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By Cal Thomas
Sarah Palin deserves an apology. When she said that the new health-care law would lead to “death panels” deciding who gets life-saving treatment and who does not, she was roundly denounced and ridiculed.

Now we learn, courtesy of one of the ridiculers — The New York Times — that she was right. Under a new policy not included in the law for fear the administration’s real end-of-life game would be exposed, a rule issued by the recess-appointed Dr. Donald M. Berwick, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, calls for the government to pay doctors to advise patients on options for ending their lives. These could include directives to forgo aggressive treatment that could extend their lives.
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By Ann Coulter
The only evidence we have that Democrats love the poor is that they consistently back policies that will create more of them.
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By Wesley Pruden
Political Correctness, or self-censorship, governs the conduct of these elites, who would be more comfortable with the European model of free speech, as set out in Germany, where talking about certain subjects is against the law. The Germans nevertheless insist that they, too, practice free speech: You can say anything you like as long as you say only what the government says you can say.

Americans could once laugh at such concepts of “free,” given our constitutional guarantee of the right to say anything. There were only natural limits: “Your rights end,” went the schoolyard warning of yesteryear, “where my nose begins.” This is the only “context” for free speech we’ve ever needed, and it’s the only one we need now.
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By Diana West
My question: Who’s high here? Illiterate Afghans on drugs, or educated Americans on fantasy?

Like a legion of buttoned-down and uniformed Don Quixotes seeking the impossible COIN (counterinsurgency theory) — winning Afghan hearts and minds from Islamic loyalties, constructing a heretofore unseen Afghan “city on a hill,” training Afghan police (literacy rate 4.5 percent) while simultaneously weaning them from addiction, and don’t get me started on “ally” Pakistan — the United States has plunged into a depth of denial only an extravagant “intervention” could reverse.

This American flight from reality skews everything, whether large and obvious, like waging a sanity-defying war, or small and easily overlooked, like starkly refusing to bestow a medal on a deserving fallen soldier. I refer to the appalling fact that Pvt. William Long, slain at age 23 by an avowed jihadist outside an Arkansas military recruitment center in June 2009, has not received a Purple Heart from the U.S. government. When Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad fired his AK-47, killing Pvt. Long and wounding Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula (no Purple Heart, either), he was committing an act of war. The United States refuses to recognize this fact even as Muhammad, in interviews, statements and letters to media, has never shut up about it.
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By Thomas Sowell
The Constitution of the United States begins with the words “We the people.” But neither the Constitution nor “we the people” will mean anything if politicians and judges can continue to do end runs around both.
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By Arnold Ahlert
I’m going to try to explain this one more time, because I think it is critically important. Freedom doesn’t die all at once. It gets chipped away, piece by piece, until what we once had becomes unrecognizable. On December 22nd in Austin, Texas, 56-year-old Claire Hirschkind suffered the kind of indignity that is only possible in a society that is morally confused and, as a result, Constitutionally uninformed. When she refused to have her breasts groped by a TSA agent at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, she was arrested.

Better to thoroughly offend women like Claire Hirschkind who wears a pacemaker-like device and says she is a former rape victim. Better to toss her to the ground, handcuff her, and drag her twenty-five yards across the airport terminal floor because she had the temerity to think her Constitutional rights were being violated, when she drew the line at having her breasts groped. Better to humiliate people in actuality in order to protect the theory of offended-ness that forms the foundation of political correctness.
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By Tony Blankley
The Tea Parties self-formed without leadership from above. But millions of people who didn’t join the Tea Parties nonetheless endorsed their sentiments and values so that by last month, polls showed that the electorate identified more with the Tea Parties than the Republican Party, which itself had just won the greatest election victory in well over half a century.

No other people in the world would have responded to economic danger by seeking more liberty and less government protection. No other people would have thought to themselves, “If I have to suffer economically in order not to steal from my grandchildren, so be it.”
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What health care overhaul? Oh, you mean the insurance takeover? What has been legislated to improve health care or its delivery?

Social Security and Medicare may be Unconstitutional, but they are real entitlements. People paid in to them and are entitled to get what they paid for. Just because you used the money for something else and mismanaged the program is no honest reason to delay payments to people who reach 65. It’s simply fraud. Stealing. Crooked. Dishonest. Pay what you owe and shut up. Get out of the medical business and Medicare will become solvent. Pay social Security for the intended purposes and it will become solvent once you repay the stolen money with interest. There is no reason these programs should even be considered budget items. Is it in the fine print?

There are speed limits and real speed limits. Apparently there are laws and real laws. When do I get to chose one?

The living, breathing what? What part of Constitution don’t you understand?

Molesting women and children is security?

Has the FBI done away with its profilers or was that just a movie and TV gimmick?

Has anyone ever thought that the man made mountains (skyscrapers, duh!) on the coasts and shores of the Great Lakes might have something to do with “climate change”? Maybe Al Gore was sleeping in school when they taught about the effect of the coastal mountains on the weather.

Do you think that if they started commissioning officers for their Americanism and military skills, instead of their political indoctrination, we might fight better wars?

If the government pays for everything where does the money originate?
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By Diana West
Earlier this month, I received an e-mail update from Scott and Vicki Behenna, whose son, Army Ranger 1st Lt. Michael Behenna, is serving 15 years in Fort Leavenworth military prison over the May 2008 shooting of a known killer in Iraq — a terrorist for whom the Army would actually issue a kill/capture order before realizing he was already dead. By the way, that last detail ranks as a minor outrage compared to the other outrages in this military disgrace of a case.
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By Jeff Jacoby
Q: When it comes to a government overhaul of health care, what is the difference between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney?

A: Obama was against an individual insurance mandate before he was for it. Romney was for the mandate before he was against it.

Actually, that’s not precisely accurate. The real difference is that Obama acknowledges reversing his position, while Romney seems to be trying to have it both ways.
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