Yesterday was, of course, Earth Day. So it seems like a good time to mention that none of the hysterical predictions of environmentalists have ever come true. In fact, the only measurable effect of the environmental movement is that a million people per year die of malaria. DDT is, if you don’t know, an effective killer of malaria-carrying [...]
I guess the American Medical Association is determined to drive its membership down to some point even lower than the 17% of practicing physicians remaining in the group. Its latest self-destructive tactic is to join the global warming hysterics: In a Thursday conference call with reporters, the heads of the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Public Health [...]
You know ObamaCare is unpopular when the Dems try to censor the very word. And that’s precisely what Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz attempted to do during today’s House debate over defunding. She claimed it was a derogatory term aimed at the President: Both of [Rep. Graves' comments] referred to the Affordable Care Act, which is the accurate [...]
It has long been the conviction of our betters in Washington that the reason no one likes ObamaCare is that we just don’t get it. We voters are, to be precise, too dumb to know what’s good for us. So, the genius who designed this boondoggle is planning to spell it out for us in a comic book: [...]
A consistent refrain from health care “reformersâ€? is that electronic health records will cure much of what ails our medical delivery system. Not only will EHR save money, they tell us, it will improve quality. Not so fast says the Archives of Internal Medicine: Our findings indicate no consistent association between EHRs … and better [...]
Republican congressman Paul Ryan is scheduled to give the official GOP response to the President’s State of the Union address, so he has been targeted by the Dems and their accomplices in the media. They are so worried about Ryan that they have once again trundled out the hoary Mediscare routine: Senate Democrats are pouncing on [...]
In my latest effusion for the American Spectator, I refute the latest MSM whoppers about ObamaCare’s effect on unemployment: Commenting on the mainstream media of his day, Thomas Jefferson famously observed that ‘The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.’ And it is evident that [...]
Rolling out that long-ago-debunked canard about 40,000 people dying every year for lack of insurance, Democrat congressman John Garamendi claims that ObamaCare repeal will end up killing thousands of people. I guess the new “civility” demanded by the Dems and their acccomplices in the “news” media only applies to Republicans. Our friends on the left get to [...]
Trying to give Obama the benefit of the doubt on his rather sly Tucson speech, Krauthammer lays into the NYT and the rest of the MSM for their irresponsible coverage of Tucson: I think the President actually put an end to that malicious and scurrilous innuendo that was started in the mainstream press, particularly by the New [...]
This is an interesting comment on the dwindling influence of the “news” media. Despite a concerted effort by the MSM to blame the Tucson shooting on “right-wing vitriol,” the voters just aren’t buying. In fact, a new Quinnipiac survey shows that actual voters think the left is more responsible for “heated rhetoric.” Liberals rather than conservatives [...]
