The Competent Conservative

McClatchy News Service reports: WASHINGTON — In a strongly worded message to Congress outlining its priorities for a military spending bill, the Obama administration today said it disapproved of including money for pensions for 26 elderly members of the World War II-era Alaska Territorial Guard. The Guardsmen are among those assigned to protect Alaska from [...]

Congressional Democrats want to pass a Healthcare plan that they not only haven’t read but haven’t even written yet.

Patients with terminal illnesses are being made to die prematurely under an NHS scheme to help end their lives, leading doctors warn today. By Kate Devlin, Medical Correspondent Published: 10:00PM BST 02 Sep 2009 In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, a group of experts who care for the terminally ill claim that some patients [...]

I just came across an article from the American Thinker that I just had to pass on.  It’s too long to post here so here is the link: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/this_will_never_be_a_eurosocia.html Europe was a breeding ground for Socialism and Communism because they have a long, long history of the people being subject to the government.  They were/are [...]

A good friend of mine posted this article on his Turning Point Financial blog today and I thought it was applicable to what we have been speaking about here.  I would caution folks that, although this administration is rethinking how to sell health care, it will most likely be the same program but with a [...]

Mitt Romney hammered President Obama on health care saying he is “going way beyond what the American people think is right, and way beyond what is necessary.”  At the same time, Romney spoke about the MA health plan, he helped put together. Mitt Romney on the National Debate over Obamacare Hugh Hewitt Show HH: Joined [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]