Shocking 100-year-old memo from Department of Horses
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World Net Daily ^
| 12/31/2009 | Franklin Raff
Revealed! 100-year-old memo from Department of Horses Posted: December 31, 2009 1:00 am Eastern By Franklin Raff Men are not always enslaved as a result of kidnapping, piracy or war. We
often surrender our freedoms willingly, in the name of safety, and in increments we barely notice. Moreover, we become accustomed to the successive changes, degree by degree, over long periods of time, until we "suddenly" find ourselves living – or barely living – in conditions we might once have thought impossible. Exactly a century ago, when the horse was still our primary mode of short-distance transportation, the following memorandum...
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Memo to the House: Adopt the Filibuster
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Townhall.com ^
| December 30, 2009 | John Stossel
The filibuster is sure taking its lumps these days. New
York Times columnist Paul Krugman says "the Senate -- and, therefore, the U.S. government as a whole -- has become ominously dysfunctional". The Democrats won the White House and Congress last year and should have had no trouble passing the health care overhaul, yet "the need for 60 votes to cut off Senate debate and end a filibuster -- a requirement that appears nowhere in the Constitution, but is simply a self-imposed rule -- turned what should have been a straightforward piece of legislating into a nail-biter. And it gave...
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Memo To Foes Of Health Reform: Repudiate The Morality Of Need
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Investors.com ^
| December 28, 2009 | YARON BROOKS AND DON WATKINS
In the run-up to the Senate's passage of the health care bill, opponents of ObamaCare denounced it as an unprecedented expansion of government control over medicine. They
warned of the proven consequences of government medicine, pointing to the rationing that occurs in Canada and Europe. They pointed to the low cancer survival rates in places like Britain. They cited statistic after statistic showing that ObamaCare will raise costs and lower health care quality in America. They were right — yet it looks like Obama will get his bill. And even if the Republicans are able to pull off an upset,...
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Memo to Liberals: Read the Full CBO Report Before You Shoot Your Mouth Off
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delta-man.blogspot.com ^
| 12/22/09 | The Voice of Experience
As part of their suicidal rush towards ruining the nation’s healthcare system, King Hussein Obama the First and his minions must be overjoyed that the latest Congressional Budget Office (CBO) scoring of the effect of their latest monstrosity on the federal deficit appears to be a positive one. More
specifically, in a letter http://www.cbo.gov dated December 19, 2009 to Majority Leader Senator Harry Reid, the CBO estimates that the adoption of Senate Amendment 2786, also referred to as the “Manager’s Amendment”, which is the current version of the Senate healthcare reform bill, will lead to a net reduction in the...
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Bland CBO Memo, or Smoking Gun?
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Cato Institute ^
| 12/16/09 | Michael F. Cannon
This weekend, the Congressional Budget Office released “a very strange memo” titled, “Budgetary Treatment of Proposals to Regulate Medical Loss Ratios.” You wouldn’t know it from the title, but that little memo is the smoking gun that shows how congressional Democrats have very carefully hidden more than half the cost of their
health care bills.
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"Smoking Gun" CBO Memo Exposes Effort to Hide Cost of Obamacare
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American Spectator ^
| 12.16.09 @ 11:36AM | By Philip Klein
a CBO memo ... was released with little fanfare over the weekend.... the "smoking gun" showing that there has been a concerted effort among Democrats to make sure the CBO does not start taking into account the cost of mandates and new regulations. The
memo concerned a proposal by Sen. Jay Rockefeller -- reportedly part of the now defenct Medicare expansion "deal" reached last week -- that would require insurance companies to spend 90 of the money collected in premiums on medical claims. Their conclusion was: "In CBO's view, this further expansion of the federal government's role in the health...
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Memo to Celebs: Get Lieberman's Wife!
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The Wrap ^
| 12/14/2009 | Ira Teinowitz
A day after Sen. Joe Lieberman said he won’t vote for the Democratic health reform bill as currently written, a progressive public policy blog is trying to oust his wife Hadassah as global ambassador for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer group.
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Company Christmas memo (PC version)
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email
Company Memo FROM: Patty Lewis, Human Resources Director TO: All Employees DATE: October 1, 2009 RE: Gala Christmas Party I'm happy to inform you that the company Christmas Party will take place on December 23rd, starting at noon in the private function room at the Grill House. There will be a cash
bar and plenty of drinks! We'll have a small band playing traditional carols... feel free to sing along. And don't be surprised if our CEO shows up dressed as Santa Claus! A Christmas tree will be lit at 1:00 PM. Exchanges of gifts among employees can be done...
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Memo to Andrew Breitbart; Updated [Sarah Palin and the popular culture]
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Conservatives4Palin ^
| Dec. 13, 2009 | Joshua Livestro
Earlier this year, I linked to a Palin-friendly interview Andrew Breitbart did on Neil Cavuto. In it, he set Gov. Palin a challenge: Cavuto: "What should she do?" Breitbart:
"I think she just continues being Sarah Palin and I think that she needs to go out there and show that she has a fight in her because this is like Rocky Two: Can this person come back from a drubbing?" After the launch of her mega-bestselling autobiography, her whirlwind booktour, her knock 'em dead appearance at the Gridiron dinner, and her awesome head to head with William Shatner on the...
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A Memo To The Global Warming Cult
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Hot Air.com ^
| 12/12/09 | Doctor Zero
Dear global warming fanatics, Please. Stop. You’re embarrassing yourselves. Take
a deep breath, and try to understand what has happened to you during the past month. You need to accept that your dreams of global domination are over. Increasingly shrill attempts to terrify the masses into ignoring Climagate are only making you look foolish. The con job you’ve been running for the last thirty years is busted forever. I know this is difficult for you to accept. Things seemed to be going well. You’ve got the cap-and-trade bill lurking over the United States, ready to shatter an already weakened economy...
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Memo to Washington: We Are Not a Conservative Country
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Beyond Chron ^
| December 11, 2009 | Paul Hogarth
“We are a conservative country.” It’s
a myth the corporate media repeats regardless of the facts. It’s the excuse progressives get – and too often give – when we don’t get what we want, or to excuse Democratic politicians for caving to right-wing blackmail. But if the health care fight this week in Washington abundantly proves, our political “leaders” are dangerously out of step with what the country has become. Democrats would never have won Congress in 2006 without public anger at the Iraq War, and Barack Obama would never have become President without a revulsion to the unmitigated disaster...
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Memo says Thomson is choice for Gitmo prisoners
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Quad City Times ^
| 12/11/2009 | Ed Tibbets
A leaked memorandum posted to a Web site Friday says the Obama administration has chosen to move detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the Thomson Correctional Center, but the administration says it is only a draft and is “predecisional.” The
one-page memo, dated Thursday, directs acquisition of the Thomson facility and relocation of the detainees there. It was posted on www.biggovernment.com. An administration official cautioned Friday afternoon that it is not unusual for drafts to be prepared for multiple possibilities. “This is a draft, predecisional document that lawyers at various agencies were drafting in preparation for a potential future announcement...
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Leaked memo: Gitmo detainees to be transferred to Illinois prison
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Hot Air ^
| Dec.11, 2009 | Allahpundit
Another scoop for Breitbart, but with a caveat. The
One’s team insists that the memo’s only a draft, even if it does just so happen to jibe with news reports from last month. “This is a draft, predecisional document that lawyers at various agencies were drafting in preparation for a potential future announcement about where to house GTMO detainees,” the administration official said. “Drafts of official documents are often prepared for any and all possibilities, regardless of whether a decision has been made about the policy or if the document will be used.”… The leaked memo was met with approval...
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Leaked Justice Department Memo:
Terrorists To Be Moved to Camp Gitmo Illinois
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Big Government ^
| 12/11/09 | Publius
The Land of Lincoln may still be licking its wounds–and certain real estate transactions–over Chicago’s losing the Olympics to Rio, but the Obama Administration has delivered up a small consolation prize: the state’s very own federal prison for terrorists. Big
Government has received what is claimed to be a leaked DOJ memo that was allegedly sent yesterday from Eric Holder’s Department of Justice to Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Memo below:
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Mexico Security Memo: Dec. 7, 2009 (Narco State)
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Stratfor Global security ^
| Dec. 8, 2009 | Stratfor
Presumed members of Los Zetas staged a brazen prison raid Dec. 4 in Escobedo, Nuevo Leon state, killing two state police officers guarding the prison and freeing 23 inmates. At
the same time in nearby Juarez, Zetas engaged a Mexican military unit in a firefight in an apparent attempt to distract the superior security force away from the prison. While details are still coming in, the incident highlights the uphill battle the Mexican government is fighting as it tries to professionalize its law enforcement ranks. Los Zetas have shown before that they will go to great lengths to protect and...
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