Finally. Right now.
Friday, June 30, 2017
Not to be outdone by P. J. O'Rourke, libertarian Mark Perry also genuflects toward the hypocritical French today
Namely toward Frederic Bastiat, here, who wrote against "legal plunder", never once mentioning that the estate off of which Bastiat derived his living had been stolen from the aristocracy during the French Revolution.
Mark Perry is not just a one-off, either. Bastiat is a hero to libertarians generally. For example, to Rep. Justin Amash, who not coincidentally owes his fortune to the family business in tools, which are manufactured in China, not the united States.
Protestations against legal plunder, my foot.
And Mark Belling also wastes our time defending Trump in L'Affaire Joe Mangina
Filling in for Rush Limbaugh today.
Trump hands off the rhetorical baton on repeal of Obamacare, and so far today 3 talk radio hosts have dropped it.
Trump moves far right on Obamacare, morning talk radio gives us crickets
Both Laura Ingraham and Chris Plante had more important things to talk about today than President Donald Trump expressing willingness to forego Obamacare replacement for simple repeal.
Idiots.
P. J. O'Rourke discovers the limits of individualism, gets wet for (French) state capitalism
Arianespace.
Here.
When regular capitalism won't do, there's always the comparatively smaller French state capitalism:
"An individual could not build a rocket like these, no matter what his wealth or how much time he was allotted."
Hey, P. J., would it be too much to ask you at least to admire our own?
Yes, it would be from a frog-licker.
Here.
When regular capitalism won't do, there's always the comparatively smaller French state capitalism:
"An individual could not build a rocket like these, no matter what his wealth or how much time he was allotted."
Hey, P. J., would it be too much to ask you at least to admire our own?
Yes, it would be from a frog-licker.
Justin "Might as well be a Democrat" Amash also voted against "No Sanctuary for Criminals Act"
Amash and six other Republicans (Curbelo of FL, Diaz-Balart, Donovan, King of NY, Reichert, Ros Lehtinen) went down to defeat with 188 Democrats.
HR 3003.
Here.
Republicans Chaffetz, Gosar, Long, Mark Meadows, Nunes, Scalise, Smith (NJ) and Stivers did not vote.
If you're a big fan of John Locke, you're not a conservative
Read What is Conservatism? to understand why.
The servile Kim Strassel has no fight in her, thinks the Senate healthcare bill simply comes down to pre-existing conditions
From the story here, where Strassel counsels bowing to federal mandates, which means bowing to the left-wing extremist who bankrupted America:
Republicans lost this argument nearly a decade ago, when Mr. Obama won. More than 90% of Senate Republicans understand this.
Which is another way of saying that protections for pre-existing conditions are here to stay, and conservatives face a choice. They can work with their colleagues to minimize the costs of the mandates (there are innovative ways to do this) and build in different free-market reforms to lower premiums. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the current Senate bill will reduce premiums by about 30%, and the GOP can and should build on this.
Yes, the simple solution is always to bow, to submit, whether to the king, or to Allah.
Real Americans don't settle for easy.
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Obama expanded Medicaid on the backs of taxpayers who also buy health insurance, making them pay twice
Betsy McCaughey, here:
Who's picking up the tab for this vast Medicaid expansion? You. Worse, you pay twice -- once as a taxpayer, and then again as an insurance consumer. Families with private insurance pay $1,500 to $2,000 or more in added premiums yearly already to keep Medicaid afloat. The more Medicaid expands, the higher their premiums will go. That's because Medicaid shortchanges hospitals and doctors, paying less than the actual cost of care. They make up for it by shifting the costs onto privately insured patients. Ouch.
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
For some unknown reason The American Conservative decided to remind us today about the crack-up of Bruce Bartlett
They reran his 2012 piece detailing his several intellectual crises, in which the libertarian finally gave up and became the liberal, although he denies it.
Nostalgia on the editors part, no doubt, for wound-licking in defeat.
Obama October 2016: The idea the election is rigged "happens to be based on no facts"
Imagine that. No facts! Even though his intelligence community says there are facts! So sure was he that Hillary would win.
Here (the provided transcript occasionally fails to represent exactly what Obama actually said):
"I have never seen in my lifetime or in modern political history, any presidential candidate trying to discredit the elections and the election process before votes have even taken place. It is unprecedented. It happens to be based on no fact. Every expert regardless of political party... who has ever examined these issues in a serious way will tell you that instances of significant voter fraud are not to be found. Keep in mind elections are run by state and local officials."
Just words, no doubt.
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