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June 21st, 2007

Hillary-Boxer: Let’s legislate talk radio into oblivion

It’s all over the Web. Speaking on KFI-AM in Los Angeles, Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe (R) with host John Zeigler, the veteran politician reported that Democratic Senators Hillary Rodham and Barbara Boxer are actively seeking out a “legislative fix” to end talk radio, specifically conservative talk radio. Listen for yourself if you don’t want to believe me.

This comes as no surprise to industry veterans like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and the rest; Democrats have been seeking to dethrone Rush for decades by putting up failure after failure when it comes to a “liberal alternative” to Rush, Sean and the gang. So far, most efforts have failed. The latest failure, Air America, was a such a commercial disaster that even the most robust financial consolidation software couldn’t cook the books enough to keep the venture from going down for the 10-count.

However, this is the first time a Washington insider has broken Beltway ranks to allow the American public to be a fly on the wall and hear how the issue is talked about when liberal politicians think no one’s listening.

If Inhofe’s report is genuine, then we have “the woman who would be president” and a top California senator both conspiring to to through legislation what liberals have failed to do through the free market: get rid of any contrary opinions or alternative voices, thus ending the constitutional right to free speech, and enforce a liberal valhalla where everyone who gets to speak agrees with them.

By Craig Hansen • Posted in Uncategorized • No Comment
March 28th, 2007

A plan only Dems and unions could love

The Minnesota State Senate today passed a bill that would align all of Minnesota’s public school districts – representing over 200,000 employees statewide – into a single “insurance pool” that would put the state in control of every teacher’s health insurance options.

It’s a plan pushed by Democrats and teachers union reps, and a plan only lobbyists for big insurers could love. What this does, in essence, is take the small-town insurance broker out of the picture in bidding for the insurance contract of local school districts. Instead, all that money will be siphoned out of local insurance reps and be redistributed to a handful of super-brokers with the right ties in Saint Paul.

Of course, don’t count on the liberal media to tell you that side of the story; the Twin Cities papers are all making it sound like a great idea that will save everyone money, especially smaller school districts like the one I went to as a kid in southern Minnesota. In small districts like that, there are brokers whose livelihood depends on bidding on and winning school district insurance contracts each year, and once this legislation takes effect, that revenue will be grabbed away for good.

Don’t let the libs tell you they’re in favor of small business; this latest bill is about to put a lot of small business insurance agents on the verge of failure, once it all takes effect on 2009. Sure, the legislation is cumbersome and hard to understand, and you might need some financial consolidation software to even get a grasp on what it all means, but the bottom line is that the savings for school districts will come at the cost of the livelihoods of many insurance agents, who will soon be cut out of the bidding process entirely. Call it the Local Insurance Agent Unemployment Act of 2007!

By Craig Hansen • Posted in Uncategorized • No Comment