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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,…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: March 4, 2010
Senate Democrats are firmly against any attempt to circumvent the 60-vote majority that Senate rules require to prevent a filibuster of major legislation. On principle! Forget that the recent election of Republican Scott Brown deprives Democrats of their filibuster-proof majority. Democrats won’t even consider trying to shunt that rule aside…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: April 1, 2018
On April Fools’ Day, 1957, the BBC offered for viewers of the current affairs program “Panorama” the infamous spaghetti harvest 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: 28% Posted on: July 3, 2019
“You lie!” When U.S. Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC) shouted this at President Barack Obama during 2009’s State of the Union — scandal! How dare he? At issue was whether federal tax dollars would aid illegal immigrants under Obamacare. Democrats denied that any such thing would happen. Indeed, the very idea…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: January 2, 2015
President Calvin Coolidge looks more like a sage every day. Confucius would’ve been proud of Silent Cal. Today’s top politicians might take a cue from the man: When you don’t have much to say, say nothing. President Barack Obama, whose popularity in America up until recently rested, in part, on his…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: December 16, 2010
Every once in a while a judge attends to the Constitution, and freedom lovers cheer wildly as if this were very strange, even wondrous. I guess it is, considered in light of the sweep of human history. Should the Democrats’ “health care reform” package kick in fully, it would compel…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: May 13, 2011
As a candidate for the presidency, Mitt Romney has a number of things going for him. He’s rich, handsome, and has a funny first name. Perhaps more importantly, he’s neither Donald Trump nor Newt Gingrich. But still, he does have a niggly problem: His experience. He was the Massachusetts governor…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: May 4, 2011
Most foes of Obamacare support reform, but reform that liberalizes, rather than further burdening, the health care industry. Individuals have a right to liberty, and free markets prove inherently better than rule-bound bureaucracies at providing goods and services. Yes, even medicine. At least one health-care commissar admits this superiority .…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: October 21, 2010
Democrats filled their 2000-page healthcare bill — rammed into law despite growing and vehement public opposition — with obscure but costly mandates. As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confessed, Congress would have to pass the bill before we could learn what they were. After all, who, including congressmen, had time to…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: July 23, 2013
There’s a basic rule that folks who seek power tend to forget and those in power flout outright: the principles we foist on others must apply also to ourselves. Notoriously, Congress piles regulation over regulation upon the American people, but absolves itself from those very same laws. This became an…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: July 22, 2014
Google says health care is unhealthy. Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla has conducted what he calls a “fireside chat” with Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. In one much-cited passage, Brin observes that although he is excited about making gadgets like glucose-measuring contact lenses, health care, because “so heavily regulated,”…