ObamaCare Favors Americans Without Employer Coverage: Est. 19 Million to Be Shifted Off

March 28, 2010

Everyone’s waking up to this: “While one family would benefit from the subsidies, another whose employer offers coverage would continue to have to accept relatively lower wages. The difference is so stark that it’s bound to have consequences. Just how far-reaching is impossible to know.”

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Obama, Israel, and the Future of an Illusion

March 27, 2010

Elliott Abrams: “Since the Oslo Accords of 1993, 17 years of efforts under three American presidents and six Israeli prime ministers have taught five clear lessons. Each of them is being ignored by President Obama, which is why his own particular ‘peace process’ has so greatly harmed real efforts at peace.”

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In the End There is Only Debt

March 27, 2010

VDH: “[America] is floating far more loans than ever before in peacetime, and for longer scheduled durations, because interest rates are only a quarter of what they have been. But this theory that we can endlessly multiply the size of our debt because the service costs remain low and static is a prescription for disaster.”

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Democrats Send Letters to Corporate America: Don't You Dare Say Obamacare Hurts You

March 27, 2010

Don’t say it. “In the attached letter, Henry Waxman not only orders the CEOs of AT&T, Caterpillar, Deere & Co, and Verizon to testify before the Energy and Commerce Committee, but also to produce internal analyses and emails related to their statements.” Don’t you dare.

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Lee Siegel on Redstate

March 27, 2010

[tweetmeme] Tina Brown’s

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US Softens Sanctions Against Iran

March 25, 2010

He promised they’d love us, not that they’d respect us. “The U.S. has backed away from pursuing a number of tough measures against Iran in order to win support from Russia and China for a new United Nations Security Council resolution on sanctions, according to people familiar with the matter.”

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Senate Returns Health Care Bill to House

March 25, 2010

[tweetmeme] Both the indispensable Keith Hennessey and I noted this earlier, but the Senate parliamentarian confirmed in the wee hours this morning that the House will have to vote on the health care fixes again. Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, said Republicans consulting with the Senate parliamentarian had found “two minor […]

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The Individual Mandate: Can States Opt Out?

March 24, 2010

Sen. Wyden is one of the few politicians in either party who understands health care policy, and he’s an honest, smart, and hard-working guy. But there are a number of problems with what he is saying here, even if we take it seriously.

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Should the Senate Force Obama Into Obamacare?

March 23, 2010

[tweetmeme] A follow up is in order to my piece of two days ago, regarding the surprising news that senior staffers in leadership and on committees were exempted from the requirement to participate in health exchange plans. It turns out that this is a problem Sen. Chuck Grassley has been trying to solve for some […]

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Ten-Year Swap Spread Turns Negative on Renewed Demand for Risk

March 23, 2010

The deepest fear that we should have in regard to the capital markets is whether they will continue to sustain America’s fiscal deficits: “The 10-year U.S. swap spread turned negative for the first time on record amid rising demand for higher-yielding assets such as corporate and emerging market securities.”

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