Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Everything I’m hearing today about the Obamacare trainwreck sounds very familiar to me. So familiar, in fact, that I checked my blog archives and came upon this discussion I had back in August 2009 with an uber-liberal physician who believed that Obamacare would provide full medical service for every man,
Continue readingDon’t worry about following this link. It may look as if it’s taking you to the actual, completely dysfunctional Obamacare website, but it’s actually taking you to a much better place, a place where the website finally works the way it was meant to. Take a minute and try to
Continue readingIt seems that excessive alcohol consumption is the name of the game this week at Bookworm Room. Yesterday, I posted about the fact that my liberal friends believe that it’s wrong to tell teenage girls and young women that they increase their chances of getting raped if they drink to
Continue readingAJ Strata, who knows complex computer systems, has a few choice words about the administration’s recent statements regarding its plans to fix the exchange. Also, here’s something I’m not seeing discussed anywhere: As you’ll recall, the anti-corporate Left concluded that GM was too big to fail and that banks are
Continue readingWhen it comes to my cold, I’m seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. Whew! I’m hoping to be up to full blogging speed soon but, in the meanwhile, here are things I found when doing my usual morning reading rounds: This is a marvelous paragraph from Karen
Continue readingObamacare is the greatest thing ever to happen to America or to Americans. How do we know this? Because Obama has been relentlessly spreading this gospel since 2009. It’s nothing if not interesting, then, that Obama has promised to veto legislation that would require him and his family to enroll
Continue readingIf you’re on Twitter, Dave Burge (aka Iowahawk) has a brilliant bet going, but he needs your help: I bet a friend a 6 pack of Schlitz more people will RTs this than enrolled at the Obamacare website. — David Burge (@iowahawkblog) October 16, 2013 Hat tip: The New Editor
Continue readingWe know that the know that the Obamacare exchange has a bass ackwards design that forces people to turn over all of their private information before they can even begin shopping. We know that its complexity is intended to hide as much as possible the fact that people with middle
Continue readingThe following three links don’t have anything to do with each other, but I wanted to bring each to your attention. First, an article by Ben Sasse about Obamacare’s horrible, inherent flaws. The article is great on its own terms. It’s also worth reading because Sasse is running for the
Continue readingAvik Roy advances a very interesting theory about the disastrous Obamacare exchange. First of all, you need to think about how it works compared to other online shopping sites. At all other sites, you find your product, and then you submit your information. At Obamacare, you must submit your information
Continue readingWhen I read John McWhorter’s superb Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America, I learned something I hadn’t known before. Outside of the Jim Crow South, in the years leading up to the Civil Rights movement, black people were very slowly, but still steadily, moving into the middle class. They
Continue readingThe San Jose Mercury News did an article about the sticker shock many Obamacare supporters are experiencing. What was great about this article was this quotation, from an ardent supporter: Cindy Vinson and Tom Waschura are big believers in the Affordable Care Act. They vote independent and are proud to
Continue readingFor at least a couple of hundred years in America, the “letters to the editor” section of any newspaper has been the one place where people can express views opposing a newspaper’s editorial content. Newspapers felt sufficiently strong in their viewpoints that they figured that a few crackpot letters wouldn’t
Continue readingOne of my children told me an interesting story about something that happened at her high school yesterday. Because of questions from the students, a teacher gave a brief explanation of Obamacare, which included the information that it would insure everybody and that young people would be forced to buy
Continue readingNormally, when I see the usual liberal talking points on my Facebook page, I try to ignore them lest I damage my blood pressure. Today, though, I got a wall of stupid. I’ve already written here about the profound ignorance that lies behind the progressive masses’ repeated claim that Obamacare
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