“Politics is the last place where we’re supposed to be satisfied between Brand A and Brand B,” says John Avlon, author of the engaging new book Wingnuts: How The Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America . Hyper-partisans and rhetorical extremists on the left and the right—characters such as Reps
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Reason.tv: John Avlon: How The Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America
…when it comes to federal deficit spending that is, with February’s coming in at $220 billion vs. a yearly deficit for 2007 of $161 billion
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Obama to Bush: My Month Beats Your Year
With the tedious details of healthcare “reform” and tickle-fighting fantasists sucking up all of the media oxygen, it takes someone like James Pethokoukis, the most informative Greek-American since Dimetrios Synodinos , to remind us that President Obama is neglecting (or purposefully ignoring) a hugely important issue: free trade . Not that Obama has a problem with trade. In his State of the Union speech to Congress last January, he stated an ambitious goal of doubling U.S exports by 2015. It is trade policy that he seems uncomfortable with
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Whatever Happened to Free Trade?
In her latest Forbes column, Reason Foundation Senior Analyst Shikha Dalmia notes: “Pushing ObamaCare was an astonishing misjudgment, the domestic policy equivalent of President Bush launching a full-scale preemptive strike against Iran after embroiling the country in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Reason Writers Around Town: Shikha Dalmia on ObamaCare as the Democrats’ Iraq
Supreme Court Justice John Roberts tosses belated barb at Obama for attacking SCOTUS at SOTU. Israel announces new settlements in East Jerusalem, upstaging Vice President Biden’s meeting with Palestinian leaders
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Reason Morning Links: Roberts Scolds Obama, Israel Disses Biden, Mukasey Slams (Liz) Cheney
“We allow the insurance industry to run wild in this country,” President Obama declared on Monday. “We can’t have a system that works better for the insurance companies than it does for the American people.” Despite this rhetoric, Senior Editor Jacob Sullum argues, Obama’s plan to tame health insurers would boost their business, protect them from competition, and guarantee their profits, all at the expense of consumers and taxpayers
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New at Reason: Jacob Sullum on Obama’s Fake Fight With Insurers
A front-page story in USA Today highlights the “growing popular acceptance of marijuana,” as reflected in polls, ballot initiatives, and legislation.
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USA Today Notes ‘Growing Popular Acceptance’ of Pot
Like a Tupperware container full of smelly mystery meat, Nancy Pelosi says that the only way we can find out exactly what’s in the health care bill is to try it : You’ve heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don’t know if you have heard that it is legislation for the future, not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America, where preventive care is not something that you have to pay a deductible for or out of pocket. Prevention, prevention, prevention—it’s about diet, not diabetes. It’s going to be very, very exciting. But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy. [emphasis added] The slightly better version of this argument, which is that voters will like ObamaCare better once it’s passed and they get used to it, isn’t very convincing either
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Nancy Pelosi on Health Care: “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”
From our April issue, Editor in Chief Matt Welch looks at President Barack Obama’s slippery relationship with the truth.
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New at Reason: Matt Welch on Obama’s Habit of Telling Untruths
New York Democrat Eric Massa, who announced last week that he will resign from the House, claims he’s being forced out by an administration hell-bent on passing a health care bill.
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In Which a Battlestar Galactica-Inspired Sexual Innuendo May or May Not Decide the Fate of Health Care Reform
