Health Industry Bolts Democrats For GOP
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 5th, 2010 4:32 am by HL
Health Industry Bolts Democrats For GOP
Sliding Into a Tyranny of Good Intentions?
Neil Reynolds, Globe and Mail
Nearly 50 years ago, Kenneth Minogue, a professor of political science at the London School of Economics, published The Liberal Mind, his classic study of the dominant philosophy of the 20th century: radical niceness. Rooted in extreme liberal optimism and salvationist aspiration, this triumphant ideology (Prof. Minogue said) tenaciously advanced the notion that history requires the perfection of human society, that governments – in pursuit of this perfection – are obliged “to provide every man, woman, child and dog with the conditions of the good life.”
The Obamacare Follies
Matthew Continetti, Weekly Standard
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, aka Obamacare, turned six months old on September 23. Hardly anybody celebrated the occasion, and it isn’t hard to figure out why. Last spring President Obama promised Democrats that supporting the new entitlement would turn out to be a political winner. But, like a lot of Obama promises, this one’s turned out to be a bunch of baloney.
