The genius of America is that it was set up as a representative government, but increasingly, Americans are ruled over by leaders who are unelected, and very powerful. Columbia Law Professor Philip Hamburger unmasks the people who are really ruling our lives.
Obamacare
The Democrat Socialists of America
At last, the Democrat party reveals its socialist core.
The only way to save Obamacare is through, you guessed it, socialism. You know like Cuba or Venezuela, where you have to bring your own sheets and aspirin to the government hospital
Bernie Sanders, who spent his honeymoon in the totalitarian Jew-hating Soviet Union, has come out for single payer health care.
Prager University: Why Is Health Insurance So Complicated?
Why is health insurance so complicated, while car insurance and life insurance are so simple? Can health insurance be more like, well, insurance? Lanhee Chen, fellow at the Hoover Institution, explains.
Girl Without a Gun: Pacifist Stalked, Reality Intrudes
I am republishing this true life story from 2007 for the same reason I republished Jew Without a Gun, my nightmarish report of being trapped with my family, unarmed and defenseless, in the 1992 L.A. Riots.
This is another cautionary tale—not about the riots—but about one frightened and helpless young woman who was being stalked by an ex-boyfriend. I met her in a gun shop where she, a fragile, naive pacifist reluctantly landed because there was nowhere else to turn. There was no choice for this young woman but seek to arm herself.
Hillary Clinton and the Democrat Party have made it clear that they want to repeal the Second Amendment. They seek to disarm law-abiding American citizens, not, as they claim, to reduce crime, but in order to solidify their power.
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Ben Rhodes: Obama’s Minister of Truth
I have a deep distrust of theory, an acute sense of the difference between words and facts.
And so, when Israel expelled 9,000 Jews from their homes in Gaza, under the theory that disengagement proves to the world that trading land for peace works, I knew—because the Arab Muslims tell us—that any Israeli withdrawal is celebrated as a sign of weakness, as surrender.
Obama’s policies regarding healthcare and Iran are more theories disconnected from the real world.