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Friday, March 30. 2012

Friday morning links

This is a post about the qualities and the effects of despair.


Document Deep Dive: What Does the Magna Carta Really Say?

Why Do So Many Americans Drop Out of College? Unprepared students sign up for school because they think a degree is their passport to the middle class. They should have other options.


"A Free Education Is Something That Many Parents Will Pay to Avoid"


The Big Lie of Health Care Reform


Fracking: an Existential Threat to Green Dogma


The EPA is hard at work on a crisis or scare a day based on unreliable science.


Cameron: Brick by brick, we’re tearing down the big state - The Prime Minister says he will not rest until people have been put in control of their choices and chances in life.


IPCC Confirms: We Do Not Know If The Climate Is Becoming More Extreme


The Media and Black Homicide Victims


It'’s Not Just the Mandate: ObamaCare’s Other Infringements - The bill seizes liberty from doctors and insurance firms, too


Examiner editorial: Liberals' budget would raise taxes to an all-time high


New global warming deadline: Reverse it in 8 years or it’ll be too late


Archbishop of New York: Obama allies attempting to divide Catholic Church


 Obama budget fails to get a single Democratic vote … again.


Income Mobility Means Some People Have to Lose Everything

Fed Chairman Barnanke on Obama's Job Numbers: 'He's Makin' Sh*t Up To Get Reelected'


Via Insty, E.J. Dionne Forgets that America Is a Constitutional Republic


" If this last desperate effort of the power-mongers of leftism fails, then their whip may become a wet noodle, and the whole corrupt syndicate of leftism may completely unravel. Watch Wisconsin."


VDH: The New Anti-Semitism


Checking In on Yale's New Anti-Semitism Program


Morning Jay: Why Were Liberals So Surprised By the Supreme Court?


No Subway $5 Footlongs In SF, 'Cost of Doing Business' Too High


Assessing Pacification in Vietnam: We Won the Counterinsurgency War!

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Just curious. Are comments no longer being allowed on link posts?
#1 Zachriel on 2012-03-30 08:10 (Reply)
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Robert Gelinas: One-sixth of the U.S. economy is threatened with a takeover by the federal government on the erroneous rationale that "tens of millions of people in the U.S. are without health care insurance, and therefore are being denied access to adequate health care." Unjust! Unfair! This is, of course, an absolute lie.


That is incorrect. While hospitals are required to provide a minimal level of emergency services, they are not required to provide general care. That means many treatable conditions are left untreated until they become critical. It also means people with serious conditions are discharged without having been properly treated.

QUOTE:
Megan McArdle: Nor does some large number of people "die every day from lack of health insurance coverage." That too is a lie.


McArdle cites Richard Kronick's Urban Institute study, which does determine that thousands die from lack of health care. However, Kronick's study does not control for the likelihood of people in poor health seeking health insurance. Other studies that control for this variable find a strong correlation between lack of insurance and increased mortality risk.
#2 Zachriel on 2012-03-30 08:27 (Reply)
So I read over at Instapundit that conservative confidence in science has been in decline since 1974. Then here, I see the link about the EPA's unreliable science.

I wonder if there could be a connection?

But we can't ignore the rise of the social "sciences" during this period. Richard Feynman explains it best, I think.
#3 JKB on 2012-03-30 08:52 (Reply)
Kagan:
"The federal government is here saying, we are giving you a boatload of money. There are no -- there's no matching funds requirement, there are no extraneous conditions attached to it, it's just a boatload of federal money for you to take and spend on poor people's health care. It doesn't sound coercive to me, I have to tell you."

And I originally thought she'd be a good justice. I have to admit, throughout the process this week, she is clearly the weakest link. Her motivations have been nothing but political, her approach appears to be uninformed, and she is clearly a puppet.

I'm shocked. Not coercive? An ambiguous entity, one which changes regularly so it cannot be considered of one mind, called "The Federal Government" exists to say whatever it wants and she claims that's it? There is no discussion of where the money came from? This entity called the government magically stirs a pot, creates money and doles it out. End of story.

Wow. That's just sad.
#4 Bulldog on 2012-03-30 09:42 (Reply)
"New global warming deadline: Reverse it in 8 years or it’ll be too late" 20 years ago, they said it would be in 10 years.
#5 Sam L. on 2012-03-30 14:17 (Reply)
Wanna see somthun' re-e-e-ally scary?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/03/30/obama_youre_on_your_own_economics_doesnt_work.html

The scariest part is the applause at the end.
#6 jma on 2012-03-30 16:23 (Reply)

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