Mark McKinnon, strategic political advisor to various candidates of both parties, including George W. Bush, John McCain, Ann Richards and Charlie Wilson, believes the Dems are in deep doo doo. Here’s are his reasons: 1. Red regions are gaining; blue are bleeding. Folks are fleeing stricken states in search of jobs. Based on these population changes, [...]
Yep. In an industry dominated by cocktail-party progressives, David Mamet (author of my favorite contemporary play), is an outspoken conservative and advocate of the free market: [Mamet] caused widespread consternation two years ago when he published an essay in the Village Voice called ‘Why I Am No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal’ in which he announced [...]
First, Obama and his congressional accomplices pass a “reform� bill that steals $500 billion from Medicare (which will inevitability lead to rationed care and medicine for the elderly) and guts Medicare Advantage (a cut that will fall most heavily on poor and minority seniors). Then, they send out $1 billion in bribes to elderly voters just before the election. [...]
If incompetence in the face of economic and environmental crisis (Obama), defying the voters on health reform (Pelosi & Reid) and sheer corruption (Rangel) aren’t enough to convince you that the Democrats should be given the bum’s rush in November, this performance by New York Dem Anthony Weiner will turn you into a believer. These people [...]
Jonathan Chait is the easy winner this week with this idiotic post, in which he suggests that gun owners should pay more for health coverage than people who do not own guns: Of course, people who keep guns in their home are choosing to run the risk of incurring injury or death … But now [...]
Judge Susan Bolton, who today issued a preliminary injunction against parts of the much-maligned Arizona immigration law, may have well have handed the GOP the midterm elections with a single stroke of her pen. Even the CNN poll says most Americans favor the law, and Chris Matthews correctly (for once) points out that most voters will [...]
Maggie Mahar is a good example of what passes these days for a progressive health care expert. She doesn’t understand how our medical delivery system works, nor does she grasp statistical analysis, but she’s good at networking. This is presumably how she snagged an invitation to join Ezra Klein’s now-infamous JournoList, where we find Ms. Mahar discussing such esoteric and arcane health care issues as [...]
I have occasionally used the sad stories of Jack Rosser and Albert Baxter, both of whom were denied cancer drugs by Britain’s socialized medical system, to illustrate the cruel and arbitrary rationing methods utilized by all government-run health care systems. For those of you who think that such horrors could never be inflicted on Americans, that all that [...]
Here’s what you can expect in the brave new health care world Donald Berwick, Obama’s new CMS administrator, has planned for you. The NHS, which Berwick “loves,” is running out of money (as will Medicare in the not-too-distant future) and the average Brit will pay a heavy price for depending on the nanny state for health care: NHS bosses have [...]
You’d think that broadcast news types would have enough sense to know that allowing the government to restrict the First Amendment rights of one group would be the first step toward a Soviet-style, state-controlled media. But these two CNN anchors don’t seem to get that. In this clip, Kyra Phillips and John Roberts agree that [...]
