It occurs to me that one needn’t convince another that a stimulus measure was stimulating were it actually stimulating. That, were said stimulus stimulating, the results would largely be self-evident.

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And I thought Obamacare was so great because it will make health care both more affordable, and be more compassionate (it is part of the fucking name, you know). Robert Pear via The New York Times on that “free” health care: The rules stipulate that no co-payments can be charged for tests and screenings recommended […]

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I wonder how long until I can use this link?

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It should be a telling sign when statists can’t even imagine parents being the primary auditors of children’s behavior, but the state.

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Krissah Thompson via The Washington Post on a new grass roots movement to promote progressivism and combat the tea party (as if the Obama administration needs help with signing in to law progressive bills): In an effort to replicate the tea party’s success, 170 liberal and civil rights groups are forming a coalition that they […]

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Apparently libertards are all for drug laws emanating at the federal level. I wonder how quickly their position will change when asked about drug laws in relation to California? Oh, wait. I guess I don’t have to wait too long at all.

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Dan Balz via The Washington Post: The co-chairs of President Obama’s debt and deficit commission offered an ominous assessment of the nation’s fiscal future here Sunday, calling current budgetary trends a cancer “that will destroy the country from within” unless checked by tough action in Washington. Isn’t it comforting that it only took a specialized […]

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First we have a massively unpopular redistributionist bill shoved through Congress against the will of the American people, and now we have more El Supremo BS with completely bypassing congress appointing the guy who will administer Obamacare. Robert Pear of The New York Times: President Obama will bypass Congress and appoint Dr. Donald M. Berwick, […]

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‘Ain’t prohibition great?

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You gotta love it when government do-goodery makes no fucking sense whatsoever. Jason Kuznicki of the Cato Institute on San Francisco’s absofuckinglutely ridiculous ban of sugary soft drink sales on city property: Finally, I could point out that banning vending-machine drinks while leaving Starbucks untouched is a pretty rank example of class privilege at work […]

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