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City Attorney Employs Hate Hoax to Avoid Facing Angry Citizens

Hate hoaxing is a technique used by “marginalized” groups to acquire political power. But even those who have already achieved power find hoaxes useful. For example, hoaxes can help bureaucrats avoid facing the wrath of voters: Former Petersburg [Virginia] City Attorney Brian K. Telfair asked a city employee to buy a prepaid cellphone that he […]

Independence Day Is The Perfect Time For Single Payer Or Something

Progressives keep proving that they really just don’t get this whole “freedom” thing, as shown by a letter to the Hartford Courant Certainly, the time is ripe for Americans to seriously consider joining the rest of the humane, modern world and adopt a single-payer health care system capable of providing universal coverage to all citizens. […]

The Cost of Medicaid

The number of Americans enrolled in Medicaid has increased from 29 million in 1990 to 73 million today — an increase of 252 percent over a period when the nation’s population increased 30 percent. Total spending on Medicaid today is $574 billion, 275 percent above the $209 billion of 2000. Medicaid amounts to about 40 […]

Dear Mr. President

Dear Mr. President, It’s been a while since I’ve written. But I feel like maybe there are some things the people around you aren’t telling you, so I thought I’d put them down here in the hope you’d read them. First, the media is freaking out over your tweets about Joe and Mika. I don’t […]

Washington Post Very Concerned About A Potential Government Wide Questioning Of “Climate Science” Or Something

This Washington Post article is less about ‘climate change’ than about shoddy journalism using zero named sources – they’re all anonymous – to have a conniption fit about the government questioning the “consensus” of climate science. But, hey, wait till we get the money quote EPA chief pushing governmentwide effort to question climate change science […]

This Week in Quotes

“We are in a war with selfish, foolish & narcissistic rich people. Why is it a shock when things turn violent? #HuntRepublicanCongressmen” — James Devine “Does the unique American idea of federalism still work, with state rights and laws subordinate to federal law? We fought a Civil War that cost more than 600,000 lives in […]