New Zealand Conservative

After the recent tragic shooting of Congresswoman Gifford in the US and the subsequent attack by Liberals on Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, and the Right (which had nothing to do with it), Michelle Malkin has put together a little ' Illustrated Primer " (a link to which Zen has also given in a post below) looking back ten years that shows who the real haters are. It's not the Conservatives, who are only standing up for the Constitution and their morals rights: no, it is the progressive Left who cannot seem to contain their hate, but must express it in images like the one shown here for example, an image sold on Getty (now withdrawn) of someone pointing a rifle at Sarah Palin and her daughter, and the infamous " Abort Sarah Palin " stickers. The ultimate in hypocrisy.

From the Times You may not have noticed, but today is a very important day for US politics, world economic prospects and even for the global balance of power between Western democracy and benign dictatorship along Chinese lines. Why? Because today marks either the beginning of the end of Barack Obama’ presidency, or the end of the beginning. I didn't realize we were on the cusp of history today and what is so important that the future of Western civilization stands or falls upon do you suppose? The US Health care system apparently. Reading on If nothing is done to change the US healthcare system, it can be stated with mathematical certainty that the US Government and many leading US companies will be driven into bankruptcy, a fate that befell General Motors and Chrysler largely because of their inability to meet retired workers’ contractually guaranteed medical costs. The odd thing is in the same issue of the Times is a story about a NHS Hospital, the headline reads: Stafford H...

In the last 24 hours, Mexican health authorities have dramatically revised the mortality figures for the disease. Although the government cites almost 170 "suspicious" deaths possibly attributable to the new "swine flu" strain, it has never verified more than 20. Now, after a closer review of those 20 cases, it has revised the number downward, admitting that there are only twelve deaths proven to be associated with the virus throughout the entire country, out of a total of only 260 verified illnesses. However, it is not known how many cases have occurred unreported in people who were never hospitalized. Although the number of "suspicious" deaths may seem alarming, it is actually tiny compared to the number of total flu deaths that are likely to occur on an annual basis in Mexico. Indeed, the Mexican government reports that there are an average of 20,000 pneumonia deaths in Mexico every year. Influenza normally kills its victims by causing pneumonia. The...