Life outside the wall
Twenty-nine years ago this weekend the Berlin Wall fell. Officially, East Germany called it the antifascistenschutzwall, the “anti-fascist wall,” and its purported purpose was to protect the Communist...
View ArticleMeans have no meaning
Jim Geraghty pens a controversial piece wherein he opines that liberals are more tolerant of the hypocrisy of other liberals than are conservatives. Before I get to that portion of his argument, I’d...
View ArticleGMA: Is your Obamacare enrollment real?
That’s the question ABC News asks: Bob Shlora of Alpharetta, Ga., was supposed to be a belated Obamacare success story. After weeks of trying, the 61-year-old told ABC News he fully enrolled in a new...
View ArticleProhibitionCare
Prior to the disastrous implementation of Obamacare, has there ever been a law that fell that so far out of disfavor that the American people clamored for wholesale repeal? Yes, it was called...
View ArticleObamacare II: The sequel will be worse than the original
There are two consensus opinions that have formed about Obamacare: 1. The website will not work this year. Every “fix” of known flaws is going to expose (and perhaps even worsen) underlying flaws...
View ArticleThe end of logic
Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen is in a bit of trouble for making this statement in his Monday column: People with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect...
View ArticleA half dozen fallouts from the Greek election
Yesterday Greece said “no” to the EU in an election in which “yes” was not an option and the world treats the vote as news. It is not news. It is “olds” as it is long since past the time that there...
View Article(dis)Honoring the Confederacy
In the current hysteria to purge all things Confederate from modern America, historian Jamie Malanowski opines that the next logical step is that, “President Obama and the Congress should rename...
View ArticleDevaluing our way to depression
Imagine this scenario: The United States, in an effort to spur exports and boost domestic producers, institutes a tax on foreign imports, some of the proceeds of which go indirectly to exporters to...
View ArticleProgressivism cannot win without useful idiots
Ron Fournier doesn’t like being lied to: Appearing on an academic panel a year ago, [Jonathan Gruber] argued that the law never would have passed if the administration had been honest about the fact...
View ArticleSome thoughts in the immediate aftermath
In no particular order, here are some thoughts 12 hours after the first polls started closing: 1. Harry Reid is a HUGE loser. He and his party paid dearly for failing to do what every Senate Majority...
View ArticleKentucky will tell you all you need to know
The Bluegrass State is your guide for what to look for tonight so that you can go to bed early and then wake up tomorrow refreshed for the first day of the 734-day long 2016 election season. Polls...
View ArticleLet’s not overreact to lone wolf attacks
When I was a planner at U.S. European Command I was part of a group that looked at counter-terrorism planning. One of the concerns we were addressing was the “lone wolf” attacker. That was what we...
View ArticleAmerica lacks a strategy, Part I
President Obama’s admission that he lacks a strategy for dealing with the Islamic State was a foolish thing for a President to admit out loud. But it is not surprising. That is because for most of...
View ArticleDoes the GOP benefit from higher turnout?
If you like wonky political analysis, Dan “Baseball Crank” McLaughlin has an excruciatingly detailed look at what the historical record portends for the 2016 political landscape. McLaughlin’s...
View ArticleWhy progressivism fails
Two days ago I picked up the theme of a Jim Geraghty piece and said that Progressives are so fixated on ends that they have no allegiance to means and have no consideration for the negative...
View ArticleMeans have no meaning
Jim Geraghty pens a controversial piece wherein he opines that liberals are more tolerant of the hypocrisy of other liberals than are conservatives. Before I get to that portion of his argument, I’d...
View ArticleGMA: Is your Obamacare enrollment real?
That’s the question ABC News asks: Bob Shlora of Alpharetta, Ga., was supposed to be a belated Obamacare success story. After weeks of trying, the 61-year-old told ABC News he fully enrolled in a new...
View ArticleProhibitionCare
Prior to the disastrous implementation of Obamacare, has there ever been a law that fell that so far out of disfavor that the American people clamored for wholesale repeal? Yes, it was called...
View ArticleObamacare II: The sequel will be worse than the original
There are two consensus opinions that have formed about Obamacare: 1. The website will not work this year. Every “fix” of known flaws is going to expose (and perhaps even worsen) underlying flaws...
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