Nick Kristof hits on one of the most bizarre aspects of the health care debate: the inability even to agree that there is a problem in the first place: We have the greatest health care system in the world. Sure, it has flaws, but it saves lives in ways that other countries can only dream [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Confidence and Delusion
Posted in Abortion, Health Care, Nancy Pelosi on November 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Way Under the Radar
Posted in Corruption, George W. Bush, Health Care, Labor Policy, Meltdown, Obama, Transportation Policy on November 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I find it awfully difficult to care about county elections. Luckily, Ben Adler seems willing to look at them, and he picked up something interesting: Unlike the New York City mayoral, or the Virginia governor’s race, there is a really bad sign for Democrats out of the East Coast:… Republicans made inroads in New York’s [...]
The Fierce Urgency of Something
Posted in Abortion, Ben Bernanke, Corruption, Dick Cheney, Education, Energy Policy, George W. Bush, Health Care, Immigration, Marriage Equality, Meltdown on November 4, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Even by off-cycle election standards, this was an odd one. Perhaps it’s just payback for such a good election last year. I’ll trade watching Chris Christie do his Sopranos impression for never having had to listen to this: It’s been just 68 days since that afternoon in Dayton, Ohio, when Senator McCain introduced me as [...]
With or Against the Grain?
Posted in Ben Bernanke, Meltdown, Tim Geithner, United Kingdom on November 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Hand it to the UK. Under pressure from the wonks in Brussels – I suppose there is something to being ruled by unaccountable political science PhDs – the government has taken the first, halting steps toward breaking up three of its largest financial institutions: The British government — spurred on by European regulators — is [...]
The Model State
Posted in Corruption, Education, Housing Policy, Labor Policy on November 2, 2009 | 6 Comments »
William Voegeli has an LA Times article on the two different models of large state – Texas and California: California and Texas are not perfect representatives of the alternative deals, but they come close. Overall, the Census Bureau’s latest data show that state and local government expenditures for all purposes in 2005-06 were 46.8% higher [...]
