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Clintonite Matt Miller Makes the Case Against the Public Option
No system will be perfect, but to me it’s axiomatic that competing, regulated insurers will be more responsive to change and innovation than a government bureaucracy.
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MSM Discovers Van Jones — After He Resigns
Can you imagine the wall-to-wall coverage that would have ensued if a Bush appointee were discovered to have views that far out on the opposite fringe?
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Recovering from a Hacker
You can’t currently use certain internal links on my blog successfully, because of a hacker. Any blog using a non-current version of WordPress software is vulnerable to this hacker. See http://wordpress.org/support/topic/307660?replies=1 for more info. There…
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George Will Bails Out on Another War
The strategy that so clearly has worked in Iraq deserves an opportunity to succeed in Afghanistan as well.
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Torture, Euthanasia, and Decision-Making Without A Bright Line
Bright-line rules provide the comfort of easy decision-making. But many times there is no bright line, leaving people of good will to agonize about the lesser evil, often under intense pressure. When does a ticking-time-bomb…
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Ted Kennedy Liked Chappaquiddick Jokes
Surely true remorse — or even just common decency — would preclude making jokes about an incident where he put his political career ahead of a young woman’s life. If justice had been served, his…
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The Perverse Incentives of Our Health-Care System
An article in the September Atlantic does the best job I have ever seen of describing why health care is so resistant to cost-control efforts. At 11,000 words, “How American Health Care Killed My Father”…
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Is Pro-Obama News Coverage Hurting ObamaCare?
“While the press often has acted as an early-warning sign for troubled presidential initiatives, the press corp did not perk up until the public was in open rebellion.”
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Hitler Comparisons are Odious, Whether About Obama or Bush
You may have seen and applauded the YouTube video of Barney Frank’s verbal smackdown of a twit who accused him at a town hall of backing Obama’s “Nazi” healthcare plan. I agree that Frank’s righteous…
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Senator Reid’s Odd Notion of Evil
“Evil” is a central concept for me. I named my blog about the need to fight evil. Two presidents in my lifetime have issued clarion calls about evil, and I think history may well ratify…
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A Center-Right Nation Balks at Obamacare
People intuitively understand that the “public option” is a first step toward a single-payer world in which the government directly controls one-sixth of the economy, and has no competitive incentive to reduce costs and improve…
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Moderate Muslims Hold the Key to the War Against Islamic Fascism
For some time I’ve been meaning to highlight the work of M. Zuhdi Jasser and the American Islamic Forum for Democracy. As their website describes, “AIFD was formed as an unmistakable expression of American liberty…
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Kudlow Supports A.T.I.N. on Clunkers
For days after conveying the coveted All That Is Necessary Seal of Approval on the Cash for Clunkers program, I’ve watched a parade of conservative commentators weigh in against it. Some of the critics were…
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“Porkulus” Was a Travesty, but “Cash for Clunkers” is Kosher
I wasn’t aware of the “Cash for Clunkers” program until today, when they started talking about ending it prematurely because it was running out of money. I’m not in a position to take advantage of…
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God Knows: An IED in Iraq Shows Who, How, and Why We Fight
My point here is not to advocate waterboarding, a practice I oppose. To paraphrase a recent American president, my point is that good and evil both exist in the world — and the God of…
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Obama Pays for Gates-gate in the Rasmussen Poll
President Obama has slipped to the worst rating of his young presidency in the daily Rasmussen Presidential Tracking Poll, weighing in at -11 points. That’s based on likely voters with strong opinions. He fares better…
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Loading Up the Corruption Bus in New Jersey
(Welcome, New York Times readers. You might be interested in other posts about New Jersey and Maplewood.) My adopted home state of New Jersey has a long sordid history of political corruption. We’re not yet…
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Flash Reaction to Obama’s Walk-Back of “Stupid” Comment
Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a> This will continue to be debated and analyzed for days, but my first thought was, “good for Obama.” If you go looking for things to criticize in his…
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Plenty of Stupidity to Go Around in Arrest of Gates
It took President Obama five days to speak out critically about the brutal suppression in Iran. He said he didn’t want to be “seen as meddling.” Law enforcement officials around the country are no doubt…
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Mr. Maliki Goes to Washington, Standing Tall
For his first couple of years as Prime Minister of Iraq, the conventional wisdom held that Nouri al-Maliki was in over his head. Even people who supported the war tended to think that Maliki was…
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Obama Wins Battle to Defund F-22 — and I’m Glad
Just hours after celebrating a decline in “the administration’s ability to steamroll Congress,” I find myself celebrating a successful Obama veto threat. With Senators crossing party lines in both directions, the Senate voted 50-48 today…