William Kristol The crowing by the Obama administration over getting 7 million people to sign up for mandatory health insurance—with some portion actually paying for it—will soon fade. The big picture will remain clear: Obamacare isn’t working. And Americans, who didn’t like Obamacare when the Democrats passed it four years ago, don’t like it now, don’t want it to remain, and doubt it can be fixed. But they also don’t much want to go back to the pre-Obamacare world. According to Real Clear Politics, a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll of registered voters was the 111th consecutive poll to find more opposition to Obamacare than support for it. That same WSJ/NBC News poll, however, also asked whether people would vote for a Democratic congressional candidate “who supports fixing and keeping” Obamacare or a Republican candidate “who supports repealing and eliminating it.” So Americans are ambivalent about whether to try to “fix” this “bad idea” or simply eliminate it.
The Need to Explain - Thomas Sowell About Townhall.com Townhall.com is the leading source for conservative news and political commentary and analysis. Townhall is packed with breaking news headlines, political news, and conservative opinion with Townhall columnists including Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Michael Barone, Star Parker, Dennis Prager, Thomas Sowell, and many more of your favorite conservatives. Townhall.com also features the latest news videos and pictures on the latest political hot topics including health care reform, the economy, immigration, government tax, President Obama, Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Herman Cain, Ron Paul, Iraq, immigration, politics, gay marriage laws, and many more big news issues. Townhall Magazine is our monthly print magazine that offers more exclusive investigative journalism, in-depth reporting, analysis, interviews with the heavy hitters and powerful exposés.
DRUDGE REPORT 2011® Investor Junkie - Investing Blog Welcome to AnnCoulter.com DRUDGE REPORT 2012® Killing The Goose - Thomas Sowell Killing the goose that lays the golden egg is one of those old fairy tales for children which has a heavy message that a lot of adults should listen to. The labor unions which have driven the makers of Twinkies into bankruptcy, potentially destroying 18,500 jobs, could have learned a lot from that old children's fairy tale. Many people think of labor unions as organizations to benefit workers, and think of employers who are opposed to unions as just people who don't want to pay their employees more money. But some employers have made it a point to pay their employees more than the union wages, just to keep them from joining a union. Why would they do that, if it is just a question of not wanting to pay union wages? The work rules imposed in union contracts required the company that makes Twinkies, which also makes Wonder Bread, to deliver these two products to stores in separate trucks. All of this was obviously intended to create more jobs for the unions' members.
Kudlow’s Money Politics Following is the video and transcript of my Tuesday night interview with Wisconsin governor Scott Walker. In addition to discussing Walker’s new book, Unintimidated, and his heroic stand against the unions in Wisconsin, we talk Obamacare, Obama’s polls, and prospects for the 2016 presidential race: LARRY KUDLOW: We’re honored to be joined now by Wisconsin governor Scott Walker. He’s out with a new book, Unintimidated: A Governor’s Story and a Nation’s Challenge. I wanna talk about everything and– and including your heroic stand against the unions in Wisconsin. GOV. And I think that’s part of the problem is, they made a promise that nobody could actually deliver on– not just in terms of a website but on the overall policy of ObamaCare, which is an abysmal failure. LARRY KUDLOW: Right. GOV. LARRY KUDLOW: And I think people– and — I think people are just as angry at his falsehoods– GOV. LARRY KUDLOW: –as they are at the breakdown of ObamaCare. GOV.
personal finance blog with anecdotes, advice and commentary. A design student from Chicago recently launched a fairly ridiculous Kickstarter campaign: He wanted to buy a burrito and graph its “deliciousness.” With an original funding goal of $8, Noboru Bitoy has blown that target out of the water. As of this post, he’s raised a whopping $1,050, all based on this simple promise: “Just how delicious is a chicken burrito from my local Chipotle? Bitoy is hardly the source of “derp” in this story; it’s most definitely the 258 donors who have backed his campaign. If anything, Bitoy might just be a Kickstarter genius. The minimum pledge amount on Bitoy’s campaign is $1, and for that amount, he promised to graph the deliciousness of his burrito, and then send “a completed version of the Deliciousness Graphic in a .PDF file.” Because accountability is important on Kickstater, Bitoy made sure to list the risks and challenges, which include an order mix-up and his own inability to successfully consume the burrito.
An Overdue Book - Thomas Sowell If everyone in America had read Stephen Moore's new book, "Who's The Fairest of Them All?", Barack Obama would have lost the election in a landslide. The point here is not to say, "Where was Stephen Moore when we needed him?" A more apt question might be, "Where was the whole economics profession when we needed them?" College Basketball Schedules, Scores, News, Predictions, and Rankings Skip to main content CBK Page Dynamic Lead PrevNext More College Basketball News NCAAB News CBK Page Best Of Top 10 NCAA Championship Games in Modern Tournament History The Connecticut Huskies are champions.Kevin Ollie, in just his first year eligible to make the tournament and just his second as a head coach, led his team to the top of the college basketball... 40 Most Amazing College Basketball Cheerleaders of 2013-14 With the NCAA Tournament nearing its end, we felt it was the perfect time to look back at our favorite college basketball cheerleaders of the 2013-14 season. The Top Arenas in College Basketball: Experts Poll College Basketball: Ranking the top 50 coaches for 2013-14 The national championship hardware remains in the state of Kentucky, but Athlon Sports’ top coach honors remain in East Lansing.Last season, we ranked Michigan State’s Tom Izzo the No. 1... 20 Amazing College Basketball Cheerleaders of the SEC Top 10 Quarterbacks of the BCS Era Tall Americans Coaching Tandems By the Numbers
Dr. Helen I was sucked into watching the TLC show Sex Sent Me to the ER last night after flipping through the channels and realizing that this was the best I was going to do on a weekend night. If you have never watched the show (good for you), it has three or so couples, each describing how their sexual escapades sent them to the ER and an ER doc will also narrate the situation. In the episode last night, a couple like variety and decide to heat up a large gummy bear (made of sugar, of course) and the woman begs the guy to pour it on her chest and eat it off. He does and it gives her third degree burns and his mouth is burned. They head to the ER where he is blamed for hurting his girlfriend and is given shaming looks. Another couple has consensual sex in a pool naked and the woman gets her toe ring caught in the drain. Another segment showed a man hauled into the ER on a gurney. The doctor passively stands back while his patient is beaten and talks about how he does not want to get involved.
Fiscal Cliff Notes - Thomas Sowell Amid all the political and media hoopla about the "fiscal cliff" crisis, there are a few facts that are worth noting. First of all, despite all the melodrama about raising taxes on "the rich," even if that is done it will scarcely make a dent in the government's financial problems. Raising the tax rates on everybody in the top two percent will not get enough additional tax revenue to run the government for ten days. And what will the government do to pay for the other 355 days in the year? All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting "the rich" to pay "their fair share" is part of a big charade. No previous administration in the entire history of the nation ever finished the year with a trillion dollar deficit. The very catchwords and phrases used by the Obama administration betray how phony this all is. This is an insult to our intelligence. Stimulus spending began during the Bush administration and has continued full blast during the Obama administration.