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Experience Europe Without Leaving Home

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Posted by    Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 10:49am

Mahamed El-Erian is the well-regarded CEO of PIMCO, which manages investments for client accounts and is one of the world’s largest bond investors. In a tweet not long ago, El-Erian posted his outlook for our economy:


This outlook puts us squarely on the European track, as I noted long ago in U.S....

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The Morning After The Morning After

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Posted by    Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 8:30am

Some more thoughts on the worst piece of legislation “since the Great Depression,” in no particular order:

  • Democrats won the messaging war. Democrats succeeded in portraying the bill as being about “giving” people “health care.” Even Republicans used the terminology. In fact, everyone has hospital...
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Which Came First, The Single Payer or The Censorship?

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Posted by    Monday, March 22, 2010 at 5:59pm

At first, I thought this was a hoax, so I held off posting. But apparently it is for real, University of Ottawa’s letter to Ann Coulter.

I am reprinting it in full, because it is a paradigm of intolerance of opposing conservative viewpoints under the guise of promoting freedom of...

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Pep Talk

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Posted by    Monday, March 22, 2010 at 7:00am

Last night was bad. The law passed by the Senate and House really is that horrible.

But it’s the morning after, and your mourning should be over.

The mainstream media and the nutroots will try to demoralize you, and there will be plenty of gloat to go around.

But remember how we got to...

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David Frum Says We’re To Blame

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Posted by    Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 6:50pm

David Frum knows who is to blame for what appears to be an Obamacare victory: Conservatives who refused to negotiate with Democrats even though Frum admits he has no idea if such negotiations would have resulted in a better bill.

I do know. The bill which appears likely to pass in a...

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Party Like It’s 2005

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Posted by    Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 2:10pm

The housing bubble peaked in 2005. The bubble reflected a fiscal lack of reality built upon the greater fool theory, that there always would be another buyer foolish enough to pay more.

(Chart via Bubblemeter)
We now are on the cusp of passing a health care bill built upon a similar...
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Freedom So Willingly Relinquished

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Posted by    Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 10:09am

Anyone who has read this blog before knows that since last summer I have focused on the mandate as the core evil in the various incarnations of the Democratic restructuring of the health care system.

So much else that is wrong in the current bill set for vote today stems from the...

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Cpl Jonathan Daniel Porto

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Posted by    Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 12:02am

On March 14, 2010, Marine Corporal Jonathan Daniel Porto was killed in Afghanistan.

Every loss of one of our soldiers is tragic, but this tragedy has hit home because Cpl. Porto’s wife has posted about it at her blog, ...

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Look Who Really Is Killing American Soldiers (Hint, Not Israel)

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Posted by    Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 9:00pm

Iran is killing American and coalition soldiers in Afghanistan.

And not because Israel issued a building permit for more homes in an already Jewish neighborhood of Jerusalem.

As reported by the Times of London, Iranians train Taliban to use roadside bombs:

TALIBAN commanders have revealed that hundreds of insurgents have been trained in Iran...

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The Truth Still Matters, Even The Night Before

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Posted by    Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 7:20pm

I realize that the truth behind Obamacare’s numbers really doesn’t matter to Democrats, and anyone reading this probably is part of my choir, but I’ll continue my almost year-long preaching anyway.

Barack Obama pitches the Senate health care bill as the greatest deficit reduction plan...

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Now It’s “Amend Then Pass”

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Posted by    Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 3:34pm

“Deem and Pass” is dead. There will be an up or down vote on the Senate bill in the House.

But not until the House passes amendments to the Senate bill before it passes the Senate bill:

House leaders have decided to take a separate vote on the Senate health-care bill, rejecting...

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Pelosi’s Abortion Land Mine May Go “Boom”

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Posted by    Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 12:15am

Back in November 2009, when the House passed its version of Obamacare, I wrote that Nancy Pelosi had obtained victory at the cost of planting an abortion land mine in the form of the Stupak Amendment.

No Stupak Amendment, no House “Yes” vote in Novem...

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So Many Lies, So Little Time

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Posted by    Friday, March 19, 2010 at 2:00pm

The lies behind the Obamacare push resemble birds flocking together and fish swimming in schools. By throwing forward so many falsehoods as to the supposed benefits of Obamacare, it confuses attackers and makes it harder to isolate any one lie.

Firedoglake, which stands almost alone in exposing Obamacare from the left, has...

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Immigration Proposal Will Blow Out All HCR Cost Estimates

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Posted by    Friday, March 19, 2010 at 11:20am

Chuck Schumer and Lindsey Graham have put forth the outlines of an immigration plan, which has been endorsed by Obama as the basis for immigration reform.

While there is no legislative text, as described by Schumer and Graham, the key is that illegal aliens automatically would gain legal status if they followed...

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CBO Credibility The First Victim Of Obamacare

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Posted by    Friday, March 19, 2010 at 8:36am

Nancy Pelosi announced yesterday how pleased she was with the precision of the CBO report on the cost of Obamacare. It would be easy to laugh out loud if so much were not at stake.

Nancy Pelosi has no credibility to lose, so she did no harm to herself. The tactics Democrats...

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