Phew! That’s a relief, only 3.2% are murdered via euthanasia in the Netherlands. But wait, isn’t that still hundreds of thousands of people? This is the direction we’re heading with ObamaCare.

BUZ FEED: Rick Santorum said in an interview with social conservative leader James Dobson earlier this month that euthanasia makes up “ten percent of all deaths, and half of those people are euthanized involuntarily, because they are old or sick. And so elderly people in the Netherlands don’t go into a hospital. They go to other country.”

The Dutch public broadcaster Radio 1 described Santorum’s remark as “fact-free politics,” and the comments have gotten wide play, leading this evening’s broadcast of the country’s popular current-event’s show De Wereld Draait Door and drawing reports all over the national media.

The Dutch sources estimate that legal euthanasia is the cause of what the Christian paper Nederlands Dagblad put at 3.2% fo deaths at the most liberal estimate, and others put around 2%. Public statistics, which have been reported since the practice was legalized in 2002, cite 3,136 reports of euthanasia out of a total of 136,000 in the Netherlands in 2011, a bit more than 2%.

Mitt’s caught up in Michigan due to his negative ad barrage against Rick

SOURCE: Real Clear Politics

And Here’s What’s Happening in Texas, according to a new University of Texas poll . . .

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Rick Santorum is holding onto a 4 point lead over Mitt Romney in Michigan, according to a new Public Policy Polling survey out this morning.

Newt Gingrich has suggested that if Romney can’t win Michigan (the state he grew up in where his dad was Governor), Mitt should drop out of the race.

Mitt has rolled out an avalanche of attack ads against Rick and has an enormous money advantage. So this will be a tough state for Rick to hold.  If Rick does win Michigan, Newt is probably right. Mitt should drop out.  There would be no further rationale for his candidacy.

The all-important Michigan primary is next Tuesday, Feb 28.

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When George W. Bush left office in January of 2009, the average price of a gallon of regular gas in America was $1.61. Today the average price of a gallon of gas is $3.54. Many analysts expect $5 gas this summer.

Every penny of increase in gas prices takes $1 BILLION out of the U.S. economy. So when the price of gas goes up $1, that’s $100 BILLION sucked out of the U.S. economy, or about $1,000 a year out of the typical American household — not chump change.

Of course, Obama has done nothing to promote American energy independence. He has squandered billions on windmills, solar power, and failed green energy projects, like Solyndra. No one’s buying his stupid Obama Volt car that he forced GM to make. The Obama Volt only has a range of 35 miles on a battery charge, plus you have a gigantic battery taking up much of your back seat. What a fiasco.

Meanwhile, he’s blocked drilling for oil across the U.S., on our continental shelf, and in Alaska. He blocked the Keystone oil pipeline from Canada. He’s blocked “fracking” — the extracting of oil from shale. The U.S. has more oil underground than Saudi Arabia.

The U.S. has oceans of oil underground — enough to last us 500 years even if we don’t find anymore. But Obama and the Left won’t let us access it.

The consequence is we are forced to buy our oil from the Middle East, thus financing terrorism against us, and from America hating dictators like Hugo Chavez in Venezuela — all because Obama won’t let Americans drill for oil here.

Here’s the price of a barrel of Brent Crude oil right now . . .

Rick Santorum is coming under fire from liberals for, well, apparently not using contraceptives in his personal life.

He adheres to the Catholic doctrine that we should always keep ourselves open to the potential of human life — that is, conception. Official Catholic Church doctrine opposes contraception, especially abortion pills that actually do take human lives.

Rick Santorum is not saying contraceptives should be outlawed or not available. He is not trying to deny anyone access to contraceptives.

He even voted for federal funding for contraceptives in Africa to try to stop the spread of AIDS.

All he’s saying is how he chooses to live his own life — which is in accordance with traditional Catholic teachings.

What the heck is wrong with that?

He’s not saying you have to live your life that way.  But he also doesn’t think it’s so good that Planned Parenthood, the Left, the public schools, and our governing institutions work ’round the clock to addict children to sex.

Furthermore, we’ve somehow lost the point of insurance.

Health insurance is supposed to protect one against catastrophic financial loss. It’s not supposed to cover hang nails, colds, and other relatively minor costs of health care.

I’ve always bought health insurance with a $5,000 deductible. I’ve always figured I’ll just pay for routine out-of-pocket medical costs myself. This makes my health insurance relatively cheap.

But if the insurance company is expected to pay for all health care costs — every doctor’s visit, every hang nail, every sniffle, then the cost of the insurance goes way up.

Condoms and birth control pills are super cheap. We don’t need health insurance for that.

But, of course, this issue has nothing to do with health care.

It’s about using ObamaCare as a weapon against religious people and those who adhere to traditional moral values on sex and marriage. Obama and his liberal allies are looking to use ObamaCare to force its liberal morality on churches, religious institutions, and religious people.

Part of the Obama strategy here, no doubt, is to divert attention away from his failed Presidency, including the disastrous economy and $16 TRILLION national debt. He would prefer to talk about contraceptives than the fiasco of his Presidency.

Keep in mind that ObamaCare does not fully kick in until 2014.

The requirement that you pay for abortion pills and other abortion services as part of your health insurance, even if you are pro-life,  is just the first freedom-crushing decree by ObamaCare. We’ll call this ObamaCare Decree #1.

Get set for many more of these kinds of freedom-crushing decrees by Obama and his bureaucrats.

RASMUSSEN: Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum continues to ride his polling momentum into Ohio where he leads Mitt Romney by nearly two-to-one in the first Rasmussen Reports survey of Republicans in the state.

The new statewide telephone survey of Likely Republican Primary voters shows Santorum picking up 42% of the vote to Romney’s 24%. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich draws 13% support, while Texas Congressman Ron Paul picks up 10%. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate, and eight percent (8%) are undecided.

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This is important because it would mean that Mitt Romney has actually lost the last four contests. The Maine Caucuses were key to stablizing Mitt’s freefall.

Here he was in 1992 at the Democrat Convention when he seemed to be, well, a Democrat . . .

But now he’s for Santorum . . .

MUSIC RADAR: “I’m just hoping that whatever is in the White House next year is a Republican. I can’t bear to watch what’s happened to our great country. Everybody’s got their head in the sand. Everybody in the industry is like, ‘Oh, Obama’s doing such a great job…’ I don’t think so. Not from what I see.

“Looking at the Republican candidates, I’ve got to tell you, I was floored the other day to see that Mitt Romney’s five boys have a $100 million trust fund. Where does a guy make that much money? So there’s some questions there. And watching Newt Gingrich, I was pretty excited for a while, but now he’s just gone back to being that person that everybody said he was – that angry little man. I still like him, but I don’t think I’d vote for him.

“Ron Paul… you know, I heard somebody say he was like insecticide – 98 percent of it’s inert gases, but it’s the two percent that’s left that will kill you. What that means is that he’ll make total sense for a while, and then he’ll say something so way out that it negates everything else. I like the guy because he knows how to excite the youth of America and fill them in on some things. But when he says that we’re like the Taliban… I’m sorry, Congressman Paul, but I’m nothing like the Taliban.

“Earlier in the election, I was completely oblivious as to who Rick Santorum was, but when the dude went home to be with his daughter when she was sick, that was very commendable. Also, just watching how he hasn’t gotten into doing these horrible, horrible attack ads like Mitt Romney’s done against Newt Gingrich, and then the volume at which Newt has gone back at Romney… You know, I think Santorum has some presidential qualities, and I’m hoping that if it does come down to it, we’ll see a Republican in the White House… and that it’s Rick Santorum.”

Let’s get back to music. Now that Dave Ellefson is back in the band, would you say this is the best lineup of Megadeth you’ve ever had?

“Well, it’s hard to answer that without risking hurting somebody’s feelings. I mean, you’ve got Nick [Menza] and you’ve got [Jimmy] DeGrasso… But you know, Shawn [Drover] is the kind of drummer we wish we’d had in the beginning. David Ellefson commented on that, too – that if we’d met Shawn in the beginning, there would never have been any other drummers.

“As far as having Dave back in the band, yeah, it’s been great. I think his self-inflicted time out [laughs] has been really good for us. He’s matured a lot. I keep joking with him: ‘Man, the last eight years you must have been practicing your butt off, ’cause you’ve gotten so much better.’ But it’s true. And Chris Broderick is great. He has no problem playing Chris Polland’s music. When Marty [Friedman] was in the band, it was all about Marty. We let Chris Broderick spread his wings in the studio, and he’s amazing – incredibly versatile.”

SOURCE: Real Clear Politics

Here’s Mitt’s new attack ad . . .

Pretty lame, really. Is this really all Mitt has on Rick?

Of course, everyone voted to increase the debt ceiling. We’re not happy that’s the case. But that’s the reality. Everyone voted for the “Bridge to Nowhere” — which was buried in mammoth appropriations legislation. Does anyone really believe Mitt would have acted differently if he had been in the Senate?

Rick has a 90% conservative voting record, according the the American Conservative Union. Sure, Rick had some misfires — such as when he voted for W’s prescription drug (Medicare Part D) program and his “No Child Left Behind” program.

But Mitt never did one conservative thing when he was Governor of Massachsetts. Rick was representing a heavily Democrat state in Pennsylvania, but still mustered a 90%+ conservative voting record and survived two terms as Senator.

Santorum has been a movement conservative all his life. He lives, thinks, breathes conservatism.

Is Rick perfect all the time? No. Neither was Ronald Reagan.

One thing’s absolutely for certain: Rick will pack his Administration and the courts with rock solid conservatives. That’s good enough for me.

Santorum Fends off Romney Attack Ads with Humor

Rick counters Mitt’s negative ads with positive ads