Making ObamaCare Pass the Kennedy Test

It may be a mangling of Newt Gingrich and Walter E. Williams, but there is a sure fire way to get rid of stupid laws, make them universally appliicable   That is the people who enact the laws have to live

Doctor Krauthammer today makes a great point about Obama’s response to the Iran situation:

…. this incipient revolution is no longer about the election. Obama totally misses the point. The election allowed the political space and provided the spark for

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This is the Camper Edition

• Whistle Blowers and principles?  You know, when cases like this came up while Bush (either one) was

Even the Egyptian Government gets it from the June 18, 2009. in Al-Ahram (Egypt),

“Events in Iran have followed in close succession since the announcement that fundamentalist candidate Ahmadinejad was elected to a second term in the presidential elections. Between

As a result of having the ability to carry several hundred books in my ‘smart phone”… a Palm Treo, I now find myself catching up with a number of the classics, mostly because they were the easiest to obtain in

In last night’s Ramble, I alluded to a forthcoming  article  of mine over at Pajamas Media.

It’s up this morning, and about as subtle as a hand grenade.

At every turn since becoming president, as various problems have presented

Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post:

And where is our president? Afraid of “meddling.” Afraid to take sides between the head-breaking, women-shackling exporters of terror — and the people in the street yearning to breathe free. This from a president who

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• Children: This observation is so obviously true, that it’s interesting it still has to be made. I guess it’s the same function,

The National Bureau of Economic Research  has released a study purporting to show that women’s happiness has declined since the ‘Seventies, or about since when Riic came off the market.  Color me skeptical that happiness is actually a  measurable metric   

Amendment XXI, Section 4 (1967) Constitution of the United States:

Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit

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• Publius/Whalen Redux: By way of James Joyner, I see that the English

I’ve been watching this little girl from afar without comment for some time, now.

Michelle says, last night:

Just wanted to take a pause from politics and policy and world affairs to let you all know that 5-year-old Hannah Garman

[Obama] called the idea that he’s gotten an easy ride from the press “very hard to swallow.” Delusional and totally graceless for a man who’s gotten the journalistic tongue bath he’s received from so many outlets (with the notable exceptions

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This is the “Have one on Me” Edition.

• Tea Parties, Iranian Style: Somewhere in my travels last night, I stumbled across a

Aaron Task over at Yahoo’s tech Ticker makes a point I’ve made here at BitsBlog several times:

Before this discussion goes any further, Jeff Matthews of Ram Partners, wants you (and presumably policymakers) to remember this: “The epicenter of the