Brilliant! (Update)
That Obama guy really knows what he’s doing! Yessir – we’re in good hands. And he’s sure making our friends in the world like us more than when that evil Bush was in the White House. Umm hmm: The...
View Article“Green” UK – A Cautionary Tale
A bit of ego, a little dab of moral vanity, a smidge of hubris all driven by an agenda and you have the perfect definition of the political class worldwide. Of course I understate the smidges, bits...
View ArticleThose Who Refuse To Learn From History …
As the president gears up for a new push to pass health care insurance reform with a “major speech” to a joint session of Congress this coming Wednesday, it’s always instructive to peek in periodically...
View ArticleCalling Out Iran (update)
Appearing before microphones at the G-20 conference, the Presidents of the US and France along with the PM of the UK made an announcement concerning Iran: President Obama and leaders of Britain and...
View ArticleSo Again, Why Are We Headed Down The Same Road?
In a little noted Financial Times article yesterday, it reported: The European Union’s public debt could by 2014 rise to 100 per cent of gross domestic product – a year’s economic output – unless...
View ArticleQuote of the Day – Obama’s governing style version
Kyle Smith spends the majority of his column talking about the Obama administrations relationship, or lack thereof, with the UK. He also talks about the way the administration is attacking BP, far...
View ArticleUK: Tax man to become paymaster?
In our apparent rush to be just like Europe, I wonder if our leaders would think this was a good idea: The UK’s tax collection agency is putting forth a proposal that all employers send employee...
View ArticleQuote of the day – health care version
Got a huge chuckle out of Steven Levitt’s opening sentence at the Freakanomics blog: Many economists view the health-care bill passed in the U.S. earlier this year as falling somewhere between “a...
View ArticleWell here’s a surprise–UK’s Cameron says state multiculturalism has failed
Multiculturalism posits that it is possible for immigrants to eschew the dominant culture and live within their own culture in a foreign land and everything will be hunky-dory. Except reality hasn’t...
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The UK government apparently “gets” how to help create jobs
Much more so than does the President of this country apparently: Chancellor George Osborne has announced a number of measures to try to help business in his Budget. Corporation Tax will be reduced by...
View ArticleLibya: The illegal “days, not weeks” war is in its third month
And mission creep continues apace because, as most military experts would have told you, you can’t change a government with a “no-fly zone” and only airpower. So? So … French and British officials...
View Article"Death panels"? Don’t make me laugh. Why look at other single payer systems,...
Just check out one of the longest running versions of the liberal/socialist dream: British citizens who smoke, drink, or tip the scales because they’ve eaten too many fish and chips could soon be...
View ArticleKrugman and the false prophets of economics
The one-trick pony that is Paul Krugman, constantly pushes massive government spending as the panacea for all recessionary ills. It is supposed to be the way one “manages the economy” from a central...
View ArticleIt’s the collectivist that are the problem, not the individualists
I’m amazed at times by what I read in major daily newspapers. OK, not as much now as I would have been say 10 or 15 years ago. Maybe it’s just awareness on my part now, but as I get older I am...
View ArticleThe NYT on the UK riots — the Grey Lady still doesn’t get it
The New York Times published an editorial today that reminds one how liberally biased the paper’s editorial board is. In its editorial it claims that all of the problems the UK has recently undergone...
View ArticleUK: Doctors ask patient to go elsewhere because of patient “carbon footprint”
Welcome to the stupid zone. Of course this is the result of unthinking acceptance of what is now considered by many to be junk science: An elderly woman was ordered to find a new GP because the...
View ArticleIrony today usually has it’s root in government actions
Because government is so completely involved in our lives. A good example is the UK. First, here’s a bit of a stunning statistic: Winter weather has killed a million Brits since the 1980s and will...
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Observations: The QandO Podcast for 14 Apr 13
This week, Michael and Dale discuss Kermit Gosnell and the UK. The direct link to the podcast can be found here. As a reminder, if you are an iTunes user, don’t forget to subscribe to the QandO...
View ArticleUK and France backing away from Syria strike?
The shaky coalition of Western nations promising to strike Syria for its alleged use of chemical weapons is getting even shakier. In the UK, Prime Minister David Cameron is reconsidering: David...
View ArticleNHS continues to give us a reason to reject government run health care … if...
The VA system has given us a hint of what we can expect from a government run health care system in the US. But the UK has been doing it since 1948. And, it appears, most of those who want a single...
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Observations: The QandO Podcast for 30 Jun 17
This week brings us the sad story of a very ill baby in the UK, named Charlie Gard. His parents have raised $2 million to bring him to the US for an experimental treatment. The government has refused...
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