Then and now [Anonymoused]
Then: If you like your healthcare plan, you will be able to keep your healthcare plan, period Now: if you have or had one of these plans before the Affordable Care Act came into law and you really...
View ArticleDon’t worry, be happy [Anonymoused]
Bob Laszewski: Millions of people are facing cancellation letters. Ideally, we could just say, never mind –– let these people simply stay on their current policies. But here’s maybe the biggest irony...
View ArticleThe day the wheels came off [Anonymoused]
CNN: “I personally believe, even if it takes a change in the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they’ve got,” Clinton said...
View Article7.0 versus 0.1 — and counting [Anonymoused]
7.0 down, and 0.1 or 0.0 up, depending on how you measure. And the sign-ups are not coming from the groovy cohort. The incompetence of this is staggering, as anyone with eyes to see can see. What’s...
View ArticleSham. Wow. [Anonymoused]
NRO: “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan” — something the administration knew was untrue — would almost certainly be a textbook case of deceptive advertising, punishable under Section 5 of...
View ArticleA republic if you can keep it [Anonymoused]
A member of congress: I think that everything that the president said and did was in pursuit to get all Americans health care, so, I think, even though he may have said, if you like your decent...
View Article500 million lines of code [Anonymoused]
IBD: Morgan Wright, CEO of Crowd Sourced Investigations, told lawmakers that Healthcare.gov had more than 500 million lines of code — more than 20 times as much as Facebook (FB) and nearly 10 times as...
View ArticleInteresting take [Anonymoused]
Noonan: A fellow very friendly to the administration, a longtime supporter, cornered me at a holiday party recently to ask, with true perplexity: “How could any president put his entire reputation on...
View ArticleFire all the men! [Anonymoused]
A speech: women still make 77 cents on the dollar compared to men No big deal. He’s been saying it for years. But why haven’t all the men been fired yet? (Hmmm….77 cents seems too high a price for this.)
View Articleoops! [Anonymoused]
Examiner: a technical bug affected approximately 25 percent of enrollments on the federal exchanges in October and November. Those technical bugs, separate from the troubles consumers had experienced...
View ArticleThe Establishment turns [Anonymoused]
Gergen: there was nobody in charge in the administration…The fact that he was not meeting with her one-on-one, I think, frankly, is not so much an indictment of her but of the White House operation…I...
View ArticleListen and learn [Anonymoused]
Regarding Iran: when I first came into office. Iran had gone from having less than 200 centrifuges to having thousands of centrifuges, in some cases more advanced centrifuges. There was a program that...
View ArticleLive from Lincoln Center, a punchline [Anonymoused]
NYT: thousands of writers, opera singers, music teachers, photographers, doctors, lawyers and others are learning that their health insurance plans are being canceled and they may have to pay more to...
View ArticleSeeing spots, or not [Anonymoused]
Space: The sun’s current space-weather cycle is the most anemic in 100 years, scientists say. Our star is now at “solar maximum,” the peak phase of its 11-year activity cycle. But this solar max is...
View ArticlePost Traumatic Spending Disorder [Anonymoused]
AP: From an American gunboat decades ago, John Kerry patrolled for communist insurgents along the winding muddy waters of the Mekong Delta. From those familiar waterways that eventually turned the...
View ArticleWhat’s happening in Iran? [Anonymoused]
Amir Taheri: Originally, Iran’s official media had presented the accord as a treaty (qarardad) but it now refers to a “letter of agreement” (tavafoq nameh). The initial narrative claimed that the P5+1...
View ArticleCatastrophic plans [Anonymoused]
The Oregonian reports a bit on the differences between propaganda and reality: Nearly three months after the federal deadline for a functional health exchange website, Oregon’s exchange has emerged as...
View ArticleGood riddance [Anonymoused]
VDH takes a wrecking ball to 2013. Other large parts of the PJ crew do the same to the corrupt and poorly educated media. Meanwhile, Steyn demonstrates that we haven’t learned anything in the last...
View ArticleOne cancelled plan, thousands of wasted hours [Anonymoused]
Taranto: Remember Edie Sundby? She is the stage 4 gallbladder-cancer survivor who wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed two months ago in which she revealed that “my affordable, lifesaving medical...
View ArticleThe usual [Anonymoused]
Roger Simon has a chart illustrating that there has been no decrease in unemployment in the last five years. TNR has a doubleplusgood piece telling us that we never really wanted to go to Cedars Sinai,...
View Article600 million times a day [Anonymoused]
Compare this piece in the Onion (“600 million times a day”) with this one in the NYT. Newspaper of record indeed! Take a break, relax. Heck, we have a government that engages in the worst sort of...
View ArticleUnderstanding 1930′s England [Anonymoused]
America today seems to us rather similar in some ways to England in the 1930′s, where fools in positions of power spun dangerous fantasies, to the praise of the self-anointed opinion elite, fools...
View ArticleNumbers, numbers, who’s got the numbers? [Anonymoused]
China Post: In an article last Thursday titled “The enigma of China’s GDP statistics,” Xinhua said: “After the National Bureau of Statistics on Monday unveiled economic data for 2013, what grabbed the...
View ArticleOnce again, fire all the men! [Anonymoused]
It’s breathtakingly obvious that women don’t get paid 77% of what men make for the same job, or most every employer would fire all the men and pocket the extra loot. Even the WaPo has figured this out....
View ArticleWhat’s up in Sochi? [Anonymoused]
WSJ: Dmitry Kozak, the deputy prime minister responsible for the Olympic preparations, seemed to reflect the view held among many Russian officials that some Western visitors are deliberately trying to...
View ArticleDrip, Drip, Drip [Anonymoused]
A genius speaks. Letters from a grammar school principal here and here, and an explanation. The end of snow. Blah blah and an interesting piece on the ACA; RIP has dual meanings. Jonah has too much...
View ArticleBad, worse, worst [Anonymoused]
George Will covers the bad. Angelo Codevilla tackles the worse. The worst is left to Alexander Solzhenitsyn. (Scott Johnson elaborates further.)
View ArticleMother Goose, etc. [Anonymoused]
Fairy tale economics. Fairy tale legislation with an unhappy ending. On the other hand, there’s a potential happy ending far away, but it’s way too early to tell. And a wish or maybe just a dream from...
View ArticleStrange yet again [Anonymoused]
Were the Italian and Austrian stolen passports of MH370 used by Asians? There’s more to learn here: Wretchard has some good links to twitter feeds and pilots that are interesting. AA587, TWA800,...
View ArticleACA = VA [Anonymoused]
ACA = VA, more or less. This really wasn’t all that hard to figure out. So much for the BS. They think you’re stupid, particularly the Julias, and so far they’ve been right. But things may change…
View Article“Foreign policy clip-joint” [Anonymoused]
It is almost impossible to overstate the foolishness of US foreign policy these days. Wretchard gives it the old college try, but he can’t overstate it either. How can an entire establishment be so...
View ArticleThrough a glass darkly no more [Anonymoused]
Scott Johnson has a Tough Guy vs. Wimp visual that is pretty funny but misses an important point. The so-called wimp can be a tough guy — here and here are evidence as to whom he despises and is more...
View ArticleLiars and Idiots and Fine Gentlemen? [Anonymoused]
Some D: “a woman still earns just 77 cents for every dollar a man does.” Some R: “It’s not government, though, that creates jobs. Small business owners, entrepreneurs and innovators are the engine of...
View ArticleApril 1? [Anonymoused]
The NYT actually ran this on 3/25: I believed this legislation, signed four years ago this month, would free people to pursue their dreams, start new companies and not worry about the health insurance...
View ArticleShocked, shocked! [Anonymoused]
A senior government official: Right now there is not a negotiation; there is a confrontation. I’m sad to report I’ve never seen such a complete, miserable, unaccountable, disgraceful walk away from a...
View ArticleCold [Anonymoused]
What would it take to get you to — pro-actively, gratuitously and completely unnecessarily — lie to the parents of a dead soldier killed in the line of duty? Steyn meditates.
View ArticleNo straw too heavy? [Anonymoused]
So it turns out that the guy was apparently a deserter in addition to being a weirdo. And quite a few soldiers were killed trying to find him. But the video blamer says he was a swell guy. So What? And...
View ArticleQuestion [Anonymoused]
Statement: “a view that was shared by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.” Oh really? Question: with D-Day so recent, why doesn’t it occur to one of these guys to resign?
View ArticleThe shape of things to come [Anonymoused]
JPod has a very insightful piece about the pop culture fairy tale the country has lived through in recent years. It’s an amazing thing to contemplate the power of a story to shape facts — again and...
View ArticleA couple of points about the story of the day [Anonymoused]
A congressman at a debate in front of a live audience said this: “It is easy to sit in the rarified environs of academia in the ivory towers of a college campus with no accountablity and no...
View ArticleIt’s le-lak, not namrepus [Anonymoused]
As you may know, you get back from Mr. Mxyztplk’s planet by saying your name backwards. Backwards indeed. It’s Opposite Day every day now. And we do indeed live in Bizarro World. All of which brings us...
View ArticleMSM in Gaza, Iraq, North Korea — obsequious and dishonest [Anonymoused]
CNN in 1997: In a sweltering, crowded hospital south of Baghdad, dozens of children line the beds, their stick-like limbs reflecting a severe lack of food. A mother’s wail pierces the room: One of her...
View ArticleA poor climateer, barely kept his family dead [Anonymoused]
A PJ review of Steyn’s book led to this humorous bit about a Mann fighting an Amazon, and then to this. Puh-leeze!!!
View ArticleTruth and Consequences [Anonymoused]
VDH: Do bothersome facts matter anymore? Not really. This is an age when Americans were assured that the Affordable Care Act lowered our premiums. It…allowed us to keep our doctors and health plans,...
View ArticleOpposite Day x 2922 [Anonymoused]
If you like your Goober, you can keep your Goober. (It will be interesting to see if MIT cans him.) The greatest threat is climate change. The Supreme Leader understands the concerns of Iranians. Some...
View ArticleThat’s a nice country you’ve got there [Anonymoused]
Wretchard et al, with some minor edits: No one knows if the administration will manage in the next five weeks to strike what many in the White House consider the most important foreign policy deal of...
View ArticleStranger and Stranger Still [Anonymoused]
We recall the big fraud that Duke Lacrosse turned out to be. More and more we see stories where narrative seems to be the most important feature of the piece. Bret Stephens has a meditation on more...
View ArticleVictims, yes, but of whom? [Anonymoused]
Check out this depressing piece on the cop assassinations by Tom Maguire, along with the YouTube video it links to. No doubt Uncle Murda feels he is expressing justified outrage. However, the...
View ArticleVery unusual, and so forth [Anonymoused]
Strong words from the Gallup CEO on the ridicuoulsly low labor force participation rate. Guy’s not with the program. What’s up with that? And the UN reports more horror from ISIS. Finally, China cut...
View ArticleOnce upon a time, there was a correlation [Anonymoused]
The early days of CAGW must have seemed magical. After all, there really was a correlation of CO2 increases on the one hand, and some modest temperature increases on the other. It’s not surprising that...
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