Over the summer I repeatedly sounded the alarm about one
particular aspect of the Democratic health care proposals, the
mandate that individuals purchase insurance under threat of penalty
or incarceration. At the time I noted the unprecedented nature of
the mandate, in my post
Taxing Your Mere Existence:
This tax, though, is...
The football games will run really, really late on Sunday, then I’ll fall asleep for an hour, and it will all be over:
Added: Looks like an hour of sleep will not get me
through the night:
No, not another Tiger Woods post. A “pick me up” as in lifting my spirits just a little as I read the headlines about Harry Reid desperately trying to talk his way into something, anything, Barack Obama can sign prior to the State of the Union address in January.
From a post...
Senator Orrin Hatch has written a Hanukkah song. The background is here. Thanks, Orrin.
There’s a lesson to be learned here, but unfortunately the Jewish community will not learn it because it is so deep in...
No one gives Scott Brown, the Republican primary winner, much chance at defeating Martha Coakley, the Democratic nominee. It’s Massachusetts, and it’s to fill Ted Kennedy’s seat.
But keep an eye on Massachusetts. It’s a special election, and turnout could be low as it was in the primaries, which gives the party...
In recent days Democrats started floating the idea of a “Medicare Buy-In” proposal, and as of last night, there appears to be a deal, although the details are not fully known. I addressed the lack of merits in a prior post.
What is critical is that this is being done behind closed...
Why am I not surprised. The head of the UN’s climate organization has demanded that American taxpayers “
When protests over a fraudlent election spread in Iran last June, the Obama administration insisted that it needed to tread carefully so as to leave open the possibility of dialogue with the Iranian regime on the nuclear issue. The possibility of a regime change instigated not by outside forces, but by...
The latest Democratic ploy to get to a single-payer system is a wolf in sheep’s clothing hidden inside a Trojan horse.
According to
reports, “moderate” and “liberal” Democrats are proposing a
massive expansion of Medicare and Medicaid as a substitute for a
“public option”:
Senate Democratic liberals are seeking expansion of two large...
Unbelievable. Harry Reid compares those opposed to Democratic health restructuring proposals to people who opposed freeing the slaves, granting women the right to vote, and expanding civil rights:
“Instead of joining us on the right side of history, all the Republicans can come up with is, ‘slow down, stop everything, let’s start...
Yow. Per Rasmussen poll just released (h/t
HotAir),
Tea Party Tops GOP on Three-Way Generic Ballot:
In a three-way Generic Ballot test, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds Democrats attracting 36% of the vote. The Tea Party candidate picks up 23%, and Republicans finish third at 18%. Another 22%...
Despite mounting evidence that key climate researchers were less than honest, and other indications that the science is not settled, tomorrow 56 newspapers will run a common front page editorial saying we have ‘Fourteen days to seal history’s judgment on this generation’:
Tomorrow 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step...
Interesting article by
AP, on reaction in the black community to Tiger Woods’
extra-marital problems:
When three white women were said to be romantically involved with Woods in addition to his blonde, Swedish wife, blogs, airwaves and barbershops started humming, and Woods’ already tenuous standing among many blacks took a beating.On the...
