5 Liberal Myths About Health Care ‘Reform’

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  August 13th at 08:00 AM  | 

The debate over health care reform — what constitutes it and what public opinion of such reform really is — has become more polarizing as the summer has gone on. Below are five key liberal talking points about health care “reform” and an accompanying dose of truth their peddlers so desperately need to hear. 1. Republicans, who either believe the health care status quo is | Read More »

Judge Sotomayor’s ‘Wise Latina Woman’ Statement: Big Deal, or No Deal at All?

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  May 28th at 11:16 AM  | 

That’s one of the questions being debated over at Politico‘s “Arena” blog. Here’s my take, in a nutshell, on Sotormayor’s statement at Berkley in 2001 that the “richness of experience” of a “wise Latina woman” makes her more fit to judge (or more likely to “reach a better conclusion”) “than a white male”: This is a whole bunch of nothing to most liberals, who accept | Read More »