The Obama Disconnect

Peggy Noonan points out the disconnect between our current president and the people of the country. It's not just a rhetorical disconnect, not just an iconic disconnect. No, these reflect a deeper disconnect, the truly problematic one, and that is over policy. Read the article here.

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Criminal Activity or Terrorism

L. Gordon Crovitz' article in today's Wall Street Journal points out the fallacy of treating suspects in the war on Terror the same way we would treat potential terrorists. The Obama administration has taken us back to the pre-911 days of the Clinton administration, and is making it easier, not harder, for those who hate our country to plot and conduct their murderous mayhem.

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WSJ on ObamaCare

If you're the sort of person that wants to know what's going on in the debate over health-care reform, you might consider looking at this Wall Street Journal web page. They have links in one place on many (all?) of the articles they've published on this issue.

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Are we indeed Ignorant?

Nobel laureate Friedrich A. Hayek in The Constitution of Liberty:

"All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest. Compared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized in the evolution of a dynamic civilization, the difference between the knowledge that the wisest and that the most ignorant individual can deliberately employ is comparatively insignificant."

This should give us all hope, eh?

Health-Care Secrets

There's an old saying in Texas, used when one perceives that he's not being told the truth: "Don't piss in my ear and tell me it's raining!" That's exactly what's going on in town halls around the country. In the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal, there's this little blurb about how the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (chaired by Chris Dodd, D-Conn), passed out an amended $1 trillion health-care bill back on July 15. Earlier this month, Senator Arlen Specter (D-Penn) told a town hall meeting that those opposed to the present monstrous HR3200 are "just wrong; the Senate doesn't have a bill yet." Well, the only true part about that is they haven't turned over their cards yet. The Democrats in the senate have known since the middle of July what they intend to inflict on us, but they haven't seen fit to tell us. They haven't even shared it with the Republican senators. And you really believed these clowns when they promised an "open, transparent government?" Do you really think they want an open, honest government when they pull this sort of crap and then expect to pass the legislation without allowing time for public commentary? My friend, they were peeing in your ear then, and they're doing it now.

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