Sharia -- what it is?

Andrew McCarty, the prosecutor in the Blind Sheik Case of the first bombing of the WTC, has written here a very clear exposition of the issues surrounding the position we now find ourselves in vis-a-vis the Islamic invasion of the West.  He uses as his platform to explain various issues, the speech Newt Gingrich gave recently before the AEI.  Sharia, Islam’s authoritarian legal and political system, is the issue and the question to be asked of every candidate running for office is: "where do you stand on sharia?"  

Arizona immigration law 1070S and the O Administration

Heather McDonald provides the story behind the story of Judge Bolton's enjoinment of the Arizona 1070S law which provided for enforcement of federal law to solve the problem of illegal immigrants in the country.  This is the usua cynicism we would expect from the O Admin and its functionaries like Judge Bolton (a Clinton appointee).

Obamacare redux

If you believe in Obamacare and socialized medicine as practiced in GB, don't read this post from PL:

In the United Kingdom, decentralization of the National Health System is being planned in response to widespread revulsion with rising costs and lousy health care. The latest case in point: Babies died after junior surgeon left to cope on his own.

Four babies died at an NHS heart unit where managers were trying to raise the number of patients being treated in order to avoid closure, according to a damning report.

The infants died within three months of each other after being operated on by a relatively junior surgeon who was appointed to raise patient numbers at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, an external review has found.

Caner Salih, who was left alone on his second day in the post, complained about the age of the equipment and poor working practices at the children's cardiac unit. He blew the whistle to bosses after four of his patients died within three months and asked to stop operating.

His concerns were ignored and it was only when journalists began to ask questions that the trust managers informed the Strategic Health Authority [SHA] and the health care regulator, the Care Quality Commission, says the report. The report, conducted by senior doctors at the SHA, recommends that operations at the unit should never take place again because it is unsafe.

That's socialized medicine for you. It's great for bureaucrats and dangerous only if you're a patient. Meanwhile, House Republicans put out this chart that shows the structure of Obamacare as enacted earlier this year. It will employ a great many bureaucrats, just like the NHS. Click to enlarge:

 Here, from the archives of NRO (National Review Online) is a rebuttal of sorts of arguments made at various sites by various Liberals on behaf of the NHS system in GB.  Yes, we spend almost 2X as much per capita as in other developed countries on health care (or is it medical services?) but, according to this piece, there's another side to these comparison numbers (isn't there always?).  

The Obama Demise Graph

Nothing more needs be said about Obama's failed recession policies.

Vitamin D

Here's a post on the benefits of Vitamin D and the need to take supplements in the wintertime, especially in the northeast where the sun is weak or occluded most of the time.

Liberalism vs freedom -- again!

Scott Johnson of Powerline has produced a blog here that provides food for thought on the great debate we're now having about the size of government and the freedom of the people.  Of particular interest are all the links he provides to the writing of George Will and other conservatives and liberals on this subject.  He also makes the connection between Woodrow Wilson and the progressive/liberal movement of today as we see it reflected in the Obama Administration.  These are interesting times.  We are clearly at what is often referred to as an inflection or "tipping" point in history where we will likely take one path or the other into the future.  The election this fall and the one to follow it in 1012 are likely to go a long way to determining if we preserve and protect the freedoms and individual rights we have enjoyed since our founding, or be transformed into a people controlled an managed by the "administrative" state we see in Europe, China and elsewhere.