http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:25:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you're wondering where health care dollars go in this country, the invaluable Phil Klein reminds us: Raymond Raad, a resident in psychiatry at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and co-author of a new Cato study, presented evidence showing that the United States leads the world in the development ... http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2009/11/20/the-arsenal-of-medicine/ I have a lot of respect for Fred Thompson, and in this particular case I think his point is precisely correct on the merits, but there are just some things that opponents of the President shouldn't say during wartime, and maybe it's just bad phrasing or just being provocative, but ... http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2009/11/19/dear-fred-thompson-lets-not-do-this-again/ Add New York Governor David Paterson - surely, no right-winger - to the list of critics of trying Khalid Sheikh Muhammad in Manhattan, and he adds an additional concern, that the expense and additional security will interfere with the endlessly-delayed plans to rebuild on the Ground Zero site: "This is not ... http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2009/11/17/ny-gov-david-paterson-slams-terror-trials-decision/ Here in New York, the Obama Administration's decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other Al Qaeda terrorists in the civilian justice system in downtown Manhattan has garnered plenty of well-earned criticism, including from New York's leading anti-terrorism experts like Rudy Giuliani, Michael Mukasey (who handled the blind sheikh trial ... http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2009/11/17/polls-show-public-not-buying-the-case-for-terror-trials/ "Outrageous... ludicrous mistakes."President Obama, February 24, 2009, justifying his "stimulus" plan to a joint session of Congress: I know there are some in this chamber and watching at home who are skeptical of whether this plan will work. I understand that skepticism. Here in Washington, we've all seen how ... http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2009/11/17/david-obey-messes-with-joe/ Somewhere in these 57 states, there exist Congressional Districts between sight and sound, in which Barack Obama is "creating jobs" that do not exist for constituents of Congresspersons who do not exist either, reports Jonathan Karl of ABC News: Here's a stimulus success story: In Arizona's 9th Congressional District, 30 jobs ... http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2009/11/16/the-meaning-of-jobs-created-part-ii/ The Washington Examiner spots the pattern from multiple news reports: More than ten percent of the jobs the Obama administration has claimed were "created or saved" by the $787 billion stimulus package are doubtful or imaginary, according to reports compiled from eleven major newspapers and the Associated Press. Based only on our ... http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2009/11/16/the-meaning-of-jobs-created/ Pardon me if I am seeing red this morning: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and four others accused in the attacks will be put on criminal trial in New York, Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to announce later Friday. WHAT IN THE HELL IS ... http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2009/11/13/the-khalid-sheikh-mohammed-lower-manhattan-reunion-tour/ The latest Quinnipiac poll of Connecticut voters is out, and while it is (standard disclaimer) only one poll, it shows bad news for Chris Dodd, good news for his strongest challenger, Rob Simmons, and bad news for President Obama's health care plan. Here's the topline result on Simmons vs ... http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2009/11/12/latest-connecticut-poll-good-news-for-simmons-bad-news-for-dodd-obamacare/ “The health care bill, by virtue of its intrusive nature, makes neutrality impossible...Such a bill cannot be 'pro-choice.' It must be pro-abortion or anti-abortion.”A funny thing is happening on the way to the impending health care showdown, as the Democrats try to turn the newly-passed House bill into something that ... http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2009/11/10/democrats-divided-on-abortion/ Republicans are - rightly - crowing this morning about the GOP's victories in the New Jersey Governor's race and a battery of races in Virginia from the Governorship on down and what they say about the turn in the national mood, if not in a pro-Republican direction then at least ... http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2009/11/04/yes-all-politics-is-local/ There will be much debate in the morning about whether or not the bad results for Democrats in the Governor's races in Virginia and New Jersey - both states where Barack Obama campaigned for the Democrat and the Democrat sought to join himself at the hip with Obama - reflect ... http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2009/11/03/barack-obama-not-helping-democrats/ Arlington/Alexandria Democrat Jim Moran is always a reliable source of lunacy and foolishness; examples include blaming the Iraq War on Jews (Moran has an exhaustive rap sheet of anti-Semitism) and pushing to get Guantanamo detainees tried in his district over the objections of local Democrats. Monday, at a Creigh ... http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2009/11/03/jim-moran-calls-virginia-gop-taliban-but-not-so-interested-in-fighting-the-actual-taliban/ Politico, noting the bipartisan fallout over Alan Grayson calling female Fed advisor Lisa Robertson a "whore," finds even liberal blue-state Democrats scornful of the loose-cannon Florida Dem: “Is this news to you that this guy’s one fry short of a Happy Meal?” asked Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) House Majority Leader Steny ... http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2009/10/26/politico-even-democrats-think-grayson-one-fry-short-of-a-happy-meal/ Like many Americans, you may not have heard of Congressman Alan Grayson before he claimed that Republicans, because they oppose government-rationed health care, want sick people to "die quickly." Not only did Grayson refuse to apologize for this nonsense, he has been raising money hand over fist from left-wingers ... http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2009/10/26/alan-grayson-calls-female-advisor-to-bernanke-a-whore/ A new Rasmussen poll knocks the props out from the main argument why conservatives who would prefer to be represented in the Senate by Marco Rubio should nonetheless support Charlie Crist. Crist, his supporters say, has two things going for him: he's going to win the nomination anyway, ... http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2009/10/22/rasmussen-makes-it-official-marco-rubio-more-electable-than-charlie-crist/ The major decision the Obama Administration continues to procrastinate is whether to continue the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Victory in Afghanistan was, as you will recall, one of Obama's main campaign themes - one he used to convince people that he wasn't the dyed-in-the-tie-dyes peacenik his left-wing ... http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2009/10/13/will-obama-ask-the-taliban-the-deal-breaker-question/ Today's announcement that Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize - having been nominated a grand total of 12 days into his presidency - officially places Obama and the Nobel Committee alike beyond parody. There's no stereotype of liberals they won't embody. Could you possibly come up ... http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2009/10/09/a-nobel-prize-only-andrew-sullivan-could-love/ So, Chicago was eliminated in the first round of bidding for the 2016 Summer Olympics, despite (I assume despite) President Obama's personal lobbying for the Games. Now, as a New Yorker, I really would not want the Olympics anywhere near my city, and the Olympics don't exactly have a grand history ... http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2009/10/02/obama-has-lost-a-valuable-thing/ Preach it, Big Bird! H/T http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2009/10/01/open-thread-3/