Author: Mark W

The Weekly Standard – by Jeryl Bier

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is looking for vendors to run its “National Data Warehouse,” a database for “capturing, aggregating, and analyzing information” related to beneficiary and customer experiences with Medicare and the federal Obamacare marketplaces. Although the database primarily consists of quality control metrics related to individuals’ interactions with customer service, potential contractors are to “[d]emonstrate … experience with scalability and security in protecting data and information with customer, person-sensitive information including Personal Health Information and Personally Identifiable information (personal health records, etc.).” Vendors are also instructed that one of the requirements of a possible future contract would be “[e]nsuring that all products developed and delivered adhere to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance standards.”   Continue reading “Feds Looking for Company to Run ‘National Data Warehouse’ for Obamacare, Medicare”

USA Today – by Catalina Camia

Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid is in a Las Vegas hospital following injuries sustained while exercising at home.

A statement issued Friday by Reid’s office said doctors expect a “full recovery.”

“A piece of equipment Senator Reid was using to exercise broke, causing him to fall and break a number of ribs and bones in his face,” according to a statement issued by his office. “Senator Reid will return to Washington this weekend and be in the office Tuesday as the Senate prepares to reconvene.”    Continue reading “Sen. Harry Reid in hospital with broken ribs, bones”

WND – by Aaron Klein

Jonathan Gruber, the embattled former adviser to President Obama on health-care legislation, once conceded the Affordable Care Act would be costly and could lead to rationing and the denial of some treatments, the Daily Caller reported Wednesday.

Gruber, however, is not the only Obama adviser to make such astonishingly candid statements about the health-care law, better known as Obamacare.   Continue reading “President’s Inner Circle Conceded Obamacare Rationing”

Natural News – by J.D. Heyes

A number of acute-care hospitals closed across the United States last year — 18 to be exact — and experts who see a raft of new regulatory processes being heaped upon the healthcare industry in the coming years, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, believe that a wave of additional closures are ahead.

As noted by WorldNetDaily, a dozen more hospitals have closed in the U.S. so far this year in rural areas alone; more are getting ready to be shuttered. But Dr. Lee Hieb, M.D., says this is just the beginning.   Continue reading “Obamacare causing massive wave of hospital closures across USA”

Bay News 9 – by Ferdinand Zogbaum

DADE CITY — Bullets were fired at two Pasco County sheriff’s deputies who were on routine patrol in Dade City early Sunday, adding to the already nerve-racking time right now for law enforcement in the Bay area and beyond.

Around 3:30 a.m., the deputies were sitting inside their patrol cars in the parking lot of Northside Baptist church, 37047 Lock Street, monitoring the intersection of 21st and Lock streets. Three bullets were fired at them, authorities said.   Continue reading “Sheriff Nocco responds after shots fired at 2 deputies in Dade City, Florida”

ABC New 7

LOS ANGELES (KABC) — The Los Angeles Police Department ended an eight-hour search in South Los Angeles without finding a second suspect who opened fire on a patrol car.

Authorities say two suspects fired at officers with a rifle at 62nd and Hoover streets around 9:20 p.m. Sunday. According to the LAPD, two officers got out of the patrol car, and one of them returned fire on the suspects. It was not immediately known if the suspects were struck. No officers were injured.    Continue reading “LAPD declares tactical alert citywide after 2 suspects fire at patrol car”

Guess this about says it all. I wonder if the young sign carriers are really communists or just useful idiots.

Who pays for obviously manufactured signs when you see them in a protest?

Where signs used in the Ferguson riots came from?

Now things in Ferguson make a little more sense, but not all is explained away by this.   Continue reading “Where did the signs used in the Ferguson riots come from?”

WND – by Bob Unruh

The Supreme Court is telling the Obama administration to present its case for Obamacare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board – the provision that critics have described as a “death panel” – even if it doesn’t want to.

The high court Monday ordered the administration to respond by Jan. 21 to a lawsuit brought by the Goldwater Institute that challenges the constitutionality of Obamacare.   Continue reading “Supremes to White House: What about ‘death panel?’”

Project Chesapeake – by Tom Chatham

The events of the past few months seem astounding when taken in all at once. The plan to destroy the U.S. dollar and the American middle class is moving at an ever increasing speed.

At the recent G20 meeting the nations agreed that bank deposits would no longer be considered money. These bank deposits become the property of the banking institution and as such can be used any way the bank wants. This means that any money you deposit in a bank now is no longer yours but makes you an investor in the bank and subject to lose that money if a banking crisis takes down the bank.   Continue reading “The Destruction Of The Middle Class Is Nearing The Final Stages”

Natural News – by Mike Adams

The pro-pharma, anti-nutrition mainstream media is engaged in an all-out panic over the success of Dr. Oz in teaching nutrition and disease prevention to the American public. Not surprisingly, all the usual suspects — media outlets funded by Big Pharma advertising money — have unleashed a wave of hit pieces against Dr. Oz, claiming his advice is “unproven.”   Continue reading “Mainstream media panics over Dr. Oz teaching disease prevention and nutritional self-care”

WND – by Leo Hohmann

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents have had their authority to detain illegal aliens reduced, some have been disarmed, and now they are seeing cuts in their paychecks.

All of this is taking a toll on morale, said one of the agents in an exclusive interview with WND.   Continue reading “U.S. border agent: ‘Morale never been lower’”

USA Today

A tense, 16-hour Australian hostage standoff ended with an eruption of gunfire in Sydney when heavily armed police stormed a cafe in the heart of the city’s financial center.

Two people died in the fiery end to the siege, local media reported. Sky News Australia said the gunman was one of the dead.

“Sydney siege is over. More details to follow,” New South Wales tweeted.   Continue reading “Reports: Two dead in fiery end to Sydney siege”

WND – by JANE M. ORIENT, M.D.

The whole country has heard the saga of the president’s sore throat. Many people who have a similar problem – or a true emergency – might compare his treatment with theirs.

For a complaint of an apparently mild sore throat lasting a couple weeks, the president reportedly got an ENT consult, a fiberoptic ENT examination and a CT scan of the neck because some “swelling” was noticed. The scan was done on a Saturday afternoon to suit the president’s convenience. According to an article in the Arizona Daily Star, an opening occurred in the presidential schedule when rain caused the cancellation of his golf game. Then a diagnosis of acid reflux was announced, and unspecified “appropriate” treatment was prescribed.   Continue reading “Obama’s care vs. Obamacare”

WND – by Jack Minor

A Kentucky clothing company that refused to produce T-shirts for a “gay”-pride festival because of the owner’s Christian beliefs is appealing a state Human Rights Commission’s ruling of “unlawful discrimination.”

Blaine Adamson, owner of Hands On Originals in Lexington, has employed and served homosexuals, but he refused a request by the local Gay and Lesbian Services Organization to promote messages that violate his beliefs.   Continue reading “T-shirt company prosecuted for not making ‘gay’ apparel”

Natural Health 365 – by Jonathan Landsman

Lack of quality control abroad is resulting in tainted pharmaceuticals being shipped to the United States. This has the potential to affect anyone who fills a prescription for a drug that is made overseas.

But, this current crisis of ‘bad drugs’ should come as no surprise to anyone – especially when you consider that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) admits to not conducting nearly enough drug plant inspections overseas.   Continue reading “Tainted pharmaceuticals are being shipped to the United States”

SHTF Plan – by Mac Slavo

While outrage continues to brew over the non-indictment of the officer that choked Eric Garner to death for selling “loose” untaxed cigarettes on the streets of New York, the NYPD is digging in, as the above New York Daily News image suggests.

Amid anti-police sentiments, the NYPD has claimed that members of the “Black Guerilla Family” are threatening to shoot on-duty police officers in New York. The group is known as an “ideological African-American Marxist revolutionary organization composed of prisoners” set up in the sixties, with inspiration from black leaders including Marcus Garvey.   Continue reading “Gangs of New York: Post-Garner NYPD on Watch for Militant Blacks ‘Preparing to Shoot On-Duty Police Officers’”

New York Daily News

Obama administration officials are acknowledging that HealthCare.gov premiums, on average, will go up next year.

But the same officials say most current customers can still save money if they are willing to shop around a competitive marketplace.

In a report released Thursday, the Health and Human Services Department says premiums for the most popular type of plan will go up an average of 5 percent in 35 states where the federal government is running the health insurance exchanges.   Continue reading “Obamacare premiums will rise in 2015”