Well, Osama bin Laden has finally received his much-needed end-of-life counseling, and that’s a good thing. Nonetheless, I feel compelled to point out that the lefty bloggers and journalists who have been celebrating OBL’s demise by taking cheap shots at G.W. Bush are brazen hypocrites.
They were, until yesterday, against the Bush-sanctioned methods that made it possible. Remember all the sanctimonious […]
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JOSHUA GOLDBERG
I wasn’t lucky enough to know Joshua personally, but I’m one of the many beneficiaries of his work at Lucianne.com and BlogsLucianneLoves. I remember how excited I was the first time an Ldotter posted one of my op-ed pieces at Lcom and continue to be grateful for the exposure he gave my humble blog via BLL.
And yet, […]
IS EZRA KLEIN THE JAYSON BLAIR OF THE WASHINGTON POST?
Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein provides an entertaining attempt to shrug off Judge Roger Vinson’s recent ruling that ObamaCare is unconstitutional. Klein claims that “a conservative legal scholar and friend,â€? whom he neglects to name, wrote him to make the following assertion:
There remains a very good chance that this will not end up before the […]
PALIN PUNKS POMPOUS PROGRESSIVES
Well, it turns out that the illiteracy of progressives isn’t limited to the dismal science. Apparently, they are also unable to retain the history they learned in the 5th grade.Â
Sarah Palin, who was out in Nevada with the Tea Party Express, admonished conservatives not to celebrate victory before actually winning the midterm elections:
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told hundreds of supporters Monday they couldn’t […]
DUMBEST REFORM POST OF THE WEEK (XVI)
This week’s award goes to Joe Paduda, who has discovered something that escaped the notice of most health reform commentators—Donald Berwick is a conservative. Paduda makes his award-winning claim over at Kevin, MD:
The recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick as head of CMS has incited a furor among politicians outraged at what they claim are his advocacy for rationing … […]
DUMBEST REFORM POST OF THE WEEK (XV)
I sometimes suspect that progressives possess a better sense of humor than we give them credit for. The claims they make for Obamacare certainly suggest that. I mean, how else can one explain their claim that is that it saved Medicare, a gag that can be can be found in the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review:
One of HWR’s contributors, […]
DUMBEST REFORM POST OF THE WEEK (XIII)
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 those […]
MAGGIE MAHAR, JOURNOLIST & TRIG PALIN
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 Sarah […]
VIDEO: CNN ANCHORS CALL FOR CRACKDOWN ON BLOGGERS
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 […]
VIDEO: JOURNOLIST FOUNDER EXPLAINS THE NEED TO BE “SNEAKY” ABOUT HEALTH REFORM
We have read about the deliberate and coordinated effort by JournoList members to misinform the public about Jeremiah Wright and Sarah Palin. And, as I pointed out yesterday, the listserv’s founder has been focused on health reform since he first hit big time blogging in 2007. So, it would be pretty odd if Klein and his accomplices […]