Harry Reid: "I don’t see how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican"

August 11, 2010

[tweetmeme] “I don’t see how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican, okay?” says Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Well, that’s an indication of how he thinks: racism is an inherently collectivist viewpoint — it slams masses of people into categories and groups based only on the color of their skin, instead of viewing […]

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150 Movies You Really Ought to See

August 10, 2010

[tweetmeme] Friends come to me for movie recommendations often — I’m not sure why, given that I still think the best movie I’ve seen in the past few years is Uncharted 2. But I’ve developed a list that I think encompasses the vast majority of standard movies I think folks really ought to see. One […]

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Harry Reid Reads Health Care Bill, Decides He Doesn't Like It Any More

August 9, 2010

[tweetmeme] John Graham of the Pacific Research Institute details a few fun facts in this video about HealthCare.gov, but the one that sticks out is this, a letter from Majority Leader Harry Reid to HHS Sec. Kathleen Sebelius sent on July 21st. The letter seems to indicate that Reid has finally read the health care […]

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Socialized Medicine Excels at Death

August 9, 2010

It’s important to understand that from the perspective of those like Donald Berwick, this is a feature, not a bug. He says the best way to an efficient, humane health care system is “rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest.” This is fine, I suppose, as long as the “individual” being overruled is someone else, ideally someone you don’t know.

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Why One Small Business Owner Isn't Hiring

August 9, 2010

Why unemployment is going to be at these levels for a long time: “When you add it all up, it costs $74,000 to put $44,000 in Sally’s pocket and to give her $12,000 in benefits. Bottom line: Governments impose a 33% surtax on Sally’s job each year.”

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But What if They Actually Win?

August 9, 2010

Barone on the uncertain policy path: “Republicans are starting to think about how to answer the Robert Redford question. You know the scene. In the 1972 movie “The Candidate,” the Redford character, having won the election, turns to his political consultant and asks, ‘What do I do now?’”

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Missouri and Obamacare

August 4, 2010

[tweetmeme] In Missouri on Tuesday, voters overwhelmingly expressed their opposition to President Obama’s sweeping health care reforms, passing Proposition C by a 3-1 margin. This is just the first of many similar state ballot questions, and the message it sends is clear. The political leadership in Washington has declared that health care policy in America […]

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Five Days in Pyongyang

August 4, 2010

“I did see a slew of propaganda posters, statues, and slogans along the road during the 30-minute drive. But unlike the iron Lenins, Marxes, and hammer-&-sickles I had seen in Moscow 16 years earlier, the symbols in Pyongyang were touting a regime still firmly in charge of perhaps the most politically isolated country in the […]

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Mosque Controversy Envelopes New York City

August 4, 2010

Rabinowitz: “The center may be built where planned. But it will not go easy or without consequence to the politicians intent on jamming the project down the public throat, in the name of principle. Liberal piety may have met its match in the raw memory of 9/11, and in citizens who have come to know […]

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A Bleak Picture on Debt

August 3, 2010

Thomas Sowell on the problem of debt: “There is no reason to believe that all this runaway spending is creating jobs– on net balance. The fact that the unemployment rate remains stuck at nearly 10 percent belies the idea that great numbers of jobs are being created– again, on net balance.”

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