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Seeking tighter controls over firearm purchases, the Obama administration is pushing to ban Social Security beneficiaries from owning guns if they lack the mental capacity to manage their own affairs, a move that could affect millions whose monthly disability payments are handled by others.

Seeking tighter controls over firearm purchases, the Obama administration is pushing to ban Social Security beneficiaries from owning guns if they lack the mental capacity to manage their own affairs, a move that could affect millions whose monthly disability payments are handled by others.

It was the correct ruling, but John Roberts's dissent completely outmatched him.

Anti-LGBT group plans to protest US President Barack Obama in Kenya by asking 5,000 people to march naked

Netroots Nation session derailed as crowd chants over speeches and activist is invited onstage before O’Malley is forced to leave it

The passions evoked by Donald Trump deserve notice. His “candidacy” does not.

I was privileged to attend a private screening of the riveting, eye-opening documentary “An Open Secret” on Wednesday. Before the show, producer Gabe Hoffman explained the necessity of informing the public about child sex abuse in the entertainment industry. Evan, one of the abuse victims featured in the film, who was abused by his manager, discussed with me his involvement and goals afterwards.

(Breitbart) – Sen. Rand Paul, a 2016 GOP presidential candidate, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview here that he wants to restrict immigration from predominantly Muslim countries after the Chattanooga, Tennessee, terrorist attack. Paul said in an interview backstage at a rally his presidential campaign is holding inside the Hyatt Regency here in downtown ...

Martin O'Malley apologized after being criticized for saying "all lives matter" in the context of a discussion about black Americans killed by police.

Gawker Media is coming under some well-deserved fire this week for an appalling failure of judgment and basic ethical standards. Despite the site's professed commitment to social justice, it cruelly outed a private citizen, becoming party to a gay extortion racket in the process, for no reason other than its own vile amusement.

It is the latest clash in Columbia, SC, following the racist shooting of nine black churchgoers at the hands of 21-year-old pro-Confederacy Dylann Roof last month.

With a Reddit army like the one Bernie Sanders has, who needs economic policies millennials approve of to win their vote?

I'm laughing ... and a little bit terrified ...

The following article is an except form pages 78-81 of my book The Conscience of a Young Conservative. If you enjoy, free PDF copies are available through Liberty.me, and print copies are available on Amazon.  When the conditions that a doctor must work in worsen, it should come to no surprise that we see less doctors. In the 1970’s, before Canada’s government takeover of medicine, they ranked second out of 28 countries on doctors per thousand people. Now, they rank 24th.[1] Even though Massachusetts attempted universal coverage just recently (in 2006), they are already experiencing doctor shortages in dermatology, general surgery, emergency medicine, and other areas.[2] All these problems have arisen despite Massachusetts ranking #1 in doctors per 100,000 residents, with 462 doctors per 100,000 in 2006.[3] While Massachusetts has retained its #1 ranking for now, their supply of doctors has now begun to lag behind demand. One hospital reported 1,600 people on their waiting list in 2008 and said it takes around 4 months for someone to have their first appointment.[4] American programs that resemble socialized medicine in other countries – such as Medicare and Medicaid – already suffer from something similar to this problem of physician reduction. Since private insurers pay physicians more than Medicare and Medicaid, patients on these government programs have trouble finding physicians.. In Michigan, the number of doctors willing to see Medicaid patients has declined from 88 percent in 1999 to 64 percent in 2005. In Ohio, only 28 percent of doctors surveyed by the Ohio Coalition of Primary Care Physicians said they would continue to provide care to Medicaid patients on an unlimited basis without an increase in pay.[5] Like Michigan, Ohio also has followed a downward trend in doctors seeing Medicaid patients, with a decline from 93 percent in 1998 to 63 percent in 2002.[6] Both programs cause doctors to work at a loss in some cases. One doctor at Hurley Medical Center named Dr. Mukkamala estimated that is cost him around $29 for every X-ray he takes. Medicaid pays him $20 per X-ray, Medicare pays $30, and insurers such as Blue Cross pay $33.[7] The Ohio Coalition study cited previously also found that 79 percent of doctors do not receive a large enough Medicaid reimbursement to cover their office overhead.[8] Since many of the same health care “experts” that designed RomneyCare in Massachusetts also designed ObamaCare, there are more areas where these plans are similar than different. What has caused problems at a statewide level is bound to cause problems at the national level. Even prior to the passing of ObamaCare, many polls showed a reduction in the number of physicians to be inevitable. A survey of 270,000 primary care physicians in 2008 found that 76 percent already described themselves as “overextended or overworked.” Because of this, 13 percent plan to look for a job that does not involve patient care, 30 percent plan to work part time or see fewer patients, and 11 percent plan on retiring.[9] A survey conducted by the Physicians’ Foundation nine months after ObamaCare was passed showed that 40 percent of physicians said they would drop out of patient care within the next 3 years by retiring, seeking a non-clinical job within healthcare, or seeking a job not related to healthcare. [10]  I seriously doubt that someone who spends nearly a decade of their life in university obtaining a medical degree would truly seek employment in a non-medical field, but it at least it shows ObamaCare to be widely unpopular among physicians. A study by the Association of American Medical Colleges placed a number on the size of the predicted shortages. In summary, they found that by 2015 the predicted doctor shortage would be 50 percent worse with ObamaCare than without it.[11] People can rationally argue that many of these doctors are bluffing, but there are other fields that doctors can migrate to. These include specialties such as cosmetic surgery, Lasik, and others where the government does not involve itself. Since the ObamaCare bill would place a cap on reimbursements, doctors would rationally flee to these other specialties.[12] In addition to physician reduction, many other problems exist. Fifty-nine percent said that ObamaCare would cause them to spend less time with patients, and 87 percent said they would have to close or restrict their practices to Medicare patients. Overall, 67 percent of physicians surveyed view the ObamaCare bill negatively.[13] ObamaCare is largely unpopular among physicians, who tend to know best what is in their best interests. [1] Esmail, Nadeem, and Michael Walker. “How Good is Canadian Health Care? The Heartland Institute, 2004. . [2] Mitchell, Jennifer. “Doctor Shortage in Massachusetts, Some Wait 53 Days to See Doctor.” 29 Oct. 2010. . [3] “American Medical Association, Chicago, IL, Physicians Characteristics and Distribution in the U.S., annual (copyright).” Table 156, Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2009. [4] Brown, Karen. “Mass. Health Care Reform Reveals Doctor Shortage.” NPR, 30 Nov. 2008.  . [5] “2002 Ohio Physician Medicaid Survey Key Findings.” The Ohio Coalition of Primary Care Physicians and the Ohio State Medical Association, Jan. 2003. . [6] Ibid [7] Fuhrmans, Vanessa. “Note to Medicaid Patients: The Doctor Won’t See You.” 19 July 2007. . [8] “2002 Ohio Physician Medicaid Survey Key Findings.” [9] “Obamacare Won?t Survive Coming Doctor Shortage.” The Washington Examiner, 28 June 2009. . [10] “Nation?s Frontline Physicians Unhappy With Health Care Reform Measures.” Physicians? Foundation, 18 Nov. 2010.  . [11] “Health Reform to Worsen Doctor Shortage: Group.” Ed. Peter Cooney. 30 Sept. 2010. . [12] Morrissey, Ed. “Study: ObamaCare Will Make Doctor Shortage 50% Worse by 2015.” HotAir, 1 Oct. 2010.  . [13] Nations Frontline Physicians Unhappy With Health Care Reform Measures.

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Officials say Haitian man now accused of woman's murder served a long prison term for a prior violent felony, and was then released to U.S. Immigration and Customs, but was never deported

Humberto Fontova,  The human rights activist mentioned in this column title is also a Presidential Medal of Freedom winner. More fascinatingly still,

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Donald Trump might finally have crossed the line. Appearing on Saturday at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, the real estate mogul took his running feud with Arizona Sen. John McCain to a new level. “He’s not a war hero,” said Trump. “He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”...

D.L. Hughley thinks Caitlyn Jenner "looks like every P.E. teacher I ever had," and says she wouldn't have been his choice to receive the ESPYs ' Arthur Ashe Courage Award simply because she "put on a dress."

Supernova levels of "gaslighting" at work.   It sure would be problematic for the administration that has done little (ie. nothing) to combat growing islamic extremism if ISIS was reflected as the ...

New York (AFP) - New York's Empire State Building was lit in green late Friday to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr holiday that marks the end of Ramadan.

A key part of President Obama’s legacy will be the fed’s unprecedented collection of sensitive data on Americans by race. The government is prying into our most personal information at the most loc...

Share1 Tweet1 +10 Pin0 Share0TOTAL SHARES 2CISBLOG It?s frustratingly common: The mainstream media discusses a social problem obviously impacted by immigration — overcrowding, low wages, increasing poverty, etc. — but assiduously avoids any mention of immigration. To much of the media, using the word immigration in the context of any social problem has become a taboo, roughly ? Continue reading Immigration: Summer Employment and the Problem That Must Not Be Named