Monday, November 11, 2013

Hollywood Bundlers Line Up for Hillary


Hollywood is all abuzz about the upcoming 2016 presidential primary season, and the industry has some strategic plans to make certain that things play out a lot differently than they did in 2008. In that presidential election cycle, the entertainment community found itself deeply divided between Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

Back then David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Steven Spielberg, the three principals of DreamWorks who also happen to be Hollywood’s lead bundlers for Democratic candidates and causes, found themselves at odds with one another. Geffen and Katzenberg lined up behind candidate Obama. However, Spielberg refrained from choosing sides and instead forked over money to both Democratic candidates.

It was Geffen, though, who presented an early challenge for the Hillary Clinton campaign by speaking publicly of his misgivings concerning the Clintons. Despite having donated millions of dollars to Bill Clinton’s 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns, Geffen voiced his opinions aloud in a 2007 interview with Maureen Dowd of the New York Times. [more...]

Thursday, November 7, 2013

11-8-13 Expert Guests for Your Show

1. Rabbi D.B. Ganz: Conservatives are Fighting Obamacare the Wrong Way
2. Kyle Olson: Federal Register: Feds Want Free School Lunches Regardless of Student Need
3. Michelle Seiler-Tucker: Obamacare Was Designed to Fail


Conservatives are Fighting Obamacare the Wrong Way

I cannot remember a time when rightwing pundits were more viciously bashing the political left and its leader. In print, TV and radio, the president is being openly spoken of as a liar, a wannabe dictator, a representative of 'creeping socialism,' someone who is secretly seeking to destroy America as we know it, and so forth. What does this accomplish? At first glance, depicting the opposition this way seems to strengthen the right. Alternatively, the attacks may not matter at all; conservatives already oppose Obama anyway, and liberals ignore whatever they say.  Another counterintuitive possibility is that these attacks on the left actually help liberals and their objectives. [more...]


Federal Register: Feds Want Free School Lunches Regardless of Student Need

The federal government is looking to offer another freebie and remove even more responsibility from parents with a proposed rule to make school lunches free, regardless of need. The proposed rule is the latest development in First Lady Michelle Obama's school lunch overhaul, which imposed one-size-fits-all "healthy" regulations on school districts across America beginning in 2010. [more...] Watch Kyle Olson on FNC's Kelly File


Obamacare Was Designed to Fail

Obamacare was designed to fail, manipulated by the greed of government officials and big business to usher in the single-payer system. The Affordable Healthcare Act was purposely created to be rejected by the masses. With an already agitated and confused society, the public is now longing to embrace any healthcare structure that appears to be simple, fair, and adequate. I now introduce to you the Single-Payer Healthcare System. In this system, the government (taxpayers) pays for all healthcare costs as a single public body from a single fund. Our government has the authority to contract "private" organizations and even own and employ their own healthcare resources and personnel. This signifies that the entire American healthcare system will be owned and operated by our big brother, The Government. [more...]


How ObamaCare Rips Off the 'Young Healthies'

If universal coverage is the goal, inexpensive, simple catastrophic health plans will do.


When Obamacare is under attack, its defenders retreat to several well-worn claims. Among them is a provision that compels insurance companies to allow parents to keep their "children" ages of 21 to 26 on their family policies. Yet this part of the Affordable Care Act was not engineered in response to any noticeable interest group. Instead, political considerations are responsible for the provision, which is an unnecessary and a deceptive rip-off of the "young healthies."

The first consideration is that young adults facing chronic unemployment - thanks to government policies that have retarded economic growth - commonly return to their parents' home. Understanding that this is what the economic "new normal" looks like, the Obama administration sought to avoid a potential political storm by providing a benefit normally connected to holding a job for one of its most reliable support groups.

Second, government's actuaries are well aware that this much-touted benefit basically costs nothing. Actuarial and other research suggests that the average male sees a physician six times between the ages of 21 and 35. The parental coverage provision seemed like a "freebie" for the administration's universal coverage sales pitch.

Third, Obamacare's financing won't work unless "young healthies" (or their parents) pay through the nose for coverage under parental plans or via the individual mandate. The 18-26 age group is the lowest user of care, the least costly to cover and the most profitable of all health-insurance coverage. Yet the group faces extraordinarily high Obamacare rates. [more...]

Social Security: Like Walking Up a Down Escalator

Government Cost-of-Living (COLA) Increase is an "inflation deception," say Experts in New Book

Are you aware that President Obama is Shortchanging Americans on Social Security? Social Security benefits for nearly 58 million people will increase by only 1.5 percent next year, says the Associated Press. "The increase is among the smallest since automatic adjustments were adopted in 1975. Social Security pays retired workers an average of $1,272 a month. A 1.5 percent raise comes to about $19." AP continues, "Some advocates for older Americans complain that the COLA sometimes falls short, especially for people with high medical costs."

Authors Craig R. Smith and Lowell Ponte see COLA index as pure deception. "The U.S. government is expropriating Social Security recipients by claiming inflation now runs 1.5 percent when ShadowStats.com pegs it at between 7 and 11 percent," says Craig R. Smith in his widely-discussed new book THE GREAT WITHDRAWAL. Smith is a monetary expert frequently interviewed by Fox's Neil Cavuto and other prominent business journalists.

"This artificial (diet) COLA index also rips off taxpayers and investors - even those who pay a premium for TIPS bonds which are supposedly protected against inflation. It robs taxpayers, because the IRS supposedly adjusts its tax tables to offset inflation - yet uses these deceptively low inflation numbers to do so," adds Lowell Ponte, co-author and a former think tank futurist.  "It harms everyone who relies on Cost-of-Living increases to keep their head above water." [more...]

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

11-6-13 Great Guests for Your Show

1. Rabbi D.B. Ganz: How to Fight and Defeat Obamacare
2. Dave Bego: The Destiny of 'The Devil at Our Doorstep'
3. Lowell Ponte: Obamacare Might Kill from Stress
4. Joseph Klein: The Next Big Obamacare Scandal
5. John LeBoutillier: The Ramifications of Obamacare and Benghazi


How to Fight and Defeat Obamacare

I would recommend that all personal attacks against the president should be immediately discontinued, and he should be accorded the deference his office mandates.  The Conservative focus should instead be limited to irrefutable facts that speak for themselves. For example, rightwing pundits or politicians might point out that the government had three and a half years to prepare the computer system for the Obamacare rollout, and what it finally produced has failed miserably. Managing the actual healthcare system is an infinitely more complex task than designing its computer system. It is thus foolhardy to entrust the medical care of 300 million Americans to a management entity that has proven itself to be so grossly inept. [more...]


The Destiny of 'The Devil at Our Doorstep'

Read my amazing story of how ironic it was that a man who became my coach and influenced my decision to transfer from one college to another, and in the process forced a change of my major from being a teacher to a doctor, was a janitor.  The Lord, in His infinite wisdom, recognized years ago the course of history would have to be changed as The Devil at Our Doorstep revealed. Simply put, without a new coach (janitor), there would have been no college change or career change, and in turn, no EMS janitorial company, no SEIU attack, and most importantly, no win for employee rights. Ironically, he used a janitor to begin the chain of events to allow me the opportunity to expose big labor’s agenda and start a movement to protect employee rights. [Read the story here...]


Obamacare Might Kill from Stress

We will never know for certain how many people Obamacare inadvertently kills, but we certainly know that it, too, has become a major source of stress and is therefore hazardous to America's health. The individual cases beginning to appear in the press are chilling. An aging couple, both with severe cancer, reportedly saw their existing insurance canceled because of Obamacare rules, then learned that their only permitted alternative coverage cost at least twice as much - more than $40,000 each year. Check out Lowell's new book, "The Great Withdrawal." [more...]


The Next Big Obamacare Scandal

Obama did not just "misspeak," as a recent New York Times editorial tried to characterize his deliberate deception. As confirmed by his own aides cited in a Wall Street Journal article last Saturday, policy experts who wanted to include more truthful caveats in the president's public pronouncements concerning retention of choice of patient insurance plans and doctors were overruled by the political spinmeisters. Perhaps even more troubling than the Obama lies, however, is the political cronyism that has surfaced in the administration's choice of the contractor to fix the Obamacare Web site and a legally indefensible interpretation of the Obamacare law by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that can protect this contractor and its insurance company parent, among other firms, from kickback claims. [more...]


The Ramifications of Obamacare and Benghazi


On this week's POLITICAL INSIDERS, we look at the political ramifications of the latest Obamacare "Debacle" - and the possibility of a House Select Committee on Benghazi. To see the shows, go to these links: Part I, DotCom

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

11-5-13 Expert Guests for Your Show

1. Joe Messina: New Meanings for the Word "Lie"
2. Dr. Elaina George: Obamacare Deception
3. Kerry Lutz: You Can Keep Your Insurance and Your Doctor... If Hell Freezes Over
4. Rabbi D.B. Ganz: How to Fight and Defeat Obamacare
5. Dr. Larry Kawa: The Employer Mandate Could be Worse than the Obamacare Web site


New Meanings for the Word "Lie"

This week, Obama, Sebelius and Carney, introduced new meanings for the word "lie."  The president's speech from Boston talked about what a success the Obamacare rollout was (insert cricket sounds here). Seriously? If by "success," he meant the rollout of a Web site built to gather information and allow people to sign up for "affordable health care" where 90+% of the people attempting to sign onto it could do nothing, and I mean truly nothing!  The president stated a few facts about people that signed up for healthcare and saved "lots of money" only to find out later that at the time he made the speech just under 50,000 people had "signed up." Come to find out, "signed up" actually meant "registered" to use the site. Most people thought the president meant the folks were signed up for their healthcare. I have registered on many Web sites for information without signing up for the product or services. There is a difference. [more...]


Obamacare Deception

Americans are being led down the wrong path. There has been and continues to be a concerted effort led by the Government and encouraged by the media to make us believe that our healthcare system was the worse system in the industrialized world, that doctors were the cause of high healthcare costs, that if you were responsible for paying for your own health insurance you were selfish and somehow taking it from someone less fortunate, and that if you feel everyone has the right to pursue economic independence without government intervention that is designed to pick winners and losers – you hate the poor or you are racist and/or sexist. The truth is much simpler; under the guise of liberalism and fairness, our government has adopted the concept of central planning. We have had a concerted globalization of our banking system (TARP), our military (subjugation of our autonomy to the UN), and the centralization of our public education system (first with 'no child left behind' and now with the Common Core Curriculum). It has taken over 50 years starting with adoption of Medicare, i.e., socialized medicine for seniors, notwithstanding the failure of Hillary care, to take over our healthcare system with the arrival of Obamacare. [more... ]


You Can Keep Your Insurance and Your Doctor... If Hell Freezes Over

The President and his minions issued a number of assurances to the public during Obamacare debate. Chief among them was that if you liked your health insurance plan and your doctor, you would be able to keep them. Now, millions are finding out that these statements were complete and utter lies. The price of ignorance is often high. If people had only bothered to read, they would have understood years ago that these guarantees were untrue. For a policy to comply with the requirements of Obamacare, it had to offer ten certain basic benefits, including but not limited to, abortion, birth control pills, child delivery, mental health care and no yearly or lifetime caps for medical treatment. This meant that not only would individual health plans be legislated out of existence, but so would most, if not all, employer-provided insurance plans as well. [more...]


How to Fight and Defeat Obamacare

I would recommend that, for starters, all personal attacks against the president should be immediately discontinued, and he should be accorded the deference his office mandates.  The Conservative focus should instead be limited to irrefutable facts that speak for themselves. For example, rightwing pundits or politicians might point out that the government had three and a half years to prepare the computer system for the Obamacare rollout, and what it finally produced has failed miserably. Managing the actual healthcare system is an infinitely more complex task than designing its computer system. It is thus foolhardy to entrust the medical care of 300 million Americans to a management entity that has proven itself to be so grossly inept. [more...]


The Employer Mandate Could be Worse than the Obamacare Web site


If I told you that I would sell you a Web site for a billion dollars that didn't work, would expose everyone's personal information, and that would be an absolute mess, you'd probably think I was crazy. However, if you work for the Obama administration, this is just another day at the office. In just 30 days, Americans have had their insurance policies cancelled and have been directed towards a site called healthcare.gov to submit their personal information which can be shared with people that you don't know who can do God knows what with it. In just 30 days, we've seen the massive debacle that the individual mandate of Obamacare has turned out to be. But we've yet to see the worst. [more...]

Monday, November 4, 2013

11-4-13 Great Guests for Your Show

1. James Hirsen: Obamacare Debacle Spawns Late-night Hand-wringing
2. Ryan Mauro: Senior Homeland Security Advisor: America is an "Islamic Country"
3. Joseph Klein: Israel and the UN Human Rights Council Circus


Obamacare Debacle Spawns Late-night Hand-wringing

The meltdown of the Affordable Care Act Web site, HealthCare.gov, has been eliciting some interesting responses on the late-night comedy shows. Hosts of the late-night fare have made the White House's infamous Web site a virtual punching bag. At the same time, though, comedy writers and joke deliverers, with the exception of Jay Leno, seem to be taking great pains to avoid making the president himself the target of any zingers. Jon Stewart, who in the past took aim at the president's healthcare rollout, used his Comedy Central platform to take cable news outlets to task for having used his comedic material to knock President Obama. The "Daily Show" host apparently felt it necessary to explain to his audience and peers that his humor was not pointed at Obama. [more...]


Senior Homeland Security Advisor: America is an "Islamic Country"

A senior advisor to the Department of Homeland Security, Mohamed Elibiary, says that America is "an Islamic country" and continues to argue that the Muslim Brotherhood is comparable to Christian evangelicals.  Elibiary is a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council and was promoted in September. He also served on the Department of Homeland Security's Countering Violent Extremism Working Group and the Faith-based Security and Communications Advisory Committee.  He is also a long-time Texas Republican Party official and was a delegate for Senator John McCain in 2008. On October 31, Elibiary tweeted that he believes the U.S. “is an Islamic country." [Go here to see the screen shot...] Watch Ryan on The Kelly File


Israel and the UN Human Rights Council Circus


Israel decided to end its year and a half boycott of the three-ring circus known as the United Nations Human Rights Council. Responding to significant diplomatic pressure from the United States and Germany, Israel sent representatives to a Council session on October 29th to participate in a review of Israel's human rights record. The review was conducted in accordance with a process known as the Universal Periodic Review, in which each of the 193 member states of the United Nations has its human rights record assessed by the Council approximately every four years. Israel submitted a detailed 78-page report as part of this process, describing specific actions Israel has taken to fulfill its human rights obligations and responding to a number of recommendations by other member states. [more...]