Good point at Coyote, re socialized medicine:
...surely women's groups, who were at the forefront of fighting against government intrusion into our decisions about our bodies, is out there leading the fight against government health care.� WRONG! Their privacy arguments stand out today as sham libertarian arguments that applied only narrowly to abortion.� It's clear that as long as they can get full access to abortion, women's groups are A-OK with government intrusion into people's decisions about their bodies.
And re SCHIP, Fred Barnes explains why extending a poverty entitlement to the middle class is a bad idea. Weekly Standard. This used to be called "creeping socialism." At the least, it is an effort to transform a charity, stepwise,�into a universal entitlement.
Hollywood goes to war. Propa-tainment, by Jules at Pajamas
Opie says Freedom Watch is the anti-MoveOn.org. Here's their NYT advt about Ahmadinejad.
A very bad dude killed in Iraq
Krugman: There was no middle class before FDR.
Who is Joyce Hatto? She's a virtuoso pianist, but you might not have heard of her. Attack Machine�has the tale.
America's worst airlines. Gay Patriot. Speaking of air travel, the Carol Ann Gotbaum story.�Who knows where that story goes, but it's a damn shame. Those airport guards are quick to use force on the obviously�innocent, and everyone knows that.