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I remember reading Stephen King’s “The Stand” when it first came out in 1978. It is a long, long, long book for a young reader, but I remember that I just couldn’t put it down each day until sheer exhaustion forced me to.

To this day, I’m amazed that book came out of that author. Stephen King recently did a cannonball into the Left side of the pool with an obscenity-soaked rant about wanting to be taxed more, and about Gov. Chris Christie’s weight.

King has always had a vulgar…

Medicare and Medicaid’s model for paying out claims is an “open invitation” to fraud that could amount to nearly $200 billion a year.

But the programs could drastically cut down on fraud by adopting common-sense procedures already used by the private sector.

“When President Obama pushed through his healthcare bill, he cut more than $500 billion (over 10 years) in future Medicare spending in order to claim the bill was ‘paid for,’” Forbes magazine observed.

“A better…

This Week's 'Alpha Jackass' Award

On how same-sex marriage squares with the Obamas as "practicing Christians," he said, "[O]bviously this position may be considered to put us at odds with the views of others, but, you know, when we think about our faith, the thing at root that we…

How much truth is there in President Obama's latest favorite mantra that we consume a disproportionate share of the world's oil, especially considering how little of the world's reserves we have? Recently, Obama said: "But here's the thing about oil. We have about 2, maybe 3, percent of the world's proven oil reserves. We use 25 percent of the world's oil. So think about it. Even if we doubled the amount of oil that we produce, we'd still be short by a factor of five

pipeline from Canada…