Obamacare supporters are in a conundrum: If they pretend they don’t want rationing, people know they are not being candid. But candor leads to increased resistance: We don’t want faceless bureaucrats telling patients and doctors . . . . Continue Reading »
The newest study from Rasmussen confirms that the president has lost the battle for American hearts and minds. The main reason: Most Americans are satisfied with the employer-based or Medicare program they now have, and they’re not seeing any change they can believe in. They think the reform . . . . Continue Reading »
Art historian Henry Adams contends that Pollock created Mural around his name , discernible as camouflaged letters and explains what it might mean: Pollock’s possibly writing his name in Mural testifies to an overlooked feature of his works: they have a structure, contrary to the popular . . . . Continue Reading »
The incivility and name-calling by the talking heads and others on the right has to stop. In a short six paragraph article of 442 words, they managed to call President Obama and his White House aides liars and cowards, and the American Civil Liberties Union others in the “civil liberties . . . . Continue Reading »
The latest issue of Wired Gregg Easterbrook has an brief article on why we should ” Embrace Human Cloning .” To call it an argument would be overly generous—Easterbrook is only given the space to compile a series of loose assertions. Still, such outrageous claims should not stand . . . . Continue Reading »
International Blasphemy Day September 30, Also Feast of Saint Jerome; Only Two Shopping Days LeftIt’s Official, Say Poll Results: R.E.M. Song Replaces Bible As Symbol of Religious IdentityArchaeologists Discover Oldest-Known Site of Widespread, Massively Culturally Influential Ancient Sea Cow . . . . Continue Reading »
As health care rationing is seriously on the table—generally supported by the political Left—some of that persuasion also want to include illegal immigrants in Obamacare if they buy the premiums. From the story:Fearful that they’re losing ground on immigration and health . . . . Continue Reading »
Former Governor Richard Lamm fell into the soup years ago when he claimed that the elderly infirm and dying had a duty to die. Lamm claimed to have been misunderstood. But maybe he wasn’t. Lamm has come out passionately for health care rationing, stating in his Huffington Post piece : It is . . . . Continue Reading »
Former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm got a bad reputation by stating in a speech some years ago, “We [meaning when we get old] have a duty to die and get out of the way.” When I interviewed Lamm for the “duty to die” discussion in Culture of Death, he told me that he . . . . Continue Reading »
Daniel Drezner on what would happen if those author blurbs that come at the end of articles were forced to be honest: * Suzie Wong has never been to the country about which she is writing. What’s in this op-ed is culled from a quick perusal of the Economist and a few phone calls. * Cass . . . . Continue Reading »
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