Category: Healthcare Reform

Good Monday morning . . .

Good Monday morning . . .

| October 5, 2009 | Reply

. . . and things are already getting interesting. ITEM: Obama throws the Dalai Lama and the entire country of Tibet under the bus (emphasis mine): In an attempt to gain favor with China, the United States pressured Tibetan representatives to postpone a meeting between the Dalai Lama and President Obama until after Obama’s summit […]

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Establishing the fallacy of goverment stimulus spending

Establishing the fallacy of goverment stimulus spending

| October 2, 2009 | Reply

Don Surber zooms in on the relevant portion of reality vs. hope-and-change. Obama and the Democratic Congress sold us on a horrific “stimulus” package with the threat of 9.0 % unemployment if they failed to act. They acted, and unemployment is now approaching 10% and may hit 12% next year. In the meantime, the national […]

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New and improved US deficit visualization

New and improved US deficit visualization

| October 1, 2009 | 1 Reply

This wonderful chart, put up by Veronique de Rugy over at The American, is even better than the chart that I’ve used off and on for months to show the staggering deficit projections resulting from the Obama Administration unsustainable economic policies. As per de Rugy’s explanations, here’s what the color bars mean: the orange bars […]

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ALERT: Healthcare public option end-run by Sen. Reid?

ALERT: Healthcare public option end-run by Sen. Reid?

| September 30, 2009 | 1 Reply

ITEM — Creeping Socialism Alert: In spite of having the ‘public option’ option voted down twice in the Senate Finance Committee, apparently there’s still a chance that we could end up with it anyway. The Heritage Foundation outlines how the approach would work: So just how close are we to being inflicted with the Obama/Moore […]

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Monday economics roundup

Monday economics roundup

| September 28, 2009 | 1 Reply

ITEM: Milk prices have plummeted here in Denver over the past year. I used to spend close to $3/gallon for my favorite milk (Lucerne Skim Supreme Fat Free milk); now the price is around $1.60/gallon. It’s hurt the dairy farmers here in Colorado, and their response is to kill cows in order to reduce milk […]

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You can’t stop the signal

You can’t stop the signal

| September 22, 2009 | 1 Reply

In one of Glenn Reynolds’ posts today, he quoted what is probably the best-known line from “Serenity”: “I am to misbehave.” So I dug up the trailer for “Serenity”, thinking to excerpt that quote and post it here. Except . . . the whole trailer reads eerily (in hyperbolic mashup terms) like the growing conservative […]

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Saturday links

Saturday links

| September 19, 2009 | Reply

ITEM: Lacking actual support for health care reform, Congress and the Obama Administration looks to manufacture it in order to give the mainstream media cover for how poorly they’ve covered the whole issue: The plan for a series of grass-roots demonstrations Tuesday to promote President Obama’s health care agenda calls for tightly scripted events and […]

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9/12 March update: the Left is getting scared

9/12 March update: the Left is getting scared

| September 11, 2009 | Reply

Heh. Two big signs that the Left is getting really worried about the 9/12 March scheduled for tomorrow. First, a (phony) bomb threat was called in to the FreedomWorks offices this afternoon: On the eve of what organizers call a ‘Big Ol’ TEA Party’, the Washington, D.C., offices of FreedomWorks were evacuated by DC Metro […]

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9/12 Rally liveblogging — kickoff meeting

9/12 Rally liveblogging — kickoff meeting

| September 10, 2009 | Reply

Sandra and I are sitting here in the DC Armory, a venerable (not aging well) structure out by RFK Stadium. This is where this morning’s kickoff meeting for the 9/12 Taxpayer March on the Capitol is taking place. This meeting is only for the truly committed. First, it’s taking place Thursday morning, even though the […]

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Countdown to 9/12 — Thursday links

Countdown to 9/12 — Thursday links

| September 10, 2009 | Reply

9/12 UPDATE: Sandra and I are now here in DC, staying right downtown. We’re attending a meeting this morning over at the DC Armory and then will hit the National Gallery of Art. (It is sad how few times when went there during the nearly 8 years total that we lived in DC and the […]

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