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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,”…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: November 13, 2013
There is no mystery here. We know why the healthcare.gov website has failed, and why the emerging problems inherent in “ObamaCare” are bound to lead to even greater failure. Hubris. Pride. Incompetence. The “incompetence” so far shown, and the lies that so often follow incompetence like so many ducklings following…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: April 17, 2014
Are you tired of members of the political class foisting burdensome laws on us from which they liberally exempt themselves? Sign the petition. I mean the “No Special Deals” petition expressing support for “Senator Rand Paul's Constitutional Amendment to stop Congress from passing legislation that doesn't apply equally to U.S.…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: August 17, 2012
The n-word got dropped on MSNBC’s The Cycle this week. The show’s co-host [No First Name] Touré called Mitt Romney’s use of the word “angry” to describe some of the rhetoric coming out of the White House as “the ‘niggerization’ of Obama”: “You are not one of us, you are…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: March 9, 2011
The answer is 42. The question? Not Douglas Adams’s Ultimate Question concerning “life, the universe, and everything.” Instead, it’s the answer to the question, “How many mandates does the State of Oregon place on the medical insurance packages Oregonians are allowed to buy?” Forty-two. The number is far too large…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: November 17, 2010
Mainstream media often become so fixed on the major players in Washington, DC, that journalists miss the most telling democratic action: At state and local levels, regarding initiatives. Nicely, there are exceptions. An editorial, last week, in The Washington Times was subtitled “Ballot initiatives advance a limited government agenda in…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: January 24, 2013
People have an incredible knack for self-preservation that nations sometimes, surprisingly, lack. The United States of America is not unalterably locked into future bankruptcy, taking you and me and hordes of other innocents down together. But the road to that fateful — if not in ways “fatal” — day now…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: February 27, 2013
Monday, I lamented our deeply-indebted federal government’s policy towards the states: Bribery. It busily borrows more and more money to entice our more fiscally sound state governments into dramatically expanding Medicaid spending to ever less sustainable levels. I also noted that several Republican Governors who were long opposed to Obamacare…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: March 24, 2014
The legislative history of Idaho’s Senate Bill 1332 can be briskly told; its enactment was swift indeed. The Federal Firearm, Magazine and Register Ban Enforcement Act was introduced on the tenth of February; unanimously approved by the full Senate nine days later; leapt out of House committee, on March 10,…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: March 4, 2013
Critics of term limits on elected officials sometimes say: “You wouldn’t term-limit a neurosurgeon/fireman/[other indispensable professional] just because he’s experienced, wouldja?” No. But I am capable of distinguishing between economic power and political power — between voluntary trade and policies imposed by force. It’s all about “opting out”: we are…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: January 12, 2014
Ah, it's a hot topic, because the President wishes it so — because, above all else, he must deflect attention from his failures regarding Obamacare and everything else. So of course it deserves our attention. Maybe even embracing! Click on over to Townhall; return here for some more links to…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: December 14, 2012
As I write this, the United States of America is $16,275,179,205,442 in debt. By the time you read this, we’ll have piled up millions more. Much debt is of recent vintage. When George W. Bush became president in 2000, the national red ink totaled $5.7 trillion. In eight years, Dubya…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: February 16, 2012
Regulators spawned by “Obamacare” have mandated that employer-provided medical insurance plans provide contraception as a benefit. The problem, as currently reported and debated, is that only churches are exempted — church-run or -affiliated hospitals, for example, are not. And so Catholic hospitals, along with other religious-based charitable endeavors, must conform,…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: April 9, 2012
When you hear the word “unprecedented,” reach for your . . . dictionary. But when you hear someone say we should be “petrified” of “democracy,” what do you reach for, then? Early last week, President Barack Obama railed against the Supreme Court and the possibility that it might overturn the…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: January 2, 2014
With congressional approval ratings at the lowest ever, it’s evident: the sclerotic old institution needs new blood. But note what I’m not saying — that “Congress doesn’t do enough.” As A. Barton Hinkle points out in a column, yesterday, complaints about the 113th Congress hail from “CNN to McClatchy to…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: April 11, 2012
The art of polling is similar to almost any effort where interpretation is required: Context is important. The Reason-Rupe pollsters seem to get this. Their recent survey covers not only a lot of ground (the president’s job performance, possible candidates in the upcoming elections, health care, morality and war) but…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: January 27, 2014
Rush Limbaugh recently characterized United States President Barack Obama as a narcissist — and not for the first time. On the surface, Limbaugh’s complaint about presidential narcissism seems ludicrous: people are thinking about the president “all the time” — the man is in the position to be contemplated by millions…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: September 7, 2015
“Republicans in Congress are dead-set on rolling back the progress that Democrats like you and I [sic] have worked so hard to achieve,” wrote Democratic Party Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, in a bizarre pitch letter last week. They’ve already said that they’re going to try to repeal Obamacare, after…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: February 18, 2011
If government is “justified” in forcing you to buy health insurance for your own good — the fabled and perhaps fatal conceit of Obamacare — is it also justified in forcing us to keep up with “good” TV shows? That’s the nutty notion floated at the satirical site The Onion,…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: September 14, 2012
President Obama loves a laugh line he uttered during his convention speech and is now on tour with it, using it to stoke up his campaign whistle stops. Obama told us that Republican policy amounts to this: “Have a surplus? Try a tax cut. Deficit too high? Try another. Feel…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: January 13, 2016
On January 13, 1833, United States President Andrew Jackson (pictured, top left) wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren (pictured, top right) expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. Jackson insisted that “the crisis must be now met with firmness” and “the modern…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: January 13, 2021
On January 13, 1833, United States President Andrew Jackson (pictured, top left) wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren (pictured, top right) expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. Jackson insisted that “the crisis must be now met with firmness” and “the modern…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: January 13, 2022
On January 13, 1833, United States President Andrew Jackson (pictured, top left) wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren (pictured, top right) expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. Jackson insisted that “the crisis must be now met with firmness” and “the modern…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: January 13, 2017
On January 13, 1833, United States President Andrew Jackson (pictured, top left) wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren (pictured, top right) expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. Jackson insisted that “the crisis must be now met with firmness” and “the modern…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: January 13, 2018
On January 13, 1833, United States President Andrew Jackson (pictured, top left) wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren (pictured, top right) expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. Jackson insisted that “the crisis must be now met with firmness” and “the modern…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: November 6, 2014
As we make sense of this week’s sea change — of the Great Shellacking Democrats took on Tuesday — some caution is in order. In 2006, voters did not choose the Democrats because of what they were or what they promised, but because of what they weren’t: corrupt, clueless Republicans.…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: August 6, 2012
The First Amendment isn’t enough. Because its provisions have stronger teeth than most other amendments in the Bill of Rights, it gets put into service quite a lot, to bolster other freedoms. It’s a pity there’s no general “right to freedom” — or even “freedom of contract” — amendment. A…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: November 26, 2013
“It’s all right in politics to be clever,” said George F. Will last week, “but you don’t want to look like you’re trying to be clever, because that looks tricky and sneaky.” Will, who has recently jumped ship from ABC to Fox News, was identifying the autocratic nature of current…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: August 29, 2014
Former Clinton Treasury secretary Larry Summers proposes that we switch from an eight-year, two-term limit for the union’s presidency to a six-year, single-term limit. He contends that by chucking the president’s second term, we can maybe prevent such gridlock and scandal as tends to especially afflict those second terms. Six…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: January 13, 2023
On January 13, 1833, United States President Andrew Jackson (pictured, top left) wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren (pictured, top right) expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. Jackson insisted that “the crisis must be now met with firmness” and “the modern…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: January 13, 2024
On January 13, 1833, United States President Andrew Jackson (pictured, top left) wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren (pictured, top right) expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. Jackson insisted that “the crisis must be now met with firmness” and “the modern…