Obamacare coverage report: you win some…
…you lose some.
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John Kerry: treason then and now
I was going to write a post on John Kerry’s outrageous conduct in the negotiations over a Gaza ceasefire, but Bookworm has already written much of it for me, comparing Kerry’s current appeasement of Hamas with his long-ago attempts at … Continue reading →
Obama’s next move on the border and deportations
For quite some time now we’ve been waiting for Obama’s other shoe to drop regarding amnesty. He’s been warning of us a big announcement, which most people (including me) have speculated will be to end the possibility of deportation for … Continue reading →
Obama and the Christians of Iraq
The Christians of Iraq in the areas controlled by ISIS are being persecuted and either killed or driven from places they’ve occupied since the dawn of Christianity. Not that Obama could stop it at this point (although he probably could … Continue reading →
How to scare a child
It’s not that hard to do. But still, it’s pretty cute. My husband shaved his mustache off when our son was about three, to similar effect: I bet she would have been a whole lot more frightened if he’d been … Continue reading →
About those Gazan tunnels…
…it’s even worse than you might think: Using further eyewitness reports, the article describes how Hamas has integrated the tunnel network into the civilian infrastructure of Gaza, constructing entrances in homes and even mosques. “I have not entered one civilian … Continue reading →
Obama the Alinskyite, revisited
[Note: A commenter recently alerted me to this 2009 article by David Horowitz about Obama’s Alinsky roots which described the aims of his presidency. I’d like to give that commenter a hat tip, but I can’t seem to locate who … Continue reading →
Did the ACA framers mean to limit subsidies to state exchanges?
The decision in any appeal of Halbig—and therefore the ultimate fate of Obamacare—may rest on that question. The left would like to say it was all a huge oversight and more or less an unfortunate and careless typo or drafting … Continue reading →
Male upspeak…
…is on the upswing. I’ve noticed it among the young. I’m a woman, but I’m not an upspeaker. That’s because I’m old. And very opinionated. Polite, but opinionated. And I don’t like upspeak, in men or women.
Continue reading →Counterintuitive: inactivity doesn’t lead to childhood obesity after all?
Most of us think we know a lot about what makes people fat. They eat too much and they’re inactive. Newer evidence about the influence of gut flora indicates the iffiness of the first proposition, at least as a hard … Continue reading →
Announcing Morning Insurrection
Regular readers here may know that I frequently cross-post at Legal Insurrection, a popular blog with a fine and varied group of writers including several leading legal minds. They’re announcing a new feature called Morning Insurrection to which you may … Continue reading →
Moving to the left
It’s so rare to see a piece describing a political change from right to left that this one in Politico entitled “Why Am I Moving Left?” caught my eye. It’s written by Thomas E. Ricks, a 50-something journalist who has … Continue reading →