Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
As someone whose addiction to chocolate is legendary amongst those who know her, this can only be good news: In a study that will provide comfort to chocoholics everywhere, researchers in Sweden have found evidence that people who eat chocolate have increased survival rates after a heart attack — and
Continue readingJust a quick thought: Whenever I do a post about the fact that Brits complaint vigorously about the terrible care they frequently get in hospitals, I always get a comment to the effect that American patients also have bad experiences. That’s true. We do have bad experiences. However, for the
Continue readingMark Steyn is on to Obama’s game: But, for the sake of argument, let us concede the president’s current number of 30 million [represents the president’s decision to delete 17 million illegals from his count]. In order to do something for the 10 percent of the population outside the current
Continue readingThe Wall Street Journal unsheathed its editorial knives in a slashing attack against the President’s health care speech. Some examples, although I really recommend that you read the whole thing: The thing about the bully pulpit is that Presidents can make the most fantastic claims and it takes days to
Continue readingI enjoyed the way in which James Taranto summed up — and eviscerated — Obama’s innocuous suggestion that mandatory insurance is entirely akin to uninsured motorist insurance: In his speech to a joint session of Congress last night, the president offered what presumably was meant to sound like an innocuous,
Continue readingLest anyone, including Maine’s Olympia Snowe, get too excited about the newly proposed trigger option in the health care proposals: President Obama has decided that another oration will rejuvenate his health-care agenda—despite having given 27 speeches entirely on health care, and another 92 in which it figured prominently. We’ll see
Continue readingFirst, a joke, one I’ve told before: In long ago Japan or China (or amongst the Eskimos, or something else), a young boy came across his father carry a large basket on his back. In the basket was the boy’s grandfather. He asked, “Father, where are you taking grandfather?” “Shh,”
Continue readingThe original video says that socialized medicine is great: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jng4TnKqy6A[/youtube] The rebuttal interlineated video shows all the errors in the argument: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPq6_7AFsp4[/youtube] I want to throw two more things into the mix: First, the fact that, in a head-on comparison, the government is vastly more inefficient, dollar-for-dollar, than private business
Continue readingI used Stephen Hawking as an example, not of Britain’s failed health care, but of the fact that, under socialized medicine, famous people and politicos always get the gold standard. Charlie (Colorado) kindly pointed out that I’d erred. In fact, Hawking got sick before he got famous. That is an
Continue readingI had originally missed the first article in Ann Coulter’s series, but I went back and read it after reading her brilliant second article in the same series. Coulter brilliantly makes the case for the efficiencies of the marketplace versus the inefficiencies of government control. The bottom line is that
Continue readingI’ve always been fascinated by the way in which language can degrade, especially when the object of a given word or phrase is not held in high esteem. For example, the word spinster simply used to mean a woman who spun thread. Over the years, the word came to mean
Continue readingIf you’re in Marin County, California, here is news for you (emphasis mine): Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Petaluma, said Wednesday that she has changed her mind and will hold a public town hall meeting on health care reform in Petaluma on Monday. Woolsey drew criticism from some constituents earlier this month
Continue readingI said I wouldn’t blog about Kennedy himself and I’ll keep my word. I would like to point out something, though, about Kennedy’s health care, since word is out that the Dems have instantly leaped upon his death to advance their health care agenda. If anyone among the population is
Continue readingObama’s back is against the wall so, with his lackeys’ announcement about 90,000 potential H1N1 deaths, it looks as if he’s deflecting attention, rather than passing on useful information. Given Obama’s manifest motives, the numbers may or may not be true. We know he predicts budget numbers down when it
Continue readingThat’s not normally what you expect to hear from your doctor, but you may hear that question in Hungarian or Polish or German or Italian or even Lithuanian if you’re a patient under Britain’s NHS. It turns out this problem arises because, yet again, the government has abandoned the rules
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