Today Pelosi, Hoyer, and other Democrats introduced another guy who needs the government’s help to pay for health care. He is Ed Morris, a small business owner who says he cannot afford to pay for his employees’ health insurance anymore because of skyrocketing premiums. Let’s leave aside that, as one conservative blogger noted, this guy’s […]
Yesterday, in an interview with Fox News, Obama said this: [T]here are a lot more people who are concerned about the fact that they may be losing their house or going bankrupt because of health care. Earlier in the week, Obama and numerous other Democrats made a big deal about how a particular woman, ‘Natoma’ […]
As the Obama regime and Democrats in Congress this week make another thrust for more socialized medicine, in the fascist style of exerting control over ‘private’ businesses and individuals, it seems that America’s only hope for the failure of this thrust is that the tyrants in both parties might fail to agree on the precise […]
Ayn Rand’s 105th birthday was on February 2. On that day, I was immersed in unimportant details of my life. But this morning I celebrated Ayn Rand’s birthday in my favorite way. I opened up one of her novels (The Fountainhead this time) at random places and began reading. Perhaps I should perform this celebration […]
(Update, 10/18/2010: A revised version of the second half of this post appears as an article in Capitalism Magazine, dated October 3, 2010: The Philosophical Absurdity Underlying Stimulus Spending) Here is some elaboration on this statement from my previous post, in which I wrote that Obama’s statement at his “Job’s Forum” could be boiled down […]
At his “Jobs Forum” yesterday, Obama said this: It is only when the private sector starts to reinvest again, only when our businesses start hiring again and people start spending again and families start seeing improvement in their own lives again that we’re going to have the kind of economy that we want. That’s the […]
This statement, about the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, made last week by President Obama, has been replayed repeatedly on television news: After eight years—some of those years in which we did not have, I think, either the resources or the strategy to get the job done—it is my intention to finish the job. It […]
The day before this year’s Independence Day, in my post, Revolution, I wrote this: It is becoming increasingly likely that nothing short of civil disobedience—and perhaps even more than that—will be necessary to save the America created by our Founding Fathers. In my judgment, the next TEA Party should be more than a verbal protest […]
On Friday, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, “we will have a public option in our legislation to keep the insurance companies honest and to provide real competition.” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs used similar language when he said on Thursday, “the President believes we have to have choice and competition, thinks the best […]
Myrhaf, who also write for The New Clarion, has an excellent post on whether to keep secrets from the reader/audience in writing fiction. In one of my plays, I made an editing change similar to the one that Myrhaf describes, but I had not conceptualized the issue so deeply.