Roundup of blogs and news - 10/10/09

The big news of the week is that President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for . . . uh . . . being hopey-changey. What was lost in all this was the other prizes the President won.

John Podhoretz thinks that Obama was the logical choice for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Mark Steyn offers his own unique view of the Nobel Prize and Obama's vision.

Even the very liberal Richard Cohen is scratching his head.

And the Obama/Clinton State Department, classy as always.

The Wall Street Journal describes the Obama administration's war on medical specialists. This punishes some of the most highly trained and hardest-working physicians out there.

During the Clinton administration, the prosecution of Medicare "fraud" became a point of emphasis. The trouble is, the regulations (not laws) enacted by the Clinton administration did not allow for mistakes. There was only fraud or not fraud. This is what can happen with that type of mindset. (Oh, by the way, if someone is undercharged, that is Medicare fraud.)

The sleight of hand required to make the Baucus bill "deficit neutral". Remember, deficit neutral does not mean free. It has to be paid for. In this case, with higher taxes and fees, transferring costs to the states, and cutting Medicare reimbursement 25%, meaning that more docs won't accept Medicare and subsequent rationing.

Another, maybe easier to read, analysis of the Baucus plan.

A second stimulus bill means that the first one did not work. What makes us think a second will work any better? And, more important, how do we pay for it?

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Saudi Arabia wants financial aid if a UN climate control pact lessens fossil fuel dependence.

Andrew Klavan asks, "Is Barack Obama Jesus Christ?"

Jonah Goldberg discusses CNN "fact-checking" a Saturday Night Live sketch.

For those who think that global-warming is settled science, this is an interesting article.

Uh-oh! A reliably Democratic interest group might make the President look bad. Can't have that.