Same Old SEIU, Same Tired Attacks

By Dave Bego

Never a group to let an opportunity go to waste, the SEIU plans to disrupt travelers at major airports all over the country, and to attack retailers such as Wal-Mart during the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Their plotting is all in the name of "social justice," which is no more than a code name for forced unionism. The SEIU would have you believe that it has the best interest of employees at heart, and that employers like Wal-Mart "abuse" their employees through the payment of poverty wages, while lining their own pockets with the company profits. In fact, this past week, the SEIU sent out the following e-mail to its members stating that Wal-Mart pays such low wages its employees cannot afford a Thanksgiving dinner. Therefore, Wal-Mart is hosting a food drive so they can eat on Thanksgiving. [more...]

11-26-13 Expert Guests for Your Show

1. Dr. Larry Kawa: Obamacare: Only One Website, Not Enough Choices

2. Lowell Ponte & Craig Smith: Obama Economy May Turn "Black Friday" Red, Say Experts

3. Joe Messina: The Hypocrisy of the Democrat Ideology's Reality

4. John LeBoutillier: What Are the Politics Behind the Iran Nuclear Deal? Why Change the Filibuster Rules After 225 Years?

Obamacare: Only One Website, Not Enough Choices

By Dr. Larry Kawa

I find it interesting that the goal of Obamacare was to insure Americans who had no insurance. What they've ended up doing is telling millions of Americans that their insurance isn't good enough and that's why they're canceling their insurance. The way that the government is "fixing" the problem of people having substandard insurance is to give them no insurance at all. I mean, seriously, you can't even make this stuff up. Then the people who've had their insurance stripped from them because of President Obama's healthcare scheme are forced to go to a Web site that doesn't work (healthcare.gov) to buy health insurance they can't afford with money they don't have. [more...]

Obama Economy May Turn "Black Friday" Red, Say Experts

By Lowell Ponte and Craig R. Smith

The day after Thanksgiving is called "Black Friday," because this is supposed to be the day that most merchants go from losing money – shown on their ledger books in red ink – to making a profit, which they record in black ink. "Many businesses may stay in the red all of 2013 and deep into 2014 because consumer confidence is at its lowest level since 2009,” says Craig R. Smith. “The reason is that Uncle Sam is playing Santa Claus. Our politicians are spending more than $1 Trillion every year more than government takes in as taxes,” says Smith.

“More than 5 million Americans have already lost their health insurance because of Obamacare - another of Uncle Sam's 'gifts' - and the Kaiser Family Foundation warns that as many as 93 million or more of us could see our own health insurance policies cancelled by the end of 2014,” says Ponte. Check out their new book, "The Great Withdrawal." [more...]

The Hypocrisy of the Democrat Ideology's Reality

By Joe Messina

Bill De Blasio, who was elected recently as New York's new mayor with 73 percent of the vote has stated his first order of business is to shut down all the non-Planned Parenthood crisis pregnancy centers. Why? Because they don't perform abortions. You see, a crisis pregnancy center gives its patients all the information needed to make a decision before ending the life of a baby in the womb. Crisis pregnancy centers don't make millions of dollars like Planned Parenthood does so they can't buy as many politicians. The hypocrisy comes in when Democrats use terms like "equality," which means "the state of being equal, esp. in status, rights, and opportunities." This new Democratic Mayor wants to give free space to Planned Parenthood on city-owned property and he wants to shut down crisis pregnancy centers. Does this sound like "equal opportunity?" [more...]

What Are the Politics Behind the Iran Nuclear Deal? Why Change the Filibuster Rules After 225 Years?

By John LeBoutillier

On this week's POLITICAL INSIDERS, we examine the politics of the Iran Nuclear Deal, the change in the filibuster rule in the Senate, and the overall lawlessness of the American political class. To see the shows, go to these links: Part I, Part II, Monday on the Dot Com.

Comedy Central Hosts Downplay the Harry Reid Nuclear Option

By James Hirsen

Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart recently scurried to the defense of the wily Harry Reid. With late-night humor as a cover, the Comedy Central hosts parroted the themes of the left-leaning news media regarding the senate majority leader's unprecedented move to exercise the so-called nuclear option, which in one fateful stroke changed the more than 200-year-old procedure for filibustering presidential nominees.

With tongue solidly in cheek, Colbert, portraying his faux conservative character, referred to the day of the Reid bombshell as "the last day of America" and announced that he was leaving the U.S. to go to a little known foreign territory called "South Carolina." Colbert’s late night persona then expressed mock worry as he somberly proclaimed the following: "We have just witnessed the death of an American institution." [more...]

11-19-13 Expert Guests for Your Show

1. Dr. Elaina George: A Practicing Physician's Prescription for a Healthcare Fix

2. Dave Bego: Supreme Court Reviews Neutrality Agreements

3. Joseph Klein: The French-Israeli-Saudi Front against Iran?

4. Joe Messina: The Attack on Americanism

5. Rabbi D.B. Ganz: Ronald Reagan Would Have Junked Rather Than Adjusted Obamacare

6. Christina Tobin: How to Take Back Congress

7. John LeBoutillier: Has President Obama Lost His Moral Authority Because of His Repeated Misstatements About Obamacare?

A Practicing Physician's Prescription for a Healthcare Fix

By Dr. Elaina George

For all of the desperate attempts at distraction, demonization and outright lies about Obamacare the truth remains – having health insurance does not equal getting quality healthcare. It is true that there are problems with the health insurance industry. If anyone had bothered to ask independent private physicians why they no longer take Medicare/Medicaid, or why many are opting out of insurance and moving towards a cash-only practice in increasing numbers, they would tell you they stopped because the game is rigged. It has become harder for doctors and, by extension, patients to access quality affordable healthcare. Obamacare expands and empowers the most expensive aspects of our healthcare system thereby dooming Americans to pay more money in the form of taxes and rationed care. [more... ]

Supreme Court Reviews Neutrality Agreements

By Dave Bego

Last Wednesday the U.S. Supreme Court heard the initial arguments in the case Unite Here Local 355 vs. Mulhall. The case of Mulhall, a 40-year employee of Mardi Gras in Hollywood, Florida, challenged the use of a Neutrality Agreement by Unite Here to force unionize Mardi Gras employees. A Neutrality Agreement eliminates the preferred standard of use of "secret ballot elections" to determine if employees want union representation, and in its place, institutes the insidious process known as Card Check. The focus of Mulhall is whether a signed Neutrality Agreement was lawfully obtained from Mardi Gras without bribery or extortion by Unite Here, which is prohibited by Section 302 of the Labor Management Relations Act. Unite Here contends the signatures were lawfully obtained, because no money changed hands; however, Mardi Gras and Mulhall believe there were direct benefits or "consideration" received in exchange for the signed agreement. [more...]

The French-Israeli-Saudi Front against Iran?

By Joseph Klein

Israel and Saudi Arabia are proving the old adage correct that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."  The Iranian regime is their common enemy. Israel sees a nuclear armed Iran as an existential threat. Sunni Saudi Arabia worries that Shiite Iran with nuclear arms will be emboldened to threaten other Sunni Gulf governments and ultimately try to force its will on Saudi Arabia itself. Thus, the Jewish state of Israel and the Islamic state of Saudi Arabia, certainly not friends in normal times, find themselves planning to join forces if necessary to stop Iran from crossing the nuclear arms finish line. [more...]

The Attack on Americanism

By Joe Messina

It seems lately there is no end to the stories highlighting what appears to be an all-out attack on Americanism. A school district in Sioux Falls, SD has decided that the Pledge of Allegiance is more of a bother than it's worth. The school board voted 5-0 to stop the Pledge of Allegiance from being recited in high school because they can't find the 15 seconds to do it. One of the board members told the news source that in high school there is very little time in the mornings or afternoon to pull it off. Can you say LIAR?! [more...]

Ronald Reagan Would Have Junked Rather Than Adjusted Obamacare

By Rabbi D.B. Ganz

Now that former President Clinton has publicly criticized Obamacare, other Democrats have begun to follow suit. Who knows? Obamacare's failures may even get criticized in the mainstream press. I believe that were Mr. Reagan alive, he would have forcefully denounced every last iota of Obamacare. He would have also explained why the traditional American belief in personal freedom and responsibility is in fact altogether more civilized and compassionate than Obamacare's bungling, deceitful, and coercive wealth distribution. [more...]

How to Take Back Congress

By Christina Tobin

If 60% of Americans get their wish and fire the entire Congress in the next elections, the dysfunction in Washington could get even worse, if the new Representatives are no more qualified or honest than the last bunch. Looking at 2014 more optimistically, I predict there will be a record number of Independent challengers in the next elections, offering non-partisan solutions, not negative campaigns. [more...]

Has President Obama Lost His Moral Authority Because of His Repeated Misstatements About Obamacare?

By John LeBoutillier

On this week's POLITICAL INSIDERS, we examine the political effects of President Obama's misstatements about "keeping your insurance." Has this caused him to lose his moral authority? Has it begun to splinter some Democrats away from the Obama Administration? Does it increase the GOP's chance of re-gaining Senate control in 2014? To see the shows, go to these links: Part I, Part II, Monday on the Dot Com.

11-18-13 Great Guests for Your Show

1. James Hirsen: PG-13 Films More Violent than R-Rated Films

2. Lowell Ponte: Janet Yellen Agrees to More QE Stimulus

3. Kyle Olson: Data Reveals the Obscene, Lavish Compensation for NY’s Long Island Administrators

4. Kerry Lutz: Digital Currency

5. Christina Tobin: The Rise of Independents

PG-13 Films More Violent than R-Rated Films

By James Hirsen

Brad Bushman of Ohio State University and Daniel Romer of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center studied 945 top-grossing films from the 1950 to 2012 time period. The subject movies were found to contain 17,695 violent scenes. According to the study, over the last three decades movie scenes that feature gun violence had tripled in PG-13 movies. The researchers additionally found that by 2009 the level of gun violence in PG-13 movies was statistically the same as films that were rated R, and by 2012 PG-13 films surpassed R-rated fare in scenes containing gun violence. "The MPAA website clearly says that R-rated films contain more violence. But PG-13 films now contain significantly more violence than R-rated films." Bushman told the Los Angeles Times. [more...]

Janet Yellen Agrees to More QE Stimulus

By Lowell Ponte

Last Thursday, when President Barack Obama began his press conference, the news media dutifully cut away from the confirmation hearings of Janet Yellen, nominated to succeed Ben Bernanke as chair of the Federal Reserve. They preferred to cover a lame duck president to a woman who in a few days will become the most powerful person in the world as our planet's queen of money. The Federal Reserve is America's central bank and controller of the whole world's reserve currency, the U.S. dollar. When a Fed chair speaks, stock markets around the world can plummet and economies can crumble. Check out Lowell's new book, "The Great Withdrawal." [more...]

Data Reveals the Obscene, Lavish Compensation for NY’s Long Island Administrators

By Kyle Olson

Should an administrator from a school district most people have never heard of make more than the President of the United States? That may be what people in the Syosset Central School District are wondering. Superintendent Carole Hankin, who retired October 31st, raked in $511,333 in compensation annually, according to SeeThroughNY.net, a transparency Web site maintained by the Empire Center. But a review of her contract reveals the fringe benefits are equally eyebrow-raising. The contract stipulated Hankin’s base pay for the 2012-13 school year to be $405,244.23 and it could never decrease. President Barack Obama, by the way, makes a base salary of $400,000 per year. [more...]

Digital Currency

By Kerry Lutz

I confess to being a Bitcoin (digital currency) skeptic. I had an opportunity to get in on the ground floor when the digital alternative currency was trading at just $7 per Bitcoin, but didn't bite. Today, the exchange rate hit $400. Trading Bitcoin is not for the faint of heart. Daily fluctuations of 25% or more are not uncommon. For those not in the know, the currency is open source, the number of units issued is fixed and those who hold it are anonymous. Many misconceptions about it continue, which is hampering its adoption. Governments are extremely hostile to its acceptance as money.  No surprise there. It's not like you expect the Federal Reserve to welcome alternative currencies with open arms. [more...]

The Rise of Independents

By Christina Tobin

A recent poll shows that 60% of Americans are not satisfied with the two-party system and want more choices. Third parties have been gaining ground, with an increasing number of Libertarian, Green and other independent candidates appearing on more ballots across the country. Many attribute this trend to the failures of the Republican and Democratic parties to respond to the needs of their constituents; but upon consideration, one finds that trend appears to be much deeper than just politics. The rise of independents is a worldwide phenomenon that is happening in every aspect of society. [more...]

Data reveals the obscene, lavish compensation for NY’s Long Island administrators

By Kyle Olson

Should an administrator from a school district most people have never heard of make more than the President of the United States? That may be what people in the Syosset Central School District are wondering. Superintendent Carole Hankin, who retired October 31st, raked in $511,333 in compensation annually, according to SeeThroughNY.net, a transparency Web site maintained by the Empire Center. But a review of her contract reveals the fringe benefits are equally eyebrow-raising. The contract stipulated Hankin’s base pay for the 2012-13 school year to be $405,244.23 and it could never decrease. President Barack Obama, by the way, makes a base salary of $400,000 per year. [more...]

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What Obama and I Learned at Columbia: How to Destroy America From Within

By Wayne Allyn Root

I'm about to solve the mystery of Obama... to break "the Obama code." I'm about to tell you everything about the way Obama and the people around him really think. I'm about to rip open the true Obama plan to destroy our country. I can do this now because I was there when the plan was hatched.

How do I know all this? Because I was Barack Obama's college classmate at Columbia University (class of 1983). I was easy to recognize: the lone outspoken conservative in a class of 700 students. I knew I was in trouble when my first political science class at Columbia was "Communism 101" taught by Professor Trotsky in the Fidel Castro Building, at the corner of Marx Blvd. and Lenin Drive. I'm only half-kidding. My experiences at Columbia were not far off. Everyone needs to hear my story because what Obama and I learned at Columbia explains EXACTLY what Obama is doing to America today. [more...]