• Dan Gainor of the Business and Media Institute.
• Alex Epstein, Fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute.

• Do the Democrat's have a secret plan...shhhh, don't tell anyone...to get health care passed?
• Class Warfare...who's winning, rich or poor?
• What makes you happy about the holidays...family & friends or commercialism?!

• Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Harry Connick, Jr.
• Do They Know It's Christmas?, Band Aid.
• Didn't I Get This Last Year?, Bob Rivers.
• I Saw Three Ships, Sting.
• Because I Got High, Afroman.
• Carol Of The Bells, Trans Siberian Orchestra (video).
• Democracy, Leonard Cohen.
• Catch the Reading Bug, Monty Harper.

"Facing last-minute liberal resistance in Congress, the drug industry is bracing for an increase in its share of the cost of the proposed health care overhaul beyond the $80 billion over 10 years that it had negotiated with the White House, industry lobbyists say.

House lawmakers and Senate liberals were furious to learn in August that to win drug makers’ political support, the White House and the Senate Finance Committee had struck the deal to cap industry costs at $80 billion. But the White House and the Senate nonetheless appeared to stick by the agreement, which drug lobbyists called “rock-solid.”

Now, after narrowly beating back some Senate proposals to extract far more and facing similar demands from House leaders, the drug makers acknowledge that they may have to renegotiate, several drug lobbyists said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the overhaul legislation is not yet final."

"For years, economists have defined the economic health of a country by its Gross Domestic Product. Trouble is, every time a forest falls, the GDP goes up. With every oil spill, the GDP goes up. Every time a cancer patient is diagnosed, the GDP goes up. Is this how we measure economic progress? Economists … must learn to subtract."

"The energy crisis is real. It is worldwide. It is a clear and present danger to our nation. These are facts and we simply must face them. Moreover, I will soon submit legislation to Congress calling for the creation of this nation's first solar bank, which will help us achieve the crucial goal of 20 percent of our energy coming from solar power by the year 2000.

What I have to say to you now about energy is simple and vitally important. Point one: I am tonight setting a clear goal for the energy policy of the United States. Beginning this moment, this nation will never use more foreign oil than we did in 1977 -- never. From now on, every new addition to our demand for energy will be met from our own production and our own conservation.

The generation-long growth in our dependence on foreign oil will be stopped dead in its tracks right now and then reversed as we move through the 1980s, for I am tonight setting the further goal of cutting our dependence on foreign oil by one-half by the end of the next decade -- a saving of over 4-1/2 million barrels of imported oil per day."

Jimmy Carter televised "Crisis of Confidence" Speech on July 15, 1979.