Fact Checker - A judge's letter on health care and an email gone viral. Posted at 6:00 AM ET, 01/21/2011 By Glenn Kessler "YOU ARE NOT GOING TO LIKE THIS: ObamaCare Highlighted by Page Number ...All of the above should give you the point blank ammo you need to support your opposition to Obamacare.
Please send this information on to all of your email contacts. " --excerpts from an email zooming around the United States Zygmunt Plater, a professor at Boston College Law School, sent The Fact Checker a copy of the above email, which purports to be an analysis of the new health care law by a judge, complete with page citations. The Facts Just because it is in an email--or on the Internet--does not make it true, especially when it is woefully out of date.
There is indeed a former county judge named David Kithil who lives in Marble Falls, Texas, which is about 50 miles northeast of Austin. As a former judge of Burnet County, Texas, Kithil is not a health care expert--and congressional language can be obtuse. But the letter is certainly an email and Internet sensation. Nancy Pelosi posts questionable chart on debt accumulation by Barack Obama, predecessors. A reader recently pointed us to a post on the website of MoveOn.org, a liberal group.
The post features a bar graph titled, "Who Increased the Debt? " that offers figures for the past five presidents: Ronald Reagan: Up 189 percent George H.W. Bush: Up 55 percent Bill Clinton: Up 37 percent George W. Bush: Up 115 percent Barack Obama: Up 16 percent We can see why a liberal group would tout such numbers, since -- if accurate -- they offer powerful counterevidence to the claims by conservatives that President Barack Obama has been a spendthrift who’s set the nation on an unsustainable fiscal path. But the reader who sent it to us was surprised to see the debt increase under Obama was so small. The chart actually comes from a Flickr page belonging to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who posted it on May 5, 2011. We checked with Pelosi’s office to see what data they used to assemble the chart.
We can quickly dispense with the figures for Reagan and George H.W. Buffett’s Railroad Among Winners From Obama’s Keystone Pipeline Denial. Welcome!
We are so glad you are here! Please consider supporting this site by whitelisting PatriotUpdate.com in your adblocker. Thanks! Warren Buffett’s Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC is among U.S. and Canadian railroads that stand to benefit from the Obama administration’s decision to reject TransCanada Corp.
Eric Holder tells NAACP that whites want to take away their voting rights. - Charleston Charleston Conservative. Monday, January 16th, US Attorney General Eric Holder spoke at the annual anti-Confederate flag rally held by the NAACP.
The NAACP has held the event annually since 2000 to demand that the Confederate flag and the Confederate soldier statue be removed from the White House grounds. They have also covered up a statue of George Washington during two past rallies. Eric Holder oversaw the vast criminal gun running operation by the DOJ known as "Fast & Furious. " Sharpton: GOP In Mad Rush To Its Extreme 'White' Wing.
KNIGHT: Voter ID terrifies Democrats. The most consequential election in our lifetime is still 10 months away, but it’s clear from the Obama administration’s order halting South Carolina’s new photo ID law that the Democrats already have brought a gun to a knife fight.
How else to describe this naked assault on the right of a state to create minimal requirements to curb voter fraud? On Dec. 23, Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Gasparino: Bill Daley Quit Over Obama's 'Class Warfare' Paypal has frozen funds in account to be used for Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association Conference. Jim Campbell I began this a couple of days ago when I received it from a friend.
I was unable to authenticate it until Sheriff Richard Mack called me back at 2:00 PST today. This was an illegal act on the part of PayPal and he is still sorting it out. Behind every dark cloud there’s a Rainbow. When I contacted PayPal to close my account I was advised that I had $602.oo in the account, obviously from contributions from my readers and for that I thank you. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it, I’m J.C. and I approve this message. Readers at this site will recall that I posted, CONSTITUTIONAL SHERIFFS AND PEACE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE LAS VEGAS JANUARY 29-31, 2012: This was a conference hosted by the Oath Keepers to inform law enforcement of their Constitutional obligations as well as right to arrest Obama and others.