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About that health “care” bill . . .

(This is lifted en masse from Mrs. Palin’s Facebook page:)

Some Useful Commentary on the Health Care Debate

As Americans spend the next few weeks discussing health care reform, I thought it might be helpful to share some articles (and one panel discussion video) that I’ve found especially insightful.
Washington Post editorial, July 26, 2009
“The Health-Care Sacrifice: [...]

Seinfeld: “The Limo”

This take on Speaker Pelosi’s Swastika-spotting is lifted from James Taranto’s Best of the Web Today . Enjoy:

Limousine Liberal?
On a lighter note, is it possible that Pelosi’s outrageous comment was inspired by “Seinfeld”? A reader reminds us of the 1992 episode “The Limo,” in which Jerry and George scam a limousine ride from the [...]

The times get weirder and weirder.

Regarding this stupid new report from DHS regarding “right wing exgtremism:” I just wrote a list that it seemed to be the writing of an “industrious but dim-witted intern, probably a recent Brown graduate.”
Rather than struggle with trying to analyze seriously the behavior of this administration, perhaps better insight is gained by just applying [...]

Google Books. Wow!

I don’t know what possessed me to take a look again at <a href=”http://books.google.com” title=”google books”>Google Books</a>, its project to scan mass quantities of texts from libraries all over the place. Having in mind a wonderful Santayana quote I typed “vowed to perdition” into the search box, and in a blink of the eye [...]