Obamacare enrollments got off to a very slow start
Accent on the very. The story is from CBS. Reporters seem to be doing some actual reporting lately.
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Those “junk” health plans
Bob Laszewski describes his old health insurance plan, one of those cancelled ones that the administration is referring to as junk. And he also describes the plans he could get to replace it. Read the whole thing, and see which … Continue reading →
All the president’s elites…
…quoted in this article by Ace should read Thomas Sowell’s Intellectuals and Society. But they won’t; they’re too smart for that. “Intellect is not wisdom,” wrote Sowell, and truer words were never spoken. The particular weakness of intellectual elites is … Continue reading →
Yay, Sox!
A lot of happy fans in New England tonight. And by “New England,” I mean north of Hartford. Hartford is the dividing line. The weather even changes south of Hartford.
Continue reading →Rate shock and what “everybody” knew—and lies
An excellent article by Megan McArdle: It’s absolutely true that every policy wonk who was writing or speaking about the law in 2009 and 2010 understood that it would mean premiums going up for at least some people, many of … Continue reading →
Pelosi provides Obama’s perfect defense for lying about “If you like your…”
It came to me last night—Obama’s perfect defense: They had to pass the bill so that I could find out what was in it. Who knew that Nancy Pelosi was actually talking to President Obama?
Continue reading →Romneycare, Obamacare: same or different?
[NOTE: I wrote the gist of this piece last night and was just polishing it up for publication when I noticed that Obama is giving a speech in Boston that apparently advances the “Obamacare was a Republican idea” argument I … Continue reading →
If you like your Etsy you can keep it
Not.
Continue reading →I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords
Such as Sally Kohn. Kohn’s is the kind of mind that feeds on control of others—for their own good, of course—while simultaneously dripping venom. Here’s a short excerpt from Kohn’s piece at CNN, entitled “A Canceled Health Plan is a … Continue reading →
Join the celebration: it’s National Candy Corn Day
[NOTE: This is a repeat of a post from 2008.] No doubt all of my readers, being unusually well-informed people, were already aware that today is National Candy Corn Day. But did you know it is estimated that in this … Continue reading →
Chris van Winkle Matthews wakes…
…from his 20-year slumber, and learns that we have always been at war with Eastasia. I guess it was 60 Minutes told him so.
Continue reading →Obama could keep his promise if he wanted to
Here’s a great piece by Ace describing how NBC’s story exposing Obama’s complicity in the re-writing of the Obamacare grandfathering regulations for health insurance proves that he knew he lied to the American people in his oft-repeated promises about keeping … Continue reading →