Obama: Health insurance isn’t expensive – just cancel cable and phones; Update: White House responds « Hot Air: "Welcome to the Lillian Hellman Presidency:Read More......
Every word they speak is a lie, including “and” and “the”!
Another Drew on March 12, 2014 at 2:57 PM"
Moonbattery » Obama Helped Disarm the Ukraine: "One reason Putin has been able to impose his will so effortlessly in the Ukraine is the fecklessness of current American leadership. Another is that the Ukrainian military is not in a position to put up a fight — in part due to that same American leadership:Read More......
As a U.S. senator, Barack Obama won $48 million in federal funding to help Ukraine destroy thousands of tons of guns and ammunition – weapons which are now unavailable to the Ukrainian army as it faces down Russian President Vladimir Putin during his invasion of Crimea."
Read More......Instapundit » Blog Archive » JAMES TARANTO: Empty Souk: The uninsured aren’t buying what the ObamaCare marketplace is selling. …: "The third phase of failure is the slow revelation that the basic economic assumptions behind ObamaCare are wrong. A new survey from McKinsey & Co., conducted in February, found that only 10% of those who lacked insurance pre-ObamaCare had signed up for an exchange plan, and that of those who had signed up, just 27% were previously uninsured.It’s train wrecks all the way down."
True, those numbers were up significantly from January’s figures, 3% and 11% respectively. Still, they’re low enough that the Washington Post sums it up: “The new health insurance marketplaces appear to be making little headway in signing up Americans who lack insurance, the Affordable Care Act’s central goal.”
Instapundit » Blog Archive » MORE RUBES SELF-IDENTIFY: Liberal labor union makes Republican arguments against Obamacare. “A new…: "MORE RUBES SELF-IDENTIFY: Liberal labor union makes Republican arguments against Obamacare. “A new labor union research report offers a scathing indictment of how Obamacare affects middle-class workers. The report features a series of arguments that conservatives have long made about the law, right down to mentioning the language of ‘unintended consequences.’”What next? That they'll figure out that illegal immigration is bad for their current members also? Read More......
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Ace of Spades HQ: "Speaking of ostentatious, this is Denzel Washington's California home:"
Earth is Safe From 'Global Warming' Say the Men Who Put Man on the Moon: "Doiron is similarly sceptical of the computer models used by climate alarmists. He and his team argue that the 105 models currently used by the IPCC are seriously flawed because they don't agree with each other and don't agree with empirical data. There is no empirical data indicating Anthropogenic Global Warming will produce catastrophic climate changes. AGW can only produce modest global warming, likely to be beneficial when CO2 benefits to crop production are considered. Doiron says: "I believe in computer models. My whole career was about using computer models to make life or death decisions. In 1963 I had to use them to calculate whether, when the lunar module landed on a 12 degree slope it would fall over or not - and design the landing gear accordingly. But if you can't validate the models - and the IPCC can't - then don't use them to make critical decisions about the economy and the planet's future.""Read More......
Moonbattery » Respect? He Can’t Even Spell the Word: "But I’ll bet he knows how to spell “cultural Marxism.”"
Obamacare Exchanges Are Scarcely Impacting the Uninsured | Power Line: "Of course, this whole situation is very odd. The basic idea underlying Obamacare is that tens of millions of people don’t have health insurance because they can’t afford it. As a result, we all wind up paying for their health care via emergency rooms and so on. Moreover, because the uninsured forgo preventive care, the bills are ultimately larger than if they had been provided with health insurance in the first place. (All of these propositions are debatable, of course.) So Obamacare’s solution is to subsidize the purchase of health insurance by the uninsured. Now they will be able to afford it, because the rest of us will be footing the bill–a smaller bill, the theory goes, than if we were paying for their emergency room treatment or for the consequences of a lack of preventive care.Read More......
On paper, that sounds like an attractive proposition. So why isn’t it working? A part of the answer, undoubtedly, is that people’s decisions about buying health insurance are not so simple. The idea that anyone who can afford insurance would certainly buy it, and therefore those who don’t have coverage can’t afford it, is wrong. From there, the conversation gets complicated. That is a subject for another day. For now, let’s just note that to date, Obamacare is a far worse flop than has generally been reported."
Brutal: Just one in 10 uninsured who qualify for ObamaCare exchange plans has signed up « Hot Air: "That’s according to a survey conducted by McKinsey, not according to HHS’s official figures. And why, you ask, are we forced to rely on McKinsey for this information rather than on the feds? Because, silly. Your government, which reinvented the insurance industry in the name of expanding coverage to many millions of uninsured Americans, is oddly incurious about whether uninsured Americans are signing up or not."Read More......
| A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. |
| — Lao Tzu, 6th century B.C., Chinese philosopher and poet and founder of Taoism |
Luckily this won't be reported by MSLSDCBSABCNYET. Otherwise we would have a problem. Read More......Shocker: Federal government’s fiscal deterioration almost 5 times official deficit « Hot Air: "During the federal government’s 2013 fiscal year, the official federal deficit was $680 billion, but this comprehensive accounting reveals that the federal government’s fiscal position deteriorated by $3.3 trillion or an average of $27,000 for every household in the U.S. There are two basic ways the federal government calculates its obligations. The first does not account for the obligations of Social Security, Medicare, and other programs in the same way the federal government requires of private corporations.The method the Treasury report uses is far more complete. It includes long-term obligations and liabilites unaccounted for in the deficit and debt measurements."
"In the post immediately below, I wrote about the fact that Obama in this past week seems to have abandoned reality regarding Ukraine and the Middle East and opted, instead, for a fact-free fantasy. This chart summarizes some of what he’s missing:"
Instapundit » Blog Archive » BRET STEPHENS: Anatomy Of A Feckless Presidency: Gone are the days when the American president was…: "BRET STEPHENS: Anatomy Of A Feckless Presidency: Gone are the days when the American president was capable of articulating the American interest. You have to believe in it, to be able to articulate it.... that the NSA is so busy spying on the Tea Party that they really don't have a clue where Putin's stash is. Either that or they don't spy on their bosses. How I wish that last one wasn't now so credible... Read More......
Plus: “Mr. Putin’s Russia is a petro-oligarchy whose survival depends on high oil prices and privileged access to the West for the politically connected elite. Raise interest rates, investigate the finances of Mr. Putin’s inner circle, impose travel bans on Putin’s cronies and broaden the scope of the Magnitsky Act, and we’ll see just how resilient the Moscow regime really is.” Start coastal drilling and oil exports. And if the NSA doesn’t know where Putin’s offshore money is parked, it should be abolished.
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Ed Driscoll » The Chocolate Ration’s Been Increased!: "Winston was smoking a Victory Cigarette which he held carefully horizontal. The new ration did not start till tomorrow and he had only four cigarettes left. For the moment he had shut his ears to the remoter noises and was listening to the stuff that streamed out of the telescreen. It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. Parsons swallowed it easily, with the stupidity of an animal. The eyeless creature at the other table swallowed it fanatically, passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grammes."And the Cold War's over! Read More......
National Review Online | Print: "I’ve come to believe that corporatism (which does not mean “rule by corporations”) is the natural resting state of pretty much every political order. Politicians naturally want to lock-in and co-opt existing “stakeholders” at the expense of innovation. They love talking about “getting everybody at the table,” which really means getting the existing insiders to create rules that help themselves.This. Read More......
Stanley says that politics came before economics in the Nazi state. That’s true. But where is that not true? Certainly not in America or the U.K. Which is why conservatives, libertarians, and other champions of free-market economics must constantly put pressure on politicians to fend off the natural human tendency to fight innovation as a threat to the status quo and the powers that be. Across the West there’s a tendency among bureaucrats, politicians, academics, and other members of the New Class to convince the people to hand over the major decisions of their lives to the “experts.” These experts aren’t all in the government, but they all collude with government to convince people that the experts have all the answers and that the people need to hand the reins over to them. They will tell us what to eat, what to drive, what to think. It’s an approach that puts politics before economics. Because it is an attempt to politicize peoples’ lives. Or as Hitler put it, “Why need we trouble to socialize banks and factories? We socialize human beings.”"
Instapundit » Blog Archive » SPYING: UK spy agency intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users. “GCHQ files dating bet…: "SPYING: UK spy agency intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users. “GCHQ files dating between 2008 and 2010 explicitly state that a surveillance program codenamed Optic Nerve collected still images of Yahoo webcam chats in bulk and saved them to agency databases, regardless of whether individual users were an intelligence target or not. In one six-month period in 2008 alone, the agency collected webcam imagery – including substantial quantities of sexually explicit communications – from more than 1.8 million Yahoo user accounts globally.”Read More......
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Instapundit » Blog Archive » WELL, THERE IS A CERTAIN IRONY IN GLENN GREENWALD BEING SHUT DOWN BY . . . AN ARMY OF SOCK PUPPETS: …: "WELL, THERE IS A CERTAIN IRONY IN GLENN GREENWALD BEING SHUT DOWN BY . . . AN ARMY OF SOCK PUPPETS: Reddit Mods Bury Glenn Greenwald’s Story On GCHQ/NSA Use Of Internet To ‘Destroy Reputations.’ And, also ironically, that it happened supports his claim. . . .Read More......
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Ukraine crisis tests Obama’s foreign-policy focus on diplomacy over military force - The Washington Post: "From a White House podium late Friday, Obama told the Russian government that “there will be costs” for any military foray into Ukraine, including the semiautonomous region of Crimea, a strategically important peninsula on the Black Sea. Within hours, Putin asked the Russian parliament for approval to send forces into Ukraine. The vote endorsing his request was unanimous, Obama’s warning drowned out by lawmakers’ rousing rendition of Russia’s national anthem at the end of the session. Russian troops now control the Crimean Peninsula."Our "president" is a idiot child. Your children will pay the price. Read More......
News from The Associated Press: "BEIJING (AP) -- More than 10 knife-wielding attackers slashed people at a train station in southwestern China late Saturday in what authorities called a terrorist attack by Uighur separatists, and police fatally shot four of the assailants, leaving 33 people dead and 130 others wounded, state media said."... which our genius political class will soon be exhorting on us. We just need to ban guns AND knives of course. \sarc
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