Month: April 2011

Honest Dishonesty

Ramesh Ponnuru and Yuval Levin are given space in the New York Times to argue for a conservative alternative to ObamaCare. Part of their plan is to surreptitiously do-away with the employer-based health care system. It’s a...

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Maybe the ACLU Ain’t So Bad

Poppy Bush wasn’t a natural culture-warrior. He started out pro-choice. His wife is still pro-choice. His daughter-in-law is pro-choice. Freaking David Souter turned out to be pro-choice. That’s why Poppy came up...

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Stupid Republicans

No one could have predicted this: Anxiety is rising among some Republicans over the party’s embrace of a plan to overhaul Medicare, with GOP lawmakers already starting to face tough questions on the issue at town hall meetings...

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Original Tea Party Was Astroturfed (Probably)

I don’t know. It seems to me like John Hancock was a low-down tea smuggler who, like the modern day Koch Brothers, protected his business interests by financing a riot (aka the Boston Tea Party). So, if the Royal Crown...

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Saturday Painting Palooza Volume 297

Hello again painting fans. This week I’ll be continuing with the painting of the Pink House in Cape May, New Jersey.  I will be using the photo seen directly below. I’m working on an 8×10 canvas in my usual...

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