Consider the significance of this. If Julia is in the middle class, what does she need government help for? It used to be that the welfare state was justified as necessary to help the poor. Thirty years of Great Society programs eventually created some skepticism about the actual impact of this government “help.” So apparently the left has shifted ground. The welfare state is now here to serve the middle class. It’s here as a normal part of everyone’s life, even the lives of those who are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves. As I’ve been arguing, this is the twisted logic of the way Social Security is designed, and now apparently it has take over the entire relationship between government and the people. Web designers of the world, unite!

via RealClearPolitics – The Woman Without a Face.

Dr. Eric Wright, who heads the Department of Public Health at the Indiana University School of Medicine, said the fat tax falls right in line with other consumer products.

“We’ve applied tax to alcohol and tobacco and that has definitely shown through very many studies that it actually decreased use. So, the logic has been applied to fatty foods and preliminary evidence in Europe is that it’s very effective,” Wright said.

via Report: ‘Fat Tax’ Could Curb Nation’s Obesity Problem – Staying Healthy News Story – WRTV Indianapolis.

It is amazing that liberals have finally discovered that TAXING an activity will cause there to be less of that activity. NOW if they can figure out that taxing investments will cause people not to invest, we may turn this country around.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she stands with the White House in opposing a provision in the House defense authorization bill that would prohibit anyone in the military from ordering a chaplain to act against his or her “conscience, moral principles, or religious beliefs” or against the religious beliefs of the denomination to which he or she belongs.

Pelosi described the conscience-protection provision as a “fraud.”

via Pelosi: No to Provision Protecting Chaplains From Being Ordered to Act Against Faith: ‘It’s A Fraud’ | CNSNews.com.

Democrats bring back tyranny to Americans. – YouTube.

Dems back Obama for reelection but not his policies. – YouTube.

President Obama’s budget suffered a second embarrassing defeat Wednesday, when senators voted 99-0 to reject it.

Coupled with the House’s rejection in March, 414-0, that means Mr. Obama’s budget has failed to win a single vote in support this year.

via Obama budget defeated 99-0 in Senate – Washington Times.

“JPMorgan is one of the best-managed banks there is. Jamie Dimon, the head of it, is one of the smartest bankers we got and they still lost $2 billion and counting,” the president said. “We don’t know all the details. It’s going to be investigated, but this is why we passed Wall Street reform.”

via Obama: JPMorgan Is ‘One of the Best-Managed Banks’ – ABC News.

Obama’s physician, Dr. David Scheiner, MD, who blasts the president’s health care plan and says that President Obama has an “academic detachment” that he could never break through.The doctor fears that if the health care plan is “the failure” he believes it will be, because of runaway costs and other problems, then any health reform will be set back for years to come.

via President Obama’s former doctor claims that the president lacks passion, feeling and humanity – HUMAN EVENTS.

Obama actually did bare his soul unintentionally today (perhaps the Biden disease is catching) with his astonishing characterization of American fighting men and women, whom he referred to as “those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf.”

via ‘On My Behalf’ | The Weekly Standard.

Mr. Judd is incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution in Texarkana, Texas, where he is serving a 210-month sentence for extortion, according to The Charleston Gazette. Judd had paid the $2,500 filing fee and submitted a notarized “certificate of announcement” to appear on the ballot.

He is even qualified to have a delegate at the Democratic National Convention, because he won at least 15 percent of vote. However, no one has stepped forward to fill that role.

via Ouch! Obama loses 41 percent of W.Va. primary vote to federal inmate. – CSMonitor.com.