New Trommetter Times

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

Today’s Blogmarks

Tape Shows Democrat Lawmaker Taking Money
A congressman under investigation for bribery was caught on videotape accepting $100,000 in $100 bills from an FBI informant whose conversations with the lawmaker also were recorded, according to a court document released Sunday. Agents later found the cash hidden in his freezer. At one audiotaped meeting, Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., chuckles about writing in code to keep secret what the government contends was his corrupt role in getting his children a cut of a communications company’s deal for work in Africa.
()() But if you believe the MSM the Democrats are pure as the driven snow. Only Republicans are supposed to be acting like this.

Health care clinics can’t keep up with demand

Record numbers of patients are overwhelming local medical clinics for the poor, Carolinas HealthCare System officials say, and the hospital wants more public money to help cover rising costs. For the past decade, Mecklenburg County has paid CHS and Presbyterian Healthcare $17.8 million per year to subsidize the costs of treating those who cannot pay for health care.
()()Wonder how many of the people overwhelming these clinics are illegal aliens?

A gruesome outcome

What’s worse than legalized abortions? How about legalized abortions performed by a dangerously — and maybe criminally — inept staff that violates state rules, leading to the death of an almost full-term baby? What follows, with information provided by a State Board of Health suspension order, is a scene as gruesome as a slasher film — except it’s real life. Or, more accurately, death.
()()And yet every time states try to regulate abortion clinics, the pro-abortion crowd loudly proclaims, “We don’t need any more regulations!”