Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
People are arguing past themselves on the healthcare issue because words have come to mean very different things to different people. More specifically, there is great confusion over what is meant by a “right” (as in “Bill of…). Tell me if you agree. I have been listening to video and
Continue readingThe debate on Obama Care has tended to focus on money and on vague accusations of probable racism. Zane Pollard, an opthamologist, spells out precisely what that rationing will look like. And no matter how the Dems dress it up, for the vast majority of Americans, it will look much
Continue readingWe do not live in a genuine democracy, which would see people vote on every single issue. Instead, we have a representative democracy — we get to vote on which individuals we’d like to see represent us in government. People who want to hold those jobs (that is, the candidates)
Continue readingOn the same day I heard a friend tell about her father’s stroke, which was initially misdiagnosed and therefore not treated, I got the following in an email. It’s a no brainer to pass it on to you: STROKE IDENTIFICATION It only takes a minute to read this… A neurologist
Continue readingKarl Rove nicely articulates the bottom line facts driving Obama’s fear-mongering game to force through immediate and irrevocable changes to America’s health care system: Mr. Obama’s problem is that nine out of 10 Americans would likely get worse health care if ObamaCare goes through. Of those who do not have
Continue readingA consensus seems to be growing that the ObamaCare bill does not bode well for seniors. Aside from the mandatory “counseling” for all seniors, counseling that’s only worth doing if it’s meant to steer seniors away from obtaining treatment, simple common sense dictates that the health care cannot work without
Continue readingIn just three paragraphs, Charles Krauthammar explains all of the problems with the health care reform the President so desperately wants passed by August: President Obama premised the need for reform on the claim that medical costs are destroying the economy. True. But now we learn — surprise! — that
Continue readingMichelle Malkin puts it together: the administration’s insistence that blind-folded science (untouched by greed or human feeling) will ensure the proper treatments in all situations plus the person who is the President’s voice for those “scientific” treatments. If you recall Zombie’s expose about the new science czar, John Holdren, you’ll
Continue readingHere, at home, it’s barely news. In England, it’s a true epidemic, with the current spread and death rate hinting at up to 65,000 deaths as the disease runs its course. Are we in the U.S. hit less hard? Are we hearing less about how hard we’re hit? I’m asking,
Continue readingTom Elia links to an utterly fatuous statement from a 25 year old Obama supporter (who nevertheless gets a bully pulpit in a WaPo blog), saying that killing the profit motive will have no effect whatsoever on pharmaceutical innovation. In the face of such stupidity, I have to drag out
Continue readingSteve Crowder looks at the Canadian health care system. Some of his experiences are similar to those in any busy city emergency room, such as a long, long wait for a low level problem. Others, most notably statements by nurses, make your eyes bug: Three years to get an appointment
Continue readingEngland has generated a lot of pig headlines lately. The first round involved Britons actually removing, just thinking about removing, pigs from public sight for fear of offending Muslims. Those stories were scary in an attenuated fashion, because they symbolized England’s loss of will and her willing submission to a
Continue readingIn his most recent article at the Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove explains in great detail how Barack Obama told quite obvious lies about the stimulus numbers, only to pretend now that he didn’t really mean what he said. (That’s the lying pattern I’ve told you about.) The American people
Continue readingAnother chapter in the “lies, damn lies and statistics” is the repeated claim from proponents of European-style socialized medicine that the US has the highest infant mortality rate of any first world country. This is a scathing indictment, implicating American poverty, racism, prenatal and post-natal care. The only problem is
Continue readingWHO excitedly announced a few days ago that swine flu was a pandemic. To my old-fashioned mind, pandemic means a deadly disease running riot around the world, threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands, if not millions. Swine flu is definitely traveling, and it’s out of season, but so far
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