So I read this AP piece twice, which if one is to believe the headline, was all about the restraining order against the city to prevent them from removing the Obamaville in Zuccotti Park, and nowhere in it could I find out what the basis was for the order. Well, I guess the reason that it isn’t mentioned is that there isn’t one, and the leftist loon former-ACLU-lawyer judge who signed it has been tossed off the case.
The cities coordinated the crackdown. And I’m sure this is just a coincidence: “…this succession of police raids started after President Obama left the US for an extended tour of the Pacific Rim.”
Remember this post about the headline on Ken Chang’s story about the ISS flight? Well, the story’s been republished with a different headline. Note the fine print at the bottom: “A version of this article appeared in print on November 13, 2011, on page A6 of the New York edition with the headline: NASA Hitches a Ride on a Russian Craft, and Begins a New Dependent Phase.”
[Update a while later]
What? They changed it back to the original headline? I didn’t get a screen shot, but I swear (as Clark’s link says) when I first saw it this morning, the headline was “NASA and Russia Begin New Chapter in Space.”
The key problem is the overall concept —- which begins from the premise that our system of health-care financing will only keep costs under control if the government becomes an even greater force in the health sector than it is now and proceeds to create a system that will cause premiums to rise rapidly in the individual market and create major dislocation in the employer market, driving people into vastly overregulated exchanges that would push premiums higher still, and then initiate a program of subsidies whose only real answer to the mounting costs of coverage will be to pay them with public dollars and so inflate them further. It aims to spend a trillion dollars on subsidies to large insurance companies and the expansion of an unreformed Medicaid system, to micromanage the insurance industry in ways likely to make it even less efficient, to cut Medicare benefits without using the money to shore up the program or reduce the deficit, and to raise taxes on employment, investment, and medical research. CBO does not expect it to make a real dent in the inflation of health-care costs or to avert the fiscal implosion of Medicare. Instead, it will double down on price controls and centralized administration and make a real reform of our system much more difficult.
The president never heard of Khe Sanh? Well, his uncle did liberate Auschwitz. Anyway, he probably knows that lots of corpse men died there. And its not as annoying as Pock-E-Stahn.