Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I was thinking about government care today, not in terms of dollars and cents, but in terms of the human factor. Government health care imagines that all people will respond to situations in the same way, both physically and emotionally. But that’s not how people are. The medicine that makes
Continue readingIn a market economy, the marketplace drives the availability of goods and services. If there’s a big demand, the market will create a big supply; if the demand dries up, so does supply, as the market sends its resources elsewhere. Supply and demand, however, have no place in government controlled
Continue readingLast night, I was speaking with a liberal friend who actually works in the insurance business. During the run up to the health care vote, she and I had politely vigorous conversations in which I explained, over and over again, that, if penalties are lower than the cost of insurance,
Continue readingAs the Soviet Union showed, by the time medicine is fully nationalized, careers in medicine have been reduced to the lowest status level, somewhere around street cleaning. Learning medicine and practicing medicine (including nursing, pharmacy, technical jobs, etc.), is incredibly time-consuming and, in a society that still has the gloss
Continue readingReaders of my blog know that one of my personal bête noires is liberal indoctrination in public schools. I blog about it frequently. My last outing on that subject was here, and I’ll get back to that in a little bit. First, though, I’d like you to see how one
Continue readingHoward Fineman was going along all right in a column admitting that the health care bill was politically dangerous for the Democrats and that Americans really don’t like it. Then he got stupid — and it’s the kind of stupid that either proves he has minimal gray matter in his
Continue readingI warned people close to me (mother, sister, etc.) that Obama was a socialist and they laughed at me and (quite lovingly, because they’re my mom and my sister) called me “extreme.” I wonder if they would have laughed at Al Sharpton too, now that he’s finally let the cat
Continue readingMy daughter’s history teacher, when pressed by her students about Sunday’s health care vote, couldn’t keep her mouth shut. (Keeping her mouth shut would have involved saying, “This is a history class, not a politics class. You should ask your parents these questions.”) Instead, she blithely opined that “all civilized
Continue readingI had an illuminating conversation with a neighbor this morning. She’s very pleased that health care reform passed, because “we’ll all have insurance coverage now.” This is an Ivy League educated woman, and that was her sole understanding of the monstrosity that just cleared Congress: “We’ll all have insurance coverage
Continue readingI indulged myself today by staying assiduously away from the computer. If there was going to be a train crash, I didn’t want to see it happen. What’s really irksome isn’t that Stupak is the usual Demo ho (pardon my language), but that he was willing to sell his soul
Continue readingStupak’s going to make his much awaited statement while I’m off working out. So far, he’s had a spine and has distinguished himself from other Democrats by actually letting a principle guide him. I suspect, though, that his 11:00 press conference will be a weasely explanation of why he’s caved
Continue readingVictor Davis Hanson sums everything up in one paragraph: The president is pushing legislation that a clear majority of the people dislike, and whose details neither he nor his supporters can explain in simple language. Its ends-justify-the-means passage will require legislative gymnastics that border on the unconstitutional, and in Orwellian
Continue readingFamily commitments meant that I spent, perhaps, 5 minutes at my computer this weekend. That wasn’t what I’d planned, but that was what I ended up with. In today’s news cycle, of course, two days can be the equivalent of two decades. Certainly, when I turned the computer on this
Continue readingPride can make us do very stupid things. Once we’ve committed to something (a job, a marriage, a principle, whatever), and once we’ve touted that commitment to the world as the most wonderful thing evah, it is extremely difficult to stand up to that same world and admit “I made
Continue readingNancy is boasting that she’s got the votes. We thought last fall that this was an empty boast, but it wasn’t. We should, therefore, be very concerned that she makes this boast. The Tea Party Patriots have put together an action email, telling you what you can do to help.
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