What’s interesting in the news today?
1. 4 Pinocchios. Again.
From TheWaPo ““We’ve got close to 7 million Americans who have access to health care for the first time because of Medicaid expansion.”– President Obama”
The Fact Checker has written several times about the fuzziness of the Medicaid numbers issued by the Obama administration. But it is like playing whack-a-mole. Every time we rap someone for getting it wrong, the same problem pops up someplace else.”
“What does this mean in terms of evaluating the president’s statement? He seems to be falling into the same trap as other Democrats, and some reporters, by assuming that everyone in the Medicaid list is getting health insurance for the first time because of the Affordable Care Act. But that number is nowhere close to 7 million. It could be as low as 1.1 million (Avalere) or as high as 2.6 million (Gaba.) If one wanted to be generous, one could include people coming out of the woodwork, even though they would have been covered under the old law, but no one is really sure what that figure is.
In any case, no matter how you slice it, it does not add up to 7 million. It is dismaying that given all of the attention to this issue, the president apparently does not realize that the administration’s data are woefully inadequate for boastful assertions of this type.”
He knows, but he says it anyway. And it keeps popping back up because they all use the same White House talking points.
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2. Meanwhile Democrats continue to jump ship as a result of their ObamaCare votes.
From TheDailyCaller “Seven of the Democratic lawmakers surrounding President Obama when he signed the Affordable Care Act in 2010 are either now out of Congress or on their way out.
As depicted in this Daily Caller graphic, seven smiling Democrats have gone down or out in the last four years.”
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3. In other ObamaCare news, Notre Dame has lost a court battle over the contraceptive mandate.
From FoxNews “A federal appeals court on Friday ruled against the University of Notre Dame in a case over parts of the federal health care law that forces it to provide health insurance for students and employees that covers contraceptives.
The U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago upheld a federal judge’s earlier ruling that denied the Roman Catholic school’s request for a preliminary injunction that would prevent it from having to comply with the birth control requirement as the university’s lawsuit moves forward.
The lawsuit challenges a compromise in the Affordable Health Care Act offered by the Obama administration that attempted to create a buffer for religiously affiliated hospitals, universities and social service groups that oppose birth control. The law requires insurers or the health plan’s outside administrator to pay for birth control coverage and creates a way to reimburse them.”
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4. Margret Sanger’s dream come true.
From TheBlacksphere “Sanger was a nurse and a birth control advocate in the early 20th century. But more importantly, she formed the organization, American Birth Control League, which would eventually become Planned Parenthood.
And like the modern day organization, cloaking its true agenda in palatable verbiage such as “family planning” and “choice,” Margaret’s goal was far more evil than the respectable facade she presented.”
“Such narratives lend to the Margaret Sanger reverence by new guard feminists, those women who prioritize self and convenience over the preciousness of life. Several generations of women have been raised to view sacrifice as demeaning, and new life as a potential threat to a self-centered career.
The real Margaret Sanger espoused sinister motives for advancing birth control and abortion: she fully endorsed eugenics for the betterment of race and society.”
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5. Here’s another story that demonstrates how the media omit relevant details to protect abortion.
From NewsBusters “Australian TV Star Commits Suicide After Depression Triggered by Her Abortion; U.S. Media Accounts Omit Abortion”
“Abortion proponents push for easy access to abortion, deemphasizing its after-affects to the point they absolutely refuse to acknowledge post-abortion depression, which further incapacitates those actually living through it.
This is such a tragedy. Charlotte Dawson, RIP, was born in New Zealand but achieved fame in Australia as a model and a judge on Australia’s Next Top Model.”
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6. And remember… as always,
Media bias is a myth. 🙄
From CapitolCityProject “Conservatives often argue that the mainstream media is unabashedly liberal, and a look at campaign contributions given by employees of mainstream media companies shows this seems to be the case on an individual level.
Using data from the Center for Responsive Politics, Capitol City Project has found that these donations, indeed, go heavily to Democratic politicians. For example, CNN’s ratio of individual political contributions from employees to politicians shows that of the total contributions, $29,460 is given to Democrats as opposed to $12,500 to Republicans from 1998 to 2014. That is a ratio of 70 percent to Democrats and 30 percent to Republicans.”
“NBC has one of the largest discrepancies of political donations between the parties. Contributions to Democrats total $85,853. On the other hand, Republicans received $4,050. That is 93 percent to Democrats. If you add in NBC Sports, individuals gave $2,500 to Democrats and none to Republicans.”
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7. Just like with the ObamaCare website. They know people’s personal info is at risk, but they don’t care.
From TheDailyCaller “The Obama administration’s Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) knew that a breach of veterans’ personal information was “practically unavoidable” months before it happened in January, according to an internal VA risk assessment that also said the department’s security programs are “non-compliant” with three federal laws.
House Veterans Affairs chairman Rep. Jeff Miller recently wrote a letter demanding VA secretary Eric Shinseki take steps to address software glitches like the kind that plagued the department’s eBenefits portal, which in January exposed the “medical and financial information” of more than 5,000 veterans to anyone able to log on to the portal.”
“This breach came as no surprise to VA.”
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8. Former Pres. Bush has a new project for vets, joining Jacob Wood of Team Rubicon.
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Wandering Views 
Not any comments today.
That may be because the real news wasn’t mentioned:
According to The Times-News, Alec Baldwin is considering leaving New York and moving to LA. “He says he’s considering Los Angeles, livinginsulated behind a gate with his wife and their child.” I don’t know Alex Baldwin, except he was photographed pjushing a lady.
He might have said somethng bad. But I don’t know that.
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This Mark Steyn article is a year old, but still very relevant. Between the explosion of illegitimacy and the spread of homosexuality, many young people are doomed to very bleak and traumatic childhoods.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/344287/death-family-mark-steyn
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Volkswagen is leaving Tennessee because the workers voted against a union. German companies prefer worker councils and unions to right-to-work.
http://nationalreport.net/volkswagen-close-chattanooga-plant-following-anti-union-vote-state-lose-13k-jobs/
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HRW, The Germans did elect the National Socialists. There are plenty of Japanese and Korean car plants in the South. VW is the past. Hyundai and Kia are the future.
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The German corporate-labor model was set up by the post WWII occupation government. The majority of them were FDR’s New Deal men who were given the freedom to do what they wanted to do in the US. And their ideas created the economic powerhouse of Europe producing high quality reliable manufacturing goods which don’t have to compete against China since their goods are of an entirely different level. And these goods are produced with very little labor strife. In North America, Ontario produces more cars than any other state or province … all of it unionized at a higher rate of pay than American workers. Since health costs are substantially lower and productivity higher, auto manufactures (GM, Ford, Chrysler, Honda, Toyota, soon Hyundai and Kia) continue to stay here.
The quality of Hyundai has picked up a bit but they still suffer some reliability issues in the Canadian winter and they are a noisy ride with a horrible suspension. Kia is much worse. VW has no problems. I currently drive a Nissan … the quality of a Toyota at half the price. I previously drove Fords which I still recommend. My father drove his VW Jetta over 350,000 kms through at least 15 Canadian winters. Until the 300K mark he did nothing but standard maintenance.
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There is just something wrong when it is cheaper to buy imported Asian whitefish than to buy US farm raised catfish. Just a small thing but still…
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I have driven two Kias and one Hyundai. They were as dependable as Japanese cars and more dependable than American-made vehicles. By far the worst car I ever owned was made in Canada.
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HRW, I don’t see that story on any other news source.
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HRW, I am coming around to your way of thinking on healthcare. If the US could adopt Canada’s cheap socialist program, we could save about 8% of GDP per year. That would be good for the country. If anyone in my family got really sick, we would go to Switzerland or Singapore for high quality care.
Unfortunately, that is not an option. We are moving from an overpriced, largely socialist, highly-regulated hybrid program to one that will be worse. Only a dictator could reduce the goodies and freebies now handed out to our elderly, doctors, poor, drug makers, hospitals, etc.
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Many Canadians had the same idea I did. Under my plan, they too would have to go to Europe or Asia.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/11/report-thousands-fled-canada-for-health-care-in-2011/
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hwesseli,
I wouldn’t have thought much about “my union” if they hadn’t spent so much money on politics, politics that I didn’t agree with. I have seen in print words of one of my former national union presidents that the whole purpose of unions was politics, national politics. Democrats.
Why should I want to be represented by a union that was really about politics? It seems to me that this is one thing that is rarely said. Unions are about being Democrats. The money they collect is for electing Democrats. Why do you want me to spend money for something I don’t want, believe is bad for me, my family and is, at it’s root, evil.
Democrats are thieves and unions are too.
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Hey, Bob,
Tell us how you really feel!
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HRW,
I totally disagree with your opinion of KIA’s. My wife drives an “08 RIO. Bought it new, and she has over 147,000 miles on it and it runs like a champ. The only thing we’ve really ever had to spend on it for was regular maintenance- tires, wipers, plugs, belts, oil changes, etc. One time I did have to replace a coil, that’s it. And we only paid 12,000 for it new.
And we have harsh winters too, and it’s run fine. We’ll buy another when the time comes.
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