The Competent Conservative

By Human Events Yesterday, HUMAN EVENTS Editors Tom Winter, Jed Babbin and Allan Ryskind interviewed former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney about health care reforms now being considered by Congress and his experience in creating the state plan for which he is well known. The following is an edited transcript of the interview. Jed Babbin: Governor [...]

John Cronin over at Solid Principles posted this: Here’s a pot pourri of polls from newsrooms around the country talking about Obama’s sliding numbers. I also heard two Democrat pollsters on Hannity’s radio show discussing Obama’s disastrous handling of his Presidency. They are predicting a tsunami at the polls in 2010. Both saying they have [...]

New Op-Ed by Mitt Romney Because of President Obama’s frantic approach, health care has run off the rails. For the sake of 47 million uninsured Americans, we need to get it back on track. Health care cannot be handled the same way as the stimulus and cap-and-trade bills. With those, the president stuck to the [...]

Letters To the Editor Michael Cannon’s piece on the Massachusetts health program (“Romney’s Folly — Health-care mandates are a middle-class tax” —August 10) creates the erroneous impression that Gov. Mitt Romney and the Heritage Foundation wanted to impose a coverage mandate on employers. Not true. Governor Romney, like Heritage, steadfastly opposed the employer mandate. He [...]

I’d sure hate to be the one receiving Glenn’s mail! This is exactly what many people knew the outcome would be as a result of Obama’s bias judgment.  It appears to me that Obama’s divisive comments come at a time when racial unity is needed the most.  Glenn Beck is obviously one to speak his [...]

This interview shows that many African Americans may not be pleased with Barack Obama’s ‘snap judgment’ regarding the arrest of Professor Gates.  It is usually our ‘snap judgment’ that reveals the true nature of our thought paradigm.

The  health bill being over-zealously forced down the throats of the American people, by Nancy Pelosi,  is hinging on the ‘Blue Dog’ Democrats.  Pelosi said she is confident that the bill will pass, but I am beginning to think that even many democrats are concerned about the over eagerness to get this bill through Congress [...]

By Naftali Bendavid WASHINGTON — So-called Blue Dog Democrats continued to resist key aspects of their party’s health-care overhaul Sunday, despite pressure from party leaders who fear they will endanger President Barack Obama’s most ambitious legislative effort. A leader of the fiscally conservative group of representatives said he expects any vote on the House’s health [...]

Here is a Fox News poll just out today that puts Mitt Romney at the top of the polls for the Republican Nomination in 2012: * Mitt Romney 22% * Mike Huckabee 21% * Sarah Palin 17% * Rudy Giuliani 13% * Newt Gingrich 9% * Bobby Jindal 3% * Tim Pawlenty 1% The question [...]

NEW YORK (Fortune) — In promoting his health-care agenda, President Obama has repeatedly reassured Americans that they can keep their existing health plans — and that the benefits and access they prize will be enhanced through reform. A close reading of the two main bills, one backed by Democrats in the House and the other [...]