Left-wing blogger Jonathan Chait and others have been knocking Gov. Sarah Palin for quoting Ronald Reagan in the vice-presidential debate. Palin said :
It was Ronald Reagan who said that freedom is always just one generation away from extinction. We don’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream; we have to fight for it and protect it, and then hand it to them so that they shall do the same, or we’re going to find ourselves spending our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children about a time in America, back in the day, when men and women were free.
Chait noticed that Palin pulled that Reagan quote not from The Speech , nor from Reagan’s 1987 remarks at the Brandenburg Gate , but from this 1961 AMA -sponsored effort to block the enactment of Medicare :
It is notable that neither Chait nor the others took issue with Reagan’s claim that Medicare is a step toward ushering all Americans into a socialized health-care syst...
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Keep up the good work.
What stings about this election is that we did it to ourselves. We sent a knife (McCain campaign) to a gunfight (Obama campaign).
Do the powers that be in the GOP really think that diluting the conservative message of Ronald Reagan is a good strategy?
Anyway, NRO is a light in the darkness.
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Ronald Reagan Biography
At a time when America’s confidence was at a low ebb, Ronald Reagan [...]... more
WWRRD? From: feeds.wizbangblog.com Post Date: 2008-11-20 02:30:00
Yesterday, as word got around about the CEOs of the Big 2.5 automakers hopping on their private jets to go begging before Congress, I found myself thinking about Ronald Reagan,...
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The following was adapted from Bob Prechter’s 2002 New York Times and Amazon best seller, Conquer the Crash – You Can Survive and Prosper in a Deflationary Depression .
Deflation requires a precondition: a major societal buildup in the extension of credit (and its flip side, the assumption of debt). Austrian economists Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich... more
In this morning’s Washington Post, columnist Bob Samuelson earns himself a membership in the Anti-Universal Coverage Club :
At the Democratic National Convention, Sen. Ted Kennedy echoed the view of many that health care is a “right” that demands universal insurance. This completely understandable view is, I think, utterly wrong. Take note, Barack Obama and John McCain.
The central health-care problem is not improving coverage. It’s controlling costs.
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Health economist Dana Goldman, according to his bio , “holds the RAND Chair in Health Economics and is the Founding Director of the Bing Center for Health Economics at RAND. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Health Services and Radiology at UCLA.” He also started a peer-reviewed journal or something . So, not exactly a slouch in the health policy/economics realm.
In a contribution to Cato Unbound a little while back, Goldman wrote the following , which qualifies him for ... more
Congress Daily reports that an Obama administration “would likely create a national technology czar with broad authority to develop policy, elevating high-tech issues to the cabinet level in a major recalibration of the government’s approach to regulating the communications sector.”
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Technology, telecommunications, and information policy are important areas, but not everything that is important needs a lot of attention from the government. And as federal priori... more
Matt Yglesias details the ways that McCain-Feingold is restricting his free speech rights. It seems that because Matt now works for a company that lacks a “media exemption,” he’s prohibited from commenting on the “character, qualifications, and fitness for office” of candidates for office. Since Matt has an extremely low opinion of one of the major presidential candidates, I imagine this is pretty hard for him.
And yet Matt doesn’t reach what seems to me ... more
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