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Penny Press Las Vegas, NV Volume 5 Number 26 MARCH 20, 2008 THE PENNY PRESS, MARCH 20, 2008 PAGE 2 www.pennypresslv.com The Penny Press is published weekly by Penny Credits: 5010 Productions, Inc. All Contents © Penny Press 2008 Publisher and Editor: Contributing Editors: Letters to the Editor are encouraged. They should be Press Fred Weinberg Floyd Brown Al Thomas sent to our offices at 5010 Spencer, Las Vegas 89119. Logotype Circulation: Doug French Bill Here They can also be emailed to: [email protected] Pointedlymad Charlotte Weinberg John Getter Pat Choate No unsigned or unverifiable letters will be printed. licensed from: Rich Gast Joyce Meyer Wyatt Cox 702-740-5588 Fax: 702-920-8215 Penny Press LAS VEGAS, NEVADA 16 PAGES VOLUME 5 NUMBER 26 MARCH 20, 2008 It's Wright-Wing Racism By MICHAEL REAGAN in the submissive media would be. Christianity, and helping to form his Nor was it true, as Obama Special To The Penny Press The speech was meant to be an social and political philosophy and charged, that the Reagan coalition explanation and expiation of his set him on the path to a life of public was created out of white resentment Most of the media and their guilt for his years of remaining mute service. Admirably, while denounc- for affirmative action or forced bus- fellow liberals were positively in the face of the outrageous anti- ing Wright’s extremism, he refused ing. giddy over Barack Obama’s speech Americanism spewed by his pastor to denounce the man himself. He charged that “anger over Tuesday, all but comparing it to the and bosom buddy, the Reverend Nobody expected him to declare welfare and affirmative action Sermon on the Mount. Jeremiah Wright. Wright anathema and cast him into helped forge the Reagan coalition. I won’t deny it was a masterful Until Tuesday, Barack Obama the outer darkness where there is Politicians routinely exploited fears (you can’t use his middle name, weeping and wailing and the gnash- of crime… talk show hosts and con- which has now become the “H- ing of teeth — one simply doesn’t servative commentators built entire Commentary word,” allegedly a code word for do to that sort of thing to a longtime careers unmasking bogus claims of anti-Muslim rhetoric) had steadfastly friend, benefactor and mentor even racism while dismissing legitimate denied he ever heard his friend and if he has been shown to have slipped discussions of racial injustice and piece of oratory — the man can be pastor make his hateful remarks. In the rails time after time. inequality as mere political correct- spellbinding — but when you stop the speech, however, he just kind of What was not expected was ness or reverse racism.” to consider what Sen. Obama was mentioned that; well, yes; he guess- Barack H. Obama’s use of a litany of Poppycock! These are not only really doing up there on the podium, es he was aware of the Reverend America’s past racist offenses to jus- outright falsehoods, but echoes of invoking the specter of slavery and Wright’s offensive rhetoric after all. tify not only Wright’s blatant hatred what Obama learned at the feet of Jim Crow and the era of “whites Mea Minima Culpa. of white America but his suggestion Jeremiah Wright and now preaches only,” it becomes clear that it was a He then launched into a defense that it was a sentiment shared by as his own beliefs. He learned his con job designed to make the voters of his friendship with the man most African Americans. And that is lessons well. as giddy as he knew his worshippers he credited for bringing him to simply not true. Continued on page4 The Conservative Weekly STEVEN MILLER PAGE 5 Voice Of Las Vegas FRED WEINBERG PAGE 6 Penny Wisdom VICTOR KAMBER PAGE 7 Inside: BILL HERE PAGE 8 Much of the social history AL THOMAS PAGE 10 of the Western world over Don't Pee On My the past three decades has WYATT COX PAGE 11 involved replacing what JOYCE MEYER PAGE 12 Leg, Barack Obama worked with what sounded PET OF THE WEEK PAGE 15 good. See Editorial Page 6 —Thomas Sowell THE PENNY PRESS, MARCH 20, 2008 PAGE 4 Wright Wing Racism Continued from page 3 When he suggested that my father’s coalition was based on anger over when he spends years genuflecting at his feet. affirmative action and welfare he was peddling a blatant falsehood as egre- Barack Obama is not an idiot. He is a brilliant orator who exudes charm gious in its falsity as Wright’s charge that whites created AIDS to wipe out and arouses near-worship from his host of giddy, hypnotized supporters. the black population. He is also a committed socialist and a talented salesman for his brand of Everything Obama said was directed at suggesting that while Rev. Marxist snake oil. Wright should not have used such inflammatory language, he was somehow Beware of camels bearing gifts, and politicians promising utopia. justified because of America’s white racism. Try as he might, Barack Obama cannot claim the innocence of a lamb Mike Reagan, the elder son of the late President Ronald Reagan, is heard on in his long years of worshipful association with the Reverend Jeremiah more than 200 talk-radio stations nationally as part of the Radio America Wright. He was either fully aware of the seething racial hatred that moti- Network. Look for Mike’s newest book, “Twice Adopted.” E-mail comments vated Wright, or something of a blithering idiot who can’t spot a racist hater to [email protected]. THE PENNY PRESS, MARCH 20, 2008 PAGE 5 Commentary: Steven Miller ing degradation of health-care qual- there is the entire subject of medica- quality of care for certain patients. On The Road To ity are actually national. Moreover, tion errors. Last year the Institute Because Medicare’s price-fixing sys- they have been in place, gathering of Medicine estimated, based on tem only pays predetermined fixed Health-Care Hell increasing momentum, for a very multiple studies, “that about one sums for treatment of numerous cat- long time. medication error occurs per patient egories of illness, the actual cost to Currently, Southern Nevada First, a rarely publicized truth: per day in hospital care.” physicians and hospitals of deliver- news is full of reports of assembly- The hidden bone fields of American In that report, Preventing ing medical care can vary enormous- line colonoscopies, hepatitis C infec- medicine are already remarkably Medication Errors, the Institute of ly, depending on the patient. tions, clinics ignoring the most basic large. Consider the year-2000 study, Medicine also returned to the subject The result is to effectively ration safety protocols, criminal medical To Err Is Human, published by the of its earlier, groundbreaking work. care for the poor, the old and the investigations and a collapse of pub- Institute of Medicine of the National “The key messages of To Err Is sick. Because the government, not lic confidence. Academies. Its authors reviewed Human,” said the Institute, “were the patient, controls the treatment Welcome to the future of U.S. hospital medical records and that there are serious problems with price, the system offers big eco- American health care. found that as many as 98,000 people the quality of health care delivery; nomic incentives for assembly-line For the last two generations, the die every year from medical errors. that these problems stem primarily medicine that ignores the actual U.S. system of federally dominated, Even those numbers, however, from poor health care delivery sys- individual needs of such patients. third-party “managed care” medi- may be a substantial under-estimate: tems, not incompetent individuals; Precisely such a case was recent- cine has been on a direct trajectory the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and that solving these problems will ly reported in Las Vegas — 78-year- toward this ignominious point. and Prevention (CDC) says 2 million require fundamental changes in the old Duke Breuer, sent home from While an embarrassed Silver patients contract hospital-acquired way care is delivered.” the Endoscopy Center of Southern State now finds itself in the national infections each year, with 90,000 of That American health care’s Nevada, an IV needle still sticking spotlight, the main engines driv- them dying as a result. In addition, problems are systemic is an argu- in his arm. ment we often hear from advocates The impact of the federal gov- of socialized medicine. But the rare- ernment’s bureaucratic one-size-fits- ly admitted reality is that we already all system goes far beyond elderly have socialized medicine. And it Medicare patients. Because govern- is that system that is increasingly ment-paid medicine so dominates devolving into — and subjecting U.S. health care, most large third- us to — bureaucratically indiffer- party payers have, for economic ent, incompetent and callous Soviet- reasons, also adopted its approach. style medicine. Nevada and many other states, for Michael F. Cannon, director of example, use the same system in health-policy studies at the Cato their Medicaid programs for low- Institute, made this point emphati- income patients. Ditto for numerous cally last October: private insurers’ programs. “We’ve already got socialized Another major way govern- medicine. Government already pays ment is driving America down the The Penny Press Tips Its Cap To: for half of Americans’ medical care. road toward health-care Hell is by Governor Jim Gibbons for his willingness to kick Daniel McBride, Javaid Government controls production its repeated and politically moti- Anwar and Sohail Anjum off the Board of Medical Examiners if they do and consumption by determining the vated exemption of the health-care not quit voluntarily.

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