This upcoming week will be *the* critical week in the health care fight. Speaker Pelosi is expected to start the process for the House to hold its final vote to approve the Senate Bill. The vote will probably take place at the end of this upcoming week....
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How Our Rights Are Destroyed
The most effective means of destroying the rights of individual Americans is by replacing those rights with new powers for the government. Then, instead of the right to the pursuit of happiness, the political class declares that everyone has a right to be supplied...
Obama's Flawed Prescription for Health Care
Should [the ObamaCare bill] pass, the largest new entitlement program since the New Deal will be a reconciliation process and a Presidents signature away from being enacted. This is Congress and President Obamas proposed cure for the ills of our...
Saul Alinksy's Influence on Obama
Recently I finished reading Rules for Revolution, by David Horowitz.* There, Mr. Horowitz discusses to some extent Saul Alinksy’s influence on Mr. Obama and Hillary Clinton. But his main thesis is identifying some aspects of Alinsky’s goal to destroy the...
Obama's Summit of Fantasy
The President’s summit on health care revealed major schisms between public policy and reality. Those who feel that they must keep repeating to Americans that their health care is “broken” overlook a more fundamental problem. Most Americans, based on...
Government Grab of Retirement Accounts a Matter of ‘Social Justice’
As the U.S. Social Security system moves ever closer to bankruptcy, the billions of dollars Americans have saved in their private retirement accounts will become an increasingly tempting target for our politicians.
Real Health Care Reform
There is now a pause in the inept debate on health care in Congress. After a year of struggle, some comfort might be taken from the fact that neither of the monstrosities passed by the House or the Senate has become law. However, truer than ever is the 200-year-old...
Movie Review: Avatar
Avatar is big, loud, and bodacious–and totally bankrupt as a cinematic experience. I tried to like this spectacular monstrosity at every turn, especially with a new actor named Sam Worthington in the lead–he’s much better in Terminator:...
Scott Brown: A Mere Speed Bump on the Conservatives’ Road to Serfdom
Most polls in recent years reveal that Americans believe the country is “on the wrong track.” That’s surely true — and both political parties are taking them there. Yet few people know what the right track actually entails. It’s time to pave a new road entirely — not …
Life, Liberty, and
Countless voices are claiming medical care is a right. Is it? Throughout the health care debate, Republicans and Democrats have argued over many points, such as which kinds of reforms would most effectively give all Americans access to health care and how much we...
The Destruction of the Health Insurance Industry
What passes for “reform” in Congress would eliminate health insurance firms. Why? Because, we are told, it is immoral for anyone to make a profit providing health insurance. Virtue, in this view, is restricted to those who impose government insurance on...
What The "Affordable Health Care For America Act," HR3962, Actually Says
What does the bill recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, HR3962, short-titled the Affordable Health Care for America Act, actually say about major health-care issues? I here pose a few commonsense questions, cite some relevant passages, and offer a few...
How to "Re-Invigorate" the GOP
It is not unusual to hear politicians express contempt for philosophical ideas while simultaneously claiming they are Progressives and Pragmatist—as if those words did not give title to volumes of philosophical ideas—each resting upon the most lethal...
A 100% Private Option for Health Care: A Truly Progressive Idea
Everyone seems to have a different take on how to solve Americas health-care problem. But notice that every solution offered involves some elaborate new system of government controls. Different proposals include a public option, mandatory insurance for individuals,...
Twelve Ways to Increase the Cost of Health Insurance
Health care legislation now being debated in the Senate will do nothing to make health care more affordable but quite a lot to make it more expensive. It serves the purpose of a massive and permanent expansion of the size and power of government and the political...
How Our Rights Are Destroyed
The most effective means of destroying the rights of individual Americans is by replacing those rights with new powers for the government. Then, instead of the right to the pursuit of happiness, the political class declares that everyone has the right to...
Grassroots Activism and Tea Parties
At a recent activist training session an 18-year old said, “I’m here because I want to do something about the antipathy among my own age group.” A work-at-home mom said, “Forty-five times I’ve written to my Congressman asking questions....
The Goal of Government Health Care
Here are the first two paragraphs of New Mexico Senator Tom Udall’s response to an e-mail urging him to vote “No” on the health care bill presently before the Senate: “This past weekend, the Senate took an important step toward providing...
The Elite's List of Priorities
The ultimate constraint that we all face is knowledge — what we know and don’t know. The knowledge problem is pervasive and by no means trivial as hinted at by just a few examples. You’ve purchased a house. Was it the best deal you could have gotten?...
Random Thoughts
Random thoughts on the passing scene: Sometimes we seem like people on a pleasure boat drifting down the Niagara river, unaware that there are waterfalls up ahead. I don’t know what people think...
Voluntarism or Self-Interest?
How many things in our lives would we like to depend upon the generosity and selflessness of our fellow man, and do you think we would like the outcome? You say, “Williams, are you now putting down generosity and selflessness?” No, I’m not. Let me...
Obama’s Flawed Prescription for Health Care
The House of Representatives has already passed its health-care bill and now the Senate is preparing to vote on its own. Should it pass, the largest new entitlement program since the New Deal will be a reconciliation process and a Presidents signature away from being...
Excused Horrors: Not Nazi, But Stalinist and Maoist
Between 1917 and 1983, Stalin and his successors murdered, or were otherwise responsible for the deaths of, 62 million of their own people. Between 1949 and 1987, Mao Tsetung and his successors were responsible for the deaths of 76 million Chinese.
Bowing to "World Opinion": On Obama, Terrorism and The Geneva Convention
In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were...
Imagine If Obama Said This About Iran….
Thirty years after the hostage crisis, Iranians are bravely challenging their government. Despite the theocracys attempt to crush these protests, Iranians have once again taken to the streets. Imagine what might happenthe potential benefit to us and to Iranif instead...
Constitutional Contempt
At Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Oct. 29th press conference, a CNS News reporter asked, “Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?” Speaker Pelosi responded,...
Random Thoughts: November 2009
Random thoughts on the passing scene: If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either...
Economic Myths and Irrelevancy
Steve H. Hanke is a Professor of Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., and writes frequently for Globe Asia and Forbes magazine. Professor Hanke starts off his “Hu versus...
The "Costs" of Medical Care: Part IV
What is so wrong with the current medical system in the United States that we are being urged to rush headlong into a new government system that we are not even supposed to understand, because this legislation is to be rushed through Congress before even the Senators...
The "Costs" of Medical Care: Part II
Although it is cheaper to buy a pint of milk than to buy a quart of milk, nobody considers that to be lowering the price of milk. Although it is cheaper to buy a lower quality of all sorts of goods than to buy a higher quality, nobody thinks of that as lowering the...
The "Costs" of Medical Care: Part III
One of the strongest talking points of those who want a government-run medical care system is that we simply cannot afford the high and rising costs of medical care under the current system. First of...
The "Costs" of Medical Care
We are incessantly being told that the cost of medical care is “too high”– either absolutely or as a growing percentage of our incomes. But nothing that is being proposed by the government is likely to lower those costs, and much that is being...
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