Last night I was reading this piece about Obamacare as a redistribution of wealth, and it occurred to me that even fairly decent articles about Obamacare seem to get some basic facts wrong. I’m not saying I’m the world’s greatest … Continue reading →
A federal court has ruled as unconstitutional a gun sale ban in the city of Chicago. In the wake of the SCOTUS decisions in Heller (5-4) and McDonald (also 5-4), an outright gun ban is unacceptable. Chicago tried to fine-tune … Continue reading →
Those of you who have followed my war with the powers-that-be at Yahoo, who had changed virtually every aspect of their email service for the worse, will probably be happy to learn that Yahoo has brought tabs back due to … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Last night when I took a few notes for this post, I was able to read the WSJ article on which it was based. Now, when I’m wanting to take another look in order to actually write my post, … Continue reading →
This Atlantic article by Molly Ball, entitled “The Agony of Frank Luntz,” has an odd tone. Is it snarky? Is it objective? I can’t really tell, although I’d vote for “snarky.” I’m not really all that interested in the article … Continue reading →
If you want to take a look back—and I mean way back—at the lives and times of the Everly Brothers, this is an in-depth documentary. I hadn’t realized they were part of a family act in their early teens. Fascinating … Continue reading →
Recently, in order to help a friend, I was trying to get health insurance information from Anthem. My questions were mainly about out-of-network benefits on individual policies—in particular whether the out-of-network deductibles and out-of-pocket caps were the same or different … Continue reading →
Commercial fisherman John Aldridge made some terrible mistakes. In the wee hours of the morning, he violated several basic safety rules and got knocked off his boat 40 miles from Montauk, with no flotation devices and no way to call … Continue reading →
I loved the Everly Brothers. Their sound was so perfectly blended, with wistful heartache that was nevertheless upbeat rather than gloomy. How did they do it? Being brothers helped; siblings have a special harmony. They fought at one point and … Continue reading →
According to a study of the Medicaid expansion in Oregon—which offers particularly fertile ground for research because new Medicaid participants were selected randomly from among those eligible—giving people Medicaid increases ER use, rather than decreasing it as Obama and the … Continue reading →
…so maybe it will be just as successful for New York’s new mayor, Bill de Blasio, if the speeches at his inauguration are any indication of the drift. When the New York Times calls it “pointless and tacky haranguing” and … Continue reading →
I’ve written before about Obama’s somewhat-lookalike half-brother. Here’s a postscript: Mark Obama Ndesandjo said he was surprised to hear his half-brother President Barack Obama say they had only recently met for the first time. “I was floored by it ”” … Continue reading →