Like many other Palin supporters I was greatly disappointed by the e-mail I received from the Guv telling me that she was not running. Unlike other Palin supporters, I take her at her word. To paraphrase her, why would I trust her to be the POTUS and not trust her to make the decision not to run? For the record, I truly believe that she | Read More »
A number of self proclaimed smart people have analyzed Herman Cain’s 999 plan. Some, like WaPo’s “Fact Checker” don’t apparently know the most basic fact about payroll taxes– that is, how much they really are. To demonstrate — “fact checker” claims that payroll taxes are “7.65″ percent of wage income. Please look at the form 941 for this year . This is the form the employer | Read More »
Gary Taubes, the author of Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It and Good Calories Bad Calories, has written a really excellent blog post on the nature of scientific inquiry. For those unfamiliar with his work, Taubes is a science writer and has published articles in many science magazines about a variety of scientific topics from cold fusion to low carb | Read More »
More than two years ago John Mackey, the co-CEO of Whole Foods caused a storm of hostility, picketing and boycotting from his own liberal customers by advocating the use of Health Savings Accounts combined with high deductible Health Insurance ( a plan Whole Foods follows with its employees ) as an alternative to Obamacare. As Mackey explains, health savings accounts are tax exempt accounts (meaning | Read More »
One of the ideas being floated by people who make proposals for bringing entitlement spending under control is that we require applicants for social security to pass a means test. It is a bad, bad, bad idea. The first reason it is a bad idea is the fairness issue. The underlying implication of this means test is that the people who have earned the most | Read More »
Reckless Endangerment is an excruciatingly detailed history of how the U. S. and World financial systems almost imploded in 2008. It is also a case study in corporate crony capitalism. The painful truth is that the people who caused this collapse have not been brought to justice and the problems that caused the collapse have not been fixed. What you will learn is that the | Read More »
Not to beat a dead horse, but to try to add to the knowledge base of conservatives about vaccines, it is well documented that there does appear to be some link between Guillan Barre Syndrome and some vaccines. Guillan Barre Syndrome can be a devastating neurological disease, but the incidence of linkage is extremely small. There have been incident reports to CDC of Guillan Barre | Read More »
As Michelle Malkin notes, there is a HUGE difference between suggesting and supporting the use of vaccines and Mandating them. So, while Sarah Palin was apparently opposed to mandating Gardasil, she accepted federal funds to make it less expensive for those who chose it. And, without claiming to be a scientist, there is a big difference between diseases like smallpox (which we no longer vaccinate | Read More »
Paul Ryan‘ s plan to change Medicare to a system that gives seniors both greater freedom of choice and greater responsibility for their own care has been under heavy attack. It isn’t surprising. I suspect if more investigation were done we would find that some of those attacks are at least funded by the people who have managed to learn how to make a profit | Read More »
Coming to your computer as soon as you click on this link, Fathead, the movie never went into wide release like Supersize Me, but it is way smarter and much funnier. You can see it on your own computer and well worth watching. Our hero, Tom Naughton, sets out to explore the premise of Supersize Me. He stands outside a Mc Donald’s for several hours | Read More »
Sorry, I left out a link. You can check your own rate of return on FICA taxes here.
I see an old shibboleth being recirculated, either directly or by implication: that people who are now retiring or will be retiring in the future will receive much more in benefits than they have paid in. This is a complicated question, but people my age, (67) who were high earners most of their working lives and paid social security most of their working lives are | Read More »
In some ways, the hatred of liberal bloggers for Sarah Palin is more easily understood than that of the establishment elites. She is, pretty much, the new flavor du jour. They have pretty much run out of any enthusiasm for bashing Bush now that he is out of office. It’s all recycled and kind of yesterday. Bachmann, Cantor and others get their share but their | Read More »
About three weeks ago, an upcoming family wedding and a trip to the mall with my daughter to shop for dresses forced me to look at the spare tire that has grown around my waist. AS usual, all the health concerns in the world had been postponed, but vanity moved me. So I did the thing that always works for me. I went and bought | Read More »
From his interview with Sean Hannity: ”The reason she draws this kind of fire, she is an existential threat to the establishment at every level, whether it is Wasilla, whether it’s Alaska, whether it’s the Tea Party Movement. She is on the side of the people. She represents working-class, middle class values and that, the vested interests in our country are scared to death of | Read More »
I have only read the reviews and listened to Rush this morning. This book gives names, dates and places of the people who almost collapsed our economy and there is plenty of blame to go around on both sides of the aisle. Why would this book favor Palin? Which other candidate is willing to take on the Republican establishment that either colluded in the home | Read More »
Palin just recently visited Bunker Hill, the site of an historic battle. Here is Thomas Flemings brief account. It was a pyrrhic victory for the British. The saying, “don’t fire until you see the whites of there eyes” is thought to have originated from an American commander at that battle. The Americans had limited ammunition and powder. The commander was telling them to save it | Read More »
One thing we know about Sarah Palin is that, when she has been in charge,her campaigns are not traditional campaigns. Another thing we know about Palin is that she connects in a powerful way with ordinary people. Count me as one of them. In an earlier post I mentioned Palin’s Facebook page which is almost a complete campaign platform entered one note at a time. | Read More »
As we play games of comparative gotchas and flubs and less than articulare speech with all nominees and office holders, I think it is time for more than a few people to say– STOP!!!!. Do we want leaders who have a good understanding of the economy, world affairs, energy policy or do we want debate champions? Oh yes, it is traditional to have debates. | Read More »
More than 40 years ago I was admitted to a top 20 law school. I was a blue-eyed blonde who was, still kind of easy on the eyes and not completely unattractive. I was also one of 18 women in a class of 180 at a law school where we were the largest cohort of women students since World War II. To put it bluntly, | Read More »
Oops. It’s 1773 all over again. Roughly a jillion snarky bloggers have taken Sarah Palin to task because she supposedly didn’t know who Paul Revere warned on his midnight ride. I won’t bore you with all of them. But let’s start with the Christian Science Monitor. Peter Grier explains that Ms. Palin, in describing the incident as including a warning to the British that they | Read More »
First, let me say, that the story as reported is that the application doesn’t bear Palin’s signature. Further, the description of the application is that it did not include any examples of commercial use so it is not at all clear that Mrs. Palin had anything to do with the application. But, supposing that there was such an attempt, Trademarking might allow Mrs. Palin to | Read More »
FQHC stands for Federally Qualified Health Center. These are private clinics which provide free or low cost medical services in underserved communities. It is not insurance. It is direct funding to clinics that provide actual medical care to indigents and working poor and, really, whoever wants to use them. Most charge low or no fees to the poor and higher fees to those who can | Read More »
The planned high speed rail line linking Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles and points south is nonsense. You can have the rail line but it won’t be high speed because of engineering problems. The engineering problem is called the Tehachapi Mountains. Interstate 5 is the main inland road from Los Angeles to points north. It crosses the Tehachapi Mountains just north of Los Angeles at | Read More »
Because we are about to enter a new round of debates about health insurance, we need to clarify basic insurance concepts. In the beginning of the industry, insurance was a bet you made with a company which bet you didn’t mind losing. For example. If you buy life insurance, you are betting that you will die in the coming year and the insurance company is | Read More »
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