Many Democratic House members are considering a vote for the Senate Bill with the expectation that there will subsequently be fixes. But such fixes would require at least a modicum of GOP support, especially if the fixes cannot be done through “reconciliation.” So, I’d suggest that the GOP should say this right now: We promise that if the Democrats ram through this huge monstrosity of | Read More »
On March 2, the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court met to argue about whether the State of Illinois can constitutionally ban handguns in the City of Chicago. This landmark case will not only affect gun rights, but also will determine how the Supreme Court goes about telling states and localities what they can and cannot do under the Fourteenth Amendment of the | Read More »
Yahoo News is running a “news” article today by reporter Brett Michael Dykes, about the Supreme Court’s recent decision about free speech during political campaigns. Unfortunately, the “news” article reads more like propaganda, which is why I’m speaking up about it now. According to Dykes: A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that the vast majority of Americans are vehemently opposed to a recent Supreme | Read More »
A lot of people at Redstate have supported the idea of repealing the Seventeenth Amendment, so that U.S. Senators would again be chosen by the respective state legislatures. One of the likely benefits of repealing the Seventeenth Amendment would be that U.S. Senators would no longer be spending huge amounts of time raising money for campaigns, and would no longer be beholden to special interests; | Read More »
The Boston Herald is reporting that Scott Brown is now up by four points. As a native of the Bay State, that is good news, and a win on Tuesday would be more so. Frankly, even if Martha Coakley were a better person than Mother Theresa and George Washington put together, Scott Brown would still deserve to win. That’s because this election is as much | Read More »
If insurance companies charge their customers according to the usual methods of risk-analysis, then a 50-to-60-year-old should pay about six times as much as a 20-year-old for health insurance. However, the impending health care monstrosity will allow older people to be charged only two or three times as much as young people. So, if you’re a young person who is already insured, then you’ll have | Read More »
There’s a way to get health insurance for tens of millions of uninsured Americans, at virtually no cost to taxpayers. Let’s pull back from the precipice, and compromise. Democrats in Congress are careening toward a massively expensive government takeover of health care which would be very difficult to repeal in the future, while Republicans have not yet embraced any plan that would make a big | Read More »
A commenter recently informed me that I cannot be a conservative or a Republican unless I support getting rid of Medicare and all other federal regulation of health care. I’m sure that Medicare can be improved, and I might even support a law saying that an individual state should be able to opt out of both Medicare taxes and Medicare payments if the state thinks it can do | Read More »
I’m curious why this site encourages people to write under an alias. Seems to me it would be preferable to use real names. People would feel more responsible for what they write, and so the quality of the site would increase. Wikipedia also allows people to write anonymously, and I long ago stopped contributing to Wikipedia because it’s become a left-wing propaganda site. People gang up | Read More »
I recently came across this article by Peter Schiff.* He begins by discussing the consequences of forbidding discrimination based on pre-existing conditions: [T]he health care bill removes the need for healthy individuals to carry insurance. Knowing that they could always find coverage if it were eventually needed, people would simply forgo paying expensive premiums while they are healthy, and then sign on when they need it. | Read More »
Now that the U.S. Senate has just voted 60-40 for cloture on the Democratic health care bill, I think the main thing the GOP needs to do is offer a substitute bill that ensures all Americans get critical life-saving care without breaking the bank. That would give more members of Congress cover to derail the upcoming reconciliation process, and would instead hold out the prospect of a | Read More »
When I first read about Senator Harry Reid’s “manager’s amendment” that he persuaded Senator Nelson to endorse today, I commented that it didn’t seem so bad. However, I have now more thoroughly examined the actual text of the manager’s amendment, and it looks to me like Senator Nelson has been tricked. At page 40 of the manager’s amendment, subsection 1303(b)(2)(A) says: (A) IN GENERAL.— If a qualified health | Read More »
Doubtless Iraq would have revived its nuclear weapons program by now, if Sadaam Hussein were still in charge there. So, we know one way to prevent such things from happening: military force. Are there any other ways? This question becomes increasingly urgent as North Korea and Iran continue to flout the will of the international community, which now is shuddering in fear that if the North Korean | Read More »
I telephoned Senator Lieberman’s office today, and urged him to hang tough on health care, and to also support Senator Ben Nelson’s protest against taxpayer subsidies for abortion. As a Connecticut resident, I urge my neighbors in this state to do likewise, and the same goes for anyone else who can afford the phone call. Doubtless there are many things that can be done to improve health care | Read More »
The health care mess continues to amaze me. Here we are in the middle of a recession, and instead of focusing on fixing the economy we are about to embark on a huge and perilous social experiment. Even before the recession, we were being warned about the fiscal doom awaiting Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. So, now, here we are about to massively expand the government’s | Read More »
If a third-grader asks you what a President of the United States is, you might answer by saying, simplistically, that the President “runs the country”. You might even use that description if you’re a columnist writing in the New York Times: “So what if she is preposterously unprepared to run the country in the midst of its greatest economic crisis in 70 years?” But if | Read More »
Right now, the McCain-Palin ticket can still win. For example, they could win by taking the toss-up states and Pennsylvania. And what’s the best way to do that? By using the following video of Barack Obama from a 2007 campaign event in Iowa. This is not about guilt by association or name-calling. This is about how we can harness nuclear energy to establish energy independence, | Read More »
There’s a silly rumor going around that Sen. Obama was born at Coast Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya and that his paternal grandmother has confirmed it. Senator Obama long ago released what is known as a short-form birth certificate from Hawaii. However, he has not released his long-form birth certificate from Hawaii. Why not release it? John McCain’s is already publicly available. I’m 99% sure that | Read More »
The question: If you are nominated for President in 2008 and your major opponents agree to forgo private funding in the general election campaign, will you participate in the presidential public financing system? The lie: OBAMA: Yes. Obama broke that promise, and now he has so much money that he’s dishing it out to blast Republicans out of office nationwide, according to this news report | Read More »
“There are elections in America now. Along came a black citizen of Kenyan African origins, a Muslim, who had studied in an Islamic school in Indonesia. His name is Obama. All the people in the Arab and Islamic world and in Africa applauded this man. They welcomed him and prayed for him and for his success, and they may have even been involved in legitimate | Read More »
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