It's rare for me to see something worth reading by Friedman, but America vs. The Narrative is pretty good.
Which is the bigger scandal? News-gate or Climategate? As Steyn put it:
"If you follow online analysis from obscure websites on the fringes of the map, you'll know what's going on. If you go to the convenience store and buy today's newspaper, you won't."
Heroes, from National Post:
Two of Canada's greatest and most undersung recent heroes are environmental economist Ross McKitrick and statistical minerologist Steven McIntyre, who by their tireless research in the teeth of the entire ecological establishment, proved the former IPCC claim of drastically accelerated global warming was a fraud. These men have been prominently mentioned in the hacked emails that have just revealed the outrageous lengths the scientific propagators of the Great Green Fraud have gone to to suppress the facts.
Sheer brilliance. HHS would become gigantic insurance regulator.
Related, the explanation for the lack of competition in medical insurance:'
At a recent town hall meeting, President Obama said, "Now,
the only thing that I have said is that having a public option in that
menu would provide competition for insurance companies to keep them
honest."
But it is government that is responsible for the dearth
of competition in the insurance business. That's because Congress
enacted the McCarran-Ferguson Act in 1945, which allows the states to
limit the number of players in their insurance markets, and explains
why "in 64 percent of all metropolitan areas, a single health insurer
commands a market share of at least 50 percent".
Government
created the insurance monopolies in the states, thus destroying
competition. Government is therefore responsible for the "dishonesty"
that Obama decries.
We're late to the party with this chart, but it sure is revealing, isn't it?
