Imagine that. Apparently President Obama goofed when he said universal healthcare costs less than zero. So said the Congressional Budget Office last week when they added a couple hundred billion to the bill for “administrative costs” and “discretionary programs.”
Oh well. Everyone makes mistakes. The grandchildren will understand.
These expenses weren’t included in the much-touted “deficit-reducing” Obamacare [...]
Obamacare budget funds a plague of bureaucrats and voter manipulation
May 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Return of Cap and Trade
May 19, 2010 By 13 Comments
The Kerry-Lieberman act is an extreme overreaction to a non-problem.
The Canadian Counterterrorism Money Solution
May 17, 2010 By 12 Comments
A new promising frontier emerges in Canada in the terror war.
Government Seeks to Track Body Mass of Children
May 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Is it prima facie Orwellian to have a bill proposed by the government called the “Healthy Choices Act”? Think about it.
Let’s just assume that it isn’t for now. Let’s instead commit to judge the creepy statism of any particular legislation by the creepy statist measure it proposes to enact.
In this case, it looks like [...]
Obamacare and the Call of Henry Thoreau
May 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Whether you like it or not – Obamacare is now the law of the land. Whether you felt in your heart that you were being cheated by your government, or witnessed your liberal neighbor drool while gazing in admiration at the ubiquitous images of “The New Messiah” signing the treacherous bill, this mendacious monstrosity, these 2000 pages of [...]
Greece’s Socialist Candy Jar Runs Out
May 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment
It was Margaret Thatcher who observed that the problem with socialism was that eventually you run out of other people’s money.
Given my insatiable Sweet Tooth, I have a different spin on this economic principle: eventually there will be nothing left in the community candy jar.
We see it now in Greece, as Bill O’Reilly explained in [...]
It Is OK to Burn Our Flag But Not To Honor It.
May 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Let me get this straight. According to the Supreme Court, burning the American flag is protected speech under the First Amendment. Yet in order to protect the sensibilities of Mexican-American students celebrating the Mexican holiday of Cinco de Mayo, a California Bay area school decided that high school students would not be permitted to wear t-shirts emblazoned with [...]
Jewish Scapegoating Club — Coming to a College Campus Near You
May 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
It must be tough to be a Jewish student in the University of California system these days — what with even the mainstream leftist student organizations aligning to blame Israel for Middle Eastern troubles.
This week, student organizations at two universities — UC San Diego and UC Berkeley — have exhibited great hostility toward the Jewish [...]
Hollywood Gets It Right, Again
May 7, 2010 By 33 Comments
Iron Man 2 delivers a pro-free market, anti-government control message that is crucial for our contemporary culture.
