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It hadn't quite dawned on me last night when I mentioned that Chuck Hagel would be on This Week that George Allen would also be on. Obviously, both men have their eyes on the Republican nomination in 2008, so it's...

I think Jonathon Chait gets it about right. If you are going to take a position, have arguments. Don't just tell me how much you care....

Ben Johnson provides us with what other members of the Casey Sheehan family are thinking about Cindy Sheehan?s actions:The fact that Cindy Sheehan has used her son?s coffin as a political soapbox has not set well with many members of...

'Fantasy' of the 48-hour wait to see a GP

The UK is held up by the Social(ist) Democrats as one of the examples of progressive European healthcare that we should emulate. Based on this, pray that this never happens!

Ministers have been accused of living in "a fantasy world" after new evidence contradicted Government claims that almost everyone can see a GP within 48 hours. A YouGov poll for The Daily Telegraph suggests that almost half of patients cannot get an appointment to see a family doctor within two days, despite the fact that this is supposed to be a key Government achievement.

Note: the GOAL is to get into a doc within 48 hours - seems to the Chief to be a rather non-ambitious goal - but apparently beyond the UK National Health Service's capability.

The waiting time results are particularly embarrassing because Lord Warner, a health minister, issued a news release in May saying that "almost everyone in England can now see a GP within 48 hours". He put the figure at 99.98 per cent. YouGov found that only 44 per cent of respondents said they were able to see a GP within that target.

These survey results are at variance with "official" surveys, but not to fear, there is a reason for the difference:

The official figures are compiled by primary care trusts and Mr Lansley said that some trusts were alerting surgeries when surveys were going to be carried out, so that doctors could make sure that backlogs were cleared.

There's more in the article. This is tantamount to the proposed Hillarycare that (justly) was shot down in flames, may it always be so!

I have largely ignored the Cindy Sheehan circus because I take it to be just that: a circus. I believe that the phenomenon is a product of a lazy media who, as it has been well noted, get bored when...

Mitchell Daily Republic:Foolish to not use Alaska oil As commuters, farmers, truckers and others continue to wince at escalating fuel prices, South Dakota?s congressional delegation offered little hope for relief. Sens. Tim Johnson and John Thune and Rep. Stephanie Herseth...

Senator Chuck Hagel will be on This Week tomorrow morning. This might be worth TiVo-ing if we knew that Senator Hagel might bring some constructive suggestions for Iraq withdrawl timetables, but why bother?...

I know this seems like news to the MSM - but really, it's essentially the same thing that Dubya said right after 9-11 when he warned that the terror war would be lengthy, difficult, and non-traditional.

To the Chief's way of thinking the war against Islamofascism is WW-IV. (defacto WW-III was the Cold War.) The sooner that we really recognize this, the better off we will be.

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