I’ve held off for about as long as I can from commentary on the silliness of the useless mask and vaccine debate that, until Afghanistan took over, had dominated the news cycle for months and has been almost completely devoid of common sense. Here is where I am: Certain coercive measures in the interest of […]

Well, on a second attempt, Trump and the Republican House finally did it.  They proved that at least when the chips are down, they can piece together some semblance of a governing majority.  So now what’s next for Obamacare?  Or maybe that name no longer should apply, because one thing is sure–the Republicans now own […]

I don’t like saying “I told you so”, but I did, and the failure of the first phase of “repeal and replace” will make it all the more difficult to do so.  But rather than wander into the weeds of policy options and tactical moves at this point, I think that there is a larger […]

My prediction at this point is that, even if the Republicans control all branches of government in January 2017, this program (Obamacare), which will have accomplished almost nothing that was intended, will nevertheless survive as another welfare program providing largesse to ten million or so people and will be added to that long list of […]

Steve Forbes said it best: “There is nothing that better illustrates the bankruptcy of American politics today.”  Of course, he was talking about the abomination that Obamacare has become.  The system is collapsing.  Private insurance companies are leaving the exchanges by droves, while those who are hanging on are accelerating premium increases at ever-escalating and […]

In King v. Burwell, the Supreme Court has another, probably final, opportunity to gut the Affordable Care Act, but will it?  I am not an attorney, but it seems that the legal logic is clear and the evidence is compelling that the intent of the letter and spirit of the law is that only exchanges […]

I just watched a 60 Minutes segment on the Veterans Administration medical care disaster, featuring the new VA Secretary, Bob McDonald.  He is obviously eminently qualified and appears almost right out of “central casting” for this job–West Point graduate, Vietnam veteran, former CEO of Proctor and Gamble, etc.  He is clearly a good man with […]

Obamacare has almost disappeared from the above the fold major daily newspaper headlines and updates are now mainly covered by Fox News, National Review, and the Wall Street Journal editorial pages.  The various political campaigns have essentially dropped the issue.  The Republicans are basically tongue tied on it, with nothing meaningful to say.  Not that […]

At the height of the Obamacare rollout debacle in mid-November 2013, Mark Shields said this on the PBS Evening News: “This is beyond the Obama Presidency.  This may be the end of liberalism as an instrument of social justice, the major difference between the Democratic and Republican Parties”.  Upon hearing this, I remember having the […]

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.  It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.  The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satisfied; but those who torment us for our own […]