Archive for 2013
October 27, 2013
IF YOU LIKE YOUR INSURANCE, YOU CAN KEEP IT: Tweet Of The Week: Remember when Joe Wilson interrupted Obama’s healthcare speech saying; “You lie”? Looking back.. Wilson was right.
THEY’RE EVEN NOTICING AT THE NEW YORK TIMES: Health Care Woes Undermine Obama’s Vision of Government. “The implicit promise of Barack Obama’s presidency, delivered during the 2008 campaign and again repeatedly since then, was that government would not face a debacle like the recent malfunction of the technology behind the president’s new health care marketplaces. . . . The breakdown of the federal HealthCare.gov Web site could emerge as a test of Mr. Obama’s philosophy, with potentially serious implications for an agenda that relies heavily on the belief in a can-do bureaucracy.”
Actually, what’s big isn’t that they’re noticing, it’s that they’re talking about it.
AMY ALKON’S SHOW STARTS IN A FEW MINUTES: Harvard’s Michael Wheeler: Adaptation is key to negotiation. Listen live at the link, and call in with questions!
POST-ELECTION NEWS: 60 Minutes confirms Benghazi is a real scandal, and you’ve been lied to.
WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Syria: Obama’s Rwanda Moment. It’s actually worse than that, because Rwanda didn’t have such a devastating effect on the wider region, or on our diplomatic standing.
BIG GOVERNMENT’S BIG FAILURE: My USA Today column on the continuing debacle of the ObamaCare rollout.
AL GORE strikes out again.
But if Al Gore strikes out, and no one is watching, does it make a difference?
NEW FRONTIERS IN FEMINISM: Marriage Advice: Reasons Why You Should Withhold Sex. This will end well. But in today’s America, liberation apparently means that women are just walking vaginas, deriving all their power from their lady parts.
UPDATE: From the comments: “Why don’t the women in Colombia fix their own friggin’ road? I swear, there is never a feminist around when there is work to be done.”
REMINDER: Robert Heinlein needs your vote.
WELCOME TO THE 21ST CENTURY: “Performance Art” Is Now A Gay College Student Having Anal Sex In An Art Gallery. Even the folks at The Frisky seem dubious about this one.
ILYA SOMIN: Voting With Your Feet Works for the Poor, Too.
ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASON QUIETEST IN 45 YEARS.
James Wolcott hardest hit.
NOBODY TELL ANN ALTHOUSE: Squirrel caught vandalizing Estherville, Iowa, professor’s bicycle.
POWER-MAD BUT PRACTICAL: Test-Driving The Audi RS7. Zero to sixty in 3.4 seconds. I wish the Audi folks would give me one of these to drive. . . .
READER BOOK PLUG: Reader Paul Leone’s new book, The Book Of Thoth is out. It’s also available for $2.99 on Kindle.
NARRATIVEFAIL: Bullying is not on the rise and it does not lead to suicide.
WELL, HE’S A BETTER SPEECHWRITER THAN HIS SPEECHWRITERS, AND A BETTER POLITICAL ANALYST THAN HIS POLITICAL ANALYSTS, so why wouldn’t Obama be a better coder than his programmers?
