‘Matt Patterson’ Archives
Daily Right 3/8/10
*Obama’s Dereliction of Duty, by Matt Patterson. “I cannot bring myself to believe that any president would manipulate the economy in such a manner for his own political purposes. But I do know this: while Obama continues to fiddle his atonal health care tune, the flames of war and recession and fiscal collapse rage all around [...]
Daily Right 2/24/10
*Medicare Doctor Shortage Endangers Seniors’ Access to Care, by Matt Patterson. *New Rasmussen poll shows that 10% of the American people are insane: “Voter unhappiness with Congress has reached the highest level ever recorded by Rasmussen Reports as 71% now say the legislature is doing a poor job… …Only 10% of voters say Congress [...]
Daily Right 2/22/10
*ObamaCare: Socialism by any other name, by Matt Patterson. “A Bolshevik is an early 20th century Russian revolutionary; a plot is a plan hatched in secret. Obama is not the former and has not engaged in the latter. However, the President and his allies have openly strived to socialize significant aspects of American society through health [...]
Daily Right 2/1/10
*Rhetoric of Fear Behind Health-Care Agenda, by Matt Patterson. “So how do you convince people who are happy with what they have to go along with radical change? Convince them that what they are happy with can be lost at any time, and through no fault of their own. In other words, scare them.” ALSO by Matt Patterson: 2010 Dawned With [...]
Daily Right 1/12/10
*Accountability, Transparency Are Casualties of HealthCare Debate, by Matt Patterson. “Under wraps. Behind closed doors. Backroom deals. These phrases crop up again and again in reports of the Democrats' health care legislation. Would you go along with any plan that had these sinister signs swirling 'round it? Would you even go on a [...]
Daily Right 1/5/10
*Does America Sit Under a Rising or Setting Sun? By Matt Patterson. *David Brooks draws a distinction between the “educated class” and the “public” in his latest article: “The educated class believes in global warming, so public skepticism about global warming is on the rise. The educated class supports abortion rights, so public [...]
Daily Right 12/28/09
*Palin Rising, by Matt Patterson. “A lot of stars have yet to align for Palin’s path to the presidency to be illuminated. But that no longer seems impossible to me. In fact, I can now quite clearly imagine that someday, someone may say the words “Madam President,” to a moose-hunting mom from Alaska. Wouldn’t that be [...]
Daily Right 12/22/09
*Doubletalk on Advocacy From Obama and ABC News, by Matt Patterson. *Big Government Backlash, at the WSJ. *Dreading Our Future, by Michael Goodwin. “President Obama, for whom I voted because I believed he was the best choice available, is a profound disappointment. I now regard his campaign as a sly bait-and-switch operation, promising [...]
Daily Right 12/21/09
*The Socialist Revolution Has Come to America, by Matt Patterson. “Success in this double strategy would amount to nothing less than a socialist revolution. A revolution of legislative opacity and bureaucratic fiat, to be sure, but a revolution just the same, for there is literally no part of your existence they couldn’t justify controlling [...]
Daily Right 12/17/09
*Is Health-Care Driving Dems Batty, by Matt Patterson. “This is the reason the President and his allies are desperate to pass health care before the end of the year. They know that the political clock is ticking, that their dream is closer than it has been in decades, but is already receding from grasp. With so much at stake, it is no [...]
Daily Right 12/16/09
*Obama’s Forgotten Health-Care Promises, by Matt Patterson. “Whichever version (if any) of health care reform lands on Mr. Obama's desk, there's a good chance that it would 1) raise taxes, 2) explode the long-term budget deficit and 3) jeopardize private health care options, all in direct variance with Mr. Obama's repeated pledges to the [...]
Daily Right 12/07/09
*The GOP Healthcare Plan, by Matt Patterson, making his first appearance at the New York Post. *Government by Wishful Thinking, by Steven Den Beste. “The teleological world view on the left has been a factor in American politics to a greater or lesser extent since the 1960’s, but this is the first time it was largely in control. And [...]
Daily Right 12/03/09
*Obama’s Surrender Will End In Blood, by Matt Patterson. “They say that the U.S. Military Academy at West Point was an odd venue for President Obama's Afghanistan speech. And indeed it was - after all, surrenders are usually offered to the enemy on the battlefield.” Read the whole thing. RELATED: According to Press Secretary Gibbs, [...]
Daily Right 11/30/09
*Men, the Gender Wars Are Over – We Won, by Matt Patterson. “Congratulations, brothers. Our day is at last at hand, a day of no responsibility and easy mating access as far as the eye can see. Best of all, women are convinced that they have done this themselves, and for their own good. Sure, there are downsides. Civilization has [...]
Greetings, Quantum Readers!
I’m proud to announce that I have recently joined The National Center For Public Policy Research as a policy analyst. NCPPR is a terrific think tank here in Washington D.C., and I couldn’t be happier to be on board. You can read my first NCPPR report, “No Free Lunch: The True Cost of ObamaCare” here , and hear me discussing it [...]
Tax Cheat In Charge of Tax Policy: Where’s the Outrage
By Matt Patterson Tax law in the United States is written largely by the powerful Ways and Means Committee in the House of Representatives. Since 2007, that committee has been chaired by Democrat Charles Rangel of New York. Recently, Congressman Rangel was compelled to file "amended" financial disclosure forms, in which he [...]
Daily Right 7/9/09
*Barack Obama: Beneficiary of a GOP Legacy, by Matt Patterson. “…the fact remains that the GOP has promoted the liberation, enfranchisement, and health of black people at home and abroad from the beginning of its century-and-a-half history. And while it is true that Democrat Barack Obama is the first black president, it is also [...]
Republic Morphing Before Our Eyes
When the dust settles and the American Republic is transformed, we won't be able to say we didn't see it coming. Barack Obama campaigned on change. He's delivering it faster than anyone thought possible. The American experiment is rapidly transmogrifying from the limited republic envisioned by our founders into a behemoth bureaucracy [...]
Iraq: A Just & Legal War
The Invasion of Iraq, contra its many critics, was both a just and legal conflict. So called Just War theories for waging legitimate warfare have been put forth by a succession of political and ethical philosophers from antiquity down to the present day (Cicero and Augustine are two oft cited founders, from the classical and Christian [...]
