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“America’s Teetering Tower of Unkeepable Promises”
George Will, on the enormity of what just occurred: On Sunday, as will happen every day for two decades, another 10,000 baby boomers became eligible for Social Security and Medicare. And Congress moved closer to piling a huge new middle-class entitlement onto the rickety structure of America’s Ponzi welfare state. Congress has a one-word response […]
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Steyn Nails It: Happy Dependence Day
"The governmentalization of health care will accelerate, private insurers will no longer be free to be "insurers" in any meaningful sense of that term (ie, evaluators of risk), and once that’s clear we’ll be on the fast track to Obama’s desired destination of single payer as a fait accomplis."
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Health Care: A Uniquely Partisan New Entitlement
If Obamacare passes — and as the endgame plays out today, that feels like the way to bet — it will pass without a single Republican vote in either house of Congress. Historic legislation indeed: Regardless of the political fallout, historians say health-care reform will take its place in the same category as the enactment […]
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Slap a Warning Label on the CBO Scoring
Beware the government bearing numbers.
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The Fierce Urgency of “Demon Pass”
Megan McArdle (emphasis added): But there is one thing of which I am nearly perfectly certain: If we pass this thing, no American politician, left or right, is going to cut any of these programs, or raise the broad-based taxes necessary to pay for them, without any compensating goodies to offer the public . . […]
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My International Consulting Practice
Melisa Antic is building a business based on helping English-speaking expats relocate and settle in to living in Belgrade.
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Dear Census-Taker: I’m a Conservative, Liberal, Subversive, Patriotic American
It’s Census time, and there’s a nefarious conservative plot afoot to undermine the gummint by subverting the racial purity of the decennial enumeration. The idea is to answer the racial question by ignoring the familiar black/white/Asian categories, selecting “Other,” and writing in “American.” How do I know it’s a conservative plot? Well, it’s been discussed […]
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Nice to See an Oscar for a Largely Pro-U.S. War Movie
College buddy Tom Streithorst is out with an article in the UK’s Prospect Magazine titled “Why The Hurt Locker shouldn’t have won,” based on Tom’s extensive experience as a journalist embedded with U.S. forces in Iraq. Tom’s thesis is that although some aspects of the movie are outstanding, it is marred by an unrealistic portrayal […]
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House Offers Best Hope for Stopping Obamacare
While much of the discussion about health care has focused on the lack of 60 Democratic votes in the Senate, the House may pose an even bigger obstacle. For legislative process geeks, John Podhoretz explains the coming maneuvers. First the House has to pass the Senate bill, with the understanding that there would then be […]
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Brave Muslim Cleric Issues Fatwa Against Terrorism
Three hearty cheers for Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri, a Pakistan-born Muslim scholar in London, who has issued a fatwa declaring that suicide bombing and other acts of terrorism are prohibited by Islam. Pointing out that terrorists commit acts of self and mass murder with the firm conviction that they will be rewarded by God and that […]