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Andrew Huszar with Laura Ingraham

Laura Ingraham hosted Andrew Huszar.

Huszar said the Federal Reserve, at the time of the Great Recession, went to quantitative easing which means the Fed bought the credit of the big banks to give them money to lend.   He noted that the program worked very well for the banks, but that the money didn't trickle down to the average American, whom mostly don't down large amounts of stock.  

Huszar said that while he is a huge supporter of the Federal Rserve, but feels we need a conservation about these practices which is basically printing money that will lead to future inflation which would make credit and mortgages very expensive.  Ingraham and Huszar agreed that it's been a jobless recovery and that the Fed can't cause the recovery itself.  Huszar said that there have been three rounds of QE.  

Huszar said the risks are that the market will sell off when the Fed stops printing money.  This may come to the point where the Fed will have to sell its debt it bought.  Huszar said the big issue is how the Fed unwinds and pulls back which will be the hardest thing the Fed will have to do.  Ingraham said that basically the US decline is being managed by the Fed as the country's economy is based on productivity.  He said the Fed is well audited and the big issue is that the Fed can't effect the recovery by itself.  He said the Fed's role is to maximize the employment of the US and manage the value of the dollar.  He feels that we need ofre government R and D spending.   

Rep. Michael McCaul with Laura Ingraham

Laura Ingraham hosted Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas and chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.

McCaul said the Benghazi attacks are not of interest to the White House and thus is the reason the individuals who commited the atrociites are not on the most wanted list.  He's skeptical that justice will be served.  He also wonders why this hasn't been dubbed an act of terroism as there was evidence of al-Qaeda involvement.  

McCaul said the House shouldn't go to conference with the Senate on the comprehensive immigration bill and did not accept an invitation to the White House to discuss the bill.  He is devoted the past decade to getting the borders secured and keeping the homeland safe.  He cited several House members who are going along with the bill and noted they represent Hispanic districts.  Ingraham stated that the current laws have been flouted with impunity, bringing all sorts of criminal elements into the US.  McCaul feels that we are very vulnerable to terrorists exploiting our open borders. 

McCaul thinks that at this point to disband the Department of Homeland Security would create even more problems than currently exist with this unwieldy bureaucracy.  

Senator Rand Paul with Laura Ingraham

Laura Ingraham hosted Senator Rand Paul.

Paul said the US should obey the Constitution as Obama and Biden stated during the Iraq war debates. He stated that congressional consultation doesn't mean the Constitution is being followed. He feels, based on conversations with administration leaders, that the White House is playing for a stalemate. 

Paul said a reasonable compromise comes when one articulates and stands on principles.  He said the ultimate compromise won't be what everyone wants, but there would be some gains.

Paul said that, according to the Constitution, all people in the US here legally or illegally are entitled to due process.  He is troubled by President Obama's massive use of executive orders on health care, immigration, etc..  He said the Senate bill allows too much authority to rest with the executive branch.  He feels that border security should be voted on each year by the Congress.  

Paul and Ingraham agreed that conservatives at the grass roots level are put off by the GOP establishment.  He has more trust in the people's representatives rather than the executive branch.

Paul said he will support Senator Mitch McConnell and said leadership is often put in difficult situations.

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Roger Cressey with Laura Ingraham

Laura Ingraham hosted Roger Cressey, former National Security Director. 

Cressey said that Russia's security services (FBS) should be interrogated as to Tamerlan Tsarnaev's activities in Russia during his visits there.  He said the Tsarnaevs weren't members of a sleeper cell as their behaviors showed and that he finds the brothers' relationship as the key.  Ingraham questioned why Chechens after September 11th were allowed into the US.  

Cressey said it is important we learn the triggers to radicalization for national security purposes. He said anyone who is using violence along with religion is problematic and Ingraham cited Tom Brokaw's comments on Islamic rage.  

Cressey is interested in what the overseas interest may have been involved.  

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Jake Tapper with Laura Ingraham

Laura Ingraham hosted Jake Tapper, ABC News White House correspondent.

Tapper said on "Taxmageddon", the White House and Democrats say this needs to be a balanced approach with tax increases and cuts.  Ingraham said the Democrats haven't even passed a budget, voting down President Obama's budget.  Tapper agreed that everything has fallen apart.  He noted that five budgets were offered and nothing happened.  He said it is damaging the country.  He said the big sticking point is whether there could be any tax revenue increase.  

Tapper said that he asked a question about the demonizing of Bain Capital by the Obama administration when they are seeking campaign funds from the Blackstone Group, the country's largest private equity group.  In addition the White House is going after private equity employees going after those that contribute to Mitt Romney.  

Tapper said the use of the presidency to campaign has been ramping up with successive administrations.  

Should Nuns Take Birth Control Pills To Prevent Cancer?

A provocative research study from Australia says that nuns should take birth control pills to prevent breast, ovarian and uterine cancer.  

This would align with the pro-life emphasis of the church, but would open a can of worms with the laity who could claim to take the pill for health reasons when in fact the main purpose might be for contraception. \\

Studies show overall death rates are 12 per cent lower in women who have used or are using the Pill, compared with those who never took it.

The risk of developing ovarian and womb cancers falls by 50 to 60 per cent in users, with the benefits lasting more than 20 years – and long after women stop taking it.

The Pill is believed to offer protection because women taking it are not producing eggs. 

The process of egg release triggers cell damage and repair that raises the risk of tumour development. 

 

Death Panels Redux

 In 2009 the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force  recommended that women routinely get screening mammograms every other year starting at age 50.  This caused an uproar among many women who disagreed with this "data driven, research based, best practices" decision.  

Now  new evidence presented at the Radiological Society of North America this week shows the opposite conclusion according to a study led by  highly reputable Elizabeth Wende Breast Care LLC of Rochester, New York.

Tne study, conducted among with women ages 40-49, demonstrated that mammograms were just as likely to find invasive breast cancers in women with no family history of breast cancer as in women with a family history of the disease.  Women with and without a family history were just as likely to have cancer that had spread to the lymph nodes.  .

 Said study leader Stamatia Destounis "You find small cancers that will never be a problem. But we found a considerable number that can't wait. IInvasive breast cancers can spread and kill."

Indeed.  How many patients, trusting and heeding the advice of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force are facing a less than merry holiday season as too many of those small cancers turned out to pack a lethal punch, discovered too late.

How many other of the task forces' recommendations are as flawed, where an abundance of caution wasn't exercised?  

Yes, death panels do exist in America where trusting taxpayers are dealt a death sentence without the benefit of defense lawyers,  countless appeals and the gift of time.  Is anybody listening?  Does anyone care?

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Adam Brufsky, Magee Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh with Laura Ingraham

Laura Ingraham hosted Dr. Adam Brufsky, Magee Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh. 

Brufsky said that the situation is evolving on breast cancer scanning.  He believes women should be screened in their forties and up.  He and Ingraham deplored "experts" who downplay mammograms importance, noting that thousands of women's lives can be saved until there are better screening mechanisms.  

Brufsky said the recent downplaying of PSA testing for prostate cancer is the same situation where lives that could be saved would be lost if the disease isn't caught in time.  

Brufsky agreed with Ingraham that the dropping of CLASS program for long term care for seniors could very well be the bellwether for the demise of the health care law.  

Brufsky said lung xrays have been problematic because they can also cause cancer.  He thinks in the next five to ten years there is hope that the cancer's mortality risks can be better assessed and also the interaction of cancer cells with the body.  He does see more targeted and individualized treatment regimens for cancer patients.  

Breast, Leukemia, Colon Cancer Drugs in Short Supply

The New York Times is reporting that 180 vital drugs are in short supply nationwide including a number of drugs to treat breast cancer as well as colon cancer and childhood leukemia.  The reasons are consolidation of drug companies, contamination of the drugs made at plants abroad that aren't inspected and the drug companies needing profits.  

 

The proposed solutions, which include a national stockpile of cancer medicines and a nonprofit company that will import drugs and eventually make them, are still in the early or planning stages. But the sense of alarm is widespread.

“These shortages are just killing us,” said Dr. Michael Link, president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the nation’s largest alliance of cancer doctors. “These drugs save lives, and it’s unconscionable that medicines that cost a couple of bucks a vial are unavailable.”

More than half the recent shortages have resulted because government or company inspectors found problems like microbia as well as l contamination that can be lethal on injection. Others have occurred because of capacity problems at drug plants or lack of interest because of low profits, according to the F.D.A.

 

 

Obamamamacare Story Mostly Just That

The Washington Post reveals in its piece "Obama's mother had health insurance, according to biography" that contrary to President Obama's assertions during the presidential campaign, that his mother had health insurance for her very sad battle against ovarian cancer.  Her battle was with getting disability insurance where the issue of pre-existing conditions was an issue.   Most patients with cancer or other prolonged illnesses have had at one time or another go-rounds on some aspect of care, whether from providers or from insurers.  This, however, seems to have been inflated as a personal narrative in lobbying for the health care legislation.  Whether the health care law will elimiate such problems or exacerbate them remains to be seen, but in the short run, health care costs have not been held down as of yet.   

The story from Janny Scott's biography “A Singular Woman,” surfaced in the NY Times and the White House had been said that nevertheless Stanley Ann Dunham did have out of pocket disability expenses.  

Obama also implied that he was at his mother's side throughout the illness but in fact was not.  

But Obama had not seen his mother for some months when she died in a Hono lulu hospital in 1995, according to Scott’s book and to friends whom The Washington Post interviewed in 2009. Dunham had returned to Hawaii early that year for treatment of the cancer, which was first misdiagnosed as indigestion in Indonesia, where she had completed field work for her doctoral dissertation in anthropology and had worked for the Ford Foundation in development.

She flew to Memorial Sloan-Kettering hospital in New York for a second opinion and learned her cancer had advanced rapidly. Her son was in Chicago, planning a run for an Illinois state Senate seat.

His mother died Nov. 7, a day before her son arrived.

The expanding catalogue of Obamacare fables

 

Coming to US? Age Bias at Britain's NHS Damns Older Cancer Patients to Early Deaths

The UK Telegraph reports on a study by the Kings Fund that says British senior cancer patients die prematurely compared to better performing countries.  

The National Health Service is a single payer system that has received notorious headliens for its treatment of the elderly and others - and will raise concerns about Obamacare leading to similar results in the US.

 

Some 15,000 people over 75 in Britain die prematurely from cancer each year compared with better-performing countries, according to estimates.

The report said there was “substantial evidence” that older patients were under-treated on the NHS and that their chances of survival were “poorer as a result”.

It found the elderly were less likely to receive proper tests or surgery and more likely to be seen when their cancers were advanced and so beyond treatment.

 

Will Elizabeth Edwards' Secret Video Testimony Send John Edwards To Prison?

The National Enquirer who broke the John Edwards-Rielle Hunter scandal now claims that Elizabeth Edwards recorded a video given to the prosecution in which she details John Edwards lies and all she knew about the sordid affair - literally getting revenge from the grave.

‘On the secret video, Elizabeth spells out everything she knew about John’s affair with Rielle and how he managed to cover it up for so long,’ a source told the Enquirer.

‘She also spills all of John’s lies – many of which could be what sends him up the river.’

The source said Mrs Edwards, who succumbed to breast cancer on December 7 after battling the illness for six years, wanted to exact revenge for his extra-marital affair.

 

'Elizabeth wanted to haunt John and Rielle – literally from her grave – and she has,’ the source told the Enquirer.

‘She hated them with a vengeance'

 

Dr. Sanjay Gupta on Cancer and Cell Phones, CNN's chief medical correspondent with Laura Ingraham

Laura Ingraham hosted 

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent Gupta said that the WHO report on cell phone usage and cancer suggests that people should use ear pieces and speaker phones.  He said that research suggests that the old cell phones were more carcinogenic and that the newer models are better.  He said that the late lawyer Johnny Cochran's physician contributed to his death.   Gupta said there is more cancer due to our living longer and that people are developing cancers such as glioblastoma are shifting to a younger demographic.  He said that glucose metabolism is affected by cell phone use.  Ingraham said cell phone manufacturers have included warnings with their products for years.  Gupta said he was shocked by the study that suggestsed women under fifty needed fewer mammograms.  He said the process isn't perfect and that we could use a better and more definitive screening device, but we need to use what we have got.   Gupta said the hardest part of his job has been to see children in war zones as one identifies them with one's own children.  Ingraham said she believes doctors are paid or appreciated enough and hopes young people don't avoid a career in medicine.  He tells people that he wakes up every morning with a sense of purpose that is very rewarding.   Cell phones a possible carcinogen - like coffee

Shannon Miller, 2 time Olympic gold medalist with Laura Ingraham

Laura Ingraham hosted

Shannon Miller, 2 time Olympic gold medalist   Miller said she had a baseball size tumor removed from her ovary and she is in chemotherapy.  She said it has been a roller coaster, but on her good days she tries to exercise.  She recommends keeping normal activities going to bounce back. Miller said the state of gymnastics is very strong in the US and that today she cheers on with trepidation for them.  She said the safety equipment has progressed a lot.  She said her worst injury as in her arm.

 

Nuclear Winter: Radiation Snow, Rain Falls on Japan

Good Morning America reported on the very long term danger presented by radiation precipitation in Japan that will infiltrate soil, water, etc..

Is radiation from Japan coming to the US?

Nuclear Winter: Radiation Snow, Rain Falls on Japan

'We're not afraid to die': Extraordinary courage of the Fukushima Fifty as they return to stricken power plant to fight nuclear disaster