Nightly Ramble: The Travel Trailer Edition

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This is the Travel Trailer Edition

• Flailing About: You know, watching this Pelosi thing is rather like watching someone who is drowning,

Andrew DeMillo, Associcated Press,  ironically  notes Mike Huckabee march to the rear with respect to AIDS

In 1992, Huckabee was right that the federal goverment was treating AID not as disease bit as some sort of civil right:

“It is

The ‘rats have an unlimited greed for taxes, and Mrs. Clinton in particular.  .

Slate makes it perfectly clear how Mrs. Clinton proposes to pay for her universal healthcare proposal.  Mrs. Clinton want to tax health.  As I wrote earlier

What is about freedom that so darn hard for the ‘rats to understand?  According to ABC News, Barack Obama does not understand the Constitution of the United States.

The issue of mandates for health care has driven the

The United Nations official in charge of spreading global hysteria about AIDS admits he lied.   Craig Timberg
Washington Post:

JOHANNESBURG, Nov. 19 — The United Nations‘ top AIDS scientists plan to acknowledge this week that they have long

Socialists, and leftards, do I repeat myself, chant that healthcare is a right.  Nonsense.  Healtcare is a commodity.  That it is product of human endeavor.   Healthcare only exists when some human endeavors to create it.

Humans who are required to

Via Library of Economics and Liberty

Arnold Kling highlights a truism of the left in the Great Health Care Debate:

From the Daily Mail this morning, comes word we’ve heard before… and those pushing for the government to take over our healthcare system have disregarded:

 Record numbers of Britons are travelling abroad for medical treatment to escape the NHS –

I have been saying for years that the fight over health care and who runs it was a financial battle.  No, not a financial battle for the “little guy”.  Just a couple of big ones. Michelle Malkin reports on one

Mark Steyn today:

Last Thursday, Nancy Pelosi, as is the fashion, used the phrase “the children” like some twitchy verbal tic, a kind of Democrat Tourette’s syndrome: “This is a discussion about America’s children … We could establish ourselves as

Steve Verdon over at OTB this morning links a Michael Canon piece at Cato:

Cannon argues that the number is overstated for the following reasons,

1. 20% of the uninsured are eligible for government health programs.
2. 75% of the uninsured can

Ya know, I wasn’t going to address this SCHIP hysteria for a while. I really wasn’t. But in reading Michelle’s excellent piece just now, a thought occurrs that I think should be captured. The trigger:

What if I told you

Rick Moran, of the Right Wing Nut House, whom I have been taking to the woodshed with some degree of regularity of late :

I didn’t want to write about the SCHIP imbroglio again today but frankly, I find

Riehl World View says: 

Surprise, surprise, CNN had the courage to put the blame for the Frost fiasco right where it belongs, on the Democrats:

This morning, CNN aired its first report on the right-wing smear campaign against 12-year

Michelle takes a baseball bat to Ezra Klein, today.

A good-faith debate would require that Respectable Liberal Blogger Ezra Klein actually be a person of good faith. He is treated as such in some elite conservative circles, where his