Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I hate cooking. That’s not hyperbole. Restaurants are a constant temptation, but I resist because, during my young lawyer days, I spent way too much of my money on restaurants. With college and old age to plan for, I can’t eat out whenever I like — which is every night.
Continue readingBruce Kesler highlights the largest ever survey of doctors on the subject of Obamacare — and they don’t like it. I can already hear the pro-Obamacare people saying, “Well, they don’t like it because it’s going to be more efficient and therefore cuts into their profits.” Think about that for
Continue readingWith the election nearing, the Facebook frenzy is accelerating. I got this from a Facebook acquaintance: Lots of food for thought, there: Ryan voted to end funding for Planned Parenthood. Ryan’s vote is completely in line with Romney’s insistence that a broke U.S. government should repeatedly ask itself “Is this
Continue reading(The title is supposed to be sarcastic. I’m not sure that’s coming through.) Gosh, the administration started with such high hopes. Elect him, Obama promised, and we would get the following: I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children
Continue readingHere’s another great video to share with your friends, from Dr. Barbara Bellar, candidate for Illinois State Senate, District 18: If you’d like to help Dr. Bellar win the election, go here. We need to support every candidate out there who has learned the judo technique of turning Alinsky tactics back
Continue readingWithin seconds of Romney’s announcement that Ryan would be his running mate, the chatter started. Democrats expressed delight, because they see Ryan’s stance on Medicare as one they can use to portray Romney and Ryan as Satan incarnate. A couple of years ago, they showed Ryan pushing grandma’s wheelchair off
Continue readingGay Patriot posted the other day about yet another anti-Walmart protest. His point was that the protesters, rather than being excited about real paying jobs coming to L.A., insisted that they would be better off with some hypothetical Mom and Pop jobs that might arise if they protested Walmart with
Continue readingWhen lawyers were arguing ObamaCare before the Supreme Court, Obama’s attorney’s claimed ObamaCare was a tax, while everyone else’s attorneys claimed that it was an unconstitutional penalty. Justice Roberts, for reasons unknown but still deeply suspect, agreed with both arguments. Things got exciting after that. In the days since the
Continue readingIf you’d like to see in one place a broad range of opinions about the Supreme Court’s ObamaCare decision (or, more accurately, opinions John Roberts’ intellectual spasm), check out this week’s Watcher’s Council forum. This is a special one, because we not only have a sampling of Council members participating
Continue readingYou probably know that Glenn Reynolds pointed out that, if the administration is going to go around arguing that ObamaCare isn’t a tax, they’re conceding that it’s unconstitutional. That’s a clever line, but Rhymes With Right explains that the administrations’ strenuous denials also open a pathway to a Supreme Court
Continue readingI’m going back and forth whether Roberts was a typical judge (i.e., stupid and unworthy of respect), a brilliant thinker, a chess player, a pawn, etc. Each of you who has commented here has made an excellent point. I agree with all of you, even when you disagree with each
Continue readingMany people are asserting that, in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling, the end is near. I see that in op-eds, in blog posts, and in my email box. America’s constitutional experiment is over, they say. They might be right. Or not. But here’s the deal: if we give
Continue reading[UPDATE: Since I wrote this post, there is now reason to believe that Roberts issued his opinion for the wrong reasons, not the right ones. If I were to rewrite this post today, I would be less charitable to the man. Nevertheless, putting aside Roberts’ motives, I stand by the
Continue readingI was driving along in the car and, suddenly, the phrase “Roe v. Wade” popped into my head. In 1973, the Supreme Court waded into what should have been a state-by-state legislative matter, and created the most vicious 39 year fight in America since the Civil War. One side found
Continue readingI’ve now had the chance to digest myriad analyses of the Roberts decision on ObamaCare. I think I can sum up the various conclusions that liberal and conservative pundits have reached. Here goes: The decision is a victory for Obama and the Democrats because it keeps ObamaCare on the books.
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