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The Significance of Jonathan Gruber
By now most people have heard of MIT professor Jonathan Gruber, one of the so-called architects of Obamacare, and his statements about the stupidity of American voters in connection with healthcare policy (five videos have surfaced so far). Of course, there are … Continue reading
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Tagged Friedrich Hayek, individual freedom, Jonathan Gruber, liberals, ObamaCare, stupid voters
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Getting Excited About Elizabeth Warren
E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post seems to have a thing for Elizabeth Warren, the wannabe Native American junior senator from Massachusetts. Dionne never tires of praising or defending Warren, even if it means setting up and knocking down a straw man, … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged big government, E.J. Dionne, economic infrastructure, Elizabeth Warren, infrastructure, liberal mind, liberals
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More Government Incompetence
Anyone who has plans to visit the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in D.C. (the world’s second most visited museum) to view the museum’s dinosaur hall will be out of luck beginning April 28. At that time, the hall will close for … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged big government, dinosaur hall, Fossil Hall, liberals, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian
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“Empirically Driven” Liberals
Writing in the New Republic (see here), Noam Scheiber counsels liberals such as Michael Moore not to despair about Obamacare’s start-up problems because Obamacare “paves the way” toward a single-payer system that is beloved by liberals, one and all. According to Scheiber, increasing insurance … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare, Politics
Tagged central planning, health policy, liberals, Noam Scheiber, ObamaCare, single-payer
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Liberals Will Always Lie
Lately, Americans have endured a steady and tiresome stream of lies from the Obama administration: lies about IRS targeting conservative groups, NSA surveillance practices, and the cause of the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi, including the American ambassador to Libya. And of course, there’s the repeated lie, coming from President … Continue reading
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Tagged Benghazi, Hillary Clinton, liberal mind, liberals, lies, Obama lies
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The New Tories Part 2
Don’t liberals ever tire of calling people racists who disagree with them? This has been going on for five years now – ranging from Wise Boy’s (aka Ezra Klein) old JournoList forum to Chris Matthews at MSNBC to writers at The New Republic. And the practice … Continue reading
The New Tories
Writing in the Washington Post, Colbert King sounds the alarm over “an insurgent poli-tical force” that he calls the “New Confederacy.” According to King, the behavior of this force is “malicious and appalling” as it, in his view, takes up where the Old Confederacy left off in … Continue reading
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Tagged big government, Colbert King, liberals, New Confederacy, racism
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Where Are The Moderate Democrats?
Pretty much the entire mainstream media and the liberals they work for are busy laying the blame for the government shutdown and stalemate over the debt ceiling at the feet of Republicans. According to the liberals, there’s a small radical faction within the … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged big government, debt ceiling, government shutdown, liberals
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The Mind Of Aaron Carroll
My experience after submitting a comment to a post on the liberal blog The Incidental Economist nicely illustrates the working of the liberal mind these days. The blog, which is well regarded within the media, claims to contemplate “healthcare with a focus on re-search,” and because it’s “evidence-based,” … Continue reading
The Determined Statist akaThe Incidental Economist
The authors of the blog The Incidental Economist are thinking of changing its name and are asking readers for suggestions (mine is given below). Evidently, the primary authors have no formal economic training and so the name doesn’t “convey” what they do, … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged Accountable Care Act, liberal mind, liberals, ObamaCare, statism, The Incidental Economist, wonks
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