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The health insurers launch a surprise attack on the bill they negotiated with Max Baucus. They must be made to pay a price.
Archive for October, 2009
October 11th, 2009
Category: Afghanistan
We seem to be committed to a counterinsurgency campaign on behalf of a government than can’t govern. I’ve seen this movie before, and didn’t like the ending.
October 11th, 2009
Category: Crime Control
The Justice Department has been insisting that defendants who plead guilty waive their right to DNA testing. That’s about to end.
October 11th, 2009
Category: Liberalism
George Will sees Prius-bound liberals in road rage outside Whole Foods. We sure are goofy Others.
October 11th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
The Star-Ledger “sentences” the Governor by writing the perfect sentence about his administration: “Corzine is the chaplain on a pirate ship, not really its captain.”
October 10th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
For example: that, in America, they’re mostly part white.
October 10th, 2009
Category: Corruption in Washington
I’m a fan of Charlie Rangel. He’s been a solid player as Chair of Ways & Means, and is perhaps the wittiest denizen of Washington not named Barney Frank. (And Rangel’s wit is gentler, which I prefer.) I’m not a fan of John Murtha, who aside from taking a bold stand on the Iraq War [...]
October 10th, 2009
William Tyndale, victim of Tudor Stalinist history.
October 9th, 2009
Category: Drug Policy
The California model of for-profit pot stores may not be long for this world.