BUREAUCRATIC CODING MAKES HEALTHCARE COST TOO MUCH: There’s a distinct bias in favor of government-controlled healthcare in this Reuters analysis but it still manages to provide a clear description of how bureaucracy and code manipulation drive spiraling medical bills higher. What’s left unsaid, of course, is that the federal government is the original healthcare code maker.
Archive for 2020
January 14, 2020
DICKINSON COLLEGE’S STUDENT GOVERNMENT, INFESTED WITH HATE AND BIGOTRY: Student gov votes to ban Israeli hummus to be more ‘inclusive.’ Luckily, the adults aren’t going along.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Democratic Primary Field Moves Ever Whiteward. “Now their diversity street cred is a seventy-year-old patrician northeastern grandma who was once a Native American in her mind.”
I’ll drunkblog tonight’s debate over at the PJMedia mothership.
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LEE SMITH: Obama Passed the Buck. Trump Refused to Play. “The Iran deal was never meant to stop Iran from building a bomb—it was supposed to delay it until disaster happened on someone else’s watch.”
SEEMS PRETTY CLEAR THEY WERE GOING FOR THE JEWISH SCHOOL: Powerful bomb suggests suspects in Jersey City kosher market massacre had bigger attack plans: Officials. “From the get-go, law enforcement has investigated the killings as an act of domestic terrorism.”
HE WAS A MURDERER IN NEED OF KILLING, AND I’M GLAD HE’S DEAD: Trump says it doesn’t matter if Soleimani posed an imminent threat.
TIM BLAIR: Controlled burning could have protected Australia.
Heed the warning from NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service Central West area manager Fiona Buchanan, in April last year: ‘We are getting the message out there that removing firewood, including deadwood and fallen trees, is not permitted in national parks. We want people to know the rules around firewood collection…it’s important people are aware that on-the-spot fines apply but also very large fines can be handed out by the courts.’
She wasn’t bluffing. A man had earlier been fined $30,000 ($20,000 US) for illegally collecting firewood in the Murrumbidgee Valley National Park. Why? Because, as Buchanan explained: ‘Many ground-dwelling animals and threatened species use tree hollows for nesting, so when fallen trees and deadwood is taken illegally, it destroys their habitat. This fallen timber is part of these animals’ natural ecosystem.’
Those natural ecosystems are now, across thousands of hectares of national parks in New South Wales, nothing but cinders and ash. Enjoy your protected habitat, little ground-dwellers.
Needless to say, read the whole thing.
SOMEBODY NEEDS TO LOOK INTO HIS RELATIONS WITH THE IRANIANS SINCE 2016:
WHAT WAS THEIR FIRST CLUE? Democrats Think Pelosi Holding Impeachment Articles a Failed Strategy.
WHAT’S SHOCKING IS THAT THE NUMBER IS FAIRLY SMALL, GIVEN THE ANTIAMERICAN PROPAGANDA PASSING FOR EDUCATION: Shocking Number Of Young Americans Say Other Countries Are Better Than U.S.
LAURENCE JARVIK: A New Iranian Revolution.
YESSSS. LET THE HATE FLOW THROUGH YOU. Democrat says Second Amendment supporters in Virginia have ‘mental issues.’
WELL, YES: ‘Moderate’ Michael Bloomberg Is an Authoritarian Nightmare. Fortunately, he comes across on TV as unlikeable and snotty. Which is about right.
WELL, YES: Atlantic: Twitter is a progressive bubble. “So who are the people who make up the progressive bubble on Twitter? In an earlier Atlantic piece on political correctness, Yascha Mounk pointed out that progressive activists tend to be rich, educated, and white.”
And it’s wrecking the Democratic Party.
YEAH. THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE. I TOTALLY EXPECTED NANCY TO STAND WITH THOSE FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM? DIDN’T YOU? Nancy Pelosi Disses Courageous Iranian Protestors.
IS THAT WE GET WAAAAAY MORE OF IT: The Problem With Indulging Stupidity.
IT’S FLOP SWEAT. SHE’S AFRAID HER CORRUPTION WILL BE EXPOSED FOR ALL TO SEE: Pelosi unhinged.