Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson said Monday that religion is not driving extremist violence in Nigeria--just one day after a Christian church conducting an Easter service was targeted by a car bombing that left 39 dead.
Similarly, on Christmas Day, the Nigerian Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram, attacked a Catholic church in that country, killing more than 40 people.
I want to take this opportunity to stress one key point and that is that religion is not driving extremist violence either in Jos or northern Nigeria, Assistant Secretary of State Carson said Monday at a forum on U.S. policy toward Nigeria held at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C.
Instead of curbing government spending, President Barack Obama's healthcare law could add up to $530 billion to the federal debt over ten years, a Republican expert on U.S. government benefit programs said on Tuesday.
A study by Charles Blahous, a George Mason University research fellow and the Republican trustee for the Medicare and Social Security entitlement programs for the elderly, challenged the administration's contention that the 2010 law would reduce healthcare costs.
Blahous, who also served as the deputy director of the National Economic Council under Bush, said in his research that the law is expected to boost net federal spending by more than $1.15 trillion and add between $340 billion and $530 billion to deficits between 2012-21.
"Relative to previous law, the (healthcare law) both exacerbates projected federal deficits and increases an already unsustainable federal commitment to health care spending," he concluded.
The analysis, first reported by the Washington Post late on Monday, also comes a month after the Congressional Budget Office cut the estimated net cost of the healthcare law by $48 billion to $1.08 trillion through 2021.
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Given the history of other entitlements, these estimates are probably low by a factor of 10. The Supremes must kill this monster, or soon every dime you and I make will be earmarked for the "public good." Third world, here we come!
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What PBMcL said. This bill law needs to be killed and buried. The government is spending a fortune of taxpayer's money to cover a few millions of people, some of whom chose not to have insurance. The law robs Medicare to fund ObamaCare. The law is filled with stuff that we are just beginning to find out about--much not even related to healthcare. Obama cut deals with special interest groups and lawmakers to pass the law--such as the abortion issue. He promised legislators he would protect the unborn in turn for their votes. How's that working out?
By this time I sincerely hope that SCOTUS has found that this law is unconstitutional, and the most over-reaching, corrupt, heavy-handed law ever passed by a few votes.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Mitt Romney ...whose real first name is actually, no kidding, Willard, was governor of Massachussetts and is currently the front-runner for president on the Publican ticket. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney's foot is in an ideological bucket because of Romneycare, a state-level experiment that should have been a warning against Obamacare if anyone had been paying attention. Romney's charisma is best defined as soporific, which is probably why he is leading the Publican field... on Tuesday effectively won the Republican Party crown to challenge President Barack Obama I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody... in November elections, as chief rival Rick Santorum ...candidate for president and former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania. He was a lawyer before becoming the Representative for suburban Pittsburgh in 1991. He lost his Senate seat in 2006 to Bob Casey, a Democrat machine politician and political dynast. Santorum is a social conservative whose primary attraction is seemingly that he is neither Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich... dropped his long-shot White House bid.
"This presidential race is over for me," Santorum told news hounds in Gettysburg, in his home state of Pennsylvania.
Despite an upset victory in the first Republican nominating contest in Iowa in January that led to a surprising showing with victories in 10 more states, Santorum failed to build sufficient momentum to derail frontrunner Romney.
He trailed a distant second in the battle to be the party's contender aiming to thwart Obama's hopes of a second term, outspent by Romney's deep war chest and out-organized by an extensive grassroots network.
Over the Easter weekend, the former Pennsylvania senator halted campaigning for four days after his youngest daughter, Bella, who suffers from a rare genetic disorder, was hospitalized again.
Santorum acknowledged it had been a "difficult weekend," and said while Bella was getting better, "it did cause us to think."
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Ah, Michelle's Boyz.
Looks like NEWT has already begun wooing Santorum's backers + delegates, as based on common Conservative principles.
2012 could still end up being a SPLIT/BROKERED CONVENTION come July.
At last check, POTUS Bammer is still ahead of GOP #1 Romney in both campaign $$$ + ratings - IMO he can still win in November as long as the US Econ makes at least slight but "sufficient" improvement, + espec no US-Iran war.
"NO US-IRAN WAR" = also read, NO ISRAELI ATTACK ON IRAN, as such would invite Iranian activation of its Terror Proxies to initiate Terrstrikes agz CONUS, to includ agz the Bammer + Fed in WASHDC.
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I have voted in 13 Presidential elections and had to hold my nose in all but three of them. This year I hadn't planned on voting for any of the losers, Republican or Democrat. The last Dem I voted for was JFK. What a mistake that was, should have held my nose and voted for Nixon.
Being from California my vote doesn't count anyway, Obama will win this state going away. Today, Ronald Reagan couldn't get elected dog catcher in Orange County if he ran as a Republican. Hell in 2010 a dead Democrat beat a live Republican in Long Beach. This State has gone over to the Dark Side of incurable liberalism.
I'll vote against Governor Moonbeam's tax hikes and call it a day.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Instead of curbing government spending, President Barack Obama's healthcare law could add up to $530 billion to the federal debt over ten years, a Republican expert on U.S. government benefit programs said on Tuesday.
