I certainly don’t want corrupt fascist hacks like Dick Durbin to decide.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
A Path To Citizenship
Here’s one that legal immigrants and House Republicans could get behind. The first step on the path is to go home. Then get in line, like everyone else.
[Update a while later]
No, there is no link. It’s just a thought on the current debate on the bill. Democrats insist on one, House Republicans (and some Senate Republicans, not part of the “gang” (and can we please stop it with the “gangs”?)) are understandably averse. Those are the two primary points of contention. Democrats want to keep the border open to continue the flow of potential new collectivist Democrat voters, and smart Republicans don’t. The notion that Hispanics/Latinos/Whatever are going to vote Republican just because the Republicans support immigration reform is ludicrous. There, now you have a link.
The Encyclical
…that no one noticed.
The Leftist media is obviously conflicted — they don’t want to criticize the first Pope from Latin America.
Islam And The World Order
Are they compatible?
The question is whether or not Islam as a religion is separable from the totalitarian ideology. Christianity had its reformation. Islam awaits its own.
Science Is About Evidence
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Zimmerman’s Motion For Acquittal
Why it should have been granted.
The prosecution never had a case. And in fact they should be disbarred.
The Armed Warrior Cop
…is out of control. Excerpts from a new book by Radley Balko.
[Mid-morning update]
Some questions for the Virginia Alcohol Control board. As Glenn notes, pointing a gun on someone with no expectation of danger is an assault. The students should sue.
If You Don’t Work, You Die
Thoughts from Sarah Hoyt on incentives.
ObamaCare
The ACA, to put it gently, is already on shaky ground. Just last week, for example, the LA Times reported that UnitedHealth, the nation’s largest insurer, is dropping out of California’s individual market. Similarly, Blue Cross Blue Shield will not participate in the exchanges in Iowa and South Dakota in 2014. And the WSJ puts the delay of the employer mandate in its discouraging context. Along with the Supreme Court ruling that invalidated the Medicaid expansion (28 states haven’t yet agreed to expand) and the refusal by many states (over 30) to set up their own health exchanges, the delay is the third major challenge to the central goal of the law: expanding access to insurance.
“You’ve got three body blows toward expansion of coverage,” said Paul Keckley, executive director of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, a research unit of Deloitte LLP. “It’s three punches in a row.”
Ultimately, this will be decided in sixteen months. Without RomneyCare to muddy the waters, it will be a much better issue for Republicans.
Elections Are Not Democracy
Yes. “Elections are necessary but not sufficient for a democratic republic. You also need limits on state power, and civil society. Frankly, what’s most impressive to me is how resilient and robust Egyptian civil society has been in the face of the Muslim Brotherhood’s clear effort to establish an Iran-style theocracy.”
I’d also add that a republic (which per Franklin’s famous statement after the convention, we have, or at least had until the last few decades) is not a democracy, either.