Turns out, per the New York Times, that Obamacare is really just federalism at work, another experiment in the laboratories of democracy, the states. Everybody can stop worrying now: The online insurance marketplace in Oregon is such a technological mess that residents have been signing up for health coverage by hand. In Texas, political opposition…
Category: The Left
What’s Wrong with Texas? The Lone Star State is not Cooperating with the Left
One of the top priorities of the left today is shifting the national balance of power by turning Texas blue, using tactics it claims were responsible for a similar transition in Colorado. However, based on the results of the recent Texas primaries, it’s obvious that the people of Texas are not cooperating with the left’s…
Inflation, Money Creation, and the Gold Standard
“In a social order that is entirely founded on the use of money and in which all accounting is done in terms of money, the destruction of the monetary system means nothing less than the destruction of the basis of all exchange.” – Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit, p. 202. In…
Desperate Republicans Turn to Kidnapping to Solve Policy Problems
“Some in Congress “have been holding hostage” American policy until there is an “agreement of 100 percent.” – House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer. “Is Senator Kyl holding New START hostage to tax cuts?” – Adam Serwer, Washignton Post “Every one of us…[is] being held hostage by 42 Republican senators.” CNN’s Eliot Spitzer “The White House…
Quotes of the Day
“Democrats have produced historic legislation in the area of … cutting taxes for 95 percent of the American people and millions of small businesses. And we have restored fiscal discipline to the Congress. … Numerous congressional experts call this the most productive Congress in a half century. This was only possible because our Members had…
The Administration’s New Approach to um, er, poverty, no wait, political instability, no, let’s try social unrest, hold on …
A sampling of recent remarks from John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism: “What I want to do today is to talk about the new thinking and the new approach that President Obama brings to the task of safeguarding the American people from violent extremism and terrorism.” “The president understands that…
National Geographic and the 1980s
When I was born, my grandparents gave me the wonderful gift of a lifetime subscription to National Geographic magazine. In addition to supplying a curious young boy with many years of amazement over the wonders of creation, at 50 years and counting it must have been a great value—especially when one factors in the rampant…
Computer Prices and Creative Destruction
I ran across a 1989 product comparison of several top-of-the-line computers. Including one from Dell, which featured an 80286 (20 MHz) processor and a 40 MB hard drive, all for the bargain price of $4,099! I remember consistently paying $3,000 for a new computer from Tandy (my first one, with an 8086 processor purchased in 1986)…
Stubborn Facts and Stubborn People
Ronald Reagan once said, “Facts are stubborn things.” And he is right. Sometimes, the truth becomes almost impossible to ignore. I think we are seeing that now in the national debates over climate change and health care. Yet, even more stubborn than facts are people. It is a person’s worldview, more than the facts that…
Our Expensive Energy Future
This is a glimpse of the future under the energy efficiency regime being pushed in Texas and across the U.S. The picture shows a new home in the SOL neighborhood, three miles east of downtown Austin. It is being built on the premise that energy efficiency is the cheapest option for “new” energy. A new…