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Middle East Meltdown
Gail Collins of the NY Times has written an amazingly empty column criticizing Mitt Romney’s comments about the recent events in Egypt and Libya. Evidently, in her eagerness to join the media feeding frenzy, she felt that anything would do. Without providing any analysis or insight of any … Continue reading
ObamaCare And The Youth Vote
Slate’s Amanda Marcotte boasts that ObamaCare is already providing benefits for younger people, which in Marcotte’s view is good because it will help Obama with the youth vote in the upcoming election. According to Marcotte, the percentage of uninsured young adults declined between … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare, Politics
Tagged contraception, healthcare, ObamaCare, politics
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Chicago’s Teachers
In an editorial (subscription required), the Wall Street Journal compares the $71,000 average salary of Chicago’s teachers with the $47,000 average salary of the people who pay for the teachers, implying that the teachers are ripping off taxpayers. The teachers … Continue reading
Obama Apologetics
Ezra Klein of the Washington Post praises Obama’s economic record since February 2010 (when he says the clock really should start) as well as the results we might expect for the 12 month period leading up to the November election. Although he tells us about all … Continue reading
College Tuition
Apparently this is how it works: 1. The government throws money at higher education, 2. Colleges raise tuition, 3. The government throws more money at higher education (total student debt is now about $1 trillion), 4. Colleges raise tuition. The liberals’ … Continue reading
Swooning Over Bill Clinton
Believe it or not, there are some liberals who are not swooning over Bill Clinton. The Onion seems to have Clinton’s number.
Mob Rule
According to Slate’s Raul Gallegos, Hugo Chavez has run Venezuela’s state run oil company into the ground to the point where it is now paying its suppliers with IOUs. Gallegos characterizes this as a lesson in “oil wealth mismanagement,” but I think it can also … Continue reading
Saving American Capitalism
Steven Pearlstein’s long, rather useless article (doesn’t even mention Hayek or Friedman) about saving capitalism contains several questionable comments. For example, he suggests that conservatives reject the notion that it “takes a village to create a successful company.” This is a straw man; everyone knows that we live … Continue reading
Terminating Bin Laden
Liberals often claim that one of Obama’s great foreign policy achievements, as mentioned yet again by Slate’s Fred Kaplan, is that he “ordered the killing of Osama bin Laden.” To analyze this claim properly, however, it’s necessary to think of the world “but-for” Obama (that … Continue reading
Difference In Kind
In her WSJ column, Kimberley Strassel outlines what Americans can expect to see from Obama in a second term: higher taxes, greater spending, growing deficits, fine tuning of the regulatory apparatus, and continued decline of American influence in foreign affairs. She correctly concludes that … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged big government, capitalism, central planning, price controls
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