Maggie's Farm

Who "owns" the "Vietnam narrative"? Classical Values. My Vietnam narrative is as follows: We were there as part of a world power chess game. We were slowly winning the game, but the "Amerika must lose"�Left knocked our King off the board. Why does it matter now? It matters because it's a legacy of defeatism, which is not encouraging to our allies and which is encouraging to those who wish to harm us. Was it wise to be there in the first place? I don't know, but once you decide to do something, you have to stick with it.

Iraqis protest terror at Saudi Embassy. Good.

How is this as an invitation for a discrimination lawsuit? Riehl

A housing bailout? What sense does this make? Michelle

Fruits and vegetables don't do anything for your health. Surber. Yes, we do know that. They taste good though, when you're in the mood for them.

The Gospel according to my dog. Wizbang

Slavery made illegal in Mauretania. Atlas

It would be a dull world without people like Fisk.�However, I am sick of conspiracy theorists of all sorts. They are insane, 99.9% of the time. It's that .1% that gets ya to entertain their psychoses. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, but you get no points for being right if you are a malevolent nutjob like Robert Fisk. Plus he has never been right about anything - he just tries to feed public psychosis.

Bible banned in schools. Moonbattery. Indeed, the Bible does contain dangerous, spiritually-subversive teachings. I guess the ACLU recognizes the power of that book.

Journalism, pomo style:�Write your story first, then try to collect some quotes. Flopping. I always thought that grousing and griping was part of being a soldier at war: it is not a comfortable life style. They do the discomfort for the rest of us. More on spinning troop morale at Burkean.

From Pam, via Right Wing Prof:

The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse is this: You cannot post "Thou Shall Not Steal, "Thou Shall Not Commit Adultery", and "Thou Shall Not Lie" in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.

There's a hole in it. The universe.�Does it leak?

Record poppy crop in Afghanistan this year. Does anything else grow there? Probably nothing as profitable. Poppies are their oil, I guess.

Photo on right: Vanessa Dobos, from Women in Combat at Reasoned Audacity�(the photo comes and goes - I don't know why but you can see her at the link).

Lt. Pitts visits an Iraqi home. Totten. Man, that tea is dark.

Multiculturalism in St. Paul. LGF. Some cultures just don't give a damn how they treat women, but we are supposed to be understanding, aren't we?

Middlebrow�with Ruskin on art and seeing, with a charming example.�

Moros y Cristianos. Yum. Babalu, who notes elsewhere�that rumors of Castro's demise are premature: at this point, it hardly matters.

Tu-95s over Guam. Just stopping by to say hello. Putin is flexing his muscles, but that is what Russians do. I think it's harmless.

100 million blogs? It's remarkable that we have so many readers. Talk about competition... h/t, Insty

More on Sacco and Vanzetti, at Attack Machine

Tony Blair's legacy: 10,000 rules and regulations. Kim. How can anyone remember all of this crap?

Looks like they found the Grunion. Blue Crab

"The poor" as pawns of the Left. Dr. Sanity�on Thomas Sowell

O'Sullivan's First Law, and Amnesty International update. EU Referendum

Hurt feelings on campus. Dust my Broom. These kids aren't sensitive: they are manipulators.

From Prof Pat, What I saw in Europe. Far outside the cities, the Old Europe persists, with the old values and the old ways.

If you screw the American pharmaceutical companies, who in the world will come up with new meds? The Post Office? Dr. Helen

If I lived in Zimbabwe, I would grab my spears and my family�and head for the jungle for the duration. Update at Captain Ed. Or, if I had the nerve and a few machine guns, form a rebellion.

Torture and abuse at Parris Island? Gimme a break. And Rightly So. No drill sergeant is going to be 1/1000th the threat of a bad guy trying to kill you. Toughen up, weenies.

Repubs are racists, says Krugman. Moderate Voice. I guess it's proof that you have no argument when you resort to name-calling.

I had no idea that Horsefeathers was a psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst. He considers the low value placed on the ability to use words. I suppose he is right: the�talent to use words is widely-distributed, just as is the talent to make music. Market forces: wordsmiths and musicians are generally�not paid well.

You must list the race of your employees? This is nuts.�Just put me down as a Samoan: I share lots of DNA with them.

A little basic education for the AP on the difference between a cartridge and a bullet. Funny video, via Mr. Free Market

Jim Webb (D-VA) blames Dems for Vietnam genocide. He's right.�Some people conveniently forget the real story.

The Martyrs of Otranto. Gay Patriot.

Maliki: Scapegoat of the week? I would not want his job: herding cats.

Willisms said it first, but I was getting ready to note that when Bill Clinton wags his finger, it means he is lying. Calif. Yank has the same thought.

Beating a dead horse. It's sadistic fun to beat up on Edwards. Bainbridge pitches in.

"Two wops who got in a jam." Sacco and Vanzetti, revisited once again.

The Battle of Britain. Great photo.

"Black men have abandoned their children." LaShawn

More on gun control in the UK. Why not control the criminals? Guns are harmless.

Gen Bui Tin, on Vietnam Iraq

Where was that line-dancing photo taken on the right? You guessed wrong. That�would be�France. Story at No Pasaran

Neoneo has been avoiding the climate change subject, but she finally takes it on in When Research and Politics interface - watch out

A Pakistani Single Malt? Yup. It wins prizes too. Synthstuff. I'd love to try it. Maybe a reader can fetch me some?

America's Top Ten and Bottom Ten party schools. h/t, Education Wonks

Change the test! Hatemonger makes some suggestions for a truly multicultural teachers' exam.

Ten sites for free legal music downloads. h/t, Flares' link collection.

Now "America's downtrodden" are homeowners!?! Lib. Leanings. Sometimes it's difficult to keep The Marxist�Narrative going in such a prosperous country.

And speaking of The Narrative, there's a movie, What Black Men Think.�Somehow the simple facts get twisted around to blame "society," of course, the�contemptuous - and wrong -�implication being that that black guys cannot be real men. That is true racism.

Another guilty Brit liberal loses his innocence. Burkean

These invisible people are Americans too! Iowahawk's Bonneville Diaries

I have always been a big booster of Lebanon and the Lebanese�on these pages. It used to be a fun place, and could be again. There are two places which are now dangerous but which I would like to�see before I get old: Lebanon, and Mespotamia - especially to see the ancient ruins of Sumer and Babylon.

Twisted logic on illegal�immigration, via Wizbang.�How does that make sense?

Sex tips for women of a certain age.

Want to interrupt your morning serenity with a nice anger attack? Multiculturalism in education, via Moderate Voice

We have done our best to publicize The Death of the Grown-Up, and so is Scott at�Powerline.

Surber on the bi-partisan backtracking on the Feb. stances towards Iraq.

Sammy Davis, Richard Nixon, and Jesse Jackson. Powerline. Jackson has been a shake-down artist for a long time. He is a pro, and I suspect his admirers admire this expertise.

Cancer survival rates. Worstall. Clearly they just let them die right away,�in the UK. Cheaper, for sure.

And speaking of illness, a Winnipeg company will ship you to Cuba for treatment. Small Dead Koalas. Not a pleasant reflection on Canadian medicine. Of course, you cannot see a private doc anywhere in Canada - it's illegal.

Simple thinking and male auto-castration. Dr. Helen

Eleanor Roosevelt's commune experiment in W VA. Coyote

Photo: Yup, another Theo beauty. We need to quit this photo stealing from Theo, but I just can't help myself: I guess I am hetero, even tho it is out of fashion these days. Or maybe I am just defending against my latent homo?

W. F. Deedes died. He was an inspiration to all of us reporters, and an inspiration, supposedly, for Scoop which, as Barone notes, is the best novel about reporting. I refuse to use the word "journalist" - we reporters are mere scoop-artists, snoops, voyeurs, and the highly-curious but flawed by a passive temperament - like academics are. Good reporting should be ego-free. I contribute to Maggie's as�my outlet for my own thinking - such as it is, and keep my own opinions out of my paid work. We reporters aren't special. But everything written by Evelyn Waugh is special.

Dhimmitude, personified.�They would offend a Christian or a Jew�in a second without a second thought.

Fred Barnes on Immigration Overkill.�His political scheming may be correct, but there is a principle here. As Surber says,

You want to be Mexican, stay in Mexico. You want to be an American, fill out the paperwork, pay the money and walk in through the front door.

The burdens of Petraeus, by VDH. h/t, Dinocrat. How can you help people who are so hell-bent on killing each other? Clearly, many of them find doing that to be more fun and satisfying than getting a job and doing something useful for their community. Murdering idiots, who need to be shot.

Heartbreaking photo. Hope it worked out for them in the end.

Flood insurance. I say no more issuing of government subsidized flood insurance. It's a rip-off of the taxpayer, and a subsidy for developers. No sane person would live in a flood zone without that�subsidized and govt-guaranteed insurance. Why should I pay for that?

Thank you for not voting. Prelutsky. I agree. If you are ignorant of, or indifferent to, the issues - stay home.

Blackballing in Academia. Finally, the right word for it. Cinnamon

What happened to church and state in NYC? Atlas

What happened to church and state in San Francisco? Rhymes with Right.

Ireland's population. I'd say a good place to invest in real estate.�But good-bye to the Ireland of yore.

Belgium is disintegrating. Of course. It isn't a nation, and never was one. I am in favor of a separate third-world�Waloonistan in the south, and let the EU take a flying flip at a whole-wheat donut. Maybe Jon Bovi or Bon Jovi or whoever could help Walloonistan.

Exactly right. The Peace Racket, at Insty.

And, speaking of rackets, the Eco-Millionaires.

Immigrants for the jobs that Swedes won't do? Gates. And in Norway, go to jail - but only if you want to show up.

Do conservatives write blog comments as wacky and angry as these at Crooks and Liars?

Cavemen are people too. S,C&A

The banning fad just won't quit. Betsy. I am in favor of banning banning. Leave us alone.

This illegal�Mexican immigrant definitely doing a job Americans wont do.

Profits of moonbat-inspired movies vs. normal movies, compared. Right Wing Nation. Thanks to him for taking the time.

The Press Hall of Shame. Am. Thinker

A fine rant from Jules about stay-at home fathers. First rant I've seen from Jules - he's finally getting into the blogging thing now. He is loosening up.

Mugged by reality at The Guardian, from Protein. A quote:

In the end I reached the conclusion that 11 September had already brutally confirmed: there were other forces, far more malign than America, that lay in wait in the world. But having faced up to the basic issue of comparative international threats, could I stop the political reassessment there? If I had been wrong about the relative danger of America, could I be wrong about all the other things I previously held to be true? I tried hard to suppress this thought, to ring-fence the global situation, grant it exceptional status and keep it in a separate part of my mind. I had too much vested in my image of myself as a �liberal�. I had bought into the idea, for instance, that all social ills stemmed from inequality and racism. I knew that crime was solely a function of poverty. That to be British was cause for shame, never pride. And to be white was to bear an unshakable burden of guilt. I held the view, or at least was unprepared to challenge it, that it was wrong to single out any culture for censure, except, of course, Western culture, which should be admonished at every opportunity.

Whole thing here.

A dumb blond. Cute photo from Theo, but if her fingers are on the triggers then she had better intend to�fire those things. There is one right way, and there are many wrong ways, to�display a handgun. Scary-dumb, even if she had the brains to check the chambers - unless they are squirt guns. She can hold my squirt gun any way she wants.

Happy 60th Birthday to Larry Kudlow (yesterday)

And Chuck Berry turns 80.�God bless him.

There's no cure for stupid. VT school to heat with trees.

Polls on affirmative action depend on how the question is worded. Duh. I happen to believe that affirmative action is an expression of contempt for the abilities and self-determination of "people of color."

The folly of light rail. Synthstuff. Sometimes governments need to subsidize public amenities - but it should only be done where there is strong demand. The new light rail from downtown NYC to JFK airport is a fine thing, and long-overdue.

Brit private schools do a better job than Brit public schools. So, for equality's sake, let's punish the successful. Worstall

Also, stab-proof school uniforms for�the UK. Maybe they should issue them to tourists too. Knife street crime soaring in the UK.

Is Brussels part of the Caliphate now? Michelle

Poof. No more insurgents. Video at Theo.

Appeasement finds a home in the academy. Stillwell in Am. Thinker. It's nothing new: they have been like that for a long time.

Life can kill you. Betsy. No... it will kill you, it's just a matter of when.

A science-impaired press got hysterical about the breaking of the speed of light - but it didn't happen.

Getting on the apology bandwagon. "I'm sorry we ate your missionaries." Yeah, I'll bet they are sorry. It is said that grilled human tastes like barbecued pork, hence the cannibal term for it: "long pig." Recipes to follow.

Race and education. LaShawn. It's about culture, not race or money.

White House to propose gradual troop reductions. NYT

The Big Bang: Myth, Theory, or what? American Scientist. I would just consider it to be the "cosmos du jour."

Shut up and send money. Mr. Free Market on Mugabe

Coulter, the She-Devil. Gateway. I think she just likes the publicity, plus she has some fun with saying what she thinks. She's not stupid.

Man, did our post on The Diversity Cult attract a lot of comments. I think quite a bit of them came via the Salon link. We are hurt by the accusations of racism. If anyone knew us, they would know how untrue that is. We are simply free to think straight by being unencumbered by White Guilt.�I have plenty of guilt, but it's about�my own past actions only. Historical guilt is BS. And I do not give a damn what color anybody is.

Sorry about those Viking raids!�Hey - I'm sorry to the Romans for�the unkindess�we Celts showed them�when they immigrated to invaded�Britain.

A�bad case of Bush Derangement Syndrome. Powerline. What's the cure? There is none known yet to medical science.

The Queen of New York City. Bill Buckley on Brooke Astor.

Does that include installation? Viking

Rebuilding New Orleans is ridiculous. Surber. I agree. Let it be a little tourist place that will disappear at any moment - which it will. It is Gatorville, masquerading as human habitation. Since when can you build on wetlands anyway?

Is vitality a central value? One Cosmos

Fred to Go Bold. RWNH�. It will be interesting. I still like Rudy, but I like 'em all. Fred looks old for his age. Reagan was much older, but looked and acted vigorous.

Image: La Tene era Celtic warriors

Kudlow on why the Fed should ease rates today.�No, it's not to rescue the hedgies. h/t, Driscoll. And voila - they did.��Is Kudlow God?

The toll of tolerance in Iraq. The Globe, via Viking

Why I am having doubts about Fred: The Hammock Campaign

Beefcake Photo of the Day. If five put him to sleep, is he a real man?

Hey Hollywood! Take your next vacation in Venezuela!

Saved by a salesman. Synthstuff

James Hansen goes stupid. Worstall

Very cool: The fall of Rome and the US Comptroller. h/t Jules

I see that Sean Wasson has changed the name of his blog to The News Junkie. Lots of news junkies in this world, because we are all escapists from reality.

I am offended by your t-shirt. Hess at NRO.

Amphibians dying from fungal spores.

94% of Americans are satisfied with their lives.�(via Drudge). However obtained, that's an impressive number up with which to come (can't end sentence with a prep, right?).�People in the northeast are unhappy, though. Not me.

Will Imus go to New York's WABC?� I hope not. He would displace Curtis Sliwa (founder of the Guardian Angels) and radical lawyer Ron Kubie - two witty and enjoyable�radio amateurs. We receive 50,000-watt WABC well in western MA.

Al Quaida in Iraq is getting slaughtered.

If Fred runs, he will do it his way.

Schools of education are propaganda mills.

Stocks valued too highly? Mankiw.

Giuliani on immigration. Good.

John Leo on post-modern news, via Betsy. And neoneo on how facts just get in the way when you are trying to tell a story.

St. Nietzsche? Religion and politics by the great Scruton, via Done with Mirrors.

John Howard: In trouble, down under? Heck of a good bloke.

No protests against Islamization allowed. Moonbattery. It might upset�the barbarians.

Multicultural issues do not exist in Minnesota. Powerline. All must respect barbarian inferior degenerate other cultural traditions.

It's like a Carnival of Kitchen Knives at Insty

Hillary's White House records will be locked up until after the election. Very shrewd.

Time and Newsweek race each other to be first down the drain. Driscoll. Until they both turned left, I always kinda enjoyed those mags. They were comfortably middlebrow, like me.

The Chinese Toy Boss: Execution or suicide?

Dino noticed it too - the NYT is providing cover for a Dem shift on Iraq.

Fred's campaign is a mess. Something is wrong there. He doesn't really want it, maybe.

We agree: Rove's legacy is similar to�past close political advisors. Rove made some good guesses - and some terrible guesses.

Nitrogen in the air: A new crisis? Moonbattery

Even Der Spiegel is hedging its bets on Iraq.�

Photo: That's a wooden�1972 Concordia custom 62' schooner.

Thanks to all who cared about the condition of my cracked olecranon (aka elbow). It's less sore today, and I have had a bandage on it - mainly so I remember not to bump it into anything. I've survived worse!

French winemakers hope for global warming.

For tax revenue, no capital gains tax might raise the most taxes. Conspiracy explains.�But who wants to raise more tax revenue? What for?

The NYT's garbled view of Iraq. Crittenden. What do they want, and why? Rush thinks the MSM is trying to provide cover for a confusing Dem Iraq message. As Captain Ed says, "Congress will find it very difficult to retreat from Iraq while we're succeeding."

How difficult is it to enforce our current immigration laws? Easy.��And is immigration really an American ideal? Not according to the founding fathers.

Thank God Stanislav Schmulvitch is in jail.�America is surely safer because of that.

Two fingers means "Give me a banana."�h/t, Flares

Where is Gaza headed? The Corner. It's their own damn fault: nobody is stopping them from becoming a world-class resort and banking center if they wanted to.

I missed that story about the $10 million cheeseburger while I was away.

Joke of the Day: Synthstuff

Even our friend at The Moderate Voice gets irrational when it comes to the Dark Lord Rove:

From the sliming of John McCain in the 2000 primaries to the outing of Valerie Plame and the firing of the U.S. Attorneys for not being political enough, Rove�s fingerprints have been all over every unethical, immoral and illegal move of the Bush Administration.

What did Rove have to do with outing Valerie Plame? Nothing. Rove was nothing more than Bush's Paul Begala. And if Rove were really an evil genius, he would have done a better job.

10 most erroneous predictions of the future. Reason, h/t Driscoll

The northern half of the UK is on the dole. Tangled

Margaret Drabble hates cheeseburgers. Dinocrat. So, don't eat them.

Macon Mayor loves Chavez?

MA gun laws. Quote from No Looking Backwards:

Edward Arsenault, 70, of Fairhaven, was turned down for his license renewal earlier this year because he had been convicted in juvenile court of stealing a chicken from a chicken coop when he was 9 years old, in 1946.

Reminds me of Alice's Restaurant, for which the un-embeddable Youtube is here.

Slipped on a wet deck in the rain on Friday and�cracked my olecranon, which took some of the fun out of our sailing trip. The problem with sailboats is that everything topsides is hard - nothing soft. And it always seems to hurt more when it's wet.

I never saw Merv Griffin on TV, but thanks to the late Merv for inventing Jeopardy. Who would imagine that such a nerdy show would be so popular for so long. I've always loved it.

Organic food produces more CO2. Not that I care.

The latest Reuters fakery. Funny

What does "life expectancy" really measure? Powerline

Dr. Sanity's Carnival was good yesterday.

Are taxpayers subsidizing low-wage employers like WalMart? In a way, yes.�Depends on how you look at it. On the subject of subsidies, look at the new Farm Bill. Disgusting.

Dems are demagoguing against free trade, but do they really mean it? Betsy

Fatherless: Much of what is bad and sad about America is a consequence of single-parent - or no parent - families. Malanga on the Newark murderers. In the same vein, look at how much this nice family in Boston�costs the taxpayer.

"Comparative Dictatorship 101." Hitler, Lenin, and�Stalin, via No Pasaran, in The Economist

NPR Science Writer likes Moslem science. Ace

This will be a quiet weekend at the Farm, with most of us away from our keyboards. I am leaving tonight for Rhode Island�for a three-day sail around The Islands, and I know Bird Dog will be away too. Hoping to stop by Cuttyhunk again, and hoping to find the mermaid in the photo somewhere in�the harbor - if she isn't one of Theo's girlfriends.

Refusal to gloat about the Kos story. I will not gloat about the greedy Lefties. I will not gloat about the greedy Lefties. I will not...

The UK's new official religion: Islam. Insult it, and you will be beheaded arrested.

When is it OK to break the law? Wizbang

Wisconsin tries universal health care. Good luck. Attack Machine

If Al Gore had been elected. A thoughtful thought experiment from Assistant Village Idiot

Bush gets it exactly right on bridges.

The AP gets rough�with The New Republic

Pushing back against PC: Dust my Broom and Classical Values

More on that study about how diversity is bad for people. Globe.

Is Hillary "Clean for Gene"? Driscoll

Gun nuts are right. Alphecca

Why do polls show pessimism about a Goldilocks economy? Betsy

Girls gone mild? Bummer.�What fun is a girl with self respect?

NOAA doesn't want you to know how they get their temperature data. I suspect they don't want further embarassment of people finding their thermometers on asphalt parking lots and next to A/C exhaust vents. Many more details from Ace.�And Coyote explains it all in depth.

Warmest recent year? 1934. They made a math mistake.

And regarding that so-called bogus claim that people are being paid by Big Corn, Big Coal, Big Wind, Big Oil, Big Electricity, Big Car, and Big Peanut to be climate deniers -�it's true. I don't know where it comes from, but every time we write a piece skeptical about climate change or whatever it's called, we receive, in the mail, $10,000 in cash. Ten�1000 dollar bills in a�bank wrapper, with no return address on the brown envelope with a DC postmark. It's only right that we should come clean about this to our readers because our integrity is important to us. We assure our readers that this has no effect on our writings whatsoever. We have never asked, but we assume other bloggers get the same envelope and are just waiting for the right moment to mention it.

Preventive health care to save costs? An absurd idea, on the face of it. Unless we invent a form of healthy immortality, your terminal illness will cost about the same whether you die of colon cancer at 50 or heart disease at 80. Everyone gets sick and dies. The only reason to try to�take care of yourself is for your own participation in,�and enjoyment of, life. Since something like 70% of all medical care costs are in the last�12 months of life, the best way to cut costs is to euthanize folks when they get sick - as they do in nations with socialized medicine via waiting lists rather than saying directly what they are doing.�Better yet, just abort them before they have a chance�get sick.

The "soul deadening effects of war." Yes indeed, war does seem to have a soul-destroying effect on the media. The soldiers, on the other hand, generally seem to handle it fairly well.

Upside-down world. Brit homeowner could face life sentence.�In the UK, I believe that one must offer tea to a home invader.

Grading, when we were young:

A: 95-100
B: 88-94
C: 80-87
D: 70-79
F: Below 70

Heck, I'd pay not to read Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd. Times to�drop Times Select

What is it about Wagner? TimesOnline

I don't watch these candidate debates, but my take on the Repubs is not too far from Willisms'

As you may know, it is a felony to practice private medicine in Canada. But Quebec's top court has now struck down that ban, which could rescue Canadian docs from serfdom. h/t, Dr. Bob. Watch the govt try to put a five-year hold on that decision.

New tree ring data: normal climate fluctuation�(h/t, Flares)

How to pass a class in high school in NYC

My excellent adventure at Yearly Kos. Rick Moran

16% of the American economy is related to medical care.�That % is�expected to go higher. Will people go for socializing 16% of the economy? They might, if they think it's a free lunch.�h/t, Mankiw. My view is that if the Dems were a bit craftier, and less ideological, they could propose to make Medicare available to everyone who wants to sign up. It would be a budget-buster.

Walking is bad for Gaia. Driving is better. No need to even try to satirize the warming movement: it satirizes itself.

Hillary Clinton's "experience." What experience? We missed this April piece by Dick Morris from The Hill.�As we have asked before, What has she ever run? What has she ever done?

Erik von Markovic: Master Seducer. I need this guy's book.

Tom Wolfe on the Hedgies:�Pirate Poseurs and Twinkie Wives.

Modern Scouting in Dorset. Pitiful.�Sounds like a program designed to turn men into Victorian girls mice.

The critics and Jon Swift on Antonioni and Bergman.

Lots of�good�news from Iraq that we aren't being told. This bit has been passed all around, but we found it first at Synthstuff.

The Ask What Your Country Can Do For You Department: Here's a candidate who has a different view:

�Government cannot take care of you. You�ve got to take care of yourself.� He said the marketplace, not the government �nanny state,� needs to do the work of fixing the nation�s health care problems. He said that �We�ve got to solve our health care problem with American principles, not the principles of socialism.��

�Americans believe in free-market solutions to the challenges we face, and I believe we can reduce costs, expand access to, and improve the quality of health care by increasing competition. America�s health care system is being dragged down by decades of government-imposed mandates and wasteful, unaccountable bureaucracy.��

�I don�t care what Michael Moore says in his movie,� he said. �I�ve never had anybody ask me for help to get into a Cuban hospital or a Canadian hospital or an English hospital. They all want to come to America. So let�s take what�s right about our system and let�s improve it.�