Former presidents traditionally try not to criticize or comment on their successors. President Obama stated that, after leaving office, he would only address “core values.” Which brings up the question, by not commenting on the allegations that Russia was involved in rigging the 2016 presidential election, does that mean President Obama does not think there […]
A New Belief in the Sanctity of Insurance Companies
Some markets need destabilizing. One in particular is the ObamaCare exchange. According to the WSJ, in about half the counties in the U.S., there is no competition for individual insurance—only highly regulated insurers. To woo and keep insurers, state officials spent months negotiating, and in many cases they are approving substantial rate increases for next […]
The Obama Legacy—an Unstable House of Cards
Puzzled over how one after another of President Obama’s legacy initiatives are being so easily dismantled? Obama never executed in a bipartisan spirit his tissue-thin executive orders, explains the American Thinker. From treaties to ObamaCare, Obama issued executive orders on his own. His one legislative achievement—ACA—was passed into law on a mono-partisan basis. The Paris […]
ACA Exchanges: Blatantly Illegal Payments
President Obama, with the passing of his legacy ACA, understood that insurance companies, without reimbursement, would a) flee the Exchanges or b) raise prices prohibitively. “To prevent that, he violated the law,” writes Andrew McCarthy in. In 2014, his administration unilaterally began making non-appropriated cost-sharing payments to insurance companies. Those payments have continued, even through […]
Harry Reid’s Gift to President Trump
The media is so obsessed with Donald Trump’s twittering that it is can’t see the big picture. That is, what is happening in the federal judiciary. To date, President Trump has nominated “nearly 60 judges, filling more vacancies than Barack Obama did in his entire first year,” Kimberley Strassel informs readers in the WSJ. The […]
Harvey Weinstein—“A Wonderful Human Being”
Right. Read on. During the 2013 White House event, Michelle Obama called Mr. Weinstein not only a “wonderful human being,” but also “a good friend and just a powerhouse.” Although now we read that the Obamas are “disgusted” with his behavior. Certainly hope so. Especially since Barack and Michelle Obama allowed daughter Malia to intern at Harvey […]
Annie Get Your Gun
On the broad, bedrock issue of security (the 2nd Amendment), gun control can be looked at as a proxy for a political and social divide, writes Daniel Henninger in the WSJ. Whether that security applies to one’s person, home, neighborhood, city or the nation, progressives and conservatives see humankind and the world it inhabits through […]
How the NFL Shows Its Colors
Exactly what are the NFL players protesting when kneeling during the playing of our National Anthem? “At the start, the protest was explicitly directed at purportedly institutional racism in the nation’s police departments, which had supposedly led to an epidemic of police violence against black men,” explains Andrew McCarthy in NRO. McCarthy goes on to […]
Get That SOB Off the Field
The WSJ’s Daniel Henninger prefers baseball to either football or basketball. Baseball is all about … well, yes, playing baseball, he explains. It is not political or personal or more things than the average fan can process. Baseball has an informal code of on-field conduct, which has held for a hundred years. The NFL doesn’t […]
A Heck of a Lot of Wind in Green Energy
Most of us are not aware that supposedly carbon-free energy sources–those that are acceptable to environmentalists–don’t work, writes Francis Menton at the Manhattan Contrarian. Acceptable to environmentalists are wind and solar. Not acceptable–nuclear and hydro. Even worse, wind and solar are not even carbon-free, because it takes large amounts of carbon-based energy to make the […]
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