From Thus Spake Obama by Mark Steyn in National Review. I love when humor enters politics. I love it when arrogance meets reality. I love it when we mix the two. Excerpts: Still, as historian Michael Beschloss pronounced the day after his
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Jonah Goldberg writes Obamacare Schadenfreudarama in National Review Online: But as a political and ideological matter, this is beyond fantastic. For years we’ve been told that Democrats were more “reality-based,” that “facts have a liberal bias,” in the words of Paul Krugman,
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Fouad Ajami writes When the Obama Magic Died in the Wall Street Journal, 11/15/13. Excerpts: The current troubles of the Obama presidency can be read back into its beginnings. Rule by personal charisma has met its proper fate. The spell has been
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From Thus Spake Obama by Mark Steyn in National Review. I love when humor enters politics. I love it when arrogance meets reality. I love it when we mix the two. Excerpts: On Thursday, he passed a new law at
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Jonah Goldberg writes Obamacare Schadenfreudarama in National Review Online: Here’s a number that isn’t tiny: Five million people — and counting — have lost their health insurance, despite the president’s years of “you can keep your plan” promises. The president has apologized, sort of.
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Jonah Goldberg writes Obamacare Schadenfreudarama in National Review Online: In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, it took about five minutes for liberals to cast the chaos and confusion of the disaster as a searing indictment of not just the Bush administration but
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Jonah Goldberg writes Obamacare Schadenfreudarama in National Review Online: The hubris of our ocean-commanding commander-in-chief surely isn’t news to readers of this website. He’s said that he’s smarter and better than everyone who works for him. His wife informed us
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From The Weekly Standard, Killing Obamacare by Jay Cost: Why should we believe that the federal government is remotely capable of managing something as complicated as American health care? The complexities of the task make a mockery of the very notion of
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Charles Cook writes in National Review Online The Single-Payer Fantasy. Excerpt: Reassuring as this tale might be to those who are worriedly surveying the damage that Healthcare.gov has wrought upon their project, it remains self-evidently absurd. Obamacare was passed into
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Comments on the disastrous health care roll out. Delaying from Behind by James Taranto at the WSJ Our younger readers–those who were born yesterday–may not remember when delaying ObamaCare was considered a wild idea, its exponents limited to crazy right-wing terrorists. Times have
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From James Taranto’s Best of the Web in The Wall Street Journal, The Young and the Clueless; The trouble is that loss aversion also militates against buying insurance. Especially if you don’t make a lot of money–and many young people don’t–writing that
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My criticisms of Obama Care have been long and many. Scott Grannis at Calafia Beach Pundit has an excellent post summarizing the hubris and damage of this horrendous bill. Read The Obamacare Nightmare. Excerpts: For starters, it is inconceivable that
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Elizabeth Holmes: The Breakthrough of Instant Diagnosis in the Wall Street Journal by James Rago. Ms. Holmes, a 29-year-old chemical and electrical engineer and entrepreneur, dropped out of Stanford as an undergraduate after founding a life sciences company called Theranos in
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Mark Steyn writes Obamacare’s Hierarchy of Privilege in The National Review. Excerpts: All third-party systems are crappy and inefficient. But socialized health care has at least the great clarifying simplicity of equality of crappiness: liberté, égalité,merde. It requires a perverse genius to construct a
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Mark Steyn writes Obamacare’s Hierarchy of Privilege in The National Review. Excerpts: As Nancy Pelosi famously said, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what’s in it.” But the problem with “comprehensive” legislation is that,
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The administration will delay for one year the provision of the Affordable Health Care Act that enforces a penalty on employers with more than 50 workers. What do they expect to change in a year? We will have another year
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It seems that if there is one area that the voters can agree on it would be that those who make the laws should have to obey them. It is a violation of a fundamental American principle that we should
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A common refrain of those who support greater government control of health care is that free market capitalism just does not work in health care policy. It is like saying that the fundamental laws of economics do not apply. But
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Scott Gottlieb writes in The Wall Street Journal, The Doctor Won’t See You Now. He’s Clocked Out ObamaCare is pushing physicians into becoming hospital employees. The results aren’t encouraging. 3/15/13 Excerpts: ObamaCare’s main vehicle for ending the autonomous, private delivery of
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Mark Steyn writes The Doctor Won’t See You Now in The National Review, 12/14/12. Excerpts: So good luck retaining any meaningful doctor-patient confidentiality in a system in which more people — insurers, employers, government commissars, TSA Obergropinführers, federal incentive-program auditors
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