The Republicans sabotaged Obamacare…
…by telling the truth about it, instead of lying like the Democrats. Those dirty Republicans.
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Benificiary of Obamacare gets incredibly rude and complex awakening…
…but still believes in Obama. Here’s a textbook case of the liberal mindset. Jessica Sanford of western Washington state was so happy with the initial Obamacare premiums she was quoted by the state website that she sent off a grateful … Continue reading →
Why should Republicans try to rescue Obamacare?
Why should the Republicans try to pull Obamacare’s fat out of the fire? Good question: The GOP has to be seen doing something. That’s just reality. Millions of people who played by the rules are losing their insurance and quite … Continue reading →
M. Stanton Evans quotes
I’m not very familiar with M. Stanton Evans, although he’s an elder statesman of the conservative movement. One of his books, Blacklisted by History, is a revisionist account of Joe McCarthy. It’s on my list of interesting-books-I-hope-to-get-around-to-reading-someday. But looking up … Continue reading →
David Horowitz: come back to tell you all
To say: “I am Lazarus, come from the dead, Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all”— ———–T.S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock David Horowitz has written a new book, although it doesn’t have … Continue reading →
Attitudes towards Obamacare: in the end, what it all boils down to…
…may just be whether you believe health care insurance is redistributive justice, or whether you believe it’s, you know, health care insurance. A lot of Obamacare opponents have said, “Don’t piss on my back and tell me it’s raining.” I … Continue reading →
Oh, those greedy, grasping insurance companies…
…with their junk policies before Obamacare came along and fixed it for you. From an article in the WSJ by Edie Sundby, who suffers from gallbladder cancer and yet has outlived her original dire prognosis by years: Since March 2007 … 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 →
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 →
“America’s path to the gallows”
Commenter “Geoffrey Britain” had the following to say: How many more H.W. Bush’s must we support before it is acknowledged that America’s path to the gallows is merely delayed under such men? It is not purity we seek but an … Continue reading →
Remembering the 60s: were you there?
Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane famously said that if you can remember anything about the 60s you weren’t really there. Cute, but not really true. I bet even Kantner remembers quite a bit (as you can see by this), and … Continue reading →
The day the university died
A trip back in time to the epicenter: Cornell, 1969. As Allan Bloom wrote: …[S]tudents discovered that pompous teachers who catechized them about academic freedom could, with a little shove, be made into dancing bears. It was a turning point, … Continue reading →