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 […]
If you haven’t read this brief post by Victor Davis Hanson over at National Review Online, then you should do so now. A sample: Any initial delight that the world's masses found in a post-national, post-racial, charismatic young American president will begin to be eclipsed by their leaders' realpolitik calculations, both old friends and enemies […]
Last year, when one iteration of the health care bill introduced us to “comparative effectiveness panels” that would decide on what sorts of medical treatments would get paid for under the new health care regime, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin referred to them as “death panels.” That earned her a “Pants on Fire” and “lie […]