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By J. Timothy King on October 30, 2009

The government “golf cart” subsidy This is too funny for me to have made it up. The IRS has ruled that Obama’s stimulus bill subsidizes actual, honest-to-goodness golf carts, under the “high-mileage vehicle” provision. This is causing golf-cart sales to soar. Laments Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute, “In a normal world this would be […]

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RR Anderson, Frost Park Chalk Challenge No. 28, "Barack Hussein Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize, NASA Bombs the Moon"; © 2009 RR Anderson CC BY 2.0

You Wanna Win a Nobel Peace Prize, Too?

By J. Timothy King on October 12, 2009

As you know, Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize last Friday. At first, I thought it was some sort of joke. And then I decided it actually was. “Wow. They’re giving them out to everyone now, aren’t they?” The sentiment is not mine alone. For example, Ana Marie Cox, National Correspondent for Air America […]

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The Semantics of “Healthcare Reform”

By J. Timothy King on October 2, 2009

Michael Cloud decades ago said, profoundly, “In the jungle, the rule is kill or be killed. In politics, either define or be defined. Because words are weapons; words are tools.” (From the Essence of Political Persuasion CD series.) If you want to control the direction of a debate, find a way to control the language […]

Posted in Healthcare | Tagged Cato Institute, free market, health insurance, healthcare reform, Obamacare, reform | 1 Response