I am starting to wonder if maybe Obama-Care will not make all Americans healthy after all. Sue Blevins of the Institute for Health Freedom sent out a shotgun email today: –According to the CBO, the largest federal expense in House health-reform bill is $773 billion federal spending (over 10 years) for federally established insurance exchange […]
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Szasz, Now More Than Ever – DSM VI
Thomas Szasz has a new book coming out this Fall: ANTIPSYCHIATRY: Quackery Squared. Syracuse University Press summarizes the book: Szasz rejected, and continues to reject, psychiatry and antipsychiatry with equal vigor. Subsuming his work under the rubric of antipsychiatry betrays and negates it just as surely and effectively as subsuming it under the rubric of […]
Honest Torture Investigations?
Ice hockey in hell? And an honest investigation into all the illegal surveillance schemes uncorked since 2001? Topless female ice hockey in hell. But I would be very happy to be proven wrong on this. The Washington Post noted that the Obama administrationc could appoint a prosecutor who “may look into whether CIA interrogators operated […]
New York Times’s David Brooks Reveals His Secret for Working Sources
New York Times’ op-ed columnist David Brooks wrote about the “dignity code” earlier this week. And then he confided to a MSNBC host: “I sat next to a Republican senator once at dinner and he had his hand on my inner thigh the whole time. I was like, ehh, get me out of here.” I […]
Today’s Challenge: Find the Non-War Criminals in this Picture!
This image is from a website selling the “Grand Old Gang.” This type of idolatry is enough to make even a non-Presbyterian cringe.
Boundless Ignorance vs. Self-Government
The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today the following piece from the March issue of Freedom Daily…. Boundless Ignorance versus Self-Government by James Bovard Freedom Daily March 2009 Modern democracy is based on faith that the people can control what they do not understand. As government has grown by leaps and bounds, “government by […]
REAL ID and the Real Danger of Government
The Campaign for Liberty posted online an article I wrote today on the lessons of REAL ID. Funny to think how, only a few years ago, opponents of REAL ID were tagged as paranoid…. Real ID: A Real Warning on the Danger of Government By James Bovard The REAL ID Act may be on the […]