionsmany of which have yet to be discovered or invented.
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Posted by Tina Grazier

They sit on the highest court in our land and command the respect of the entire nation but the men and women who serve on the Supreme Court are capable of making mistakes. As the dust settles on the case Boumediene v. Bush we may find that the courts decision did more harm than good.

Fred Thompson, in a piece titled Boumediene: A Supremely problematic Court Decision posted at TownHall.com has enumerated the various rights provided to enemy prisoners that this decision has struck down:

The right to hear the bases of the charges against them including a summary of any classified evidence. ** The ability to challenge the bases of their detention before military tribunals modeled after Geneva Convention procedures. (38 detainees have been released as result of this process.) ** The right, before the tribunal, to testify, introduce evidence, including exculpatory evidence, call witnesses, cross examine the government witnesses and secure release if and when appropriate. ** The right to the aid of a personal representative in arranging and presenting their cases before the tribunal. ** The right to have the government search for and disclose to the detainee any evidence reasonably available to it tending to show that the detainee is not an enemy combatant. ** The right to appeal an adverse decision from the tribunal to the Federal DC Circuit Court along with the right to employ counsel and secure release if entitled to it. ** The right to petition the DC Circuit to remand a detainees case for new tribunal consideration if the petitioner comes up with newly discovered evidence. ** The right to require the Department of Defense (DOD) to conduct a yearly review of the status of each prisoner including the right to have the Secretary of Defense review any new evidence that may become available relating to the enemy combatant status of a detainee. ** As a part of that yearly review, the opportunity for the detainee to explain why he is no longer a threat to the United States, which could lead to his release. ** The DC Circuit can order release of the prisoner, and the head of the DOD Administrative Review Boards can, at the recommendation of those panels, order release upon an appropriate showing.

What the court has done is create a great deal of uncertainty and confusion while undermining the more than adequate, and in fact very generous, rights given to these men. If we were looking for justice or fairness this ruling has accomplished neither. I’d like to thank Fred Thompson…if our media were doing it’s job we would have had this information long ago. I highly recommend this article.