As the Byrd Rule Flies: Why Dems Can’t Use Reconciliation to Pass Radical ObamaCare
…Unless they’re willing to immolate themselves in the process — and probably lose the fight anyway.
Everybody is now slinging around the term “reconciliation process,” but I think most of us don’t really understand what the heck that means — other than a sneaky way to pass ObamaCare without having to break a Republican filibuster. [...]
Our Take on That Whole Big Sarah Palin Thing with Ace of Spades and Ed Morrissey, as Filtered Through Our Man Karl
Karl — that Hot Air guy who sometimes throws a crumb or two to Patterico (and never even once to me, the villain!) — reposted on Patterico’s Pontifications what he had already reposted on Hot Air (with some commentary in the identical posts): Ace of Spades’ comment in one of the threads of his [...]
Full Video: A National Discussion on Health Care Reform
After days of taking video questions online, and with massive online discussions unfolding during the event, the President took questions on health reform directly from the public in an online town hall.
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Save Our Souls
Like Matthew Crawford, the author of the hip new anti-big
business diatribe
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of
Work, I recently gave up my “knowledge” job for more
physically strenuous and less intellectually engaging work. So
far the results are mixed. If my [...]
