U.S. Collectivism’s Record of Failure. And Now healthcare?
The hype is always better than the real thing. Boston’s Big Dig sounded like a half-decent project in the beginning. Approved in 1982 with a price tag $2.6 billion,...
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Krugman Cracks Up Over Obama’s “Lemon Socialism”
Paul Krugman, a top columnist and liberal opinion-maker at the New York Times, sounded last week like he was tied to the tracks and saw a train coming around...
Obama’s Anti-business Prejudice
Whatever happened to the constitutional concept of equal protection under the law? Whatever happened to the recognition that it’s overwhelmingly the nation’s private sector that delivers the jobs, goods...
Obamanomics Digs America Into Deeper Hole
We’re already on the hook for about a half million dollars per household just to pay for the unfunded liabilities in Social Security and Medicare, according to David M....
Obama Doesn’t “Get It”
Is there anyone out there who thinks Barack Obama hasn’t been on TV enough, hasn’t been on enough magazine covers, or hasn’t done enough soft ball interviews? ...
From Florida: Where’s the Global Warming?
PALM BEACH, FLORIDA — The column headline here in this morning’s newspaper: “So where’s my global warming, dude?” ...
Crotch Bombers, Caulking & Now Healthcare?
So Umar Farouk Abdullmutallab got within an inch of having several hundred airline passengers fall from the sky over Detroit on Christmas Day, thanks to the ongoing holes in...
The Fully Inept Tackle Healthcare
As I’m writing this, they’re in a panic in Congress, voting in the wee hours, bribing reluctant senators with millions in slush funds for their respective states, all to...
Gang Green Going to the Dogs
The sky-is-falling greenies are getting progressively batty. It's not enough that we shut down our oil, gas, and coal industries, bike to work, switch our light bulbs, take cloth...
Climate Change Alarmists, Running Hot & Cold
Our dreadful destiny was that we were either going to starve to death or be buried by advancing glaciers in a new Ice Age. ...
Obama’s Crashing Economic Recovery
There’s a new picture of Obama that’s sticking in my mind, like a song that keeps playing in your head (the one that keeps playing for me this week...
The Obama Presidency’s Imperial Hypocrisy
You can’t say we weren’t warned ahead of time about Obama’s globalist and controlling tendencies. ...
Scary Porches, Scarier Doctors
In news from the world of universal health care, Mark Wattson, 35, collapsed in pain in the street in Swindon, England, a month after he had his appendix removed....
Obamanomics: A “Stimulus” for Backlash, not Jobs
What the Democrats should have learned from their losses last Tuesday is that the advice given by political strategist James Carville to candidate Bill Clinton in the 1992 presidential...
From Central Planning: “We’re Going to Let You Die”
I saw two stories recently that had diametrically opposed messages. The first was pro-life in the broadest sense of the word, a breakthrough against cancer via a new tumor-targeted...
Clunker Cars, Clunker Nukes?
I don’t want to sound negative, but is anyone else getting the idea that we’re starting to live in Clunker Nation? ...
Obama’s Job-killing Agenda
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet” was Ronald Reagan’s standard rally-ending line during his 1984 reelection campaign. He won 49 states, losing only his opponent’s home state, Minnesota, 49.7 percent...
Healthcare, Obama, and Atlas Shrugged
The headline in Investor’s Business Daily, September 16, 2009: “45% of Doctors Would Consider Quitting If Congress Passes Health Care Overhaul.” ...
ObamaCare’s Shovel-ready Cure
I thought we were supposed to think that Sarah Palin was nuts for bringing up "death panels." Now a few weeks later the cover of Newsweek has a giant...