One of the most profound ironies of our era is that many of the people who live and die by the internet, the “netroots” for example, spend much of their time trashing the very economic system that provided them with the technology and the discretionary time to do so. This video explains it in terms even a progressive […]
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JUDICIARY COMMITTEE LAUNCHES PROBE OF KAGAN’S ROLE IN OBAMACARE DEFENSE PREP
In my American Spectator piece about Justice Elena Kagan’s conflict of interest concerning PPACA, I noted that 49 Republicans had last week sent a letter to the House Judiciary Committee asking for an investigation of her role in preparing the defense of the health “reform” law:
The GOP letter … suggests that Kagan was less than forthcoming […]
OBAMACARE AND JUSTICE KAGAN’S OBVIOUS CONFLICT OF INTEREST
My latest column for the American Spectator discusses Elena Kagan’s conspicuous conflict of interest and the obvious need for her to recuse herself in any case the Court hears concerning PPACA:
Self-recusal is the only honest course of action open to Justice Kagan if any of the constitutional challenges to ObamaCare reach the Supreme Court. As Solicitor […]
THE NHS AT 63: SORRY CARE FOR ALL
Actually, it didn’t start off as awful as it is today. When the British government took over, it inherited some capital assets that allowed it to maintain a reasonable level of quality for a while.
But it eventually ran into the same financial issues that afflict all government-run medical systems. Now, it is essentially a third-world health care system, […]
VIDEO: GEORGE WILL ATTEMPTS TO CLARIFY OBAMACARE’S CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES FOR BRAIN-DEAD JOURNALISTS
One of the reasons the “news” media consistently misreport the facts surrounding the various ObamaCare lawsuits is that its journalists are just too dumb to grasp the issues involved. In this video, George Will asks a simple question meant to clarify what’s at stake (i.e. limits on the power of Congress) and it’s obvious none of these idiots get […]
MEDICARE, AT 45, HAS A MID-LIFE CRISIS
Medicare officially went into effect on July 1, 1966. And, as Avik Roy points out, it is the perfect case study in why government cost estimates for any entitlement program should be ignored by all sane voters:
When Medicare was enacted, the staff of the House Ways and Means Committee projected that its cost would grow from under […]