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Via Reason’s Radley Balko, another example of fear of FCC speech regulations–and those interest groups who push for them–keeping entirely reasonable content off the air:
David Harsanyi, whose book on the Nanny State is now in bookstores (as well as excerpted in our November issue), reports that the new Ken Burns joint on World War II [...]

Hillary did a “full Ginsburg” this weekend, hitting all five Sunday talk shows on the same day.  And of course, she talked up her health-care plan.  According to Time:
She even giggled her way through questions about whether the health care proposal she announced last week amounted to socialized medicine.
Deflecting criticism from her Republican and [...]

The Democrats in Congress are pushing to expand government health care by covering not only poor children, but adults and families that make as much as $80,000 a year.
Mainstream media reports have referred to the SCHIP re-authorization bill as necessary for poor children to be insured. I have even seen t.v. ads that feature a [...]

From this morning’s Financial Times:

Yes, that’s Mikhail Gorbachev… in a Louis Vuitton ad.
Update: I’m told this is kind of old news for people who read Vogue.   That’s Washington, I guess, and politics in general — always behind when it comes to style.

There’s been a lot of furor surrounding the release of Alan Greenspan’s memoir, and Robert Novak takes his shots at the book in today’s Post:
While scathing in attacking increased spending by George W. Bush, he ignores massive non-defense spending hikes under Clinton and embraces the Democrat’s tax increase “as our best chance in 40 years [...]

In this recent article, Rich Lowry discusses the role of capitalism in the lives of children and the poor throughout the world.
Apparently, the booming global economy is raising the standard of living throughout the world. Who would’ve guessed?
In a worldwide instance of trickle-down economics, the growth is diminishing the ranks of the poor. According to [...]

Over the next week, we will be writing about some of the problems with the so-called “fair tax” that has become pretty popular among some of our fellow tax reform advocates. While there is agreement that the tax code is abusive and overly-complex, we must make sure that we advocate a reform that is practical, [...]

The latest group the Dems had to pay homage to? AARP, the government subsidized lobbying group that wages generational warfare against young people that want personal retirement accounts.
The Politico reports,
Sen. Hillary Clinton (N.Y.), Gov. Bill Richardson (N.M.) and former Sen. John Edwards (N.C.) all touted the need for universal health care.
“Been there, done that. Fifteen [...]

In that Schwarzenegger piece I linked to yesterday, the Governator comes out in support of Rudy Giuliani:
Though noting that he has not endorsed anyone, the governor said Giuliani is “the most consistent, stable person who is out there who makes the most sense to the people. That’s why his poll numbers are high.”
Is Arnie aware [...]

In response to one of my last posts, a Dr. Charles Clark said:
First I want to say: Universal Health Care is a right and it is feasible.
As you say: put the tax dollars in a pot and distribute it to care for the sick. We are putting money in the pot, but it is not [...]