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If FDA blocks meds, how will government health care work?

“Life in a glass coffin” — that’s how one patient described living with...

 

Abortion coverage sacrificed for nationalized health care

Throughout the health care debate, Democrats and President Barack Obama have insisted that...

 

Anti-Obama, pro-America

President Barack Obama chose not to travel to Germany for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the...

 

Fake job numbers vital to stimulus propaganda

Since President Barack Obama took office, the American people have been subjected to an...

 

Dems. won’t win by passing an unpopular bill

Congressional Democrats, along with their president, are operating under the assumption that...

 

Abortion and health care

Contrary to a popular fallacy that science and religion are at odds with each other, it’s...

 

The America-effacing presidency of Obama

On the morning after the deadliest instance of Islamist terrorism in the United States since...

 

All fun and budget games, until you lose an election

Imagine that you are back at the height of the housing boom and a banker makes you an offer: You...

 

Dennis Miller's Ahem: What to do in the downtime between prayers

“...now and at the hour of our death, amen.” Having finished that prayer for the...

 

It’s like Jimmy Carter never left town

Republican conservatives and moderates are at each other’s throats. Tea party populists are...

 

Iraq 'surge' should be tailored for Afghanistan

Veterans Day is when we as Americans honor the achievements of our armed forces. It commemorates...

 

Does Obamacare spell the end of Hippocratic medicine?

Strangely absent from today’s health care debate is a discussion of the patient/physician...

 

Obama’s ideas are losers for other Dems

When the White House spin-doctors say President Barack Obama did not lose in this week’s...

 

Human Rights Watch needs to shake up its staff

Last month, Robert Bernstein, the founder and former longtime chairman of Human Rights Watch,...

 

Global finance remains mired in a primitive state

It’s been more than a year since Lehman Brothers Inc. collapsed and leaders of both...

 

U.S. must back Karzai — flaws and all

The weekend withdrawal by President Hamid Karzai's opponent from the planned re-run of the...

 

Do Democrats have the energy to pass a climate tax?

With Halloween behind us, there are still several legislative scares ahead. One is a massive...

 

All is not so quiet on the cable front

Who’d have thought that the heretofore uber-meek Obama Administration would attempt the...

 

Does Obama want to control the message or the media?

Controlling the message, for any White House, is hard work. Numerous staff and advisers must all...

 

Local budget measure falls short of true reform

While Proposition A, titled “Budget Reform,” takes a few steps toward changingthe...

 

Exporting American anti-Americanism

I have always viewed push-up bras as false advertising, but does wearing one deserve a whipping...

 

Decline is a choice. But is it America's choice?

First of two parts. Tomorrow: Retreat abroad begins at home. The weathervanes of...

 

Harding Park is a city gold mine, not a drain

In recent weeks, the mayor and his allies on the Board of Supervisors have been pushing...

 

FDA limits on health information portend perils of more government

Aspirin can prevent heart attacks. Adult anti-cancer medications are routinely used to treat...

 

Free health care for the indigent stuck in states’ maze of red tape

By Stan Brock just wants to help. The former co-star of “Wild Kingdom” wants to...

 

In health care, fighting for spoils

Once major players in Washington, D.C., divide up our health and health care decision-making...

 

Looking for an out in Honduras

Only belatedly is the old media recognizing the Honduras situation as an important story, and...

 

Trying terrorists in U.S. is a bad idea

President Barack Obama still has not announced his plans for closing the detention camp at...

 

How to steal from our troops: the annual defense budget raid

Our nation faces booming budget deficits and an economic challenge of a scale not seen in decades....

 

Making S.F. ready for next big quake is a shared responsibility

This week, we mark the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake. The events of Oct. 17,...

 

 
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