Entries from April 2008

April 29, 2008

McCain open to government control on drug prices… (the end of the free market!)

I love the drug reimportation question. Are you for buying drugs from foreign countries? McCain was asked about that today:
Matt Lewis, Townhall: It’s easier to sell liberal ideas as opposed to free-market solutions. How do they plan to do the latter, and what about drug importation? — Fundamental difference of putting government in charge rather [...]

April 27, 2008

Can we replace hypocrisy by selfishness?

Michelle Malkin has a great article about what refers to as hypocrisy from the Sting family:
Call it a case of Gulfstream liberal guilt. The environmental activist wife of musician Sting is ‘fessing up to her Green hypocrisy. Via the Daily Mail, she was “forced” to acknowledge the family’s massive carbon footprint…
I agree that it’s hypocrisy [...]

April 26, 2008

Did I miss the “English only” article in the constitution?

I love the debate about the ‘order in English sign’ in the famous Geno’s Steaks restaurant in Philly.
Michelle has a post about the ‘cowards’ that avoided his restaurant, and discusses a debate happening today:
Vento continues to voice his assimilationist message. He’s taking on the Democrat cowards who avoided the issue during the Pennsylvania primary and today [...]

April 25, 2008

The limited free market

Hot Air complimented McCain on his free market view with respect to Ethanol:
It’s an essentially agnostic point of view on ethanol itself, but it’s the proper conservative response. If ethanol can succeed in a level marketplace, then it should continue. If not — and there are plenty of reasons to suspect it won’t — then [...]

April 24, 2008

That kind of behavior is unacceptable

Two people rushed the stage where Thomas Friedman was about to give a talk from and threw pies at him.
And Michelle is right (at least for me):
I predict we’ll see a blossoming of liberal media pieces decrying the mob atmosphere at American colleges and universities and calling for civility in academic exchanges. Better late than [...]

April 24, 2008

If you can’t handle some random interview or debate, you can’t handle the terrorists?

Well then. If you can’t face the North Carolina GOP, how are you going the terrorists, John McCain?
Michelle Malkin qualifies Howard Dean’s call like this:
Dean is now pressing McCain further on the issue–and claiming that if McCain doesn’t succeed in forcing the state party to withdraw its ad, it’s a failure of his “leadership” (read: [...]

April 24, 2008

Where does Mary Katharine Ham find her stats?

During her latest appearance on O’Reilly’s show, MKH said that the endorsment of Obama by Michael Moore was a bad thing, because the “credulous super liberal latte drinker that love Michael Moore are the Obama base”, where as the blue collar democrats dislike Michael Moore. Hot air asks…
Does Michael Moore’s endorsement do anything for Obama [...]

April 23, 2008

Misusing McCain’s POW experience

The LA TIMES had a recent article that had the following title:

John McCain gets tax-free disability pension
The disclosure of the Navy benefit for injuries incurred as a Vietnam POW may raise fitness questions.
I don’t particularly want to discuss the article, but I think there is a point to be made here. Personally, I think that [...]

April 23, 2008

Disappointed…

But I still have hopes that this primary season will soon be over.
It seems to me yesterday night’s Obama’s Pennsylvania defeat was more a draw than a real loss. He entered with really bad odds and appears to have been able to salvage enough to move forward without losing too many delegates.
Still, this process will [...]

April 20, 2008

Why can’t I get access to the same health care as McCain?

Today, McCain was asked the following:
STEPHANOPOULOS: One of the points Mrs. Edwards made in the Wall Street Journal, she said that your whole life, you had government health care. You were the son of a Naval officer, a Naval officer, now a member of Congress. And her point is, why shouldn’t every American be able [...]