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78 E-reader News Edition

How to Fix MedicaidSubmitted at 9/23/2010 3:00:40 AM

A new report offers some good

York, far more than any otherstate in the union, and nearly 40percent of New Yorks 2010

A n o t h e r p r o b l e m , t h etransformation of Medicaid froma w e l f a r e p r o g r a m t o a n

directly by the State legislature aspart of the annual negotiationsover the budget. Even minor

governments. This allows cleverpatients to game the system, andleaves others in need to fall

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p gideas, but doesnt go far enough.M edicaid is, first and foremost, a

humanitarian disaster. Studieshave repeatedly shown that theprogram fails so badly thatindigent patients fare no betterthan, and often worse than , thosewith no insurance at all.But there is, of course, another

Medicaid-driven crisis: the one inwhich skyrocketing spending onMedicaid is annihilating statebudgets all across the country, aproblem that Obamacare makessignificantly worse.#ad#The State of New York is aposter child for how decades of irresponsible management of Medicaid can drive a statetreasury into a ditch. On Monday,New York lieutenant governorRichard Ravitch published athoughtful and distressing reportthat details the depth of theproblem. Medicaid is the largestsingle driver of the Statesgrowing expenditures, writesRavitch. The current Statebudget crisis , in turn, is

threatening New Yorks ability tohandle the growth of this programwithout dramatically raising taxeso r c u t t i n g o t h e r e s s e n t i a lg o v e r n m e n t s e r v i c e s . Ravitch notes that nearly one-

quarter of all New York stateresidents -- 4.5 million people --are on Medicaid. In the 2010fiscal year, local, state, andfederal parties spent more than$50 billion on Medicaid in New

percent of New York s 2010budget of $132 billion. New York spends more on Medicaid percapita than any state -- double thatof neighboring New Jersey andConnecticut, and 2.3 times that of California, the second-largests t a t e i n t o t a l M e d i c a i de x p e n d i t u r e s .But the near future makes 2010

seem paradisiacal by comparison.Over the next four years, as thefederal bailout of spendthriftstates expires, Albany expects itsMedicaid spending to increase by18 percent a year. Then, in 2014,Obamacare forces the state to

increase the number of peoplewho are eligible for Medicaid,expanding the states f iscalliabilities and constraining itslat i tude to inst i tute neededreforms.In his 17-page report, Ravitch

traces the recent history of howNew Yorks Medicaid programcame to this pass. Most important,New York has been one of themost aggressive states in takingadvantage of federal matching

funds in order to expand itsMedicaid program, making it oneof the most lavish in the country.Unfor tuna te ly, i t has beenpol i t i ca l ly easy to expandMedicaid during good times, butimpossible to rein it in during badtimes; indeed, during the financialcrisis of 200809, the stateactually expanded its Medicaidc o v e r a g e , a n d M e d i c a i denrollment increased by 600,000.

a w e l f a r e p r o g r a m t o a nentitlement program, was a resultof the passage of federal welfarereform in 1996. When Medicaidwas first instituted in 1965, nearlyeveryone eligible for Medicaidwas already on welfare: that is,they were receiving direct cashassistance. After 1996, NewYorks welfare rolls shrank dramatically, while its Medicaidro l l s cont inued to expand .Today, writes Ravitch, onlyone out of six New York childrenand adults receiving Medicaidservices also receives cashassistance, because most people

on Medicaid are employed, albeitwith below-average incomes.A third problem is that Medicaid

provisions such as spend-downrules and the doctrine of spousalrefusal allow higher-incomeindividuals to game the systemand gain Medicaid eligibility, byrearranging their assets. (JohnHood discusses this problem inthe Summer 2010 i ssue of Nat iona l Affa i r s . )A fourth problem is that New

Yorks methods of reimbursingd o c t o r s a n d h o s p i t a l s f o rMedicaid services is specified line-by-line in state law. Ravitchwrites:

For most areas of Medicaidpayment in New York -- in-patient hospital care, freestandingambulatory care centers, homehealth agencies, nursing homes --the basic formulas for reimbursingMedicaid providers are set

over the budget. Even minoradjustments require legislativeaction. As a result, the State hasfound it exceedingly difficult tocont ro l Medica id cos t s byimproving and updating paymentmethods.For example, until recently the

State was required by law toreimburse hospitals for most in-patient care under a complexinflation-adjusted formula devisedin 1981. Since that time, therehave been revolutions in hospitalo p e r a t i o n s , s t a f f i n g , a n dtechnology -- changes for whichthe inflation rate is a grossly

inadequate proxy. But because theformula was embedded in statute,it took almost 20 years, until2009, for the methods to beupdated.#page#This is a key issue withgovernment-run health insurance,both at the state and federallevels: Government insurance isinherently politicized, and reactsslowly, if at all, to innovations inh e a l t h - c a r e d e l i v e r y a n dt e c h n o l o g y.

A fifth problem is administrativefragmentation: In New York,responsibility for coordinatingMedicaid is spread out betweenthe Office of Health InsurancePrograms, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, andthe Office of Long Term Care. Inaddi t ion , adminis t ra t ion of Medicaid in New York is dividedbetween the state government inA l b a n y a n d 5 7 c o u n t y

leaves others in need to fallthrough the cracks.#ad#So: what to do about it?Ravitch offers some sensiblep r o p o s a l s f o r i n c r e m e n t a li m p r o v e m e n t . N o t a b l y, h ea d v o c a t e s t o r t r e f o r m :

Any serious Medicaid costcontrol effort requires reform of the S ta te s expens ive andinequitable malpractice system,which exerts significant costpressure on the program. Reformshould aim at significant premiumrelief for physicians, reducedcoverage costs for hospitals, andpromotion of patient safety. The

legislat ive components of areform package should includetort reform measures such as a capon non-economic damages, aneurologically impaired infantfund, and specialized courts.He also advocates reform of New

Yorks spend-down and spousal-refusal rules, administrat iveconsolidation, and outsourcing of reimbursement decisions to aboard of experts. He favorstransitioning Medicaids fee-for-

service patients into a managed-care model. He advocates a tax onsugary soft drinks. He alsoencourages Albany to lobbyWashington for more money.The most effective state-based

Medicaid reforms, however, arenotably absent from Ravitchsreport: introducing consumer-driven health plans into Medicaid,

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79E-reader News Edition

Morning Bell: Six Months Closer to RepealConn Carroll (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News. )

Submitted at 9/23/2010 8:56:31 AM

spending estimates , higher healthcare costs , fewer doctors , fewerchoices , fewer jobs , et c . The

2020 .Consumers: Remember President

Obamas promise, If you like

as projected, then by next yearMedicaid could end up consumingnearly 30 percent of the average

embrace the repeal cause in theirn e w d o c u m e n t : P l e d g e t oA m e r i c a . A n d o u r s i s t e r

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Submitted at 9/23/2010 8:56:31 AM

Posted September 23rd, 2010 at9:56am in Health Care Print ThisPostBefore Obamacare was passed

six months ago today, formerPresident Bill Clinton promised aleftist horde at the NetrootsNation convention: The minutethe president signs the health carereform bill, approval will go up,because Americans are inherentlyoptimistic. Fast forward to lastSunday, when, after Meet thePress host David Gregory playeda clip of Clintons promise, theformer President responded: Iwas wrong.It is rare in Washington that a

politician admits they were sovery, very wrong about such ahuge issue, but the evidence thatthe Amer ican people havecompletely rejected Obamacare iso v e r w h e l m i n g . R a s m u s s e nReports , Gallup and CNN all puto p p o s i t i o n t o O b a m a c a r esomewhere between 56% and61%. The law is so toxic that

hardcore leftists locked in toughelection fights like Sens. BarbaraBoxer (D-CA) and MichaelBennet (D-CO) ignore the lawaltogether in the health cares e c t i o n o f t h e i r c a m p a i g nw e b s i t e s .Anyone who has been following

the news since Obamacarespassage already knows why thelaw is so unpopular: billion dollaremployer losses , exploding

, j ,following are just some of thespecific groups that have been hithardest by Obamacare:Employers: The White House

likes to trumpet the small businesstax credits and bailouts for retireecoverage in the bill, but anyonewho actually runs, or has ever run,a business is not impressed.Obamacares punitive employermandates , half a trillion dollars innew taxes , and burdensomeregulatory compliance regime arealready thwarting our nationseconomic recovery.

Doctors: In order to make a

trillion dollar new entitlementlook deficit neutral, you have togame the system. Obamacareaccomplished this by pretendingt o c u t d o c t o r M e d i c a r ereimbursement by 23%. Congressalready added to the deficit bydelaying these cuts through thisDecember. But a massive pay cutis just the beginning of the painObamacare has infl icted onphysicians. The law also makes itnext to impossible for doctors to

establish their own hospitals ,burdens them with thousands of h o u r s o f n e w r e p o r t i n grequirements and overburdensemergency rooms . Then there ist h e m a s s i v e e x p a n s i o n o f Medicaid which reimbursesdoctors at only 56% the rate inprivate practice . No wonderstudies show that Obamacare willbe 300,000 nurses and 100,000doctors short of what is needed by

p , yyour health care plan, you cankeep your health care plan?Dont believe it. Do you like yourhealth savings account (HSA) or f l e x i b l e s p e n d i n g a c c o u n t s(FSAs) ? Well those provide youwith too much economic healthcare freedom for Obamacare towork, so Obamacare regulatesboth out of existence. Do you likeyour current employer coverage?S o r r y, s t u d i e s s h o w t h a tObamacares regulations arelikely to incentivize employers todump 35 million Americans outof their current health care plan .

And once they are in the newmarketplace, other Obamacareregulations and mandates arealready sending health insurancepremiums through the roof .

States: Medicaid spendingalready represents on averageabout 21 percent of the typicalstate budget. Obamacare willsignificantly expand that number.Of the 34 million Americans whogain health insurance throughObamacare, over half (18 million)

will receive it through the welfarep r o g r a m , M e d i c a i d . T h i simpending state budget crisis waswhat the Cornhusker Kickback was a l l about . Obamacareattempted to appease states bybailing them out through 2016.But by 2017, state taxpayers willbe on the hook for an ever-expanding share of Medicaidd o l l a r s . I f s t a t e M e d i c a i dspending increases by 41 percent

y p gstate budget. Already, 44 statesreport that they have exceededprojected Medicaid enrollmentand spending targets for this year,and Obamacare will only makethose numbers worse.Seniors:: The Presidents own

Medicare Actuary projects thatthe record-breaking paymentreductions due to hit hospitals,home health agencies and nursinghomes will make 15 percent of these providers unprofitable andpossibly jeopardize seniorsaccess to care. On top of that,payment cu ts to Medicare

Advantage plans will hit seniorsespecially hard. Enrollment inthese plans is expected to dropfrom 14.8 to 7.4 million. By 2017,the average annual per-capita cutsfor Medicare Advantage enrolleeswill be about $3,700 a 27percent reduction from todayslevels.When Obamacare first passed six

months ago today, HeritageFoundation President Ed Feulnerpromised : Obamacare is todays

Intolerable Act. And just as thecolonists banded together to enactchange after those acts werepassed , so should Amer icarespond to Obamacare. This lawm u s t b e r e p e a l e d . I nH e r i t a g e s S o l u t i o n s f o rAmerica, we note that, Theeasiest way to address all thesegrievances: repeal Obamacare.That is why it is so encouraging tosee conservatives in the House

organization, Heritage Action forAmerica has announced bipartisansupport for Discharge Petition #11which would force a vote onrepealing Obamacare. The Roadto Repeal is well on its way,thankfully.Quick Hits:

Join Heritage Action for a chatwith Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL)about the Obama tax hikes tonightat 7:30 PM EDT. Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel,Deputy Chief o f S ta ff J imMessina and senior adviser DavidAxelrod are expected to join

Christ ina Romer, LawrenceSummers and Peter Orszag in apre-election exodus from theObama White House. Unable to un i fy behindPresident Obamas massive taxhike, Senate Democrats areconsidering abandoning plans fora pre-election showdown withRepublicans over the issue. The Bell, Calif., city councildoubled taxes on residents inorder to pay for their six figure

salaries. Sign up to see the HonorableJohn Howard, Prime Minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007, givethe Margaret Thatcher FreedomLecture on September 28th at TheHeritage Foundation.

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Nanny State Goes to CollegeLindsey Burke (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News. )

Submitted at 9/23/2010 9:44:46 AM

But Sylvia Manning, president of the Higher Learning Commissionof the North Central Association

employment measures, the ObamaAdministration appears intent onlimiting the growth of the for-

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The Department of Education(DOE) has proposed new rules fora c c r e d i t i n g c o l l e g e s a n duniversities, including expandingthe power of states to authorizehigher education institutions,definitions of what constitutes acredit hour, and de facto pricecontrols through measures toensure g radua tes ga in fu lemployment. According to theCouncil for Higher EducationAccreditation , the new rules willmark a substantial shift in theaccrediting process:Current regulations do not define

o r d e s c r i b e t h e s t a t u t o r yrequirement that an institutionmust be legally authorized in astate. Under the new rules, theinstitutions authorization must besubject to adverse action by thestate. [The DOE] notes that, whilestate authorization was in the pastv i e w e d a s a m i n i m a l requirement, the Department nowviews state authorization as asubstantial requirement where

the State is expected to take anactive role not only in approvinginstitutions but also in monitoringand responding appropriately top u b l i c c o m p l a i n t s a b o u ti n s t i t u t i o n s .The DOE has also proposed a

new ru le pe r ta in ing to thedefinition of a credit hour, whichcould include standardizing thedefinition of a credit hour by thefederal government.

(a regional accrediting agency for19 states), argued that universitiesare better equipped to establishthe metrics that demonstratestudent learning than is the federalgovernment, especially when itcomes to non-traditional highereducationsuch as what theUniversity of Phoenix offers.Alternative modes of delivery,most notably Internet-baseddistance delivery that permits astudent to participate in classroomactivi t ies at any t ime fromanywhere, make nonsense of theidea of seat-time, says Ms.Manning. Federal overreach intothe definition of a credit hourwould end up increasing theamount of resources spent byuniversities in demonstratingcompliance with the regulation.Finally, the Administration has

p r o p o s e d a n e w g a i n f u lemployment rule that wouldaffect virtually all for-profitp r i v a t e h i g h e r e d u c a t i o ninstitutions. The new rule is basedon a requirement in the Higher

Education Act, which requires for-profit universities to provide aneligible program of training toprepare students for gainfulemployment in a recognizedoccupation. According to InsideHigher Ed , the new rule wouldcreate three tests for for-profitcolleges to qualify for federalfinancial aid funding:The debt-to-earnings ratio, the

debt-to-discretionary income

ratio, and the loan repayment rate.If a program does better than thedepartments preferred standardon any one metric8 percentdebt-to-earnings, 20 percent debt-to-discret ionary income, 45percent repayment ratethen it isfu l ly e l ig ib le fo r Ti t l e IV[ fund ing] .Insider Higher Ed also notes that,

according to Terry Hartle of the

American Council of Education,the new gainful employment rulei s t h e m o s t c o m p l i c a t e dregulatory package that theDepartment of Education has everpromulgatedthis really is abrave new world. The DOE willissue final rules by November 1,2010, in order to have the newgainful employment regulationstake effect by July 1, 2011.Some U.S. Senators have voiced

s u p p o r t f o r t h e g a i n f u le m p l o y m e n t r e g u l a t i o n s ,including Tom Harkin (DIA),Dick Durbin (DIL), and AlFranken (DMN). But in a letters i g n e d b y n u m e r o u sRepresentatives on the HouseEducation and Labor Committee,Ranking Republican MemberJohn Kline and others expressedconcern that the proposed

regulation imposes arbitrary debt-to-income caps. The result will bevirtually the same as federal pricecontrols, rewarding low-costinstitutions regardless of qualityand limiting students access tohigher-cost institutions.

Whether i t s through new,power fu l s t a te acc red i t ingauthority, federal definitions of credit hours, or price controlsi m p o s e d t h r o u g h g a i n f u l

profit college sector. But its not just the for-profit schools likeCapella and DeVry Universitiesand technical colleges that couldbe affected.

In a July 30 let ter sent toE d u c a t i o n S e c r e t a r y A r n eDuncan, former Senator BillArmstrong, now President of Colorado Christian University,expressed concern tha t theproposed rules would subjectboth public (government ownedand operated) col leges anduniversities and private schools tosubstantive regulation by stategovernment.

T h e r e g u l a t i o n s u n d e rconsideration by the DOE wouldh a v e t h e n e t r e s u l t o f encumbering student access tohigher education and weighingproviders down with complianceburdens. Many for-profits couldeven be forced to close theirdoors .During these tough economic

times, the last thing the ObamaAdministration should be doing is

creating a bottleneck in thepipel ine to employment byl i m i t i n g a c c e s s t o h i g h e reducation for working-classfamil ies .Manning summarizes the matter

well:Voluntary accreditation has been

in place in the United States forover a hundred years and has

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Iliescu that it would provide themilitary help he had requested.Misinformed and uninspired, as ithas been during all those years

after Ceausescus show-trial,Romanias new governmentannounced that the officer whopresided at it, Gen. Gica Popa,

a n d a n e w g e n e r a t i o n o f intellectuals is struggling to giveher a new national identity.Buchar: First let me say its an

iron fist as a ruthless dictator.That type of environment didntgive much opportunity to developany dissent like the Soviets did in

went out and threatened to sue mefor libel in a Romanian court. Ireplied I would be happy to havethe evidence tested in court, but
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has been during all those yearswhen it praised Ceausescu to thesky, the United States Departmentof State immediately avowed thatWa s h i n g t o n w o u l d t a k e asympathet ic view of Sovietmilitary intervention in Romania.

In the end the Kremlin wasspared both the political and thefinancial cost of a mil i taryadventure in Romania. On thatsame December 23, I l iescuannounced that Ceausescu hadbeen arrested the previous day,and a spokesman for the NationalSalvation Front promised that hewould be given a public trial.

Nevertheless two days later, onChristmas Day, 1989, Romaniantelevision came on the air with thenews that the Ceausescu couplehad been already tried, sentencedto death and executed by amilitary firing squad that samed a y. T h e We s t e r n m e d i aspeculated that Ceausescu wasimmediately killed to prevent himfrom exposing Moscows hand inthe December events. I can onlyconfirm that, before 1978, when Ibroke with Ceausescu, I reportedto him all the details of the Dnestroperation. So did my boss of those days, Gen. Nicolae Doicaru,who was found dead soon afterCeausescu was killed. Doicarusfamily got his body back in asealed coffin.On March 1, 1990, three months

presided at it, Gen. Gica Popa,had committed suicide. Thegovernment ruled out an autopsy,and did not release the generalsbody to his family. Popas wife,who saw her husband only at hisfuneral, asserted that his bodyshowed violet marks at bothwrists. According to her, after thetrial of Ceausescu her husbandhad qualms of conscience, andintended to contact the U.S.Embassy.

T h e r e i s q u i t e e n o u g hcircumstantial evidence showingthat the liquidation of Ceausescuwas carefully prepared. Ten other

generals involved in the events of December 1989 died underconditions not yet determined.In real life, it often happens that a

person may go out to find wooland come home shorn, as they sayin Romania. Neither Gorbachevnor his intelligence services wereable to predict that their efforts tohold Romania within the confinesof glasnost and perestroika wouldin the endto use a Marxistimagedig their own graves. TheR o m a n i a n s , f r e e d f r o mC e a u s e s c u s b o o t , b e g a ndemolishing the barriers theCommunists had spent over 40y e a r s e r e c t i n g b e t w e e nthemselves and the rest of theworld, as well as betweeni n d i v i d u a l R u s s i a n s . N o wRomania is member of NATO,

Buchar: First let me say it s anhonor for me to be invited heretogether with such distinguishedpeople. The information they arebr ing ing in to the open i sfascinating, but not surprising.One has to keep in mind that all of this was carefully planned for along period of time. The name of Anatoly Golitsyn is such a tabootill today, yet he brought to theWest information about theSoviets planning these changesback in 1962. Then anotherdefector, Gen.Jan Sejna in 1968,said the same thing. But nobodyin the West listened or wanted to

hear it.It looks like this mind-blowingoperation was carefully planed forsome thirty years. The Sovietsused Ceausescu as a guinea pig totest how to create the communistleader likeable to the West. At thesame time, they created a littlemonster, because Ceausescus egobecame so big it crossed the pointof no return. However, Moscowsplans had contingency for allalternatives. After all, the swiftexecution of Ceausescu and hiswife broadcasted on TV in vividcolors sent the chilling message toall hard-line communists acrossEas te rn Europe tha t anyresistance to change was futile.The situation in Romania wasquite unique because Ceausescuwas running the country with an

any dissent like the Soviets did insome other countries like inCzechoslovakia, for instance,where the KGB used the so-calledPrague Spring to build theechelon of new leaders for thefuture.FP: Vladimir Bukovsky, what do

you bring to the end of this firstround?Bukovsky: Thank you Jamie.Let me start with a fresh Polish

joke about a conversation betweentwo pigs in a barn:Pig #1: You know, I cannot

believe that they are feeding usand looking after us just because

they are kind. They must havesome ulterior motive. In the end,they will probably kill and eatus.Pig #2: Oh, stop this. To hell

with your conspiracy theories!The debate about the 1989

revolutions over the past 20 yearshas been developing along moreor less the same lines.A few years ago, when Iliescu

w a s s t i l l t h e p r e s i d e n t , Imentioned in an interview to aRomanian newspaper that he andh i s N a t i o n a l S a l v a t i o nCommittee were secretly backedby Moscow. Even at that stage,t h e e v i d e n c e w a s a l r e a d yoverwhelming, so I felt free torefer to that as an established facta n d d i d n o t e x p e c t a n ycontroversy. But suddenly, Iliescu

the evidence tested in court, butinvited him to sue me in Britain after all, we have the mostdraconian libel laws in the world.Iliescu calmed down and soon lostthe election.

Indeed, the known facts anddocuments leave me in no doubtthat the whole so-called 1989revolution was simply a Sovietoperation. However, even I didnot suspect that Iliescu was soclose to Moscow that he actuallyasked for a Soviet invasion. Inthis sense, Adams discoveryopens a whole new dimension tothe history of those events. There

are, in part icular, a lot of questions to be asked about therole of the West: how much didState Secretary Baker know aboutthe Soviet backing for therevolution? Why did he join thatinvitation for a Soviet invasion?But one thing is now abundantlyclear: Iliescu and his committeewere little more than just Sovietpuppets. Throughout history, itwas typical for Soviet-sponsoredsubversives in any country torequest a Soviet invasion whenthey lost control of events.


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Americans: I can criticize andcomplain about my brother all Ilike, but if my brother botherssomebody outside the family,

adults, we found a correlationbetween ones belief that humansare animals and his ideologymeasured on a nine-point scale to

conservatives than among liberals,at least when it comes to groupsto which the expanding moralcircle is usually meant to apply.

great weight on the principle of not treating everyone equally. Weexpect a mother to care more, inmost cases much more, about her

basis. Our data suggest that somepart of the differences in politicalphilosophy might result from thefact that different people prefer


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y y,well, thats just too bad.But this sense of brotherhood

wi th ones compat r io t s i sp r e c i s e l y w h a t b o t h e r sprogressives such as GlennGreenwald, who often chastisesall who value foreign lives lesst h a n A m e r i c a n o n e s . T h eempathic profi les we haveobtained are consistent with thesed i f f e r e n c e s . O n e w h o s esympathies toward Americansoldiers and foreigners aresignificantly different is probablymore likely to tolerate differenttradeoffs in collateral civilian vs.

military casualties and to supportdifferent rules of engagement in awar effort.#ad#The subject of animalslikewise appears to elicit somed i f f e r e n t i a l s i n s y m p a t h y.Vegetarianism, environmentalism,and the animal-rights movementare mostly creatures of the Left.In her book Godless , Ann Coulterargued that the whole panoply of . . . things liberals believe flowsfrom their belief that man is justanother animal. While suchcausality is hard to establish, ourdata are certainly consistent witht h i s v i e w. N o t o n l y a r eprogressives and liberals moresympathetic to animals, but in ourOctober 2009 study of 3,766

pbe about 0.40. This is a very highc o r r e l a t i o n i n p o l i t i c a lpsychology, and especially sogiven the fact that the statementdoes not advocate for anypar t i cu la r po l i cy.

A p o p u l a r i d e a a m o n gprogressive intellectuals for manyyears has been that of theexpanding moral circle, mostfamously articulated by PeterSinger. According to this view,the conventional morality of anygiven era is predicated onarbitrary distinctions that serve to

justify our differential treatment

of different groups (such asforeigners or animals). On thisview, our civilizations moralprogress essentially consists inobli terat ing these ar t i f icialboundaries and expanding thecircle of inclusion. Since we wereonce wrong to draw a morallysignificant distinction betweenblack and white Americans, theargument goes, speciesism musteventually give too. The sameholds fo r pa t r io t i sm - - aninc l ina t ion to va lue onescompatriots lives more than thoseof foreigners based on the conceptof citizenship.Consistent with this observation,

our empathic profiles show agreater range of sympathy among

y pp yAt the most elementary level, itseems that sometimes wherel i b e r a l s s e e u n i v e r s a l s ,conservatives see particulars. Infact, one of our surveys showedthat conservatives are more likelythan l iberals to agree thatdifferent people can be verydifferent.That all men are created equal

has been the bedrock principle of the Western conception of justicefor several centuries. Our systemof laws has been designed to treat-- and is for the most partextraordinari ly effect ive in

treat ing -- every individualequally, regardless of his class,gender, or relationship to the

judge. This emphasis on equalrights is, at the same time, thecornerstone of formal ethicalapproaches: The same rules mustapply to all.#page#Yet there is scarcely asingle person on earth who treatseveryone equally. Adam Smithlong ago observed that even adecent man would suffer more if he knew he was to lose his littlefinger tomorrow than if he knewthat a hundred million Chinese henever knew perished in anearthquake. Unlike abstract moralnorms based on equal rights,conventional moral norms put

,own child than about a randomchild on the street. We expect theAmerican president to care aboutthe good of Americans more thanthat of the Chinese.This latter approach is typical of

what evolved to be called virtueethics -- a view that properbehaviors in any given situationdepend largely on social context.T h e y a r e l e a r n e d t h r o u g hauthority and tradition and cannotbe log ica l ly de r ived f romuniversal principles because theyare in many cases intrinsicallyt ied to a part icular role or

perspective, of which there areplenty. In content, they are oftensomewhere in the mushy middle(more charitably called the goldenmean), and one who is pressed to

justify them usually resorts toeither authority, or, if that fails,s o m e f o r m o f a d - h o cutilitarianism or deontology.#ad#Social life in our liberaldemocracy is obviously guided bya mix of these two approaches.We insist that the same rulesapply to everyone while at thesame time understanding that vastareas of behavior are judged bynorms not derived from any suchprinciples. Though not alwaysphilosophically pleasing, this mixserves us well on a day-to-day

p p pdifferent mixes of the twoperspectives. If this is the case,competing political groups canuse these differences to enhancein-group loyalties.

Our differences are real andimportant, and back-and-forthbetween poli t ical part ies isn e c e s s a r y f o r a h e a l t h ydemocracy. But the daily rough-and-tumble of politics sometimesmakes us lose sight of manythings that we all agree about, andthat the data we have collectedalso reveal. In many cases, oneneeds a statistical microscope to

find differences, because so manyof our values and beliefs areshared.-- John Zogby is chairman andchief insights officer of ZogbyInternational, a global polling andmarket-research company. He isthe author of The Way Well Be:The Zogby Repor t on theTransformation of the AmericanDream (Random House, 2008).Zeljka Buturovic is a researchassociate at Zogby Internationaland co-author of the book TrinoReenje(Market Solution). JohnZogby Zeljka Buturovic


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recommit ourselves to smallergovernment. The way Congresscurrently operates is rigged tomake all of those goals more

told the people of my districtduring my first campaign that if itwas important to them to have arepresentative who would go to

people are overwhelminglyopposed to having their taxdollars used to pay for abortions.Frankly, I dont think this is even

being held accountable -- shouldyou become Speaker Boehner --for this agenda?Rep. Boehner: I dont make any

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handled issues related to theevaluation of quality for most of that time. What strikes us ascurious is that the cal l for
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difficult. Its a lot easier toincrease spending than it is toactually cut spending. Thats justfundamentally backwards. In thecoming days youll hear usprovide more detail about thechanges we think need to be madei m m e d i a t e l y t o f i x t h e s ep r o b l e m s .#page#Lopez: The question I hear most

often is: Will Republicans messup like they did last time? Well,will you?Rep. Boehner: Weve had a long

time to think about how wed do

things differently if we were back in the majority. Ive challengedour members for years to stop andask themselves: If we foundourselves back in the majoritytoday, would we be any different?And I think everyone has takenthat challenge seriously. I think alot of what were laying out in thePledge to America shows it.Lopez: Youve never taken an

earmark. Why is that important toyou? Why is that important to aGOP-led House?Rep. Boehner: Ive always been

upfront with people about this. I

Washington and raid the federalTreasury on their behalf, theyshould probably vote for someonee l s e . C u t t i n g u n n e c e s s a r ygovernment spending is one of thecentral pledges made in thisdocument. Ive been clear that aRepublican majority in the Housewill not return to business as usualwith respect to the earmark process, which is fundamentallybroken.

Lopez: The agenda does notm e n t i o n o n e o f t h e m o s tcontentious issues of the day:protecting the institution of

marriage. Why?Rep. Boehner: Actually it does.The preamble section of thePledge states that were going tohonor fami l i e s , t r ad i t iona lmarriage, and life. The focus of the document is on jobs, cuttings p e n d i n g , a n d r e f o r m i n ggovernment, but were also clearabout our principles.

Lopez : Why i s the Hydeexpansion you have in the agendaimportant? Isnt it going to drivesome members and interestgroups mad?Rep. Boehner: The American

controversial. Its the will of thepeople. Back in June I had thehonor of addressing the NationalRight to Life convention inPittsburgh, and I made clear thatcodifying the Hyde amendmentwas going to be a priority for us.And it will be. The Pledge toAmerica reflects our commitmentto life.Lopez: Is this an agenda you

hope Americans who considerthemselves part of the tea-partymovement can get enthusiasticabout?Rep. Boehner: I hope so. The

Pledge to America was built bylistening to the people, and thatcertainly includes the millions of Americans who are involved inthe tea-party movement. I saidearlier this year that Republicanswouldnt try to co-opt the tea-party movement, but that we weregoing to listen to them, stand withthem, and walk among them. Ivebeen to a number of tea-partyevents around the country, andfrankly I think the movement hasbeen an incredibly healthy thingfor our democracy.Lopez: Do you feel confident

assumptions about what the futureholds. But Im very pleased withthe work of our conference on thePledge to America, and I can tellyou with absolute confidence thatwe are committed to getting thesethings done. If Speaker Pelosi andHarry Reid and President Obamawould allow it, we could get themdone right now.Lopez: Why the Sterling, Va.

venue?Rep. Boehner: We chose a small

business because jobs are thenumber-one priori ty of theAmerican people. And small

businesses are the engine of jobcreation in America. Tart Lumberi s a qu in tessen t i a l , typ ica lAmer ican fami ly - run smal lbusiness. This is not the kind of agenda you unveil on the Capitolsteps. We wanted to underscorethe jobs point, and get outside theBeltway, because this documentwas built by listening to thepeople outside of Washington.Kathryn Jean Lopez

minimum thresholds in matterssuch as the credit hour andprogram length runs counter tothe countrys expressed interest inincreasing, significantly andrapidly, our nations attainment inhigher education. To meet ournational goals for educationalattainment and a workforce forthe 21st-century economy, highereducation is askedby policymakers, legislators, foundations,opinion leadersto break out of old molds, seek efficiencies, opendoors, reach new populations.Strict accreditation requirements

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The Governments Light Bulb Ban Is Just PlainDestructiveNicolas Loris (The Foundry: C i li )

(CFLs) . Po l i t i c i ans used a lines in China are churning out

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Conservative Policy News. )

Submitted at 9/23/2010 10:30:31 AM

The economic theory of creative destruction is importantwhen understanding the valueinnovation has on long-termeconomic growth.

P o p u l a r i z e d b y A u s t r i a neconomist Joseph Schumpeter, thetheory says the short and long-term benefits of entrepreneurialactivity and competition will faroutweigh the short-term lossescaused by a new produc treplacing an old one. Audiotape

makers may lose their jobs to themakers of compact discs, whomay lose their jobs to the digitalage.When it occurs organically, its a

beautiful process that begetseconomic progress and benefitsthe consumer. When forced onbusinesses and consumers by ourgovernment, it does far moreharm than good. And thatsexactly whats occurring with thefederally mandated incandescentlight bulb ban .In 2007, Congress passed an

energy bill that placed stringenteff iciency requirements onincandescent bulbs in an attemptto phase them out beginning in2012 and replace them with moreexpensive but more energy-efficient bulbs, the most popularbeing compact fluorescent bulbs

d i s to r ted v iew of c rea t ivedestruction mixed with globalwarming concerns to sell the

regulation. They said it wouldcreate jobs, save consumersmoney, and reduce greenhousegas emissions. But whats reallyhappened?Politicians, as they typically do,

fa i l to see the un in tendedconsequences of their legislativeagendas. When it comes to CFLs,for example, the exposure tomercury vapor is dangerous if thebulbs are broken. Hospitals andmedical charities warn that CFL

bulbs cause migraines andepilepsy attacks . Other critics alsopoint out that CFLs do not work well in colder temperatures andthus will force Americans to usemore heat. CFLs do not work wellwith dimmer switches, and thelifespan of the bulb diminishesw h e n t u r n e d o f f a n d o nf r e q u e n t l y.The latest attack on compact

f l u o r e s c e n t s i s j o b s . T h eWashington Post recently ran astory on General Electric havingto close its major incandescentf a c t o r y i n W i n c h e s t e r ,Virginia a factory that employed200 people. And the jobs that willlikely be replacing those will be inChina, where the United Statesgets much of its CFL bulbs. Theprocess of making CFLs is laborintensive, and labor in China is

comparatively much cheaper.As a result, Representatives Joe

Barton (RTX), Michael Burgess(RTX) and Marsha Blackburn(RTN) introduced the BULB Actlast week , which would repealSubtitle B of Title III of theE n e rg y I n d e p e n d e n c e a n dSecurity Act of 2007the phase-out of the incandescent bulb.Blackburn said, Washingtonbanned a perfectly good producta n d f i r e d h a r d - w o r k i n gAmericans based on little morethan their own whim and the sillynotion that they know better thanthe American consumer. Now,hundreds more Americans arelooking for work while assembly

fluorescent bulbs for the U.S.market.

To b e c l e a r , t h i s i s n o t

Schumpeters model of creativedes t ruc t ion ; i t s economicignorance. If consumers reallywanted to buy fluorescents ratherthan cheaper incandescent lightbulbs, they would purchase themwithout a government ban. And if C h i n a p r o d u c e d t h o s efluorescents, cheap imports meanbusinesses wil l f ind bet terproductive uses for labor in theU.S. Thats the organic nature of creative destruction, but in this

case, a mix of special-interestpolitics and concern that energyuse in the U.S. is producing toomuch greenhouse gas emissionsresulted in needless regulationsand mandates. Rather than ani n n o v a t i o n v a l u e d i n t h emarketplace, consumers areforced to accept a product they donot want.This entry passed through the

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A Fugitivefrom JihadRobert Spencer (FrontPage Magazine FrontPage )

Submitted at 9/22/2010 11:09:38 PM

The Seattle Weekly reported itr a t h e r l a c o n i c a l l y l a s tWednesday: You may havenoticed that Molly Norris comic

is not in the paper this week.Thats because there is no moreMolly.Norris, the Weeklys popular

cartoonist and originator of Facebooks notorious EverybodyDraw Mohammed Day page, hadnot died. Rather, she had goneinto hiding because of deatht h r e a t s f r o m I s l a m i csupremac is t s . The Weeklyexp la ined :The gifted artist is alive and well,

thankfully. But on the insistenceof top security specialists at theFBI, she is, as they put it, goingghost: moving, changing hername, and essentially wipingaway her identity. She will nolonger be publishing cartoons inour paper or in City Artsmagazine, where she has been aregular contributor. She is, in

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functional equivalent of a uterus.Thus, if the bills become law,

only the implantation of clonedembryos would be barred fromb i f d ll f d d th

for disease study and possible usein treatments, but also becausecloning will be required todevelop such brave-new-worldt h l i t i

human cloning is ever to beperfected, it will almost surelyrequire significant federal support.

But Dickey-Wicker standsth t thi l ti d i t

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as Mitch Daniels has in Indiana ;converting the Medicaid programover to a cash assistance orpremium-support model thatll l i i di id l

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being federally funded, ratherthan actual cloning. In otherwords, the bills use a phonydefinition to legalize the veryfunding that they dishonestlypurport to prohibit. No wonderpeople dont trust the governmentanymore.This raises an important question:

What does human cloning have todo with the Obama ESCR policy?Not a thing. Which raises anotherquestion: Why surreptitiouslypush for the feds to fund cloning?

The answer to that questionrequires that we look at Big

Biotechs long-term ambitions.ESCR is on ly the openingmovement in a much moreambitious symphony. The realgoal is human cloning, partly toallow the derivation of embryonicstem cells that are geneticallyidentical to those of sick patients

t e c h n o l o g i e s a s g e n e t i cengineering, human enhancement,human/animal chimeras, fetalfarming for organs, and, once itcan be done safely, reproductivecloning. Thats why prestigiousscience organizations such as theNational Academy of Sciencesalready support creating clonedembryos for research purposes.But scientists still havent figured

out how to clone human beingsr e l i a b l y. O v e r c o m i n g t h etechnical difficulties will takemany billions of dollars -- both topay for the research and to draw

talented young scientists into thefield. With any significant profitsto be derived from human cloningprobably decades away, it isunlikely that the private sectorwi l l p rovide the resourcesn e c e s s a r y t o d e v e l o p a n dindustrialize the sector. Thus, if

athwart this accelerating drive toclone. Seen in this light, JudgeLamberths surprise decision notonly impacts embryonic-stem-cellresearch, but has hastened theinescapable fight over the futuremorality of American science. If we want to stop cloning, we mustdefeat DeGette/Castle/Specter.-- Award-winning author WesleyJ. Smith is senior fellow at theDiscovery Institutes Center onHuman Exceptionalism and aspecial consultant to the Centerfor Bioethics and Culture. Hiscurrent book is A Rat Is a Pig Is a

Dog Is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement .Wesley J. Smith

allows lower-income individualsto buy private insurance; andclosely matching New YorksMedicaid-eligibility requirementsto those of federal law.Richard Ravitch deserves credit

for bringing thoughtful attentionto New Yorks biggest fiscalproblem. But his deck-shufflingrecommendations for reformwont do enough to solve theu n d e r l y i n g p r o b l e m . T h eapproached favored by many inAlbany -- tax increases on thewealthy -- wont work either,since New Yorks richest can

easily relocate to neighboringstates.For better or worse, Richard

Ravitch isnt running for governorthis year. Andrew Cuomo, who is,e c h o e s o n l y t h e m o s tDemocratically palatable of Ravitchs proposals: consolidatingMedicaids administration inA l b a n y ; o u t s o u r c i n greimbursement decisions to anexpert panel; etc. (Reliably,Cuomos 252-page agenda

reduce the state Medicaid budgetby $20 billion by eliminatingoptional programs that specialinterest lobbyists purchased fromthe Albany ruling class with hugecampaign donations.

Paladinos proposal, thoughlacking in detail, is a promisingstart, for it at least reflects thepolitical courage needed to getMedicaids balances in order.Ultimately, though, altering thetrajectory of Medicaid spendingrequires fundamental reform.Such reform will certainly requireleadership from New Yorks next

governor, but also a fiscallyserious state legislature and arollback of Obamacare. NewYorks voting taxpayers havetheir work cut out. Avik Roy is an equity researchanalyst at Monness, Crespi, Hardt& Co., and blogs on health-carepolicy at The Apothecary . Avik Roy


Imam Raufs Useful Idiot: Michael MooreRyan Mauro (FrontPage Magazine FrontPage )

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White Men, Moore suggested thatCongress should issue a 30-daydeadline for Israel to ceasemilitary operations after which,

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Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, thehead of the project to construct amosque and Islamic center near

G r o u n d Z e r o , h a s a n e wfundraiser: Michael Moore. Theanti-American filmmaker hasrallied his acolytes to supportPark51, as the project is called,and has already raised over$50,000 for it. Given Mooreshistory, his decision to support animam with suspicious ties andbeliefs is not surprising.I am opposed to the building of the mosque two blocks fromGround Zero. I want it built onGround Zero, Moore wrote onhis website, arguing that it wouldshowcase Americas freedomsand help Muslims take Islam back from the extremists. He alsodemeaned those who opposePark51, also called the CordobaInitiative, saying, fascists areextremely skilled at whipping upfear and hate and getting theworking class to blame the otherfor their troubles.

Moore is a natural ally of Rauf. Ithas recently come to light that oneof Rauf s partners is a 9/11conspiracy theorist. AlthoughMoore has not stated publicly thatthe attack was an inside job, hedoes insinuate that the U.S. ispurposely letting Osama binLaden roam free. I think ourgovernment knows where he isand I dont think were going to

be capturing him or killing himany time soon, said Moore in2003 .Moore also shares Raufs strong

opposition to Israel. He tried tostop his film, Fahrenheit 9/11,from coming to Israel, and he washonored by the Muslim PublicAffairs Council in 2003, anorganization tied to the MuslimBrotherhood. In his book, Stupid

y p ,all aid would be cut off. He evenproposed that a Palestinian statereceive twice as much aid as

Israel.Moore has dismissed the well-

documented ties between ImamRauf and radical Islam, describinghim as the nicest guy youd everwant to meet. Jamie Glazov, theauthor of United in Hate: TheLefts Romance with Tyranny andTerror , says that this behaviorshould be expected of Moore. Toadmit Raufs radicalism is toadmit the existence of perniciousenemies, Glazov affirms. Itconcedes that there are societies,cultures, and systems that aremuch more unjust than ours. Thisis an untenable step for leftistslike Moore to take, because itmeans acknowledging that there issomething superior about ourcivilization thats worth savingand defending.


Obamas Good War and ItsExpiration DateAlan W. Dowd (FrontPage Magazine FrontPage )

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effect, being put into a witness-protection programexcept, asshe notes, without the governmentpicking up the tab. Its allbecause of the appalling fatwa

bomber, and even 9/11, called forher death. And so now she hasdisappeared. As the Weekly said,there is no more Molly Norris: shehas changed her name and gone

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Bob Woodwards new book,Obamas Wars, offers us aglimpse behind the curtain, and if excerpts leaked to The New York Times are any indication, whatWoodward reveals is not pretty.

Not on ly does the book ,according to the Times, depict anadministration deeply torn overthe war in Afghanistan, it seemsto suggest that the primarymotivation of this president is notvictory in Afghanistan but rather

holding his political base together. I c a n t l o s e t h e w h o l eDemocratic Party, the presidentis quoted as saying, trying todefend his withdrawal timetable.That says it all, doesnt it?It pays to recall that to win the

2008 election and take the oath asc o m m a n d e r - i n - c h i e f , t h i spresident defeated a man whodeclared, Id rather lose anelection than lose a war. And thispresident succeeded a commander-in-chief who lost much of theRepublican Party, most of thecountry, and virtually everyoneexcept Joe Lieberman and JohnMcCainnot to mention the

whole Democratic Partybutwon a war because he didnt carewhat the polls said or what thepress advised.

Given that the White Housegranted Woodward extensiveaccess, including interviews withthe president, the administrationcould be using the book to send a

signal to the anti-war left. But thatcould backfire.First, with U.S. troops still

shooting, fighting and dying inAfghanistan and Iraq, the anti-war

Left isnt going to be energizedinto voting or mollified intokeeping quiet by a wink-and-a-nod promise that the war inAfghanistan will end sometime inJuly 2011.Second, the book may confirm

what some hinted at after theRolling Stone fiasco: that the

administration is at best dividedand at worst halfhearted about thewar effort.

because of the appalling fatwaissued against her this summer,f o l l o w i n g h e r i n f a m o u sEverybody Draw MohammedDay cartoon.

Molly Norris conceived of Everybody Draw MohammedDay as a joke, but it went viralin part because it was a gesture of defiance in the face of violentthreats and intimidation: if Islamicsupremacists were threatening tomurder European cartoonists KurtWestergaard and Lars Vilksbecause of their cartoons of Muhammad, and anyone else who

dared to draw him, then if everyone drew him, the thugscouldnt possibly kill us all, couldthey?

Well, no, they couldnt. ButAnwar Al-Awlaki, the American-born imam who is linked to somuch jihadist activity in theUnited States, including the FortH o o d j i h a d a s s a s s i n , t h eChr i s tmas underwear j ihad

has changed her name and goneinto hiding.This is the sort of case that the

President of the United Statesshould be talking about. As hewrung his hands about theprospect of Muslim rioting overQuran-burning, and told theprospective Quran-burner tos t a n d d o w n r a t h e r t h a nadmonishing Muslims not to reactwith violent rage to somethingthat did not harm them, the MollyNorris case gave Barack Obamaan opportunity. He should havegone on television and given a

brief lesson about how freedom of speech is a foremost bulwark against tyranny and a cornerstoneof any society that respects thedignity of the human being.


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