“If one considers the people who would like a job but have stopped looking — so-called discouraged workers — and those who are working fewer hours than they want, the unemployment rate would move from the official 9.4 percent to 16 percent,” said Atlanta Fed chief Dennis Lockhart.

U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold told a large crowd gathered for a listening session in Iron County last week there would likely be no health care bill before the end of the year - and perhaps not at all.

Glenn Beck digs into the background of the Green Jobs Czar - Van Jones. This is the first in a series of shows this week on Glenn Beck’s show on Fox News: “The New Republic: America’s Future”

During his show, Glenn also posed what he called “Reasonable Questions for Unreasonable Times”

A judge in Orlando ruled Friday that Rifqa Bary will stay in foster care in Florida until another hearing is held Sept. 3.
Blog from Juvenile Court: Rifqa Bary hearing

Claim: newly published, peer reviewed, research has absolutely, convincingly, and irrefutably proven the theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming to be completely false!!!
“In a study sure to ruffle the feathers of the Global Warming cabal, Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT has published a paper which proves that IPCC models are overstating by 6 times, the relevance […]

An interesting comment from Rabbi Josh Yuter who was one of 1,000 Rabbis listening in on a conference call with President Obama on the hot button issue of heath care reform.

Obama is really either advocating government control or doesn’t understand how insurance works.

“Obama’s approach to insurance is fundamentally flawed - This requires some explanation. One […]

There is now talk of a new tactic for getting Health Care Reform through Congress. It involves splitting the Health Bill into two parts. The first part would use the reconciliation process and the second part would undergo a normal process for passage.

The most expensive provisions of the Bill undergo the reconciliation process […]

Will Democrats follow through on the hint that they may try to push Health Care through without the Republicans? The resistance they have from some blue dog Democrats (assuming that they don’t cave in) threatens the 60-vote super majority that would be immune to any opposition or filibuster from Republicans.
RECONCILIATION - the strategy

Democrats would […]

Much debate has ensued over the public option in health care reform. Even Obama has a documented history of inconsistency on his stated goals for reforming the health care system from supporting a single-payer system, to insisting on a public option and denying support for a single-payer system, to not requiring a public option […]

Fear for Obama’s Safety Grows as Hate Groups Thrive on Racial Backlash: Violent Signs, Gun, Standoff Latest in Emerging Anger Towards the President
That is the headline of a story at ABCNews.com
“Experts who track hate groups across the U.S. are growing increasingly concerned over violent rhetoric targeted at President Obama, especially as the debate over health […]

WASHINGTON – Key senators are excluding a provision on end-of-life care from health overhaul legislation after language in a House bill caused a furor.
Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, said in a statement Thursday that the provision had been dropped from consideration because it could be misinterpreted or implemented […]

From the 1961 Operation Coffee Cup Campaign against Socialized Medicine as proposed by the Democrats, then a private citizen Ronald Reagan Speaks out against socialized medicine. - at YouTube

Sarah Palin has more to say on the Death Panel discussion. She responds to dismissals of her concerns by the President and others as rumor or disinformation.
The provision that President Obama refers to is Section 1233 of HR 3200, entitled “Advance Care Planning Consultation.” With all due respect, it’s misleading for the President to […]

Amid a boisterous debate on health care reform, people flooded members of Congress on Thursday with so many e-mails that they overloaded the House’s primary Web site. - By Anne Flaherty @ Capitol Hill Blue
The people will be heard!

From a Fox News Poll
So far only a small amount of the $787 billion dollars in economic stimulus money has been spent. Which do you think would do more to boost the economy — the government spending the rest of the stimulus money or the government returning the money to the taxpayers?

Government Spendingthe Money
Returning […]

Health Reform legislation H.R. 3200 imposes a tax on individuals who do not have “acceptable health care coverage.” Many are concerned that the legislation leaves the door open for taxpayer funded abortion. As a result, much interest has developed regarding the religious conscience exemption in the legislation - in section 59B (c). […]

Kudos to Katy; a stay at home mom who is “ticked off.” She had the opportunity to speak to Arlen Specter at a townhall meeting:

“I am a Republican,” Katy said. “But first and foremost I am a conservative. I don’t think this is just about health care. It’s not about TARP. It’s not about […]

Alternative measures of labor underutilization from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (all numbers in percent). These numbers give a much more thorough and accurate picture of the current unemployment situation. When taking all factors into consideration, it could be argued that the actual unemployment rate for July 2009 is 16.3%!

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FlecksOfLife has some great highlights of important and frightening measures in the Health Bill.
You can also find a well-formatted PDF version hosted by The Liberty Counsel.
Here is a taste of what you’ll find:
• Sec. 113, Pg. 21-22 of the Health Care (HC) Bill MANDATES a government audit of the books of ALL EMPLOYERS that self-insure […]

All sides of the current health care debate acknowledge that American health care can be improved. But current proposals based on President Obama’s policies would:

worsen the system;
drive costs up;
increase health care cost inflation more than doing nothing;
add more than $285 billion to the deficit over the next 10 years; and
still leave […]