By Jonathan Bean | Wednesday September 9, 2009 at 5:18 PM PDT | 8 Comments
Dateline: September 9, 2009: Obama speech (as I watch): From the lips of POTUS . . . Introduction: Insurance companies are evil but I do not want to put them out of business. (Huh? After listening to the litany of insurance company evildoing, any sane person would put them out of business.) Middle section:...
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Tags: Barack Obama, Business, Government subsidies, Healthcare, Insurance, Nationalization, Politics, Presidential Power, Regulation, single-payer system, Socialism, socialized medicine, The State, uninsured
By Randall Holcombe | at 2:38 PM PDT | 0 Comments
In 1971 Hubert Humphrey was running for president (again; but lost the Democratic nomination to George McGovern), and I was an economics major at the University of Florida. Humphrey was giving a campaign speech on campus and I went to listen. Humphrey was facing a very rowdy crowd which was so loud in its...
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Tags: American History, Economics, Elections, Healthcare, Politics, Presidential Power, The State
By Peter Klein | at 1:14 PM PDT | 0 Comments
My favorite Francophilic American blogger, Arthur Goldhammer, defends the French tradition of military parades. The US, he argues, actually has a more militaristic culture. It’s true that one doesn’t often see armor rolling down Pennsylvania Ave. . . . It’s more common in America to lament ostentatiously the sacrifices of “our men and women...
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Tags: Middle East, War
