The WellPoint Mugging: The brawl over rate increases is a preview of ObamaCare.
Robin's life in Berkeley. The group-think there is creepy. One would like to imagine that a college town would have free-thinkers.
Interesting idea: Grad from HS when you pass the exam
The state and municipal pension scam
Bill Maher: People are too stupid to understand. I guess he means me.
Afghan Offensive May Take a Month, U.K. General Says. Reminds me of Fallujah. Jules wonders where the anti-war movement went.
How do so many pols end up so rich?
Rosen: The Tea Partiers vs. "progressive" leftists and statists. EJ Dionne and the like are going crazy, it seems:
Dionne dismisses anti-statism by narrowly associating it with 18th century anti-federalists who opposed the Constitution. In fact, most of our founders mistrusted a powerful central government, which is why the Constitution enumerated and restricted federal powers, safeguarded the independence of states, and reserved ultimate power to the people. "Progressive" leftists like Dionne are inherent statists with unbounded faith in the virtue and wisdom of elite bureaucrats who share their ideology to run our government, our economy and our lives.
This is the great divide between left and right in our country and the real root of opposition from Tea Partiers and, as the polls reveal, from most Americans to Obama, Pelosi, Reid and their statist agenda.
What gridlock? The O decries government spending:
When calculated by the average annual percentage of the Gross Domestic Product that he will spend during his presidency, Obama is on track to become the biggest-spending president since 1930, the earliest year reported on the OMB’s historical chart of spending as a percentage of GDP. When calculated by the average annual percentage of GDP he will borrow during his presidency, Obama is on track to become the greatest debter president since Franklin Roosevelt.
