Monthly Archives: August 2009

Snake Oil Salesman In Chief

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Gaius

Charles Krauthammer: Free mammograms and diabetes tests and checkups for all, promise Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer, writing in USA Today. Prevention, they assure us, will not just make us healthier, it also “will save money.” Obama followed … Continue reading →

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Les Paul, 1915-2009, Rest In Peace

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Gaius

Les Paul, widely credited with the invention of the solid body electric guitar, has died at age 94. Mr. Paul worked with Gibson Guitars and produced the Les Paul signature guitar in 1952. It has remained in production ever since. … Continue reading →

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The Egalitarian Class System

Posted on August 13, 2009 by Gaius

Victor Davis Hanson. Please, please read the whole thing. We really do not want to go there as a nation. Really. Tweet

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Springtime For Hitler

Posted on August 13, 2009 by Gaius

This one is a real shark jumper. An official White House spokesman, Bill Burton, claimed that people were showing up at town hall meeting dressed up as Adolph Hitler. No, really, he did. Please go watch the video. (I actually caught … Continue reading →

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West LEFTward Ho!

Posted on August 13, 2009 by Gaius

Daniel Henninger: Big as the health-care proposal is, the White House might have gotten it easily as a standalone piece of legislation, given the congressional majorities and Obama’s reservoir of goodwill. But health care arrived in late May as a … Continue reading →

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End Of Life Counseling Gets End Of Life Counseling

Posted on August 13, 2009 by Gaius

The Senate Finance committee will drop the controversial end of life counseling provision from its version of ObamaCare: I’m surprised it took them this long. If it had been Palin and the right tossing rhetorical grenades, they might have gone … Continue reading →

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Wonderful News

Posted on August 13, 2009 by Gaius

Retail sales dropped in July – despite the gold rush of people taking advantage of the cash for clunkers program. Sales at U.S. retailers unexpectedly fell in July as a boost from the cash-for-clunkers automobile incentive program failed to overcome … Continue reading →

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Cap And Trade And Eliminate 2 Million Jobs

Posted on August 13, 2009 by Gaius

A new study indicates that the Marxman-Wacky crap and tax bill would only cost 2 million or so jobs in the United States: Add another climate bill cost estimate to the growing pile. The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and … Continue reading →

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More Plants Than A Botanical Garden

Posted on August 13, 2009 by Gaius

The Democrats get busted – again – with plants at a town hall meeting. This time it is a woman pretending to be a doctor (in practice for four years!). I’m not sure why, but something didn’t smell right. So … Continue reading →

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Some Things Are More Random Than Others

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Gaius

On the one hand, we have the narrative, pushed by Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, John Dingell, Barack Obama, the media and countless left wing bloggers (I set a record here – six levels of redundancy) that protesters at town hall meetings … Continue reading →

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It Does Not Compute, It Does Not Compute

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Gaius

Spending more to save money: One reason preventive measures can cost so much is because they often need to be applied to a big chunk of the population in order to avoid a few cases of a disease. Most of … Continue reading →

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Maskirovka

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Gaius

Prior to Nancy Pelosi accusing protesters at congressional town hall meetings, I never saw a swastika in any of the photos I saw from these protests. Prior to John Dingell proclaiming that the protesters reminded him of the KKK, I … Continue reading →

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Lies, Damned Lies And Economic Recovery

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Gaius

A recovery only a statistician can love: But the same data also explain why any recovery isn’t going to feel like one anytime soon for millions of Americans. Its existence will be confirmed by statistics, but, over at least the … Continue reading →

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AllahPundit Ups The Pot

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Gaius

Obama raised some eyebrows – and more than a few gorges – with his claim yesterday that his ObamaCare would be a lot like the Post Office. You know, that money losing train wreck  – er, model of government efficiency … Continue reading →

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The Gravy Planes

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Gaius

John Fund in The Wall Street Journal: House leaders hope that dropping plans to spend $550 million on elite Gulfstream jets to fly members around the globe will dissipate public ire. I’m not so sure. Voters are strapped by the … Continue reading →

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