Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
A couple of weeks ago, I said to my sister, “Kate’s pregnant,” referring to the Duchess of Cambridge. “How do you know?” she asked. “Because,” I told her, “the British press was filled with daily stories about her, showing her going her and there, and always talking about her perfect
Continue reading(Bookworm note: This guest-blogger post deviates from other guest posts that have focused on political or social issues. John O’Connor’s post is about hearing loss from medication, which is not something I usually talk about at my blog. However, I’ve spent about 30 hours (including driving time) over the last
Continue readingBruce Kesler highlights the largest ever survey of doctors on the subject of Obamacare — and they don’t like it. I can already hear the pro-Obamacare people saying, “Well, they don’t like it because it’s going to be more efficient and therefore cuts into their profits.” Think about that for
Continue readingWith the election nearing, the Facebook frenzy is accelerating. I got this from a Facebook acquaintance: Lots of food for thought, there: Ryan voted to end funding for Planned Parenthood. Ryan’s vote is completely in line with Romney’s insistence that a broke U.S. government should repeatedly ask itself “Is this
Continue readingHere’s another great video to share with your friends, from Dr. Barbara Bellar, candidate for Illinois State Senate, District 18: If you’d like to help Dr. Bellar win the election, go here. We need to support every candidate out there who has learned the judo technique of turning Alinsky tactics back
Continue readingI wrote earlier today that both an old person and a young person understood that Obama’s economy is unsustainable. This Romney-Ryan ad drives that point home with regard to Medicare for the elderly and future health care for the young:
Continue readingNo comment — this is just another irritating story: The worst outbreak of tuberculosis in Florida in 20 years was kept hidden from the public for months. In early February, Duval County Health Department officials were so worried about the surge in the number of cases that they asked the U.S. Centers for
Continue readingGay Patriot posted the other day about yet another anti-Walmart protest. His point was that the protesters, rather than being excited about real paying jobs coming to L.A., insisted that they would be better off with some hypothetical Mom and Pop jobs that might arise if they protested Walmart with
Continue readingWhen lawyers were arguing ObamaCare before the Supreme Court, Obama’s attorney’s claimed ObamaCare was a tax, while everyone else’s attorneys claimed that it was an unconstitutional penalty. Justice Roberts, for reasons unknown but still deeply suspect, agreed with both arguments. Things got exciting after that. In the days since the
Continue readingI’ve now had the chance to digest myriad analyses of the Roberts decision on ObamaCare. I think I can sum up the various conclusions that liberal and conservative pundits have reached. Here goes: The decision is a victory for Obama and the Democrats because it keeps ObamaCare on the books.
Continue readingThe Supreme Court opinion on ObamaCare runs to 193 pages. It is the size of a book, only more boring than any book anyone would ever want to read — and that is true despite the fact that Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the worst writer on the court, didn’t write it.
Continue readingOne of the hardest fought propositions on the California ballot this June is Proposition 29 which is described on the ballot as a new law that “imposes additional tax on cigarettes for cancer research.” Doesn’t that sound nice? Those who smoke have to fund cancer research. It’s an indirect version
Continue readingGeorge Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is one of the best and most important books ever written. This is not hyperbole. It’s as close as one can ever get to an objective statement about a novel. In addition to Orwell’s lean, elegant prose, it is impossible to imagine a more insightful or
Continue readingA video that illustrates why the Democrats’ recurrent analogy between mandatory car insurance and mandatory health insurance works perfectly — works perfectly, that is, if you want to show the absurdity of mandatory insurance.
Continue readingA fluke is a one time thing, a bizarre coming together of circumstances that cannot be relied upon to occur on a regular basis. We’ll hope that Sandra Fluke falls into this category, because she’s been a headache. (Although, I suspect, for many outside of New York, Los Angeles, and
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