…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.
Austan Goolsby
What did he know, and how did he know it?
The IRS scandal continues to not “fizzle out.”
Kim Jong-Un Will Be Pleased
We had a failed test of an interceptor.
This is why we test, but I think that an administration more serious about missile defense would be stepping up the testing.