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, [...]

Why Take a Bite When You Can Try to Swallow the Whole Cake?

If they had played it cool, President Obama and his congressional teammates might be celebrating Democraticare’s passage with a ceremonial ice cream social right now.  But we’re lucky they’ve become insufferably extreme to the point that they think a self-immolating process like reconciliation sounds wise.  Call Nancy Pelosi and beg her to go for it: she’ll [...]

Lovely Ideas from Pretty People

It’s not as if humans are only allowed to be smart or physically striking.  We can separate the portion of that sentence from “smart” forward, steer it into Conjunction Junction, and swap out the “or” for an “and” without fear of creating incongruity, as there’s no reason why people can’t be both.  For proof, inform [...]

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 [...]

Conservative Policy: Be What Barack’s Not

Opposing whatever Barack Obama wants counts as an idea.  Tending to think the answer to anything he says is “No” is a magnificent concept on par with the invention of the George Foreman Grill or the football-shaped sausage.  Those who want the precise converse of the president’s agenda aren’t just being reactionary grumps, either, although [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

One Year Down. And Only Three Left!

The milestones are flying by.  Thank goodness.  We’re approaching a quarter of a way through Barack Obama’s first and final term, and it’s only occasionally felt as if we were enduring eternity.  Conservatives have held up well since the president gave his first official platitude-stuffed oration to people who were ardently cheering for what will [...]

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