Yep. In an industry dominated by cocktail-party progressives, David Mamet (author of my favorite contemporary play), is an outspoken conservative and advocate of the free market: [Mamet] caused widespread consternation two years ago when he published an essay in the Village Voice called ‘Why I Am No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal’ in which he announced that  Read More →

If incompetence in the face of economic and environmental crisis (Obama), defying the voters on health reform (Pelosi & Reid) and sheer corruption (Rangel) aren’t enough to convince you that the Democrats should be given the bum’s rush in November, this performance by New York Dem Anthony Weiner will turn you into a believer. These people  Read More →

Jonathan Chait is the easy winner this week with this idiotic post, in which he suggests that gun owners should pay more for health care than people who do not own guns: Of course, people who keep guns in their home are choosing to run the risk of incurring injury or death … But now those  Read More →

Judge Susan Bolton, who today issued a preliminary injunction against parts of the much-maligned Arizona immigration law, may have well have handed the GOP the midterm elections with a single stroke of her pen. Even the CNN poll says most Americans favor the law, and Chris Matthews correctly (for once) points out that most voters will  Read More →

Maggie Mahar is a good example of what passes these days for a progressive health care expert. She doesn’t understand  how our medical delivery system works, or statistical analysis, but she’s real good at networking. This is presumably how she snagged an invitation to join Ezra Klein’s infamous JournoList, where we find her discussing esoteric and arcane health care issues such as Sarah Palin’s  Read More →

I have occasionally used the sad stories of Jack Rosser and Albert Baxter, both of whom were denied cancer drugs by Britain’s socialized medical system, to illustrate the cruel and arbitrary rationing methods utilized by all government-run health care systems. For those of you who think that such horrors could never be inflicted on Americans, that all that stuff  Read More →

Here’s what you can expect in the brave new health care world Donald Berwick, Obama’s new CMS administrator, has planned for you. The NHS, which Berwick “loves,” is running out of money (as will Medicare in the not-too-distant future) and the average Brit will pay a heavy price for depending on the nanny state for health care: NHS bosses have drawn  Read More →

You’d think that broadcast news types would have enough sense to know that allowing the government to restrict the First Amendment rights of one group would be the first step toward a Soviet-style, state-controlled media. But these two CNN anchors don’t seem to get that. In this clip, Kyra Phillips and John Roberts agree that  Read More →

Paul Hsieh’s latest column for Pajamas Media correctly points out that both spring from the same elitist paternalism: Both the gun control statists and the health care statists believe that we are fundamentally irrational creatures incapable of managing our lives. Hence, the government must restrict our freedoms for our own good. This paternalism is the source of Donald  Read More →

In addition to exposing the disgraceful collusion of MSM ”reporters” and bloggers on a variety of important stories, the  JournoList revelations provide a useful glimpse of progressive hypocrisy. This video (from the Daily Caller) cleverly contrasts their phony aversion to violence with their sick fantasies about Rush Limbaugh having an MI (Sarah Spitz), Matt Drudge on fire (David  Read More →

We have read about the deliberate and coordinated effort by JournoList members to misinform the public about Jeremiah Wright and Sarah Palin. And, as I pointed out yesterday, the listserv’s founder has been focused on health reform since he first hit big time blogging in 2007.  So, it would be pretty odd if Klein and his accomplices  Read More →

Maybe they should rename it FascistBook. A bunch of “open-minded progressives” have been attempting censor Palin’s comments on the plan to build a mosque near the WTC site. And, this morning, her Facebook post on the controversy disappeared: Sarah Palin’s attack on plans to build a mosque two blocks from the site of the World Trade Center vanished from Facebook  Read More →

It would appear that the AMA’s tawdry collaboration strategy on Obamacare has created a schism between state and national chapters of the organization. The Florida Medical Association, for example, is up in arms: The House of Delegates of the Florida Medical Association is scheduled to consider a resolution severing ties with the American Medical Association because of its support for  Read More →

Ezra Klein’s specialty when he began blogging at TAP back in 2007 was health care, and you will be hard put to find a more prolific writer of dumb reform posts. Nonetheless, that continued to be his primary focus after his ascent to the Washington Post. But stupidity is a kind birth defect, and one should make allowances. It is, however, harder to forgive  Read More →

The story, so far, has focused on MSM coverage of Jeremiah Wright and the coordinated deployment of the race card, but it goes much deeper. Journolist’s founder (and the guy who took it down in an attempt to hide the evidence) is Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein, whose focus for years has been health reform. So, you  Read More →