I don’t know how many of you saw this video from the protests against the anti-illegal immigration law that Arizona passed last week, but I encourage you to take a look. (videos via Flopping Aces) Here’s the scene from overhead: The video shows police escorting a lone anti-illegal immigration protester away from the crowd […]
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed a law last week that made what was already a federal crime – being in the country illegally – into a state crime (usually it’s the other way around). Today we get this story from the AP: Illegal Immigrants Leaving Arizona Over New Law If that was all it took, […]
Claudia Schultz. Stay home. You got us into this mess.
A modicum of common sense would’ve told you that you can’t save money by offering health care to more people. But President Obama and Democrats in Congress fed the Congressional Budget Office a load of manure and got back their desired lie – we’ll extend the solvency of Medicare, provide insurance to 34 million more […]
Late last week, CNN.com featured as its main story an opinion piece by journalism professor and author of “The World Without Us,” Alan Weisman. In the article, Weisman attempts to make the case – in overwrought prose – that the eruption of the Icelandic volcano was a result of global warming. Both Iceland and the […]
The so-called dean of the Washington commentariat is still blissfully doing backstrokes in the tank filled with Obama Kool-Aid. We are beginning to learn that the Obama presidency will be an era of substantial but deferred accomplishments — perhaps always to be accompanied by a sense of continuing crisis. His vaunted "cool" allows him to […]
Courtesy of Allahpundit over at Hot Air comes this bit of comedy gold. The law apparently bars members of Congress from the federal employees health program, on the assumption that lawmakers should join many of their constituents in getting coverage through new state-based markets known as insurance exchanges. But the research service found that this […]
Having just mailed off my check for my federal income taxes, this quote of the day from the Economist doesn’t sit well with me. Politicians use the tax code to encourage things they like, such as driving hybrid cars, and to discourage things they don’t like, such as work.
John Weidner over at RandomJottings makes an excellent point on what will eventually occur as the comparative effectiveness panels under the new health care regime begin to make life and death decisions about medical treatment. Imagine a person is made a slave because our law allows it. And another person is made a slave because […]