Game Changer? Rep. Paul Ryan on health-care reform
Earlier today, Ed Morrissey spoke with Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) about ObamaCare and efforts on the Hill to find enough votes to push it out of Congress. In his piece at Hot Air, Ed notes that Ryan wrote a separate health-care reform bill that was suppressed by the Democrats in the House, one that would [...]
Kinsley’s argument from complication
The New York Times gave Michael Kinsley 650 words yesterday to defend the Obama administration’s treatment of Umar Abdulmutallab as a criminal defendant rather than an enemy combatant. Kinsley asks: “So why not draw the line to put an Abdulmutallab or a Shaikh Mohammed on the ‘war’ side and treat him as an enemy [...]
The Bow as “Protocol”
Politico reports that “A senior administration official said President Barack Obama was simply observing protocol when he bowed to Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko upon arriving at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Saturday.”
Why won’t that “senior administration official” come out from behind the curtain and make that assertion in his own name? Because [...]
Wish fulfillment journalism, Part Two
The Washington Post hits a new low in foolish, partisan reporting in this front-page story about Dede Scozzafava and the race in New York-23. Written by Jason Horowitz, with all the finesse of a third-tier lefty blogger, the piece bears the nuanced title: “‘Scozzafava’ Turns Into Epithet: It’s a Grand Old Purging as [...]
Joe Wilson: The Answer to Your Question Is "Yes"
It’s remarkable that in the whole brouhaha about Joe Wilson
shouting “You lie!” at President Obama’s assertion that illegal
immigrant won’t be covered by Obamacare, no one has pursued the
question, “Who’s right?”
So here’s the answer. Yes, illegal immigrants will be covered for
Obamacare. Or rather, “Illegal [...]
"From across the political spectrum"
A reader writes, appropriately enough, from Belgrade, Serbia, to comment on “Van Jones goes down swinging.” He writes:
I had to chuckle when I read Van Jones’s assertion that he “received encouragement from across the political spectrum to ’stay and fight.’”
Yeah, right, from the Bolsheviks, the Mensheviks and even the Trotskyites!
I have to admit that I [...]
