Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Lest anyone, including Maine’s Olympia Snowe, get too excited about the newly proposed trigger option in the health care proposals: President Obama has decided that another oration will rejuvenate his health-care agenda—despite having given 27 speeches entirely on health care, and another 92 in which it figured prominently. We’ll see
Continue readingPeople are arguing past themselves on the healthcare issue because words have come to mean very different things to different people. More specifically, there is great confusion over what is meant by a “right” (as in “Bill of…). Tell me if you agree. I have been listening to video and
Continue readingThe debate on Obama Care has tended to focus on money and on vague accusations of probable racism. Zane Pollard, an opthamologist, spells out precisely what that rationing will look like. And no matter how the Dems dress it up, for the vast majority of Americans, it will look much
Continue readingWe do not live in a genuine democracy, which would see people vote on every single issue. Instead, we have a representative democracy — we get to vote on which individuals we’d like to see represent us in government. People who want to hold those jobs (that is, the candidates)
Continue readingWhat is it with these California political women? In the morning, Pelosi calls insurance companies villain’s as if she’s in some Victorian melodrama. And this afternoon, Dianne Feinstein arranges from the arrest of a bunch of senior citizens who were trying to speak with her. It’s a little unclear just
Continue readingSome people destroy constitutions, some defend them. This young soldier knows exactly where he falls in that constitutional divide: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y98HxYbsdBM[/youtube] Hat tip: Hot Air
Continue readingOrwell understood the totalitarian mindset. That’s why he invented Newspeak, a language with the specific goal of making anti-governmental thought impossible. The Wikipedia article on the subject sums it up nicely: Newspeak is a fictional language in George Orwell‘s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In the novel, it is described as being
Continue reading[I posted this on Monday, but am moving it up to the top because today’s the day] I just got an email. If there’s a protest in San Francisco, you can bet your bottom dollar that, with a little research, you can find a protest in your neighborhood too. ******************
Continue readingDrudge announced today that ABC news is going to use its June 24, 2009 broadcast to shill for Obama’s attempt to nationalize health care: On the night of June 24, the media and government become one, when ABC turns its programming over to President Obama and White House officials to
Continue readingFor three years, a single British hospital that was obsessed with following government health care mandates to the letter, succeeded only in killing 1,200 patients unnecessarily: Twelve NHS trusts are being investigated following a damning report which today slammed ‘appalling’ care at a single hospital. Hundreds of patients may have
Continue readingToday’s news stories help to clarify Obama’s and the Democrats’ priorities: Money for parties? Check. Assistance for politically friendly papers that the American public refuses to read? Check. Money for soldiers wounded in the service of their country? What! Are you kidding, dude? No way! The leader of the nation’s
Continue reading