Friday, July 31, 2009

TGIF: Are We Really All Healthcare Collectivists Now?

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“We have to do something about health care.” The scariest word in that sentence is not something . It’s we . TGIF is here .

Appearance on Mike Beitler's Free Market Program

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Here's the link . It's mostly about health care, but we covered cap and trade also.
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

The Gates Incident as a Free Speech Case

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Harvey Silverglate, a founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), has an excellent article in Forbes on the arrest...
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Obama, Medicare, and Socialized Medicine

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At his AARP event yesterday, President Obama derided those who in the 1960s called Medicare "socialized medicine." Yet later in t...
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Monday, July 27, 2009

TGIF: A Cornucopia of Healthcare Fallacies

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The effort to reinvent medical care is so full of fallacies and bad logic that it would take volumes to properly expose them. Nevertheless, ...
Friday, July 24, 2009

For Gates and Against the Police

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Professor Henry Louis Gates was perfectly justified in being pissed at the cops who ordered him out of his own home. The police sergeant who...
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Monday, July 20, 2009

George Orwell, Call Your Office

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If someone is already sick, a plan to pay his doctor bills can’t be insurance ! Can we at least get that much straight?
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We're All Marxists Now

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Sunday, July 19, 2009

Why the Rush on Health Care?

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Why is Obama so eager to have his healthcare "reform" voted on before members of Congress go home for their August recess? Because...
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Amazon Promises Not to Trespass and Steal Again

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Here's what Amazon has to say about its trespass against Kindle owners and its forced "buy-back" of copies of 1984 and Animal...
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Saturday, July 18, 2009

Books Vanishing from Kindles

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David Pogue of the New York Times reports: This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a certain famous...
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Friday, July 17, 2009

Healthcare Arrogance

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The conceit of a handful of congressmen is truly astounding. They actually think they know enough to design a medical marketplace. Do they h...
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TGIF: Sotomayor, Freedom, and the Law

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The dreary Senate hearing on the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court left me so in the doldrums that my only chanc...
Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Novelist Gagged by Judge

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The U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, two weeks ago issued a preliminary but indefinite injunction against publishing, dis...
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Friday, July 10, 2009

More on McNamara

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I managed to avoid Vietnam, thank goodness. But for several years I was aware of the threat Robert McNamara's project posed to me and my...
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McNamara Gone

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The establishment thinks Robert McNamara, who ran the Vietnam War for Lyndon Johnson, made amends by later directing the World Bank. Actuall...
Saturday, July 04, 2009

Happy 4th of July

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The 4th of July is the appropriate time to contemplate what has happened to America. I've always thought this song by the band Steppenwo...
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Thursday, July 02, 2009

TGIF: Congress Declares Independence

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What a difference a year can make. On July 6, 1775, the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, issued the Declaration of the ...

Walmart Unmasked

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From the perceptive Megan McArdle at The Atlantic : I find it hard to believe that none of the liberal commentators breathlessly celebratin...
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Happy Independence Day!

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On this day in 1776, the Second Continental Congress passed a resolution of independence, submitted by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia, declar...
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