Nanny State
Monday, March 17, 2008
By
Rob
on March 17, 2008 at 06:05 am
But, I thought Massachusetts had mandated health insurance for all of its citizens? Cambridge Health Alliance, a key part of the Boston area’s healthcare network, is facing a potentially “catastrophic”…...
Sunday, March 16, 2008
By
Rob
on March 16, 2008 at 01:08 pm
Get ‘em while they’re young. Primary school children should be eligible for the DNA database if they exhibit behaviour indicating they may become criminals in later life, according to Britain’s…...
Saturday, March 15, 2008
By
Rob
on March 15, 2008 at 07:14 am
Long live socialism.
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
By
Rob
on March 12, 2008 at 07:52 am
What’s more important, the health of the collective or the rights of the individual? LONDON - As doctors struggle to eradicate polio worldwide, one of their biggest problems is persuading…...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
By
Rob
on March 11, 2008 at 09:37 pm
Isn’t voting for Obama because he’s black (and we need diversity in the White House!) the same as giving a student admission to a college because he/she is black? So…...
By
Rob
on March 11, 2008 at 09:24 pm
The politicians in the EU have decided to spend $152 million of their constituent’s tax dollars on developing a rival for Google. The problem is that we’ve already got a…...
Monday, March 10, 2008
By
Rob
on March 10, 2008 at 11:00 pm
A t-shirt honoring a fallen Iraq veteran, to boot. LANCASTER, Pa. - The family of a middle school student who was given detention for wearing a T-shirt bearing the image…...
Friday, March 07, 2008
By
Rob
on March 7, 2008 at 01:12 pm
McGovern has long been held up as the liberal’s liberal. Yet upon leaving public life as a politician he founded his own business and has long been rumored to have…...
By
Rob
on March 7, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Megan McArdle: We force everyone to pay into fire departments because fires have very bad negative externalities: if your house catches on fire, unless you live on a rural farm,…...
By
Rob
on March 7, 2008 at 11:21 am
The wonderful thing about America being a federalist republic is that it allows problems in our country to be solved with a number of different policies as implemented by the…...
By
Rob
on March 7, 2008 at 10:00 am
It takes a special kind of dishonest politician to propagate this sort of bald-faced lie: John McCain likes to call himself “fiscally responsible” on the campaign trail, but in reality…...
Thursday, March 06, 2008
By
Rob
on March 6, 2008 at 06:54 am
A lot more expensive, because under this law if your health insurance plan covers legitimate mental health problems such as bipolar disorder it must also cover things like alcoholism and…...
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
By
Rob
on March 4, 2008 at 05:14 am
One family’s loss is another’s gain. If you’re facing foreclosure, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson wants to help. “If someone is willing to make a call to reach out,” says Paulson,…...
Monday, March 03, 2008
By
Rob
on March 3, 2008 at 07:03 am
It’s almost like the founders, as well as proponents of the original intent of the 2nd amendment, have had it right all along. When sexual assaults started rising in Orlando,…...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
By
Rob
on February 27, 2008 at 10:04 pm
More of that famous liberal tolerance the left is always on about. If you refuse to take their pictures they’ll haul you before a human rights council. If you don’t…...
By
Rob
on February 27, 2008 at 07:58 pm
No kidding. Democrat House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer took the floor today in support of new energy legislation. He prefaced his comments by griping about high gas prices: “This morning’s…...
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
By
Rob
on February 26, 2008 at 03:24 pm
Economist Alex Tabarok explains why gun buy back programs are bad policy. Gun buybacks attract low-quality guns from people who aren’t likely to use them to commit crimes. The Oakland…...
Monday, February 25, 2008
By
Rob
on February 25, 2008 at 01:53 pm
Of course, the city calls the stealing “seizing,” but it amounts to the same thing. BALTIMORE (Map, News) - Baltimore dirt bike owners may be forced to lock up their…...
By
Rob
on February 25, 2008 at 06:59 am
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
By
Rob
on February 24, 2008 at 05:44 pm
The state has gone from 1st to 8th. (AP) North Dakota’s not Number 1 anymore and that’s a good thing. The state now sports the eighth-highest multiple jobholding rate in…...
By
Rob
on February 24, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Because letting people keep more of their money is the same as spending that money in the eyes of the average liberal journalist. Because it’s not really our money to…...
Saturday, February 23, 2008
By
Rob
on February 23, 2008 at 04:59 pm
It would appear as though Stuart Browning, another filmmaker with On The Fence Films which is also responsible for Indoctrinate U, scored a hit with an internet short about a…...
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
By
Rob
on February 20, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Because despite protestations to the contrary, “we” don’t actually want it. Those of us (guilty) who have been scarfing down 99 cent double cheeseburgers but not getting out to exercise…...
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
By
Rob
on February 19, 2008 at 08:14 am
An indentured servant is someone who works without pay in exchange for a special favor. During colonial times many indentured servants gave over their services in exchange for passage to…...
Sunday, February 17, 2008
By
Rob
on February 17, 2008 at 09:58 am
Because he’d give us all hope. And stuff. So says Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell. If you’re wondering why Sen. Barack Obama’s message of hope has resonated with so many…...
Saturday, February 16, 2008
By
Rob
on February 16, 2008 at 05:01 pm
Over on the reader blog Doug Leier is wondering if he can get his co-pay back after the hospital misdiagnosed his illness. I’ve been battling what turned out to be…...
By
Rob
on February 16, 2008 at 10:22 am
Our political leaders, in their infinite wisdom, decided that we all needed digital television. And that we should have to pay for our neighbors to upgrade to it. WASHINGTON -…...
By
Rob
on February 16, 2008 at 09:41 am
This isn’t getting as much attention as it should: Unnoticed by most Americans this week, the Obama/Hagel GLOBAL POVERTY ACT was quickly approved by a senate committee and cleared for…...
By
Rob
on February 16, 2008 at 06:54 am
When given the chance, citizens of Virginia decided not to give their state government more tax dollars even as the state faced budget shortfalls. RICHMOND — State lawmakers can rule…...
Thursday, February 14, 2008
By
Rob
on February 14, 2008 at 09:50 am
We spend more on entitlements in this country than the entire world spends on wars and military, but the guy at the AARP who butters his bread by securing entitlements…...
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docdave:
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RR:
It appears that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, even in...
realitybasedbob:
[quote]The last time I looked,...the Chinese had [not]blown a hole in the USS Cole[/quote] Maybe...
Matt:
When you crack as many jokes as he does you're bound to make one that...
Kevin:
Barry O laments "fear mongering?" What about all the yammering about "global warming?"...
pparets:
HG: From the founding of our nation, right up to the first shot fired at...
Carrick:
Here is a curious result from modern evolutionary theory. Environmental stressors reduce biodiversity. Basically what...
likwidshoe:
Whither thou goest, O once proud gop? The same place that the "once proud America"...
