Thoughts on creative destruction, from George Will, with a generous nod to Virginia Postrel.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
ObamaCare
…approaches its day of reckoning. As do its authors, in November.
Rarely has one law so exemplified the worst of the Leviathan state — grotesque cost, questionable constitutionality and arbitrary bureaucratic coerciveness. Little wonder the president barely mentioned it in his latest State of the Union address. He wants to be reelected. He’d rather talk about other things.
And no celebration of its two-year anniversary. I guess it wasn’t as much of a BFD as Joe Biden said it was. Or perhaps it is, but not in the way he thought.
[Update a few minutes later]
Happy second birthday, ObamaCare! “Now let’s destroy it, root and branch.”
[Update a while later]
Five things the Democrats (politically) got wrong on ObamaCare. Did they get anything right?
[Mid-morning update]
Heh: “Democrats so misjudged everything about Obamacare, you would think they never read the bill or something.”
[Late morning update]
WSJ: Liberty and ObamaCare.
Straight People
Are they born that way?
I know I was. And if someone “self identifies” as straight, but shows signs of arousal by the same sex, they’re not straight, they’re bi. I don’t understand why the concept of a spectrum, a distribution from pure homosexual through bisexual to pure heterosexual, skewed toward the latter, is such a hard concept for people to get their heads around.
America’s Real Fiscal Gap
Over $200 trillion dollars? Sadly, give our current policies, I can believe it.
Etch A Sketch?
Well, that didn’t take long.
For background, here’s the story.
The North Korean “Satellite” Launch
Heading for a polar “orbit”? Well, if so, at least it won’t overfly Japan.
Huge News For Startups
The JOBS Act won a cloture vote in the Senate. There was a lot of fear that the Senate would muck it up with a lot of inhibiting requirements, but now it will go on for a vote.
A Victory For Due Process
SCOTUS has slapped down the EPA. It’s insane that this case even had to be brought in the first place.
[Update a few minutes later]
Here’s Scalia’s majority (actually, unanimous, that’s what I meant by “slapped down”) opinion. It should be noted that it was not just the EPA that was slapped down, but (once again) the Ninth District.
[Update a while later]
They get their day in court, but they may still lose. As noted in comments, they need a legal fund, though I suspect they’re getting pro bono support from free-market places.
Is Climatology Pseudoscience?
Some thoughts from Judith Curry (and indirectly, Gary Taubes).
I think that it’s become pretty clear that regardless of the status of climatology per se, many of its leading practitioners, or at least, most-public proponents, have shown themselves to be pseudoscientists. And specifically, I mean Michael Mann, Phil Jones, and James Hansen among others (not to mention the disgraceful and disgraced Peter Gleick).
Breitbart’s Children
The real ones, not the figurative ones. A trust has been established to take care of them.