Last week, when the details of the Baucus plan were finally released to the public, the American people found out that there would be an excise tax on health benefits over $8,000. This measure seemed to be targeted at the so-called “Cadillac” plans, premium health insurance plans that seem to cover just about anything...
For the last several years, the State Department has been outsourcing embassy security to private military contractors. Recently, more evidence has surface that there are some problems with these companies, specifically relating to the conduct of their employees. Yes, I am talking about the Blackwater incident from a few years ago. More troubling, though, are...
Today, Congress cut federal funding for ACORN after people working for the organization were caught giving advice to a couple who wanted to buy a house and set up a brothel in it. The couple’s story was fake, and they had hidden cameras; understandably, ACORN is in a whole lot of trouble. However, this...
Today, President Obama announced that the U.S. was shelving the proposed plan for ground-based interceptors in Poland and the accompanying radar in the Czech Republic. Great timing, Mr. President. After all, today is the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland, and according to the New York Times article, the Polish government considered...
Ah, another day, another development in the Healthcare debate. As I mentioned last night, Senator Baucus, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, was on the verge of releasing his plan to solve this issue. Well, that plan has been released, and bipartisanship is nowhere to be found as of yet. It is increasingly clear...
Today, we finally heard that Senator Baucus and the “gang of six” Senators on the Finance Committee are close to a compromise, which I have linked here from CNN. (be warned: it is a PDF, and so may take a little while to download.) The proposal that the Senate Finance Committee has been working...
Well, here we go again. The U.S. is in yet another trade dispute with China. After President Obama announced the imposition of a tariff on tire imports from China, the PRC retaliated with a similar measure placed on American automotive products and chicken meat, while complaining about the U.S. actions to the World Trade...
As a society, we seem to follow a “never-again” philosophy. After Pearl Harbor, after 9/11, after the Great Depression and nearly every other tragedy in American history, we have collectively said “never again”. The same is true about the kind of behavior that led to the greatest financial collapse since the Depression. One year...
Lately, there has been talk of a so-called “trigger option” in the healthcare debate. While the idea of a single-payer public healthcare plan has been tossed around and debated for months, this has only come up very recently as the healthcare debate lost momentum over the August recess. Some people say that it is...
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