…because they’re socialist bureaucracies.
Best wishes to John Stossel on beating his lung cancer.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
ObamaCare
We told you so:
Obamacare, as constructed, attempted to fix a dysfunctional health care payment system by creating an even more complicated system on top of it, filled with subsidies, coverage mandates, and other artificial government incentives. But its result has been a system that plucked Americans out of coverage they like and forced them to pay more for less.
Now the insurers are beginning to realize that in spite of all the subsidies and mandates working in their favor, and despite all of the cost-cutting they have had to do at the expense of consumers, they just can’t make money in this system.
Of course, it was designed to fail, to provide a political glide path to single payer.
Title IX
As Megan McArdle tweeted, it’s almost like college administrators think that Stalin’s show trials got a bad rap.
No, Mr. Trump
We are not “supposed to be a democracy.”
My thoughts on Trump’s historical ignorance, and how he’s running for the wrong political party.
The Wages Of “Critical Theory”
College students cannot explain why a 5’9″ white guy isn’t a 6’5″ Chinese woman.
Remember, they’re putting themselves into tens of thousands of dollars of non-dischargeable debt for this sort of “education.”
Useful Cislunar Orbits
Jon Goff has a blog post on a recent FISO telecon. One of the implications for all of these options, of course, is that SLS makes no sense.
The 97% Number That Won’t Die
The problem is that the issue is not whether or not “humans are causing global warming.” I can concede that there is a good possibility of that, and it still has zero implications for policy, absent quantification with sufficient confidence levels, which remain lacking.
[Afternoon update]
“Climatologists will say that the way the question is worded depends on whether they are included,” Morano said. “We have many skeptical scientists included as the 97 percent because of the way the questions [in surveys] are asked are so vague and broadly worded.”
Yup.
Gregg Easterbrook
I’ve had my differences with him over the years, but he has a piece in the WSJ with which I basically agree. I’d say the only thing he gets wrong was that it was Apollo itself that set us on the wrong path. The Shuttle was just a symptom of Apolloism.
[Behind the paywall, but do a Google search for “Mission to Nowhere” and it should come up]
Why Bernie Is Terrible
An amusingly long screed from a “progressive.”
[Afternoon update]
Sanders fracking ban would kill jobs and drive up utility bills, hurting the poor most of all.
Gee, it’s almost as though he doesn’t care about poor people as much as he says he does. Either that, or he’s an imbecile. Of course, those aren’t mutually exclusive.
The Irony Of RICO
Several states Attorneys General and green groups colluded to go after a false conspiracy theory.
See, if we had an U.S. Attorney General who actually cared about the law, she’d be going after them with RICO, instead of private organizations.