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When President Obama made his pitch for the health care overhaul, he framed it this way: “Insurance reform; making sure that you can have choices in the marketplace for health insurance, and making it affordable for people; and reducing costs.” It was a pitch aimed at consumers: More access, more choices, lower prices. But over at InsureBlog, certified underwriter Bob Vineyard scans the health insurance market in Georgia and finds that, in the post-PPACA insurance market, there have definitely been changes—but not the ones Obama promised. From the highlight (lowlight?) reel: All but two health insurance companies have withdrawn from offering maternity benefits

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ObamaCare: It’s Going to Get Worse Before It Gets Worse

Ring in Labor Day with this news: The U.S. shed another 54,000 jobs in August, slightly advancing the 9.6 percent unemployment rate

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The Summer of Recovery Is Over; The Fall of the Economy Is Here

During his summer vacation, Barack Obama had an guesstimated $20,000 makeover done to the Oval Office in the White House (all paid for by donations). The attention-getter so far?

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The Five Quotes on the New Oval Office Rug

Perhaps channeling Steve Martin  (another ’70s innovator), Michael Barone wants to get small: The Big Government of 1970 looked a lot like the Big Government of the 1940s. The same Big Businesses that dominated the Fortune 500 list in 1940 did so in 1970.

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Forget Gov’t, Biz, Labor: The Last Big Unit to Perform Worth a Damn Was Randy Johnson

As President Barack Obama helpfully explained last night on the TV, the Iraq War is over. ” Time to turn the page ” and end “the American combat mission in Iraq.” Except for the 50,000 or so troops still there, who will no longer be “combat troops” but advisors, traffic cops, social workers, and bake-sale overseers. Who will stay there until the end of 2011 (or longer, if you believe folks such as Washington Times’ national security correspondent Eli Lake, or the thousands of U.S.

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War Is Over (If Obama Wants It) or, Mission Accomplished Redux

Two men arrested after Chicago-to-Amsteram flight on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack.

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Reason Morning Links: Lomborg Calls for Money To Fight Global Warming, Terror Suspects Arrested in Amsterdam Airport, Glenn Beck Launches News Site

In his January State of the Union speech, President Obama woefully declared that “each time lobbyists game the system or politicians tear each other down instead of lifting this country up, we lose faith.” But by the following month, The Hill was reporting that “despite his push to rein in special interests, President Barack Obama sparked a boom on K Street.” Lobbyists for the health care industry in particular were given an enormous boost in Washington as the health care bill rolled slowly through Congress and then moved on to the regulatory phase. These days, though, much of the action on the health care front is moving to the states, which, thanks to the PPACA’s network of state-based health insurance exchanges, are responsible for managing a significant amount of the law’s implementation

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For Health Care Lobbyists, ObamaCare Is the Gift That Keeps On Giving

Whether you’re a student of presidential sports history or just a fan of President Obama’s feats of fleetfooted derring-do , tremble for your nation as you compare these two executive bike pics: Courtesy of KayDeeBama . As a devout Solanist , I believe men are the problem, and I’m generally happy when presidents eschew the kind of alpha male bullshit that was George W. Bush’s stock in trade

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Who Is More Macho, 2010 Edition

Nobody landed with a parachute.

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OK, So Three Hours of Beck Can Get a Little Slow