Ours, if you can believe that.  Albeit inadvertently, for sure. To see how, try their ObamaCare subsidy calculator.  In my case, I entered the required data as if my family didn’t have an employer-provided health care plan.  And with those parameters, I found that, should we be forced into an exchange, our costs would increase over 100%.  Which makes the 14.9% increase this year of our employer-provided plan seem downright

Well, that’s to be expected, isn’t it? When your goal is a European-style nanny welfare state run by a permanent political ruling class, you’re going to have to “nudge” people into behavior that’s in “their best economic interests.” That you have to circumvent Constitutional protections to do so? Meh. Enlightenment absolutism demands that, and progressives — on both sides of the aisle — increasingly embrace antifoundationalism. Which is just a

Aside from the feint to a balanced budget offered by Clinton — today’s Dems don’t even pretend such a thing is necessary or even useful, what with the availability to printing presses and QE infinity — take a listen to Bill Clinton in 1995 on the government shut down, which the GOP used to enact meaningful reforms and to create the “surplus” that today Clinton still takes credit for.  Listen

1.  this welcome respite from nannystate meddling into everything from my shower head to the puddles in my back yard. 2.  greenhouse gas poisoning, though the symptoms won’t show up until the government re-opens and tells me how damaged I’ve been by water vapor and human exhalation 3.  more profound idiocy from Davids Brooks and Frum 4.  this lousy teabagging 5.  the chance to use a potato-chip dispensing vending machine

And that’s because — and I hate repeating myself, but it needs to be done — these are big government technocrats who hold the American people in the same disdain as do the progressive Democrats.  They are part of a self-appointed ruling elite, and they know how best to run DC and your lives.  Of course, that’s going to involve a bit of a sacrifice on the part of the

This one is simple:   want to put a halt to ObamaCare?  Donate generously to me. Because while I have no direct influence on how and when the GOP establishment figures out a way to surrender, I can assure you that I will have had nothing to do with it.  And in this day and age — when other Republicans are already tripping over themselves to undermine an attempt to weaken

Got up this morning to take my oldest to school and, because I indulged in a number of rum drinks last night, couldn’t find my car keys anywhere.  And when, in a bit of a panic, I’ll admit, I dialed up Senator Udall’s office, some little punk of a staffer who answered his phone — when pressed to tell me where I’d left the stupid things (and yes, I explained