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A recent article in the Boston Globe wrote that
Nearly one-third of baby boomers ages 51 to 61 are at risk of not having enough in savings to finance a comfortable retirement
One of the reasons people are having difficulty saving is because social security does not pay seniors enough to live on. If individuals could […]

On ImWithFred.com Fred Thompson has written a post criticizing the 2005 Kelo v. New London decision that vastly expanded the right of the government to take your property.
It’s said that a man’s home is his castle, but across America some property owners are being rooked by local bureaucrats and politicians and having their private property […]

A good editorial in the Investor’s Business Daily that you should definitely read if you want to learn more about “free” health care. Some highlights…
Swinging open the door, I stepped into a nightmare: the ER overflowed with elderly people on stretchers, waiting for admission. Some, it turned out, had waited five days. The air stank […]

Today Senator and Presidential Candidate Sam Brownback has written an editorial supporting what he calls an “optional flat tax”. It would have a huge standard deduction of $20,000 for individuals and $40,000 for families and the rate would only be 15-20%. The details are unclear, but this is obviously not a revenue neutral plan.
Mike Huckabee […]

Socialized medicine crusader Michael Moore has declared war on CNN. He has posted on his website an open letter saying that “I’m about to become [CNN’s] worst nightmare” because they are refusing to apologize for fairly criticizing Moore’s latest movie SiCKO as dishonest. He has written an extensive manifesto detailing CNN’s supposed hit job (part […]

The Federal Farm Bill, which needs to be renewed every 5 years, was last passed in 2002 and is set to expire September 30th. There are many things wrong with the current agriculture subsidy regime. It only benefits a small number of wealthy farmers who grow only a very small number of crops, drives up […]

For the Times Online James Christopher, Chief Film Critic of The Times at the Cannes Film Festival, wrote a review of Michael Moore’s new film ‘Sicko’.
Michael Moore’s attack on the American health care system has the makings of a great West End musical…He films empty waiting rooms and happy, care-free health workers…What he hasn’t […]

Over on the Google Health Advertising Blog last Thursday Lauren Turner wrote a post blasting Michael Moore’s new movie Sicko.
Moore attacks health insurers, health providers, and pharmaceutical companies by connecting them to isolated and emotional stories of the system at its worst. Moore’s film portrays the industry as money and marketing driven, and fails to […]

Charles Krauthammer has a good article in today’s Washington Post that shows the main flaw behind much of the Democrat’s economic policy. The problem is not that they are trying to do “something” about global warming, or dependence on foreign oil, but that they are trying to make it look like a free lunch. Instead […]

Robert Novak has written an interesting article on the proposal to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) from a 5 year budget of $25 billion to $75 billion. While this is a very popular program, he argues that this will help set up the health care debate after 2008 in favor of universal […]