Preferring Partisans

Happy Stimulus Anniversary! Hope you’re all enjoying the jobs we saved! And your solid gold toilets, and your free taxpayer-funded golf carts! This one is rather long, but I do drop an F-Bomb if you stick around long enough. Evan Bayh is stepping down, and blaming the poisonous partisanship on the hill. From Yahoo! News (which features [...]

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3G Health Care

Peter Suderman does an excellent job of clarifying Ezra Klein’s misconceptions about health care. This is the house they’ve built: an insurance market where plans are written for the healthy and all legal efforts are made to exclude the sick. That’s meant premiums are somewhat lower than they’d otherwise be, but only because the people [...]

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A (Pride) Day in the Park

This weekend a good friend of mine came to town.  She’s been one of my best friends for years, but she wasn’t coming exclusively to visit me.  While we don’t always (or even rarely) see eye-to-eye on social issues, there’s one we can agree on.  It’s pretty indefensible to keep homosexuals from having legally binding [...]

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The Worst Justice Ever?

Certainly the one who did the most damage to the federalist character of the Republic.  I came across H.L. Mencken’s criticism of Holmes, and it put me in mind of a Reeses’ cup.  The combo of Mencken’s wit, scorn, and insight is the chocolate paired perfectly against Holmes’ rhetorical peanut butter.  You know, if peanut [...]

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