Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery comes to life!
Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery comes to life!
Read it and weep.
Tag: politics
Another way for the young to avoid the absurdly expensive Obamacare insurance plans.
Another way for the young to avoid the absurdly expensive Obamacare insurance plans.
Another court today ruled against the Obamacare contraceptive mandate.
The law is such an inconvenient thing: Another court today ruled against the Obamacare contraceptive mandate.
The top ten states for job growth.
The top ten states for job growth.
There isn’t a clear common political thread here, but it is worth noting that all of the top five and seven of the ten have all-Republican governments.
It isn’t the party that matters, it is the philosophy of the members of that party that matters. And you are more likely to find politicians who support freedom, competition, and capitalism in the Republican Party.
A Muslim woman graduates at the top of her class, in medicine, in Israel.
A Muslim woman graduates at the top of her class, in medicine, in Israel.
But how can this be? Israel an apartheid state, according to numerous leftwing political activists.
Actually, it is the freest and most diverse state in the Middle East. The left is merely lying, as they have a habit of doing.
New security issues revealed for the Obamacare website.
New security issues revealed for the Obamacare website.
Worse, the Obama administration had been warned about these problems but decided to make believe they didn’t exist.
Scientists admit that second-hand smoke causes zero cancer deaths.
Scientists admit that second-hand smoke causes zero cancer deaths.
The article notes that this fact has been known for years.
Jyoti Patel, MD, of Northwestern University School of Medicine said the findings were not new. … “Passive smoking has many downstream health effects—asthma, upper respiratory infections, other pulmonary diseases, cardiovascular disease—but only borderline increased risk of lung cancer,” said Patel. “The strongest reason to avoid passive cigarette smoke is to change societal behavior: to not live in a society where smoking is a norm.”
In other words, the power hungry who have been imposing these regulations on us have been lying about why they want to do it. They aren’t protecting anyone, they are simply trying to impose their will. And succeeding.
Advice for Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty.
I posted this Andrew Klavan commentary back in January 2011, shortly after the Tucson shooting when the left was accusing the right of causing the shooting because of the so-called “incivility” of their speech. It was all lies, merely intended to stifle the speech of anyone who dissented from liberal orthodoxy.
I think it bears viewing again, as it provides good advice and council to Phil Robertson and the entire Duck Dynasty family. It also once again outlines quite starkly how oppressive and fascist the American left has become.
As Klavan concludes, “Whatever you do, don’t shut up.”
The Obama administration has announced another eleventh-hour exemption to Obamacare.
Chaos: The Obama administration has announced another exemption to Obamacare.
The Obama administration, in an 11th-hour change just before the holiday break, announced a major exemption in ObamaCare that will let people who lost coverage and are struggling to get a new plan sign up for bare-bones policies. The move Thursday to allow potentially hundreds of thousands of people to sign up for “catastrophic” coverage plans was blasted by the insurance industry as a shift that would cause “tremendous instability.”
I thought these “bare-bone” policies were “garbage plans” that only a few weeks ago Democrats were telling us we should be happy were cancelled.
It also appears from the above article as well as other sources that the insurance companies are very hostile to this announcement. (Read the second link especially. It outlines the many problems this new ad-hoc exemption causes.)
In a word, this law doesn’t work, it never has, and it should be repealed now.
Forced to put their existence up to a vote, over 70 of 408 public unions in Wisconsin have been rejected.
Forced to put their existence up to a vote, over 70 of 408 public unions in Wisconsin have been rejected.
The Obamacare state exchanges are losing their directors.
The Obamacare state exchanges are losing their directors.
So far, 25 percent of officials in charge of the 14 state-run exchanges, plus Washington D.C., have been replaced, according to Forbes, which compares the turnover rate to professional sports coaching rosters. “More are sure to come as enrollment performance remains poor,” according to Forbes. New Mexico, Massachusetts, Idaho, Washington DC, Nevada and Colorado are posting dismal enrollment numbers, all less than 10 percent of what was expected, the magazine noted.
Gee, I wonder why? Could it be that Obamacare is a turkey that no one wants to buy?
Cuba is lifting the limit on the number of people allowed to buy a car.
Freedom in the socialist paradise: Cuba is lifting the limit on the number of people allowed to buy a car.
The government has a monopoly on the sale of imported new and used vehicles, and has required any potential buyer to obtain a special card from the Transport Ministry authorizing the purchase of a car. The cards took months or years to obtain, creating a black market in cards in which holders would often sell them for more than the price of the car itself.
Don’t count your blessings, however. The change is only in place “of new regulations, which would be made public in coming days.”