Did you do that?
When the answer would be “yes”:
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On the Democrats and the nuclear option: why now?
If you want to understand what happened Thursday when the Democrats jettisoned 200 years of precedent and exercised the nuclear option, a good start would be this WSJ piece by James Taranto, who points out (among other things) that the … Continue reading →
The British educational thought police…
…have the power to label children “racist” on their permanent records if they don’t attend a workshop on Islam. Let’s put aside the fact that Islam is not a race (I suppose it’s an honorary race in Britain) and note … Continue reading →
Obamacare and cosmic justice
I have a new post up at PJ on the topic of Obamacare and justice, winners and losers. Please comment here or comment there, or both.
Continue reading →Obama changes the rules—again—to benefit Democrats in next year’s election
The imperial president whose party is nevertheless subject to those pesky little formalities known as “elections” changes the ACA rules again in order to delay 2015 insurance enrollments until after the election. However: …[T]his misses the real risk for the … Continue reading →
The nuclear option: Senator Obama has a bone to pick with President Obama
And Senator Feinstein has some harsh words for Senator Feinstein, while Senator Harry Reid disagrees with Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senator Joe Biden begs to differ with Vice President Joe Biden, Assistant Minority Leader Dick Durbin counters Majority Whip Dick … Continue reading →
JFK’s assassination: fifty years
The assassination of JFK has been fading slowly from memory, becoming ever more the stuff of legend because no one under fifty personally remembers anything about it, and everyone over fifty has probably said almost all there is to say … Continue reading →
President Obama gives Pravda…
…its talking points: President Obama held an off-the-record meeting with MSNBC hosts and liberal pundits on Thursday, POLITICO has learned. Present at the meeting: MSNBC’s Ed Schultz and Lawrence O’Donnell, Washington Post economics blogger Ezra Klein, Mother Jones Washington bureau … Continue reading →
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches…
…are racist. Against somebody, somewhere: Apparently, it’s because people in some cultures don’t eat sandwich bread. Verenice Gutierrez, principal of Harvey Scott K-8 School in Portland explained to the Portland Tribune: “Take the peanut butter sandwich, a seemingly innocent example … Continue reading →
School discipline: affirmative inaction
Somehow I missed this story when it first came out almost a year and a half ago, but let’s take a break for a moment from Obamacare and re-visit another travesty: President Barack Obama is backing a controversial campaign by … Continue reading →
A Republican fix?
Holman Jenkins has a suggestion for a Republican “fix” for Obamacare: What can be done is Congress creating a new option in the form of a national health insurance charter under which insurers could design new low-cost policies free of … Continue reading →
Senate Democrats say: hey, right about now would be a good time…
…for the nuclear option. Do they have the votes? Who knows: …[E]ven if Reid doesn’t have the votes. He can’t keep threatening the GOP with the move and not pull the trigger at some point. For Senate Republicans, the threat … Continue reading →