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Why Voters Rejected Elitism

From “Why Elitists Fail” in American Thinker, January 30, 2010 Even the brightest minds cannot escape emotional impediments to a rational conclusion. Combining such emotional rationalism with a focus on theories detached from the verification of practical experience can be

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Getting Specific on Health Care

Campaigns promise generalities but laws have to be specific. The health care disaster shows how difficult the road from promise to result is. The current mess simply tried to do too much. There are two main problems in health care:

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The Difference Between Campaigning and Leading

A salient point made by Fred Barnes in the Wall Street Journal Why Obama Isn’t Changing Washington (Nov 26, 2009): Mr. Obama misread his own ability to sway the public. He is a glib, cool, likeable speaker whose sentences have

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A Need for Mutiny

It is stunning to see such a reversal in the Democrat’s fortune in the course of one year.  As the electorate sees the hopes and dreams degenerate into deficits and taxes, the administration will be inclined to spin the outcome

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Anger vs Nasty

I find that following and being followed by a few thousand people on Twitter gives one a certain feel of the pulse of the electorate. I realize that most of my followers are right of center, thought I aim to

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Healthcare outrage will reduce the number of doctors.

This may be anecdotal, but I keep hearing doctors becoming outraged over the greater intrusion of government into the healthcare delivery. Some threaten to retire early, work less, refuse Medicare patients, or otherwise adjust to the interference. Doctors already face

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The Whole Story on Health Care

Mark Constantian writes in the Wall Street Journal Where U.S. Health Care Ranks Number One (1/7/09) excerpts The WHO believes that we could have done better because we do not have universal coverage. What apparently does not matter is that

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Left Handed Optimism

Sometimes optimism and contrarianism can complement each other.   Here is a thought. The health care bill is so unpopular and causing such outrage that other damaging proposals like the Union Card Check bill and Cap and Trade may have no

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Success is Knowing what Worked Yesterday

In politics, as in comedy, timing is everything. A program that works in one time or place may not work in another. Unions were able to raise wages and benefits in our major manufacturers after World War II largely because

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The Second Wave of Unemployment

One of my  colleagues in the steel business has closed his business. Like our business his was started by his father in 1955. Ours was started in 1956.  He had about the same number of employees (70)  a year ago

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So Much for Bipartisanship

Much was made of Olympia Snowe being the sole Republican to sign on to the Senate health care bill. Harry Reid has emerged from a closed door session with a health care bill WITH a public option despite the Senate

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Attacking the Over Insured

There hasn’t  been much I have agreed with in the swamp of health care proposals, but I did hear one idea that made sense; a surtax on the Cadillac plans. This addresses one of the problems of our system. Due

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Drunk on Panic

“A crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.” James Madison Is health care a crisis?  Bruce Walker gives a great answer at American Thinker. August 24, 2009 Infatuation with Crisis By Bruce Walker read the entire article here Excerpt

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The Dangers of Comprehensive Reform

In 1991 our company received a letter from the EPA that we were a ‘PRP’ which stands for a ‘Potentially Responsible Party’ for an environmental cleanup near Tampa, Florida. In 1980 Congress passed the act which created the Superfund, which

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Do We Really Need Comprehensive HealthCare Reform?

The health care bill is getting bogged down because of its complexity. When people do not understand something they tend to be guided more by their fears than by optimistic expectations. It would seem that it would be wiser to

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Descending into Elitism

Camille Paglia steps aside from the sycophants and holds her own party accountable for its elitist attitudes.  Read her whole article in Salon here. Excerpts: I just don’t get it. Why the insane rush to pass a bill, any bill,

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A Better Health Care Proposal

Newt Ginghrich  presents some interesting ideas to reform health care. 1.        Eliminate Medicare and Medicaid fraud.  It consumes over $70 billion a year. In New York state they estinate is consumes 10% of Medicaid spending. 2.       Focus research dollars on

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Hard Choices in the Wrong Hands

Some ideas Much of health insurance costs are involved in the ratings game; attempting to control costs by eliminating claimants who have risky medical histories. This defies the meaning of insurance which is to share the risk, but the insured

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