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Relevance: 33% Posted on: November 10, 2013
Obamacare's failures are not exactly bolts out of the blue, big surprises that should shock us all. Click on over to Townhall, and then back here, for some indication of the principal principles behind the ailing failure. A number of ideas and phrases appear in the column that might seem…
Relevance: 32% Posted on: July 29, 2009
Want a laugh? To keep you from crying at what President Obama and the Congress are trying to do to health care in this country? Over the decades, the federal government’s involvement in health care has been making it harder and harder for doctors and patients to make independent, sensible…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: March 26, 2010
It’s magic. Not only does the recently passed health care reform cover more people, it cuts deficits too. Ha! You know it, I know, we all know it: Major government entitlement programs always end up costing far, far more than their original advocates claim. Or should we just trust trust…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: April 14, 2017
The folks in Congress represent ‘We, the People’ . . . well, theoretically, at least. They’re supposed to work for us. We are their bosses. We pay their salary. But not U.S. Rep. Markwayne Mullin, the third-term Republican from the rural Second District of Oklahoma. At two recent town hall…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: April 1, 2017
On April Fools’ Day, 1957, the BBC offered for viewers of the current affairs program “Panorama” the infamous spaghetti tree report hoax. In the spirit of the day, Common Sense offers these “historic” events: On April 1, 1787, James Madison, father of the Constitution, removed the General Welfare clause from…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: July 18, 2012
It’s often difficult to know where ideology ends and realpolitik begins. Politicians claim to be pure partisans of principle alone — “statesmen,” to use the old-fashioned term. But observe their behavior and quickly their personal and professional interests shake out of their sleeves. With the medical industry reform bill now…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: August 18, 2010
A congressman yells “You lie!” during a State of the Union address and everybody blasts him for lapse of manners, failure to respect the office of the presidency. Less objectionable, presumably, is the statement itself. For President Obama and members of Congress do fib, misrepresent, lie: About this, about that,…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: January 22, 2010
Over at Amazon.com there’s a discussion of Oscar Wilde’s essay “The Soul of Man Under Socialism.” Some visitors decry the horrors of socialism enabled by such wishful thinking. Others say, “Hey, be fair! The calamitous ‘socialist’ regimes of the 20th century aren’t what Wilde was talking about!” But not many…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: May 2, 2012
I think I like Mitt Romney, the man. I have defended some of what he has said. But I doubt I will support him for the presidency — and if he gets elected, I’d likely spend as much time criticizing him as I did George W. Bush and as I…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: October 7, 2010
What does gold have to do with medical care? Ingested, it’s a poison. It’s not often used in treatment. So why did the Obama administration place a provision further regulating the buying and selling of gold into the Democrats’ medical reform legislation? Economist Thomas Sowell explains, in a recent column,…