Good article at the WSJ discussing the likely results of the upcoming election. - Medicare for all . When HillaryCare cratered in 1994, the Democrats concluded they had overreached, so they carved up the old agenda into smaller incremental steps, such as Schip for children. A strongly Democratic Congress is now likely to lay the final flagstones on the path to government-run health insurance from cradle to grave. Mr. Obama wants to build a public insurance program, modeled after...

Watching Obama absolutely crush McCain in the third debate. It's just so painful.  Republicans decided to have a "moderate" old maverick. They got their wish.

I really can't wait until this election comes and GOES. I'm a conservative and I make no bones about it. I keep up on politics and foreign affairs as a hobby all the time. But every 4 years, suddenly lay people who barely pay attention suddenly become political experts ready to insult the intelligence of those who disagree with them. It's particularly annoying reading Digg, a site I usually like but is populated by left-wingers who, if asked, say that Digg is dominated by left-wingers...

Gotta check these out. http://www.airbedandbreakfast.com/capnmccains http://www.airbedandbreakfast.com/obamaos

Very good article at the Washington Post today by Andrew Klavan Myth # 1. Hollywood has no political agenda -- it's just out to make money . Would that it were so. All through 2007, Hollywood sent American multiplexes the message: "We don't like the war on terror." All year, American moviegoers sent a message back to Hollywood: "We don't care." "Lions for Lambs," "In the Valley of Elah," "Redacted," "Rendition" -- movie...

I've said before that there's no circumstance I would vote for McCain. But watching how he has dealt with this financial crisis reminds me why I would never support him. He's no maverick. There's no straight talk. He's just a politician with a marketing slogan who doesn't really know why he wants to be President.  He's Bob Dole II and he's going to lose like him. Obama, by contrast, deserves to win.  I don't agree with Obama on any major issues. But he knows why he wants to be Pre...

Controversial celebrity photographer Jill Greenberg, a self-professed "hard-core Dem," deliberately took a series of unflattering shots of Republican nominee John McCain for the current cover of The Atlantic - and then bragged about it on a blog. Read the whole thing here: http://www.nypost.com/seven/09142008/news/politics/mac_hater_has_a_lousy_image_129007.htm It grows tiresome in every political season when inevitably someone says that "both sides" do repr...

More and more you can find out whether someone is a liberal or a conservative (in the American sense of the words) by getting the answer to a simple question: Do you think the average person is too stupid to do the right thing? If you answer yes, you're probably a liberal. If you answer no, you're probably a conservative.  Obviously it's not a 100% truism but in most discussions with people in "real life" (or on-line) the inevitable root distinction between the two...

While 82% of voters who support McCain believe the justices should rule on what is in the Constitution, just 29% of Barack Obama’s supporters agree. Just 11% of McCain supporters say judges should rule based on the judge’s sense of fairness, while nearly half (49%) of Obama supporters agree . Read the whole thing: http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/09/rasmussen-only-29-of-obama-supporters-think-supreme-court-should-decide-cases-based-on-constitution/ I think t...

Here's an obviously partisan article that was food for thought: http://www.examiner.com/x-722-Conservative-Politics-Examiner~y2008m9d4-What-if-Obama-was-just-some-guy-at-your-office It essentially asks people to look at their own lives and ask themselves whether they would want Obama to be the CEO of the company they currently work at. Obama has been on the job 143 days so far and in those 143 days, he has made it pretty clear he just wants the top spot. He likes to refer to him...

 

This entire post could've been done just with links to the MSNBC rumor machine. But I'm kind of choked up after last night's bittersweet news - think of all the great times that now we'll never have. Plus, focusing exclusively on one source would underplay the breadth and depth of these people's pathetic melodramatics:

1. Denial - This was probably the most surreal stage, with Obama campaign eventually elevating unblinking denial into a campaign smear. The Atlantic ran an article entitled "the Eagleton Scenario" and the NYT published an op-ed gently and kingly suggesting that Palin "should withdraw" to avoid humiliation. InTrade shares on Palin being replaced spiked to almost 15. When that didn't work, the left seamlessly transitioned to a different wishful denial.

  I'm still not voting for McCain or Obama (I don't like either) but the behavior of Democrats thus far towards Palin has been so disgusting that I don't think they realize how much they alienate people.

I was reading a debate on global warming today and the smugness and arrogance of the human-produced global warming crowd always seems to try to try to bolster their argument by trying to make believing in global warming to be akin to believing in evolution. To which I responded: Kurt, there’s a lot more evidence supporting evolution than human produced global warming. Global warming “theory” essentially argues that CO2 is a green house gas and it has been going u...

I wrote this last year: https://forums.joeuser.com/?FoRumID=3&AID=144168 "What if the earth starts cooling" Since 1998, the temperature has been pretty flat. This year, it's looking like it's going to take a dip (and it may be that 2007 was a bit down as well) even as CO2 rates increase. So... All those smug global warming zealots...do you think any of them will apologize for being so obnoxious with their half-baked theory? I am not arguing that there isn't global warming...

Since no one will stand up for greedy evil capitalists these days, I'll take a stab at it.