Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Remember back in 1980 when something happened in Poland that seemed little but had enormous consequences? That was the year that Lech Walesa started to lead the Gdansk shipyard workers. Their trade union eventually led in a straight line to the Soviet Union’s downfall. From a trade union, those shipyard
Continue readingRich Lowry wrote such a good post about Obama’s efforts to escape from Obamacare that I’m hard put to find a single paragraph to pique your interest. Everything is pique-y. After much thought, though, I offer this snippet to entice you to read the whole thing: In the great tradition
Continue readingSorry for the blog silence this morning, but I’ve been out and about. One of my stops was at our local Kaiser Optical Center in San Rafael. The glasses store was emblazoned with signs telling customers that they needed to be patient because the computer system had been upgraded. The
Continue readingI’ve been trolling through my old posts with the idea of putting out another Kindle book, and I’m impressed by the number of my past posts that either predicted today’s political problems or explain them. As always, I’m not boasting about my exceptional perspicacity. All of us knew what was
Continue readingLulu wrote an Obamacare parallel that I think you’ll enjoy: A Jacket Parable Let’s say you live in a mild climate and the vast majority of the time the only jacket you need is a plain grey zip up hoodie. So, every year you replace your worn out hoodie for
Continue readingCaped Crusader sent me this funny video:
Continue readingThe principal at the kids’ public high school routinely sends out emails notifying parents about upcoming events, exposures to diseases such as whooping cough, sports victories, etc. Today’s email, in addition to scheduling and sports information, contained this snippet: Lastly, Kaiser Permanente has asked our help in spreading the word
Continue readingCalifornia poll shows young and healthy more likely to seek medical insurance versus Claim: ‘Young Adult Exchange Enrollees Disproportionately Low’ Oh, wait! Actually reading the articles explains the inconsistencies. It turns out that the young are willing to sign up if someone else is paying for their insurance, at least
Continue readingThe news story is pretty grim, detailing the fact that the Obamacare insurance exchanges are so difficult to build, even when a private contractor is handling the work, that disaster is the only outcome: Oregon has spent more than $40 million to build its own online health care exchange. It
Continue readingA “perfect storm” occurs when circumstances that normally operate independently from each other occur at the same time, with each heightening the other’s impact. Starting at sunset tonight, we are about to see the nexus of four circumstances that normally operate independent of each other, especially since two of those
Continue readingObamacare made simple: Hat tip: Caped Crusader
Continue readingI went to bed depressed and waking up to these Drudge Report headlines reminded me why: The whole Iran-Munich moment has left me believing that Obama is much smarter than we realized. Even as he was lying to Israel about (a) having her back and (b) not negotiating with Iran,
Continue readingI trace back to Dennis Prager one of my favorite expressions: “I prefer clarity to agreement.” Too often, agreement can be like Tacitus’s definition of a Roman peace (“they make a desert and call it peace”). In the years since Obama’s election, I’ve frequently argued that, with a weak American
Continue readingWe all know that Obama and the Democrats committed fraud on a massive scale when the sold the public on Obamacare. I do not believe that, in the annals of history in any democratic country has a government ever committed fraud against its people in such a way. Andrew McCarthy
Continue readingSuperficially, it’s just another very funny “Hitler finds out . . .” video. At a deeper level, though, it’s a stunningly accurate and precise indictment of every bad thing we’ve found out (so far) about Obamacare’s myriad failings, both the intentional and the unintentional ones: Hat tip: Power Line
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