The Care’s Lousy, but at Least It’s Expensive

The toughest Family Feud question ever would be “Name a government program that reduces costs,” especially given the rather non-politically invested families that seem to appear as contestants.  Survey says that, for Washington, going broke is when the real squandering starts.  Worst of all, they blame you: your leaders think you can’t spend or save [...]

All Things Being Equal, Many Aren’t Moderates

Swinging up and down completely differs from remaining level.  A boat bouncing severely while riding stormy waves isn’t enjoying what averages out to a smooth journey.  While that’s true in the real world, it’s not so in the rather perverse confines of Washington, D.C., where even physics lessons are commonly ignored.  Within that ignoble swamp, [...]

Republicans Aren’t Democrats…Duhh

Watching the circus that was President Obama’s health care “summit” on Thursday  highlighted many things for me, but one in particular:
Republicans are VERY different from Democrats.
I’ve spent months listening to people like Glenn Beck say there’s no difference between Republicans and Democrats. For awhile, I bought it and came to the point of wanting to [...]

Health Care is Only Well to a Point

Imagine if California’s health consumers were allowed to buy insurance from whatever company they wanted.  Picture if they could assume the risks of their choosing, too, or a scenario under which they were actually made aware of how much an appointment or procedure costs and accordingly used resources judiciously.  Then dream about eating a jar [...]

Obama Inspires Us to Ensure He Won’t Win Again

The one good result of the 2008 election is how people are already paying more attention to future elections.  It was easy for casual political followers to get swept with the tide during the last presidential race and applaud while grinning about hope blah change blah.  But numerous people are now choosing to wear defiant [...]

A Sequel Worse than Weekend at Bernie’s II

The best thing about creating jobs is that it costs taxpayers nothing.  The worst thing about creating jobs is that the current administration doesn’t know the best thing about creating jobs.  Employers and consumers used to hash out financial exchanges among themselves to the benefit of the economy.  But President Obama prefers the alternately strange [...]

Palin Trying Trial and Error

Sarah Palin is like family to many conservatives, and not just because she would gladly bring a caribou casserole to your cousin’s graduation party.  More significantly, only those who sympathize with her are offering worthwhile criticism.  It’s like how you’d yell at your own sibling or child for misbehaving but would rightfully detonate if someone [...]

Obama Doesn’t Keep His Word, Thankfully

Conservatives ought to hope that Barack Obama continues to break campaign promises.  We also should want him to refrain from ever focusing upon the economy.  He can go ahead and lie away if it means that his deep blue beliefs remain contained.  The nicest thing foes can say about the incumbent is that he hasn’t [...]

Turns Out Brown Can Do Plenty for You

Once again, conservatives are confusing everyone.  The intolerant hillbillies who passed around moonshine jugs at Tea Parties/militia meet-and-greets are supposed to reject any candidate who doesn’t make Sean Hannity look like Bob Beckel.  But right-wing zealots apparently keep forgetting to intolerantly shove out those who don’t universally conform to their intolerant views.  Instead, they just [...]

Changing the Profile of Profiling

Profiling potential airplane riders only makes sense if terrorists tend to be of the same gender and religion.  In addition, they’d largely have to hail from specific parts of the world for the policy to work.  Oh, right.  The decidedly politically incorrect truth about those who want to see blood flowing down American boulevards is [...]

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