Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
At the Absurd Report, you can read a brief synopsis of the entire 1000+ page health care bill focusing, not on the extraneous minutiae, but on the core provisions. And, as you have already realized, it is the few core provisions scattered throughout the bill that ensure that our national
Continue readingThe Washington Post has an excellent op-ed regarding the fact that, this time regarding health care, the Obama administration is once again trampling blithely over the Constitution. After you’ve read the op-ed, you might also want to read Ed Morrissey’s further comments. I particularly like Morrissey’s point about the reason
Continue readingIn an earlier post regarding hints that the government would like to (and will eventually) stop treating people who are terminally ill or badly injured, I pointed out that even those who think, in the cold, clinical light of good health that they’d want to pull the plug if they
Continue readingA Weekly Standard article contrasts the fact that pro-ObamaCare ads attack opponents, while anti-ObamaCare ads attack ObamaCare. I know which I believe is a more effective approach. While people in politics believe politics is everything, ordinary people care, not about process, but about product. Here’s an example of an excellent
Continue readingThis is a matched set of stories from the London Times, both about British dental care, and both warning of the travails when the government both controls much (not all, but much) of the market. The first story involves the horrible teeth British children enjoy under national dental care. You’ll
Continue readingI have a question: what are “profits” and why do so many people associate “profit” with something bad? Oh, I understand the envy mentality that says, “if someone is earning profits, it’s unfair and I demand my fair share.” I also understand the entitlement mentality of people that say, “I
Continue readingThe New York Times had an interesting editorial today, one that managed to speak slightingly of Obama’s handling of the health care issue, even as it regurgitated the false assumptions underlying the plan and the administration’s attacks on just about everybody. I thought that I’d amuse myself by fisking the
Continue readingI had a fascinating conversation yesterday with a physician who fervently supports the proposed health care plan — at least in theory, as he admitted he didn’t know what was actually in the 1000+ page bill that seems to be the House front-runner. He and I began with a few
Continue readingRecently, while at work, I listened to a physician discuss why Americans should support Obama’s health care plan. I sat quietly for a while as she assured everyone that there has never been any attempt to compare the results of various health care systems around the world (that is not
Continue readingGiven the many alternative health care reform options that have been proposed by conservatives, some Democrats, the health care industry and the insurance industry, why are they not even on the table for debate? There are government supported health insurance plans in other countries that work pretty well (Switzerland come
Continue readingThe Heritage Foundation dispels the out-and-out lies and the stretched truths in Obama’s “townhall”: “I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter.” This is directly contradicted by candidate Barack Obama’s own website which quotes Obama at a rally in Ames, Iowa form 2008: “If I were designing a
Continue readingSomething is wrong with Jake Tapper. He’s a reporter for ABC and he doesn’t seem to have a bias one way or another. I think the man needs a career change. This kind of objectivity shouldn’t be tolerated in one with his access to the halls of power. Tapper’s latest
Continue readingAUGUST 14th SAN FRANCISCO TEA PARTY HEALTHCARE PROTEST!!! DATE: Friday, August 14th TIME: 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Show up and leave when you want/can. WHERE: Meet at Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco. Directions, parking, maps are all available at http://www.embarcaderocenter.com/ec/about/directions.html#maps. For additional parking: http://www.parkingquest.com/~kenq/cgi-bin/i.cgi?L=n18r01&B=FN PLANS: A “Mock Town
Continue readingFor the eight years of the Bush presidency, we saw almost non-stop protests. These protests were characterized by speakers being shouted down; fake blood; fake waterboarding; crude, obscene and violent picket signs, etc. Not the American way we said. Freedom of speech is one thing. Ugly, violent, obscene speech is
Continue readingIt was only last week that I wrote about the fact that the AARP’s weird support for Obama Care, a plan that is likely to ration care its members, might be connected to the fact that at least one branch of its management, the magazine editorship, is to the left
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