Don't Let Dems Do to Derivatives What They Did to Mortgages
As the Democrats’ posture over stricter derivatives regulation, we would be wise to remember their role in the mortgage crisis that brought us to this point. Last week, Treasury Secretary Geithner put forward some very broad brushstrokes regarding the Obama administration’s plans for regulating …Remembering a Hero
We received this today from a military friend: "I want a nationwide memorial service for Darrell 'Shifty' Powers. Shifty volunteered for the airborne in WWII and served with Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the 101st Airborne Infantry." We received this today …
The Coming Medicare Crash
The golden rule of healthcare first pronounced by economist William Kissick says that, "No nation can afford or provide all the healthcare that its population wants." Yet Medicare is a system that allowed the public to think this rule did not exist. Most of the current discussion of healthcare …Is Obama's Surgeon General Too Fat?
If obesity is indeed a serious public health challenge, an "epidemic" as the First Lady among others strongly argues , wouldn't it make sense to select for the most visible public health job somebody who has overcome this problem? At Salon.com, contributor Frances Kissling estimates Surgeon …Blueside v Redside
I'm beginning to think that American political culture has been taken over by hip hop artists . Here's Ed Schultz, the MSNBC talker, mouthing defiance at Rush Limbaugh this evening after Rush mocked him in the afternoon: Rush, I got a challenge for you. Why don't you just come on this program? …The Tories Broaden Their Base
Last week, British Conservative leader David Cameron attended a gay pride event and apologized for his party’s previous hostility to homosexuals. Unlike today’s GOP, whose leaders seem uncomfortable with the concept of evolution, Cameron knows that defeated parties must adapt or die. In these …How Much Do Dem Senators Love Sotomayor?
This much ... This much ...Talking to Ourselves
Danny Finkelstein has a superb column in today's Times on Sarah Palin and the Republican Party. He writes: "[Palin] has worked out that she can have an entire career, a public voice and a good income entirely by pleasing the Republican base." Danny Finkelstein, one of the intellectual …The Baffling Bureaucracy in the Dems' Health Care Plan
Today, the Senate's Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee approved, on party lines, a healthcare reform bill. I examined the plan and released a detailed flow chart of the proposed Democratic government-run healthcare bureaucracy. Today, the Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions …