Citation Ten makes Cessna fastest… again

 

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Cessna Aircraft Corporation announced this week that its new Citation Ten will be the world’s fastest civil aircraft. After the retirement of the Concorde, Cessna’s Citation X was the fastest civil airplane with a maximum Mach number of 0.92 until Gulfstream unveiled its new G650 business jet. The G650 boasted a maximum Mach of 0.925. In an August 24press release, Cessna revealed that the newCitation Ten will have a maximum Mach of 0.935.

A speed of Mach 0.935 means that the Citation Ten will be capable of traveling at 93.5 percent of the speed of sound. This is equivalent to almost 700 miles per hour (1,126 kilometers per hour).

 

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Obamacare facts: Death panels and rationing

Sarah Pain coined the term “death panel” in a 2009 tweet. (therealbs2002/Wikimedia)

The phrase “death panel” is a politically charged term that originated with Sarah Palin in 2009. Palin coined the term in reference to the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that Medicare pay for end-of-life counseling sessions. Her original Facebook post on the subject read, “The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care.” Factcheck.org called “death panels” one of 2009’s “whopper[s] of the year.”

The ACA does not contain the phrase “death panel” and the end-of-life counseling cited by Palin was not mandatory. This does mean that Palin was totally off the mark however.

The ACA does establish an unelected board of bureaucrats who will be tasked with cutting Medicare spending.

 

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Obamacare facts: Reform law is not ‘deficit neutral’

President Obama and the Democrats attempted to sell Obamacare to the American people by claiming that we could not afford not to pass the bill. President Obama is quoted by Politifact as saying that, “According to the Congressional Budget Office -– the independent organization that both parties have cited as the official scorekeeper for Congress –- our approach would bring down the deficit by as much as $1 trillion over the next two decades.” The undated Politifact piece rates the promise as half-true, which is being generous.

A recent New York Times article makes a similar claim. The article notes that, according to the Congressional Budget Office, repeal of Obamacare would add $109 billion to budget deficits over the next 10 years. Logically, that does not make sense. How is it that the federal government can enact a massive new entitlement, create scores of new bureaucracies, add insurance coverage for millions of people, and still save money on the deal?

 

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More legal trouble for Obamacare

President Obama has suffered another setback in court. A federal judge in Colorado recently ruled that the Department of Health and Human Services mandate that all insurance policies cover contraceptive and abortifacient drugs placed an illegal burden on freedom of religion.

Judge John Kane’s ruling was narrow, currently applying only to Hercules Industries according to Talking Points Memo. The company filed suit against the mandate claiming that it violated the Catholic beliefs of its owner. Judge Kane agreed and granted an injunction that prevented enforcement of the mandate against Hercules until courts could rule on the merits of the case. Judge Kane was an appointee of Democratic President Jimmy Carter.

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