A Difference of Direction on Health Care
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 10th, 2010 5:32 am by HL
A Difference of Direction on Health Care
Yuval Levin, National Review
Monday, February 08, 2010Which Way, Not How Far [Yuval Levin]The Ezra Klein post that Stephen Spruiell ably critcizes below raises (by failing to see) an important point. The difference between most conservatives and most liberals on health care is not a difference of degree but a difference of direction — a difference on the question of which we way want to move from our existing highly inefficient system of paying for health insurance.Both sides agree there are huge problems with the current system, and they even agree on what some of those problems are: there…
Education & the Fallacy of “Fairness”
Thomas Sowell, RealClearPolitics
A recent flap in a Berkeley high school reveals what a farce “fairness” can be. Because this is ultra-liberal Berkeley, perhaps we should not be surprised that a proposal has been made to eliminate four jobs as science teachers and use the money saved for programs to help low achievers.In Berkeley, as in many other communities across the country, black and Latino students are not performing as well as Asian and white students. In fact, the racial gap in academic achievement at Berkeley High School is the highest in California– no doubt a special source of embarrassment in…
Eric Holder’s War
Dayo Olopade, American Prospect
(White House/Pete Souza)Hours before dawn on one of the last days of October 2009, the deadliest month for American troops in Afghanistan since 2001, Eric Holder, attorney general of the United States, strode out of a C-17 cargo plane parked at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. President Barack Obama, having reversed the ban on media coverage of the arrival of war dead at Dover, trailed just behind. During the official military ceremony, the two friends stood in dark suits, silently saluting 18 servicemen, including three Drug Enforcement Agency officials claimed by the Afghan War days prior….
Murtha’s Dissent Was Crack in Iraq Consensus
John Nichols, The Nation