Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
As we get ever closer to ObamaCare’s full launch, I’m increasingly certain that ObamaCare will be a disaster. Employers are already changing their hiring practices (keeping the numbers below 50 or, in the case of medical device companies, firing people) or jettisoning insurance altogether. For example, Trader Joe’s, UPS, and
Continue readingSometimes distance provides perspective. My travels meant that, rather than being enveloped by news as I usually am, I read it only intermittently, and often through the New York Times’ filter, since that was the only news to which I had access for many days at a time. The few
Continue readingYuval Levin has the best summary I’ve seen about the implications of the administration’s decision to delay ObamaCare’s implementation until after the 2014 election. Jonathan Tobin also adds his bit to the ramifications of the administration’s sneaky pre-holiday announcement. Keith Koffler, too, has a good analysis of the delay’s effect
Continue reading(Occasionally people who are clearly affiliated with one industry or another ask if they can submit posts to my site. If I agree with their industry’s stance, I say yes. I was therefore happy to publish Michael Cahill’s post about ObamaCare’s effects on small business.) In just six months time
Continue readingI didn’t intend to have it happen that way today, but I’ve already done two posts on manliness and, as I type, have the perfect third to the trio. The first post was about Obama’s insistence that a member of the few, the proud, and the umbrella carriers take care
Continue readingThis one just made me laugh. What I couldn’t get as I was scrambling at a red light to take the photograph was that, in the upper left hand corner of this truck’s rear window was a macho bumper sticker that said something along the lines of “You never see
Continue readingFunny Catholic girl emailed me, asking if I’d be interested in posting her riff on ObamaCare death panels. I liked what I read, so here it is: Funny Catholic Girl Complains About ObamaCare “Death Panels” March 23rd was the third anniversary of the ObamaCare law. Regardless of what you think
Continue readingIn the lead-up to the 2008 election, blogging was exciting because there was hope. Not the synthetic hope Obama was selling, but the real hope that both Hillary and Obama would lose, and that John McCain would be a half decent president. In the first two years of Obama’s administration,
Continue reading“You mean I have to pay for that?! Obama said it would be free.”
Continue readingIn an earlier post, I asked several questions about economic issues that confuse me. Robert Arvanitis wrote a comprehensive reply, but then couldn’t get the Word Press comment system to accept it. Because it is so comprehensive and informative, I’m putting it up here as an independent post. All that
Continue readingFellow Weasel Watcher Greg, at Rhymes with Right, came up with a good poster likening every woman’s right to have a gun to a black woman’s right to sit anywhere she wants in the bus. That poster, combined with a discussion I had with some young ‘uns about the Bill
Continue readingI’ve had the same ten tabs open in Firefox this entire day. I feel like a madman, trying to create order out of the chaos in my mind. I’m convinced that there’s a thread tying together these articles, but I can’t figure out precisely what that thread is. Maybe it’s
Continue readingOne of the things I find most distasteful about ObamaCare is its requirement that employers must provide insurance coverage for their employees’ children through their 26th year. I don’t find this just economically wrong, I find it cosmically, morally wrong that our federal government has officially extended childhood until citizens
Continue readingAfter a lovely long weekend with family, we’re getting in the car today and heading home. If things go well, the drive should take about seven hours. If we get stuck in holiday traffic (as happened when we drove down), we’re looking at nine hours on the road. I might
Continue readingOn Monday, I noted that ObamaCare regulations requiring employers to provide full (really full) insurance coverage to all employees may make running restaurants, which have a famously low profit margin, so prohibitively expensive that many will go out of business. It turns out that we needn’t fear this eventuality, because
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