Right Pundits

A new salt study seems to show that there are no health benefits for a low sodium diet. In fact, such may have a negative impact on a person′s health. Two studies were published in the JAMA Internal Medicine online magazine this week concerning salt intake. One from the Institute of Medicine, commissioned by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claims that that there is no real reason to reduce salt intake below 2,300 milligrams per day. Although Dr. Brian Strom of the University of Pennsylvania is not opposed to a low-sodium diet, he does say, ″…there is simply a lack of data that shows it is beneficial.″ Meanwhile, second report which also appeared in this week′s Journal of the American Medical Association warns that there is still too much salt in restaurant food. Dr. Stephen Havas of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine led a study by the Center for Science in Public Interest that looked at processed and fast foods from 2005 through 2011. Sodium levels only dropped 3.5% in processed foods and only 2.6% by fast food vendors.

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A Mississippi baby born with the HIV virus has apparently been cured, according to pediatric researchers at the University of Mississippi. The child is currently 2 1/2 years old and has been free of medication for the last year without a recurrence of infection.

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Obamacare was passed, challenged, upheld by the Supreme Court, and has begun to be put into effect. I’m sure it will be challenged again at the Supreme Court once certain provisions have begun to be executed, and I hope they rule against it. However, Obamacare being put into effect does not concern me nearly as much as the growing amount of rights that people think they are entitled to. Among life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, we have the Bill of Rights and seventeen other amendments to the Constitution, and nowhere is healthcare listed as a guaranteed, government protected right as an American. Why is it then that it has been treated as such in the past few years under the Obama administration? Read the rest of this entry »

In yesterday’s piece, I wrote about out of wedlock births and what the effects of this are. In this article, I’m going to try to explain my set of solutions to this problem. As you’ll see, these are pretty controversial for both political parties and for the interest groups that are subsumed within them. Both political parties know that this is a devastating situation for our nation; if it could be solved by just attacking one point of view, it would be.

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Out of the blue and into the black
They give you this, but you pay for that
Once you’re gone, you can’t come back
When you’re out of the blue and into the black
~ Neil Young – Into The Black

Let’s be honest. In a little over one day, we’re going over the fiscal cliff. But what that means and what will happen next is anyone’s guess. How we got there is not quite so abstract.
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As Democrats so often like to remind Republicans, the election 0f 2012 is over and, basically, they won. In actuality, it was not the Republicans who lost, it was the Democrats who managed not to lose. At the same time, for the past four years, the American people have been losing under Democratic policies. What happens in the next four years will be largely decided in the next six months. Of most concern to us, as it should be to every American, is the vast “fiscal gap” which opened up in 2009 and remains today, virtually undiminished. It is that gap which could potentially swallow the entire country. It is that gap which makes the coming “Fiscal Cliff” look like a minor bump in the road.
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President Obama won himself a second term by scaring the hell out of Americans and suppressing voter turnout for Romney. Having successfully won the election, we must now face the looming disaster that is the Affordable Care Act (AKA, Obamacare).

While there are always unintended consequences which flow from new legislation, it’s not always a sure thing a new law will solve the problem(s) it was created to solve. Unfortunately for us all, Obamacare will cause many more problems than it ever hoped to fix. Here are just a few of the problems you can expect to see…
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Earlier this year, a Georgetown coed, Sandra Fluke, attracted a lot of media attention when Republicans did not permit her to speak before a House committee on the urgent need for Obamacare to cover the costs of contraception. She then found a group of Democratic House members who were willing to listen to her inspiring tale of how onerous the cost of purchasing their own contraceptive devices could be for health insurance recipients. Later, she became a cause celebre when Rush Limbaugh cast aspersions upon her sexual experiences.

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