*Democrat’s Health Care Sleight of Hand, by Matt Patterson, making his first appearance at Fox News.
“As a former (recovering) professional magician, I’ve seen and perpetrated my share of sleight-of-hand. But I have never seen anything quite like the linguistic and budgetary legerdemain Democrats have performed to make President Obama’s health-care plan appear “affordable.”
Read the whole thing. Way to go bro, can’t wait to see you on the TV.
ALSO by Patterson: Reid and Pelosi’s Health Care Monsters.
“These mandates are among the most troubling (and least discussed) features of Obamacare. It’s one thing to wish health insurance for all who want it, quite another for government to dictate that everyone must have it, and to be willing to use taxation power to punish those who don’t. What kind of country does that? Certainly not a “free” one – if free means anything…
…And while there are some differences between the various plans swirling around Capitol Hill – some contain a public option, some don’t – there is a depressing sameness to them: billions in new taxes and Medicare cuts, as well as an unprecedented enlargement in the size, scope and power of government. All would alter the American republic almost beyond recognition.”
Again, read the whole thing.
*The Unbearable Paradox of Glenn Beck, by Charles Murray.
*Mmmm…Hacked emails prove global warming a fraud?
RELATED: Climategate the Final Nail In “Anthropogenic Global Warming?” By James Delingpole. BONUS: Use of ManBearPig in the opening paragraph.
“If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabites of confidential files onto the internet.”
*End It, Don’t Amend It, at NRO.
*Palinphobes Hate First, Ask Questions Later, by Jonah Goldberg.
“Indeed, some of us will always be sympathetic to Mrs. Palin if for nothing else than her enemies. The bile she extracts from her critics is almost like a dye marker, illuminating deep pockets of asininity that heretofore were either unnoticed or underappreciated.”
*Have Democratic Leaders Gone Mad? By Jay Cost.
*Travesty In New York: We are giving KSM a farcical show trial, by Charles Krauthammer.
“In his November 13 news conference, he seemed to be saying that if you attack a civilian target, as in 9/11, you get a civilian trial; a military target like the Cole, and you get a military tribunal.
What a perverse moral calculus. Which is the war crime — an attack on defenseless civilians or an attack on a military target such as a warship, an accepted act of war which the U.S. itself has engaged in countless times?”
