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This shouldn’t be news to anyone here, but nationalized health care isn’t the medical utopia you often hear its advocates proclaim, and it’s always worth revisiting some of the health-care stories that come out of those systems. Ladies and gents, I give you John Stossel:
Most Canadians like their free health care, but Canadian [...]

As everyone expected, S-CHIP passed in the House yesterday, and by a pretty wide margin:
Last night, 45 Republicans voted for the bill — more than Republican supporters had expected and a sharp jump from the five who supported the original House version in August. Eight Democrats voted against it.
Not a veto-proof majority — so it [...]

The Club for Growth has just created a new website about the tax-and-spend ways of GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. The website is http://www.taxhikemike.org
The website details how Huckabee is posing as a fiscal conservative, when he actually has a bad record as governor in Arkansas. Here are some of the taxes Huckabee raised:

Higher sales taxes [...]

New York City nanny-stating doesn’t apply.

FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey will be testifying today in front of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee at 2pm.
Here is a brief taste of what he will be saying.

E.J. Dionne’s column on S-CHIP today strikes me as somewhat oddly reasoned:
Bush argues that the $35 billion five-year expansion of the program, worked out between the Democrats and such leading Republicans as Hatch and Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, might push too many children into government insurance. Bush wants a $5 billion expansion over five [...]

This story would be funnier if Chavez wasn’t derailing his country by expanding the state’s control over the economy and the media. (Also not amusing is the fact that some American liberals still celebrate the dictator and his agenda.) If you still think Hugo Chavez is rational, check out this story about recent (and apparently [...]

The President and Congress can’t seem to come to an agreement on what to do about S-CHIP. Congressional Democrats, and, unfortunately, a number of Republicans, want to lard the program with tens of billions more in taxpayer dollars. Bush just wants to adjust the program for inflation so that it keeps on going [...]

So, President Bush will only attend one part of a UN gabfest on global warming–the dinner–and, needless to say, people are irritated. The Times article makes it sound as if Bush is out for a round of golf and drinks: “Bush to Skip U.N. Talks on Global Warming” is the headline. But is [...]

It is rare that I agree with the editors of the Washington Post, but today is such a day. They have a good editorial entitled, “Progress on Trade?” that makes the case for voting for the free trade bill with Peru. This bill will be voted on tomorrow in Rep. Charlie Rangel’s Ways and Means [...]