Jan 12 2010

Health Insurance Companies Exposed Again

A new report today confirms one of Washington’s worst-kept secrets – that big insurance companies are fighting tooth and nail to kill health reform that will wrest power from their hands and give it to American families.
According to the National Journal, the nation’s largest insurers funneled between $10 million and $20 million dollars through the [...]

Dec 24 2009

War Is Hell — Not Litigation

WASHINGTON — The editor of the venerable conservative
weekly Human Events is causing an admirable
ruckus. Jed Babbin, once deputy undersecretary of defense in the
administration of George H.W. Bush and now the editor of the
oldest conservative periodical in the land, is petitioning
Secretary of Defense Robert [...]

Sep 16 2009

Barack H. Obama: Mr. Meter Mover?

On Thursday last, September 10th, the day after President Barack H. Obama’s grand ObamaCare speech to a session of joint congressmen — or whatever that was — I made a bold prediction:
John Hinderaker at Power Line helpfully reports that before President Barack H. Obama’s grand address on ObamaCare, the Rasmussen tally stood at 44% of [...]

Jun 17 2009

Selective "bubble memories"

Last September, in an entry called “Bubble Memories,” Paul Krugman took pleasure in recalling that in 2005, when he predicted that the housing bubble was going to burst, John Hinderaker saw “little reason to fear a catastrophic collapse in housing prices.” Krugman concluded his piece as follows: “Memories, memories.”
But Arnold Kling [...]