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Category Archives: Tulsa Speaks
If I point a gun at my doctor, will he…
By: G. Keith Smith, M.D.
As more and more doctors shun Medicare and Medicaid, and threaten not to participate in ObamaCare, politicians talk of tying acceptance of these patients to the doctors’ license to practice at all. For example, Kathleen Murphy, a Democrat running for the Virginia House of Delegates told a forum in Great Falls that she believes there should be a law forcing doctors to accept Medicare and Medicaid patients.
In that case, doctors could still flee Virginia or just quit. Medical student Ben Gallagher, writing in The Atlantic, goes much further. He advocates “systemic change to breed the doctors we need”—as if doctors were race horses.
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Candidate message on ‘constitutional crisis’
Ben Sasse
As reported by Conservative Intel, President Obama has created a constitutional crisis by announcing he’ll just enforce whatever parts of the Affordable Care Act he feels like, regardless of the law as written. Ben Sasse, a U.S. Senate candidate in a crowded GOP primary in Nebraska, latched on to this theme right after Obama’s health care presser last week.
His video isn’t exactly the most innovative use of social media in campaign history, and it isn’t going to get Sasse a television contract on FOX News. But it still got over a quarter million views after a number of conservative sites (including The Drudge Report) linked.
Joan Jett jettisoned for PETA politics
By David Arnett
Joan Jett promotes PETA
Updated: When rock star Joan Jett was removed from a state float in the upcoming Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade her People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) friends blamed “reactionary ranchers.” This from a group not known for respectful discourse or propriety in public displays.
“I’ve decided to switch from South Dakota to another float because people’s political agendas were getting in the way of what should be a purely entertainment driven event,” Jett said in a statement Saturday. “I will remain focused on entertaining the millions of people watching, who will be celebrating a great American tradition.”
Teachers cheer student on Common Core
By David Arnett
Ethan Young, of Farragut High School
Credit The Blaze for the following student video going viral. Speaking at a local school board meeting earlier, a Tennessee high school senior issued a brief and incredibly insightful address on problems with Common Core standards.
Ethan Young, a student at Farragut High School in Knox County, Tenn., believes the school district should drop the new national education standards, a set of guidelines that were never voted on by Congress, the Department of Education nor by local or state governments.
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