Yesterday Wendy Davis and her supporters got quite a bit of blogosphere attention for accusing her opponent Greg Abbott of a failure to understand struggle and hardship, despite the fact that he has been a paraplegic since a terrible accident in his mid-20s.
Davis added, with no sense of irony, that her...
On a recent Hot Air thread about whether it’s desirable to impeach Obama I saw this comment:
Impeachment would be like a child throwing a temper tantrum — lots of sound and fury signifying extreme frustration. But in the end Obama would still be there.
Impeachment is not an absolute impossibility before Obama’s...
We’ve finally gotten some data on who has actually signed up for Obamacare on the exchanges.
At first glance, it would look bad for the insurance companies. There are way fewer young people (only 24% are between...
Ever wonder how it is that so many self-proclaimed liberals and “progressives” don’t seem to care about preserving liberty?
Especially in the last decade or so, as the liberal wing of the Democratic Party has moved ever leftward and the assaults on liberty have cascaded, liberals seem more and more to divide...
According to a study of the Medicaid expansion program in Oregon, giving people Medicaid appears to increase their ER use, rather than decreasing it as Obamacare proponents had predicted.
Why on earth would this be any sort of surprise? I know, I know: the idea was that people without health insurance or...
The New York Times says Edward Snowden should be allowed back into the country and given clemency, but the title of the editorial, “Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower” sets the tone for inaccuracy because the term is not legally applicable to Snowden whether you support wh...
Here are some questions from Victor Davis Hanson on how the precedents Obama has set could result in a changed America even after he leaves office:
The nation has grown used to the idea that what the president says is probably either untrue or irrelevant — and yet it does not really...
‘TWAS THE BLOGGER’S NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the
‘sphere
Bloggers were glad to see Christmas draw near.
Their laptops were turned off and all put away
The bloggers were swear...
The Obama administration had a bright suggestion for their insurance companies (they do seem to belong to the governement, don’t they?):
The Obama administration said Thursday it would allow millions of Americans whose insurance policies had been canceled to purchase bare-bones plans next year, in another 11th-hour tweak to the law likely to...
Take a look at the wording of this WaPo headline:
“Obama Suffers Most From Year of Turmoil, Poll Finds.”
Accompanying it is this photo:
T...
Once-privileged New Yorkers who supported Obamacare are discovering that Obamacare means they’ll be losing some of their privileges:
Many in New York’s professional and cultural elite have long supported President Obama’s health care plan…They are part of an unusual, informal health insurance system that has developed in New York, in which independent...
Obamacare was pushed through Congress at high speed, without much debate and without the usual haggling. The reason was that, like thieves in a hurry to grab what they could and get out safely before being caught, Democrats were eager to move the legislation through while they still had the momentum...
Perhaps the most important Obamacare lie among many will turn out to be the one that says that the Obamacare Medicaid expansion will lead to quality health care for the people newly covered by it.
Anyone who was even remotely familiar with the way Medicaid already worked was quite aware of this...
The New York Times chose the following photo to illustrate a front-page article about genetic screening in Israel for a breast cancer gene:
There’s been a lot of flak about the photo’s inclusion of the nipple—or to be more accurate, the half-aureole. But that’s hardly the only issue. Anyone who...
Both Democrats and Republicans have talked about the nuclear option for years—usually in favor of it when they’re the majority party and against it when in the minority. But it’s all been talk, till now.
So why did the Democrats finally do it? In the Wall Street Journal, James Taranto points out...
The insurance business would not be possible without some sort of “discrimination“—as in “the ability or power to see or make fine distinctions; discernment,” rather than “bigotry or other arbitrary distinctions.”
Those with greater risk are usually charged higher than average premiums or are sometimes even refused coverage...
Why should the Republicans try to pull Obamacare’s fat out of the fire by correcting some of its most anger-provoking consequences?
DrewM at Ace of Spades HQ asks a Good question:
The GOP has to be seen doing something. That’s just reality. Millions of people who played by the rules are losing their insurance...
