Response Action Network Newsletter Here is your weekly update on the politics and policies affecting our liberties. ENDORSE A TEA PARTY CANDIDATE . . . Response Action NetworkAnd lose your job: Maria Conchita Alonso starred in a campaign ad for Assemblyman Tim Donnelly of San Bernardino County, a Tea Party favorite who is seeking the Republican nomination. The actress was fired from a Spanish-language version of The Vagina Monologues, scheduled to run in San Francisco next month. Only in California can such worlds collide . . . OBAMA POLL NUMBERS CRATER BECAUSE OF RACISM Response Action NetworkOr so the President would have us believe: Theres no doubt that theres some folks who just really dislike me because they dont like the idea of a black president, Obama said in the article by David Remnick, appearing in the magazines Jan. 27 edition. Its not because his policies are economically ruinous, threaten our most basic freedoms. When all else fails, play the race card and hope it works. FIGHTING THE GOVERNMENT NANNIES Response Action NetworkProfessor Don Boudreaux has a public service announcement for the nation, and the nagging government nannies who have decided to ban, bar, regulate and destroy the things that make life better. In this case, its a rallying cry against the federal ban on incandescent light bulbs: As a service to the public, I encourage all Americans to save their eyesight, to protect their freedom, and to strike a blow against cronyism masked by self-righteous and officious environmentalism, by stocking up ASAP on incandescent light bulbs and rejecting the dull and idiotic alternatives. And for good measure, check out this video to get a glimpse of the nanny state future. OBAMACARES DISASTER DEADLINE Response Action NetworkThe ongoing saga over healthcare.gov, the website (allegedly) designed to help Americans buy health insurance under Obamacare could reach fresh new heights of absurdity: If the ObamaCare contractor brought on last week to fix the back-end of the HealthCare.gov portal doesnt finish the build-out by mid-March the healthcare law will be jeopardized, according to a procurement document posted on a federal website. It says insurers could be bankrupt and the entire healthcare industry threatened if the build out is not completed. Insurers are already panicked that House Republicans will strip their bailout provision from Obamacare, which would force them, rather than taxpayers, to absorb the full cost of the insurance schemes failure. OR, WE COULD JUST DROP DEAD AND SAVE MONEY Response Action Network Former New York Times editor Bill Keller has a solution for all the problems facing health care in America today: if youre sick, dont fight back against your illness. Just die already . . . Among doctors here, there is a growing appreciation of palliative care that favors the quality of the remaining life rather than endless heroic measures that may or may not prolong life but assure the final days are clamorous, tense and painful. (And they often leave survivors bankrupt.) What Britain and other countries know, and my country is learning, is that every cancer need not be Verdun, a war of attrition waged regardless of the cost or the casualties. It seemed to me, and still does, that there is something enviable about going gently. One intriguing lung cancer study even suggests that patients given early palliative care instead of the most aggressive chemotherapy not only have a better quality of life, they actually live a bit longer. OBAMAS NOTHING BURGER Response Action NetworkThe President gave a speech last week promising to reform the National Security Agency. How did it go? Rather poorly. Legal scholar Jonathan Turley wrote: . . . as expected there is precious little in terms of real change. For civil libertarians, it is a nothing burger served hot and with a sympathetic smile. It is much of the same. That harsh assessment did not deter Sen. Diane Feinstein, who appeared on Meet the Press to say: I think a lot of the privacy people perhaps dont understand that we still occupy the role of the Great Satan, she said. New bombs are being devised, new terrorists are emerging, new groups - uh, actually, a new level of viciousness, and I think we need to be prepared. I think we need to do it in a way that respects peoples privacy rights. No word on what Feinstein thinks of the possibility that the NSA is spying on her and the other members of Congress. TAKE ACTION Want to find out how you can fight back against our out of control government? Then visit any of these action pages: Response Action Network The American Conservative Union Our Liberty is at Risk Take ACUs seven-question survey about how President Obamas doing his job--and how his policies most threaten your freedom. Take the Survey Response Action Network
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 03:21:56 +0000