Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Socialized medicine is bad and the “moderate” plan to have a public/private hybrid healthcare system only draws out the agony on the road to single payer. (If you prefer listening over reading, the companion podcast to this post is embedded below, or you can listen to it at Libsyn or at Apple
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Given Obama’s years’ long shell game about whether or not Obamacare was a tax, isn’t it lovely to see the Tax Bill spell the end of Obamacare? On September 20, 2009, Barack Obama had an interview with George Stephanopoulos during the run-up to the vote on the Affordable Care Act
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Since I don’t have a license to reproduce Scott Adams’ Dilbert cartoons, I won’t. Still, I very much want you to see his cartoon for July 21. The comments indicate that Adams’ readers think he was making a dig at Norton products or similar computer programs. I think differently. I
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The problem with government health care is a simple one: The government does not have skin in the game. Watch this short video to understand. I’ve spent thousands of words trying to explain badly what Bob McEwen explains perfectly in just four minutes: Hat tip: Seraphic Secret
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Contrary to the Progressives’ hysterical refrain that people WILL die if Republicans even touch Obamacare, facts show that under Obamacare people DID die. Trump’s twitter spat with Mika (something the critics deplore but that, per my own informal survey, ordinary people either applaud or ignore) temporarily distracted the media and
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Glenn Reynolds is absolutely right when he wonders if birth control pills have contributed to the dramatic rise in strokes in young urban women. Today at Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds put up the following short post: A WORRISOME INCREASE IN STROKES among young people in large cities. The increase among women is more
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America is indeed in the grip of an unprecedented opioid crisis, with a lot of blame to go around, but not everybody is at risk and there is hope. A couple of days ago, I wrote a post with questions and comments that occurred to me after watching HBO’s Warning:
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A decent HBO documentary about America’s opioid crisis raises questions perhaps you can answer and elicits observations based on my own experiences. Last night, I finally got around to watching HBO’s Warning: This Drug May Kill You, a documentary about the opioid addiction problem America is facing. It’s a decent
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I’ve cleared my spindle and the articles I linked are a feast for the hungry mind — the Middle East, climate change, policing, gender, Obamacare, and more. There’s land if the Palestinians want it. Did you know that President al-Sisi in Egypt has offered the Palestinians a state that would
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When it comes to Obamacare, I’m all for Occam’s Razor, which argues that the simplest approach — repeal — is the best, subject to limited grandfathering. Before I introduce you to a few ideas I have about Obamacare, I have a true story for you. A pro-Obamacare friend of mine
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A video that has been making the rounds for a couple of months before I saw it offers so much insight Muslim hygiene that it may well put you off eating Middle Eastern food forever. And yes, I have no doubt that the man in the video is a Muslim.
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Samantha Bee, who has a half-hour “comedy news” show, made headlines when she did a segment viciously attacking Catholic hospitals around America. Her premise is that there are too many Catholic hospitals in America, which is a bad thing because the celibate men in charge are guilty of extreme misogyny
Continue readingAdmittedly, I am a study group of one. But I have been getting colds for fifty plus years and I am very cognizant of their normal progression and severity. This one that came on hard four days ago should have me a whimpering mass of jelly by now (I don’t handle
Continue readingSome of my harder-Left friends on Facebook are going crazy with posters again, so I thought this would be a good time to deconstruct a few of them. Let’s start with this one, which requires its own post. (Incidentally, the fact that it takes just one sentence to spin out
Continue readingMy college-age child introduced me to a website called I Like Bernie, But… which is particularly appealing to young voters. The website offers short answers to concerns pro-Bernie voters might still be harboring about his policies and his ability to win. With few exceptions, these answers are just plain wrong. You
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