Ann Lorenz relies on Medicare, as do most seniors to meet her health care needs, including Parkinson’s Disease. Ann sees a number of doctors and depends on a variety of prescription drugs and therapies to stay independent. She worries that Obamacare threatens her access to doctors, treatment options and insurance plans – and her neurologist speaks out against Medicare’s future under Obamacare as well.
Neal McCluskey, of the CATO Institute, is right to say that government-funded aid for college tuition is right for politicians and their academic friends, not students. College tuition has absolutely skyrocketed side-by-side with the increase in government spending on college tuition assistance programs. This is deja vu all over again. McCluskey recently wrote:
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The IRS scandal is heating up to a serious temperature. Interviews with a regional IRS agent involved in the agency targeting Tea Party groups for additional scrutiny contradict the White House assertion that “so-called” rogue agents, and not the Obama administration, were behind the effort.
As it has been for many weeks now, voters trust Republicans more than Democrats when it comes to handling the economy, which is the issue they still consider most important to their vote – 80% said “very important.” However, and this is very good news for the GOP, for the first time since Election Day the GOP has regained the trust advantage on the majority of major issues.
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The newly released IRS dance video has already begun to raise the disgust for the IRS to a whole new level. This time the heat is coming down on the agency not for despotically targeting groups and individuals who oppose the president’s ideology, but for getting its groove on to the “Cupid Shuffle” on the taxpayers’ dime.
A manned mission to Mars is still described by those who aspire for its possibility as the “ultimate objective” for the U.S. space program. However, it is too distant in time and simply too costly to serve as a guide for short-term, manned space activities.
The other day an info-graphic from the Heritage Foundation was making its way around social media and the Internet. I, myself, posted it here as well in order to demonstrate how the debate over the farm bill during the 2012 election was nothing but hot air.
An Italian scholar had said Wednesday that he had discovered the oldest known Torah scroll, which is complete and dates back to the 12th to the 13th century.
On Saturday, just ahead of the scheduled meeting with President Obama, China accused the United States of “prejudice” after the U.S. State Department renewed a call for Beijing to fully account for its bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in June 1989.
When it comes to voter trust, Republicans are far and away the leaders on handling government spending, while Democrats lead by a similar margin on environmental issues.
