Opus, My Man

The Bloom County gang weighs in on health care:

Click for the larger version. As Michael Sanera at The Locker Room says:
As a movement, our policy research documenting the superiority of free market health care defeats the left’s arguments for single payer every time. But policy research is no match for one vivid image of what [...]

Midasize It!

Someone needs a catalytic converter …

Gifted Amateurs

Looking more and more like the cyberattacks on Georgia’s Internet links was home-brew hacking instead of a military operation. Not that that should make anyone feel better about it, of course.

Crossed Out

Andrew Sullivan’s suspicion that McCain embellished or out-and-out-invented the story of a Vietnamese guard’s drawing a cross in the ground to cheer him up one Christmas may be off base, or maybe even just mean. But … I can’t dismiss it. The NVA who guarded our guys were notoriously tough and brutal. Most of them [...]

Enviro Blowback

Some softness in the willingness of Americans to call themselves environmentalists I don’t think has anything to do with a sudden desire on their part to go chopping down redwoods. But it probably is a reaction to the environmental movement’s constant naysaying. When you have people from that side of the fence inveighing against wind [...]

McCain’s Health/Tax Plan Scrutinized

The Dallas Morning News has a look at McCain’s proposal to tax employer health benefits as income. It’s just the start of the publicity this will get, I think. It’s also the kind of thing that can turn an election.
North Texas employers are not saying they would drop employee coverage altogether if Mr. McCain’s plan [...]