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Manly Firmness

Relevance: 40%      Posted on: February 18, 2015

“Is repealing the Affordable Care Act an issue of manhood?” asks Alan Rappeport in the New York Times. He’s referring to the “macho language” in a resolution introduced recently in Jefferson City, Missouri, by State Rep. Mike Moon. Moon’s House Resolution 99 decimates the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, in…

Townhall: Arrogant Pols, Go Home!

Relevance: 40%      Posted on: April 16, 2017

Politicians! A few years in office are enough. Arrogance needs nipping in the bud. Click on over to Townhall. Come back for the complete context. YouTube: “Okie from Muskogee” by Merle Haggard Deseret News: “Sen. Hatch's re-election bid proves the need for term limits” TPM: Hatch: “Sorry, Romney, Trump Is…

UN-appealing

Relevance: 39%      Posted on: April 27, 2017

Like E.F. Hutton, when the United Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights “Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health” talks, people listen. In disbelief, perhaps. Or amusement. But they listen. Well, at least Washington…

The Latest Legislative Land Mine

Relevance: 39%      Posted on: January 2, 2013

The most prescient thing ever said about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare, was articulated by then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi: “we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” The medical reform package is quite the hodgepodge.…

The Unsurprising “Success” of Subsidy

Relevance: 39%      Posted on: February 19, 2014

“Moving on from unfulfilling jobs, thanks to health-care law,” was the gleeful headline across the story spoon-fed to the Washington Post by Families USA, a pro-Obamacare group that maintains a “database of people who have benefitted” from the so-called Affordable Care Act. No doubt, that’s a pretty easy list to…

The End—er, ACA—Is Near

Relevance: 38%      Posted on: October 29, 2013

First, NBC’s Nightly News anchor Brian Williams reported that the “website for the president’s new health care law is back up tonight after yet another technical problem over the weekend that prevented people from signing up for health insurance . . . yet again.” Then he went on, bemoaning, “For…

Obama Can’t Avoid Fabled Ovoid Crack-up

Relevance: 35%      Posted on: November 20, 2013

Mr. Humpty Dumpty provided the lesson. Not a novel lesson, I grant you. All the great sages gave similar warnings: “Don’t bite off more than you can chew”; “Look before you leap”; “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” So, I repeat, not novel. Call it oval, in honor…

Townhall: Nonsense, Precedented and Petrified

Relevance: 35%      Posted on: April 8, 2012

Did you catch my column this weekend? It's called "Nonsense, Precedented and Petrified," and it takes on a common mistake, this time made by one of the better columnists out there. Here are links in my column worth checking up on: Obama and the Mother of All Tyrannies(David Harsanyi in…

The Supreme Oxymorons

Relevance: 35%      Posted on: July 4, 2012

With the Supreme Court’s decision in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, Obamacare has achieved its first milestone: The repudiation of logic, the Orwellian assertion that A both is and is not A. The massive healthcare package, officially titled the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, requires that individuals buy medical insurance. The law imposes…

Ghost of an Argument

Relevance: 34%      Posted on: October 27, 2020

On the 73rd anniversary of the birth of Hillary Clinton, the United States Senate confirmed Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Mrs. Clinton, the former Democratic presidential candidate, looms in the background of the issue as a sort of éminence grise, a specter of the politics of the left.…