In the category of "making me feel old," I note this post on the Club for Growth blog, speculating that the word "squish" was first used to I.D. a Republican of less-than-conservative pedigree sometime after 2004. "Squish" was in frequent ...
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From David Hogberg: Over at The Health Care Blog, Matthew Holt has this to say about the collapse of PacAdvantage, a voluntary small business purchasing pool in California: What happens to voluntary purchasing pools? Simple economics -- they only get ...
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Washington, D.C. - Nearly one year after the U.S. Supreme Court's shocking Kelo v. New London decision touched off a firestorm of bipartisan support for stronger property rights protections, some anti-property rights groups are receiving support from a surprising source:  ...
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An editorial in the Examiner looks at one of the biggest threats facing the planet: Politicians using the power of the state to investigate and intimidate people who disagree with their policy recommendations. Nice end line: "When you must resort ...
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David Hogberg shares his thoughts about how to make health insurance better and more affordable: As I noted in the first post of my “Medicare for All: No Thanks” series, I'd take the U.S. health care system "over the U.K.'s ...
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I offer here a case study in the way journalists serve the cause of global warming alarmists -- in this particular case, by claiming scientists are associated with the fossil fuel industry using "evidence" even a superficial investigation would have ...
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Dear Mrs. Ridenour: There is yet hope for the Republic. That paragon of blog search engines, Technorati, informs me that your candor in posting my letter has met with bipartisan approbation. Now comes the hard part -- how to persuade ...
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Washington, D.C. - The United States may have more difficulty capturing terrorists, intercepting weapons of mass destruction and conducting routine military operations at sea if the U.S. Senate ratifies the Law of the Sea Treaty, according to a just-released report ...
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Author, Hoover Research Fellow and National Center board member Peter Schweizer has an op-ed in USA Today this morning that is probably giving headaches to former Vice President Al Gore. It seems that for all Gore's green talk, the former ...
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Think Progress has responded to my post yesterday accusing it of libel. Today, the group describes yesterday's libel in a grossly inaccurate way and then defends its strawman. Presumably, this is because Think Progress knows it cannot back up its ...
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