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Wednesday, February 15. 2012Weds. morning linksSee the dog show last night? Lots of wonderful sporting breeds, including the Field Spaniel (photo) Porn stars set for pole dancing battle to be mayor of Italian town Taranto Preschooler Forced to Eat Chicken Nuggets After Homemade Lunch Confiscated by Government Agent Confiscated her turkey sandwich? Obama’s Continued War on Philanthropy Bullying Statists Are Destroying Private Philanthropy The Left hates private philanthropy, always has Harvard Needs Some Schooling on the Middle East The New Rules: The Coming War With Iran Health insurance exchanges in limbo It was a silly job, but someone had to attack Obama’s #TruthTeam Millions of Dead Voters, Brought to You By Eric Holder Chinese blocked visit by U.S. religious freedom envoy, advocates say Our Benevolent Marxist Masters - Obama's budget obfuscates the difference between "need" and "desire." Government Produces Obscene Gay Sex Manual Do they have one like that for straight people too? Obama's War on School Vouchers More Doctors 'Fire' Vaccine Refusers Tuesday, February 14. 2012My reply to Dr. X's queries about church, and individual, autonomy, and state powerOur internet friend Dr. X seems to raise two questions about religious charitable organizations to which I will try to respond as an "amateur bloviator." His first is to ask, what about, say, Muslim patients who refuse to see other-sex doctors (and but hey - what about the nurses and the gay docs?) Second, he considers whether it is up to the government, via the Big Government payors Medicaid and Medicare or (slightly indirectly) Obamacare, to decide what they want to pay for. As for the first question, no problem. They should get their care from whomever they choose in whatever form they choose (unless trying to die in the ER). It's called freedom. (Last I read, however, Muslims may be waivered from ObamaCare anyway because it's not Sharia or whatever reason.) As for the second question, of course government payors can decide what to be willing pay for, given whatever Congress, the bureaucracy, and etc decides. However, that does not, or should not, require that it be provided. The requirement is the rub, and it constitutes a federal takeover, an overreach, an intrusion into choice. Of course, the larger issue is the politicization and governmentalization of medical care, which promises to create endless explosions if ObamaCare proceeds. Dr. X is quite right that we are headed towards turning the corner where medical coverage is no longer insurance, but plain payment with the feds as the Grand Medical Commission in DC. Rather than ObamaCare, I would have liked to have seen a wide-open, nation-wide market for private (including charitable) medical coverage of every size, shape, and sort with no federal involvement, and subsidies for the poor of any age - old or young. (Medicare was a giant error, since the elderly, statistically, are wealthier than the young who pay those bills with their taxes.) Muslim policies for Muslims if they want them, Muslim clinics and hospitals if they want them, Catholic policies if Catholics want to buy them, etc. etc. If unrestrained by government, the market would be providing for every individual or family want. Unfortunately, we never had a wide-open market for medical insurance due to the state insurance commissions' protectionism, or whatever it has been.
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Tuesday morning linksDon’t Be Dissin’ the Bohr Model! It's only fair. At least on Valentine's Day. Yankee Doodle, keep it up. The White Male Shortage on Campus The campi have been feminized Are Liberal Arts Colleges Becoming Finishing Schools for Women? Shocker: dirty electric cars Worse than gasoline cars Writing about Attraction to Professors Gets Oakland U. Student Suspended What's wrong with love? Brooks: The Materialist Fallacy Brooks' naivete is usually depressing for me. He needs to spend a month on the streets of Waterville, Maine (no, not in the pot smoke-infused glades of the Colby campus) if he wants to get it. Academics cannot inform him. He needs to chat with the single 22 year-old chickie with a nose ring and tats, on disability for ADD and substance abuse, with three out-of-control kids, with an entrepreneur brother who has a meth lab, a Dad in jail, and an obese 42 year-old mother on "disability" with a "bad back." This is a choice of "life-style" that even Murray cannot comprehend. "Free To Be You and Me." People "find themselves" in different ways...and these folks have "social capital" - just not the sort Murray and Brooks have. They know how to survive, how to have fun, and how to work the system to their advantage. Barack’s Smug Assault on Freedom of Religion Isn’t Just Anti-American—It’s Unforgivable Fortuño's Plan to Energize Puerto Rico MacDonald: California’s Demographic Revolution - If the upward mobility of the impending Hispanic majority doesn’t improve, the state’s economic future is in peril. Kimball: Limited Government, Religious Liberty, and Joe Biden’s Rosary:
'Takers' overtake 'makers,' threatening American self-reliance Obama hikes subsidy to wealthy electric car buyers Why, if they are more polluting than gas cars? Because it's another subsidy to the unions via GM. Young women are making more than men George Will: Catholic bishops got what they deserved Commentary: The President’s “Accommodation” "Chavez also will likely use a bonanza of public spending as he seeks re-election in the Oct. 7 presidential election" Syria, Iran, and the risks of tactical geopolitics Moody's just went apeshit on Europe Democrat Schakowsky: No Americans Actually Follow Their Christian Faith That's an argument for government control of churches? Christianity 101, Mrs. S: We are all sinners, and we all disappoint God (and ourselves) with our choices and our thoughts. Otherwise, no need for salvation. I think she is an idiot.
Monday, February 13. 2012Advice to Americans, from Euro parliament member Daniel HannanWhat Does it Take to Heal an Economy?The Fed has kept interest rates at an historic low in an attempt to help 'heal' the economy. Fed Governors have no fear of dead weight in assets, in the form of declining values and poor potential returns. The assumption is that with economic expectations so low, inflation is not a risk, and that rates can be used to 'fix' things by keeping rates low indefinitely. This artificial approach to soothing our economic woes is a dangerous game. The economy has, in many respects, become unlinked from the stock market. In pursuing the current path, the Fed has gambled on some concepts which have been tried before, though in different conditions and with varying results. Does this sound familiar? Because if it doesn't, remember that the current situation was caused, in part, by the creation of bundled mortgages, an existing tool which was utilized to try something new, with the assumption of safety baked in. In theory, the level of risk was limited. The problem with them was related to the nature of the individual loans themselves. Each bundled group offered had varying degrees of risk involved. Despite the levels of risk, many high risk assets were given very good ratings. In the end some failed, which put all at risk. Continue reading "What Does it Take to Heal an Economy?"
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Monday morning linksConstitutional Right to Moderately Corporally Punish One’s Child How the poor live in India The Perils of Romantic Love - You remember Romanticism. In Darkness - A Harrowing, Intense Film "Screw sustainable development." Personal Finance: Cyber crooks target those looking for love Energy expert on why Solyndra is the ‘tip of the iceberg’ Obama seeks return of the cool Obama Budget: More Taxes, $1.3 Trillion Added to Deficit Barack Obama is not an especially talented man, except in one respect: he is a genius at raising money. ‘Occupy CPAC’ protesters have no idea what CPAC is Canada's Harper talks oil with China as U.S. faces $4 gas Do Medical School Acceptance Rates Reflect Preferences for Preferred Minority Groups? Obama proved it is government-run health care ...taking on a billion Catholics for no reason, as opposed to taking on a measly 16 million Jews, in order to favor a billion Muslims…lacks pragmatism as well as morality. Binds and Bonds: Why the EU Should Break Up Bin Laden Gave Up on Jihad Global warmists throw in the towel Steny Hoyer: The Fact is You Don’t Need a Budget Sarah Palin on HBO Palin Movie: I’ve Created More Impersonators Than Obama’s Created Jobs NYT terms Medicare a welfare entitlement program The States Are Leading a Pro-Growth Rebellion " I’m downright repulsed by the media’s habit of mistaking a person’s celebrity for expertise, popularity for acumen, and visibility for enlightenment." At Am. Thinker:
Times Writers Rush to Obama's Defense Like It's Their Job ‘To Stop the Multiplication of the Unfit’ China's impending real estate debt crash Inside Media Matters: Sources, memos reveal erratic behavior, close coordination with White House and news organizations Muslim Persecution of Christians: January 2012
Sunday, February 12. 2012Sunday morning links
Lincoln's Birthday: The Atlantic's Civil War commemorative issue The sound of a baby crying motivates our brain’s alertness and sharpens our ability to react with highly accurate movements. The sound of a woman crying does not have the same effect. Sipp's predictions from 2006 We Might Have Been Hauling Our Heads Around in Our Asses Forever, If the Obamas Never Told Us to Pull Them Out 'Without a New Beginning, Athens Is Lost' Top Leftist Blog: Obama Must Quash Religious Freedom to Save Earth From Global Warming
OMG, We Have Really Hit Bottom – Young People Forced to Work to Support Themselves Why DO We Still Hold These Truths...? WSJ Almost Uniquely Raises Self-Insurance Issue in 'Immaculate Contraception' Editorial CLIVE CROOK: US Taxes Really Are Unusually Progressive Obama Budget Again Skips Making Hard Choices Vid of Gov. Walker's speech: Will we let them take this guy down? Ed Koch: The Last Sane Liberal Via Hot Air:
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Saturday, February 11. 2012Muslims exempt from Obamacare?Is this correct? If you are Muslim you can opt out of the Obamacare health care reform laws with no penalties:
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Groupon released their first earnings report, and to say the least, they underwhelmed. I had shared some of my thoughts about Groupon several months ago. But something new is afoot. In the last week, we've seen Facebook file for an IPO. It's been talked about incessantly, and there are many interesting things within the filing which have caused people to begin sharing opinions about it. Since Facebook is in my industry, I find this discussion intriguing and certainly have my own point of view, particularly since I use Facebook. Originally, I didn't want to join Facebook. Several friends emailed me invitations to join in 2007. I wouldn't accept. Finally, I joined just to stop the invitations. At first, what I found fascinated me. It's actually a terrific picture sharing facility. On the other hand, as Betty White famously said on Saturday Night Live about when she was younger, "We had PHONEBOOK...seeing pictures of people's vacations was a punishment."
Continue reading "Facebook" It's not medical insuranceClearest explanation I've seen about Obamacare: The Real Trouble With the Birth-Control Mandate -Critics are missing the main point. There are good reasons that your car-insurance company doesn't add $100 to your premium and then cover oil changes. One quote:
That doublespeak about access and cost is what I have been writing about. If it's a plan to pay for every medical cost, it isn't insurance in any ordinary sense.
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Friday, February 10. 2012Republicans Falling Into Obama’s False DichotomyMany Republicans are falling into a false dichotomy, between social and other issues, instead of focusing on the common thread that unites these issues, the gross overstepping and inadequacies of the Obama administration. Astute commentators are pointing out that President Obama is strategically steering the national conversation toward social issues – inequality or contraception, as examples -- in order to neutralize his weaknesses in other areas. Republicans, it is said, are either playing into Obama’s re-election playbook or allowing themselves to be neutralized in stressing Obama’s failed economic and foreign policies, which are part and parcel with his social policies in undermining American and global freedoms. The serial rallying of many conservatives to the non-Romney contender of the month is central to proving this point. Deep anger at the Obama administration fuels the desire for a more “red meat” candidate. This is largely unfair to Romney and fails to stress the commonality among Republicans on the core issues. Instead, it falls into the Obama trap of a false dichotomy between social and other issues. Romney's campaign had tried to calmly sound the theme of competence in facing the common thread of the Obama administration’s failures: incompetence and ideology. Romney tried to remain the gentleman he is but, defensively, instead has had to fiercely attack his opponents who fiercely attack him. This has consumed resources and credibility, and detracted from the attractiveness of the core Republican issues: the gross overstepping of the Obama administration into personal lives, crony mismanagement of the economy, and alienation of allies left adrift by Obama fecklessness in facing anti-Western foes. The social policies of the Obama administration should not be faced in isolation, allowing Democrats to draw in social liberals, but be placed in their proper context of more indicators of class warfare that undermines the freedoms of all to succeed or to have private moralities untrammeled by Washington. Democrats are smiling, as well they should. The Republican primaries are shielding them from the main thrust of the Republican message while Republican contenders for the nomination savage each other, weakening unity, and fall into the Obama traps on stressing social issues. Newt Gingritch was a false vessel for conservative hopes. Rick Santorum, a more consistent and saner conservative, lacks the attractiveness to a wider audience of those on the cusp. Mitt Romney, however, while not a red-meat orator has the unique ability to present the Republican theme in a manner, with conviction and deep understanding of the intricacies, that doesn’t antagonize moderates. Romney is not charismatic but he is competent, and has the abilities to deracinate Obama’s pretensions and unify a majority around stopping the Obama administrations’ transgressions that weaken us in all ways. Romney may not be red-meat but he is meaty. It’s about electability, and that with adequate confidence that together with a Republican Congress a new administration in Washington will accomplish more Republican and American priorities. Moreso than his opponents, Romney is what Republicans need to win, and what America needs to unseat Obama. I’ll vote for whoever gets the Republican nomination. But, I’m not happy at being part of many of my compatriots playing out a self-destructive temper tantrum that could lose the election. Get over it: there is no Reagan available, nor was Reagan all that fond memories say he was.
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The abortion and contraception issue: "If an unexpected pregnancy is a disease, then I am a disease."I think the entire discussion misses the point. The issue is not whether birth control and abortion are available. They are. The issue is whether the government should have the power to force your neighbor to pay for these things, and/or to require all insurance policies to cover them. Also, neither of these things are particularly expensive. The insidious premise of the discussion is this: If it isn't covered, it's not available. But don't people buy their own Nyquil, Tylenol, heat pads, Viagra, divorce counseling, cosmetic surgery, toe fungus medicine, toothpaste, Botox, morning-after pills and Dr. Scholl's foot products? Have people become so trained to expect somebody else to buy what they want that the premise has become distorted? I am a happy product of an unexpected pregnancy, and refuse to regard pregnancy as a disease. Pregnancy is health. If an unexpected pregnancy is a disease, then I am a disease. A tumor, or something. In fact, I cannot understand why some medical insurances cover pregnancy at all, much less abortions. In my view, we all ought to be free to buy, or not buy, medical insurance of any sort with any sorts of coverage, depending on what makes sense for us. We ought to be able to bring a check list of what we want to the table, and see some nation-wide competition for our business. Get bids, like anything else. Here at Maggie's, we tend to prefer high-deductible Major Medical coverages with our own choices of docs. Cheap protection from financial catastrophe. Here's a link: Policy and Politics of Contraception Rule Fiercely Debated Within White House
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Rand Paul "I Have A Question For The President... Do You Hate ALL Rich People?
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Frriday morning linksBook World: In ‘Bond Girl’ by Erin Duffy, a woman takes on high finance Cool title. I'll bet the movie rights are already sold. Licked to Death by a Pit Bull Insty contends that this is the best gardening book French parents may be onto something here Shyness, grieving soon to be classified as mental illness Pathologizing normality. Why? What's the Most Shocking Part of Mimi Alford's Story? JFK’s Intern Affair Tests Presidential Character Was the guy a rapist? Sounds like it. Commentary: Current Copyright Law Is Enough Foreclosure Deal to Spur U.S. Home Seizures Magazine Newsstand Sales Still In Freefall Michelle Obama Says Poor Nutrition Is A National Security Issue Aw, shut up and finish your bacon cheeseburger. Global warming is the real national security crisis Obamacare’s Great Awakening Dismantling the Affordable Care Act Washington Footing the Cell Phone Bill for Millions of Low Income Americans Douthat: Why Can't We All Get Along? People won't compromise on their basic values and beliefs Resentment of the Wealthy Elite is at an All-Time High’ Global Evidence on Taxes and Economic Growth: Payroll Taxes Have No Effect
Putin is already dead What Now? Saying Good-Bye to the Peace Process Illusion Attempting to Bolster the Economy: The Effectiveness of Extending UI Benefits Thursday, February 9. 2012Rubio at CPAC today
Good speech. Video here. He's my candidate for Pres.
It's about control, not science: if Americans took the government public health experts' dietary advice, we'd all be morbidly obese.In the past week, we have had links about government (and doctors) advocating against salt and sugar. I don't mind my doctor giving me advice (I pay him for it), but when docs try to get governments to control what to do, I get annoyed. As I understand it, it is the job of doctors to offer advice, not to provide control. Adults get to decide what they want to do. As we pointed out earlier today,Most recent: First Global Warming - Now Global Sweetening!:
Mayor Bloomberg, of course, is the poster child for obnoxious Nannyism. Here's the ultimate governmental rationale for these sorts of controls: Ideology, not science. A quote from Dr. Keane's piece (from Australia):
Indeed. Experts tend towards arrogance, not towards autonomy (freedom). And, in the long run, academic experts usually turn out to have been wrong anyway.
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Thursday morning linksA fun Law site: Above the Law A case of good, old-fashioned mass hysteria Your Food du Jour: Squirrel This is going to sound outrageous, but here goes: I've seen a lot worse. Feds debunk their food pyramid If you ate according to that scientific advice, you would weigh 400 lbs. Union Boss Tells Poor: “Life’s Not Fair” Klavan: Like Your Freedom? Thank a Church. When Democracy Murders Liberty Over time, a democracy cannot protect individual liberty. The ancient Greeks figgered that out. Can A Law School Force You To Be Racially Sensitive? Support for the saturated greenhouse effect leaves the likelihood of AGW tipping points in the cold Harry Reid Says Republicans Want to Put “Arsenic and Mercury” in the Water Of course. And lots of dihydrogen oxide too. VDH: A Post-American World? - The reports of our demise are greatly exaggerated. The truth:
America's Amazing Shovel-Ready Energy Stimulus; And It's Happening Despite U.S. Energy Policy
Pernicious rubbish on employment Surber: Mitt did it all wrong Mission Accomplished: Government Dependence Up 23% Under Obama Coyote: This is the kind of political bullshit that drives me right out of the system. Shaky Grounds for Prop. 8 Ruling Iranian official lays out attack plan to destroy Israel in nine minutes Wednesday, February 8. 2012Six square milesSix square miles of this crap in the Mohave Desert, and not a sound from the Greenies. A landfill would be a more practical use, if you assume that desert is not a worthy ecosystem. RedistributionVia Politico:
No wonder hard-working people are ticked off.
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Can anybody understand their taxes?
All that the regular person can do is to declare all of their income (unless you are somebody like Tim Geithner or Charlie Rangel - hey, nobody is perfect). After that, it's a crap shoot.
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Traveling Downhill With ObamacareSome have compared the impact on agents of ObamaCare’s medical loss ratio (MLR) to the impact of online technology on travel agents. Yesterday, I spent hours studying many web sites to decide on a hotel to take my family during spring break. Although the web sites were very informative, most offering standard categories as to number and type of beds, whether there is a pool, etc., the information was not complete or didn’t cover all my requirements. I still had important questions to meet my family’s particular needs. I, also, noted many Commenters at these sites who’d had bad experiences due to lack of adequate information. I phoned several sites and directly to several hotels’ reservation lines, but those who answered had no more information than at their sites. Finally, I reached an agent who spent a half-hour giving me complete answers to my questions, and I made the reservation.
MLR requires medical plans to commit 80% of premiums of small group and individual plans to claims, and 85% for large plans. Agent commissions, though a pass-through charge from buyers, are treated in ObamaCare as administrative costs, thus making it harder for insurers to meet the 15% or 20% allowance for non-claim costs. The argument goes that as the Internet makes it easier to make reservations directly, the need for travel agents has declined. So, too, will the need for insurance agents decline as medical plan purchasers can buy directly from insurers or government-directed exchanges. Lastly, standardized medical plans dictated by ObamaCare are supposed to make choices easier. Therefore, we needn’t be concerned that to meet MLR restrictions that agents’ commissions have been as much as halved, leading many to reduce services to buyers or to leave the field.
This leaves medical plan buyers – as it does travel buyers -- largely at the mercy of 1-800 ignorance or inadequacy, as well as self-interest or lack of independence in not providing useful comparative information. Further, a buyer is not given additional information important to the decision, say about nearby facilities or services involved in the trip, or the efficiency of claims-processing or how certain treatments might be actually covered by the medical plan. Then, unlike the range of accommodations available at hotels at varying prices, standardized medical plan buyers will be forced under ObamaCare to buy services they either don’t need or, even, religiously or ethically object to, and pay the cost of these services, in effect, for those who want them. Premiums have already increased to cover provisions mandated by ObamaCare, and will increase further.
There’s another aspect to the MLR regulations that will further reduce the choices available and increase the costs to many medical plan buyers. If an insurer does not meet the MLR percentage limitations, beginning by August 1, 2012 the insurer will have to pay rebates to buyers. Insurers are each setting aside tens of millions of dollars for these rebates, costs that will be recovered through higher premiums. According to healthcare consultancy The Segal Co., “Until now, insurers have been able to subsidize less-profitable product lines and types of groups (usually small ones), and do it across state lines, with the profits of the more-lucrative ones. Now, with insurers under the threat of paying out rebates on the latter, they may give small-group policyholders fewer subsidies and charge higher premiums.”
There’s bipartisan legislation pending in the House and Senate to relieve this impact on agents but, even if it might pass, it is unlikely to be signed by President Obama, or regardless of the President may not muster 60-votes in a future Senate if blocked by ObamaCare supporters there. For disclosure, I’ve been a health plan consultant and broker for 25-years. I’m at the age and resources where I’m nearing retirement. That decision is speeded by Obamacare. It’s not worth it to provide the services I did, so I reject most of those who now approach me for help. Tens of thousands of other agents are making the same choice, even if not able to retire. Tens of millions of medical plan buyers are being left adrift, at higher costs and less needed information, not able or allowed to buy a medical plan that best and most affordably fits their individual needs.
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Weds. morning linksPeru: Hell and Back Let's Be Frank about Anti-Asian Admission Policies Homosexuality: What’s Choice Got to Do With it? Get Your Own Damn Constitution Stossel: Government Can't Make Us Happy No, but it can make us unhappy Who’s Afraid of Dirty Harry? Well, this didn’t take long. Clint Eastwood is going to regret doing that “halftime” ad after all the parodists get done with it. (link fixed) New Yorkers: Curb the pensions! House Bans EBTs At Strip Clubs, Senate Won’t
Knish: A tale of two Republican parties The Hoosier State's historic vote may be a tipping point in the battle against Big Labor. Douthat: The media's blinders on abortion Lying about job growth The job-killing med-tech tax French Court Finds Google Maps Compete Unfairly With French Mapping Company Successfully = unfairly Murray: The New Upper Class and the Real Reason We Dislike Them I don't dislike them. Maybe I envy them a bit, though. As re-election donations stall, Obama embraces wealthy Americans’ super PACs Seven things I learned about transition from communism Scientist: global warming causes worst winter in years Global warming causes everything Tuesday, February 7. 2012Tuesday morning linksRubio Leads Charge as Catholic Anger Grows Over Obama Birth-Control Rule Adultery Is Bad. Telling Your Spouse Is Worse. Men Behaving Nicely: Selfless Acts by Men Increase When Attractive Women Are Nearby The low interest rates of the past several years have taken a toll on U.S. savers. Why Most People Tend to Talk About Politics Only with those Who Agree with Them The Court That Broke Jersey- The state’s activist judiciary has forced taxpayers to finance unprecedented educational and housing regimes. Top U.S. Law School to Legitimize UN’s 9/11 Conspiracy Theorist On average, about 60% of Americans in the Battleground Poll call themselves conservative. E.J. Dionne's Screed Against Free Speech Über Alles After All - Europe’s German future. Who’s progressive in Wisconsin? Hate Hoax at University of Wisconsin-Parkside NHS death panels NYT: National debt dividing the Left Gerson: The poor pay the price for Obama’s politics Inside Syria's rebellion Syria’s outcome has high stakes for the entire Mideast Hell to pay’ if terrorists’ link to drug cartels isn’t checked Team Obama Shows Dangerous Penchant for Hubris: Albert R. Hunt
Monday, February 6. 2012Monday morning links
Five Orcas, Five Slaves or Five Persons? Gay marriage was not even on the radar 20 years ago. Funny, but nobody seems to think there’s anything wrong with saying that you have to compromise to be a husband. . . . Choosing the Wrong Major Could Cost You Who knew that middle-class French parents are acting just like American parents of the 1950s! Yale witch-hunting covered by NYT Waiting for Hamilton: The ‘Imbecility’ of the EU As Gingrich attacks Romney for being successful, and Romney proves too slow on his feet to talk about his admirable business career without apologizing or making gaffes, the Republicans cede the narrative to Obama. The way to neuter opposition to intrusive government measures is to present them as being “for the childrren" A mild winter in the US, not so mild in Europe: Sunday, February 5. 2012Sunday morning linksThe photo of Boston Harbor, 1916, from Shorpy does not represent any football favoritism or bias Top 31 things you'll never hear a Southern boy say The death of class action suits? Going to College -- What a Concept NY Times Romney Bashing Continues Ruth Bader Ginsburg: “I Would Not Look to the US Constitution” Romney: The Last Republican? Gelinas: Who Pays? From breast implants to diabetes, Western health care is a mess. Barack Obama Lashes Out at Banks For Risky Mortgages in Weekly Address …Forgets to Mention His Lawsuit Forced Banks to Ease Lending Practices
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