The Journal Editorial Report discusses whether it is fair to attack the Obama administration for hiring lawyers who represented terrorists in private practice. Video courtesy of Fox News.

President Obama couldn’t keep his mouth shut during the “bi-partisan” health care summit. Watch him finally get shut up at the end.

Reporter stands by story quoting Muslim envoy in 2004 defending terror suspect

I verified this at snopes.com

Pictured below is a young physician by the name of Dr. Starner Jones.. His short two-paragraph letter to the White House accurately puts the blame on a “Culture Crisis” instead of a “Health Care Crisis”. It’s worth a quick read:

Dear Mr. President:
During my shift in the Emergency Room last night, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient whose smile revealed an expensive shiny gold tooth, whose body was adorned with a wide assortment of elaborate and costly tattoos, who wore a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and who chatted on a new cellular telephone equipped with a popular R&B ringtone.
While glancing over her patient chart, I happened to notice that her payer status was listed as “Medicaid”! During my examination of her, the patient informed me that she smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and somehow still has money to buy pretzels and beer.
And, you and our Congress expect me to pay for this woman’s health care? I contend that our nation’s “health care crisis” is not the result of a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. Rather, it is the result of a “crisis of culture”, a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on luxuries and vices while refusing to take care of one’s self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance. It is a culture based in the irresponsible credo that “I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me”.
Once you fix this “culture crisis” that rewards irresponsibility and dependency, you’ll be amazed at how quickly our nation’s health care difficulties will disappear.
Respectfully,
STARNER JONES, MD

If you agree…pass it on.

Cato Institute scholars address several items in President Obama’s first official State of the Union Address.

That is the nice way of putting it. They absolutely wreck most of what Obama said. They point out numerous flaws in what Obama said from the budget freeze lies, to the health care lies, to the educational lies.

WSJ’s Jerry Seib previews his column in tomorrow’s Journal in which he writes the federal budget deficit has become so large, it’s time consider it a natural-security threat. Plus, the News Hub provides a February market outlook and also discusses the findings of a new autism study.

Also see U.S. stock futures fall as European health fears weigh

John Stewart and John Oliver of the Daily Show take on Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, John McCain’s flip flop on this issue, and how old is too old to be a Senator. Maybe we should talk about a trade here. Let in a few gays and we can get rid of some career politicians. See the Video

WSJ Columnist Mary O’Grady discusses how the U.S.’s foreign aid to Haiti has failed to improve its government, economy, or infrastructure. Foreign aid props up bad government and corruption. See the video here.

According to the Heritage Foundation and the WSJ, the US no longer qualifies as a free economy. Other countries are taking advantage of the economic downturn to increase freedoms, while the US is losing freedom. See the video here.

The video from MarketWatch mostly discusses tax increase on the wealthy and businesses. But according to Reuters, The Obama administration’s plan to cut more than $1 trillion from the deficit over the next decade relies heavily on so-called backdoor tax increases that will result in a bigger tax bill for middle-class families.

If the provisions are allowed to expire on December 31, the 25 percent tax bracket will increase to 28 percent, the 28 percent bracket will increase to 31 percent, the 33 percent bracket will increase to 36 percent, the 35 percent will increase to 39.6 percent. The special 10 percent bracket is eliminated.