The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

What The Flu-Shot Is A “Federal Dollar”?

by Smitty Great article over on Town Hall by Conn Carroll about ObamaCare. Worth reading in full, but I’d like to pick up where he ends for a bit of a rant on a fundamental conceptual flaw that cuts across so much of our jacked-up contemporary thinking (emphasis mine): We already see this happening in […]

New Ads Target Senators: ‘It’s Time to Be Honest: ObamaCare Doesn’t Work’

Three vulnerable incumbent Democrat senators are the targets of a new advertising campaign by Americans for Prosperity (AFP) that takes aim at the unpopular ObamaCare program. “It’s the ‘Lie of the Year,’ and Senator Shaheen kept telling it,” says the AFP ad targeting New Hampshire Sen. Jane Shaheen. “The truth is, thousands have already had […]

‘The Central Prob. of Obamacare Will Not Yield to Technical or Rhetorical Solutions’

by Smitty Thus asserts Micheal Gerson in the WaPoo. The central problem of Obamacare will not yield to technical or rhetorical solutions. President Obama sold it to Americans as a plan with no losers. But it is a redistribution program, creating both winners and losers. And many of the losers in Obamacare consider themselves middle […]

REVEALED: Who Was On The Boat That Called The German Coast Guard?

by Smitty The mayday is clearly a joke: But the joke is really the Obama Administration: White House adviser Phil Schiliro said on Tuesday that the oft-cited seven million Obamacare enrollment target “was never our target number.” Ah, yes. The target number for the enrollment is written on a balloon that keeps rotating as it […]

‘Pajama Boy’ as Rorshach Inkblot

"Pajama Boy is yet another emblem of an increasingly non-white electorate" http://t.co/L5O2bIWOZo Uh, okay pic.twitter.com/TsFUPjtsjA — Philip Klein (@philipaklein) December 19, 2013 The latest weird sequel to the ObamaCare ad controversy is the claim that conservatives mocking “Pajama Boy” are anti-Semites. Such a claim involves a lot intellectual gymnastics which might be better described as […]

Facts the ‘Experts’ Never Mention

Philip Klein calls our attention to an overlooked statistic: Massachusetts, whose health care reform program was used as a template for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, had the highest per capita health spending in the U.S. in 2009. . . . [T]he state spent $9,278 per person on health care in 2009, which […]

Two Words You Probably Never Want to Think About: ‘Botched Vasectomy’

Also, “shooting rampage”: Newly released 911 tapes reveal what the Reno, Nev., hospital shooter apparently told trapped patients and employees as he terrorized a medical office, killing one doctor and wounding two other people before taking his own life last week. His apparent reason for the rampage? A vasectomy he said wrecked his life. One […]

The #PajamaBoy Thing, Also: Bizarre Holiday Ad Targets Gays for ObamaCare

How do you plan to spend the cold days of December? http://t.co/Rwf5AYc3bG #GetTalking pic.twitter.com/PBQ397yLf4 — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) December 17, 2013 OK, I’m way late blogging this. Twitter gold! The Obama #PajamaBoy selfie and other must-see mash-ups and memes — Twitchy Pajama Boy, An Insufferable Man-Child — Politico Footiejammies from the Id! — Ed Driscoll […]

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