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A Big Snow Job 3.5.10Episode Description
Employment: As the economy continues to destroy jobs, we hear a new excuse. Frigid weather, the White House says, made the jobs report look worse than it is. Actually, even without snow, it's worse than you think.
Businesses shed another 36,000 jobs during February, the latest jobs report shows, but the unemployment rate remained flat at 9.7%. This, say Democrats in Washington, is a positive sign.
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Repeal the 17th Amendment 1.26.10Episode Description
As I was preparing to write a column on the ludicrous maligning of the Tea Party movement by liberals, Democrats and the mainstream media (which I hope to write next week, instead), I started thinking about one of the key objectives of the Tea Party people -- the strict enforcement of the 10th Amendment ("The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people").
As an early 1960s vintage member of the then-new conservative movement, I remember us focusing on the 10th amendment during the 1964 Goldwater campaign. It has been a staple of conservative thought, and the continued dormancy of 10th amendment enforcement has been one of the failures of our now half-century-old movement.
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Tony Blankley | Tue Jan, 26 | Share President Obama's Lexicon of Rhetorical Devices 1.26.10Episode Description
President Obama's friends call him the smartest man ever to occupy the White House (a dubious claim in light of the fact that John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson all had better intellectual credentials or were far superior writers, or both). According to his supporters, his command of the English language is supposedly unparalleled (when using a teleprompter, presumably).
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Ben Shapiro | Tue Jan, 26 | Share More » See more articles from this podcast.
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Obama vs. Insurers and the People, Part 2 3.8.10Episode Description
President Barack Obama obviously has no qualms about slandering people or industries that interfere with his agenda. In the same creepy manner he defamed the Cambridge Police Department without benefit of the facts, he is scapegoating the insurance companies based on his distorted version of facts.
In the past week, he has ratcheted up his war on insurance companies, who, he apparently figures, must be destroyed if he is to accomplish his Utopian dream of socialized health care. He made them the focus of his wrath again, in his umpteenth health care speech, Monday in Philadelphia. Even the White House blog, in a post titled "Moving Forward to Put the American People Ahead of Insurance Companies," frames this debate as between insurance companies and the people.
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David Limbaugh | Mon Mar, 8 | Share Is Health Care a Right? 3.8.10Episode Description
Most politicians, and probably most Americans, see health care as a right. Thus, whether a person has the means to pay for medical services or not, he is nonetheless entitled to them. Let's ask ourselves a few questions about this vision.
Say a person, let's call him Harry, suffers from diabetes and he has no means to pay a laboratory for blood work, a doctor for treatment and a pharmacy for medication. Does Harry have a right to XYZ lab's and Dr. Jones' services and a prescription from a pharmacist? And, if those services are not provided without charge, should Harry be able to call for criminal sanctions against those persons for violating his rights to health care?
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Walter Williams | Mon Mar, 8 | Share Obama Bribes, Threatens, and Rewards Congress to Pass Health Care 3.5.10Episode Description
All aspects of President Obama's Chicago-style tactics are on display as he cajoles, bullies and bribes the House to pass his health care proposals despite the overwhelming public rejection with which they have been met.
To some, he offers bribes. Rep. Jim Matheson, endangered species -- a Utah Democrat -- succeeded in getting his brother Scott appointed to a federal judgeship. Matheson voted against Obamacare when it first passed the House. With his new-found winnings in his pocket, he now professes to be undecided. He faces a clear conflict between his district and his conscience on the one hand and the bribe to his brother on the other. The conscience will probably lose.
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Dick Morris | Mon Mar, 8 | Share More » See more articles from this podcast.
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Tea Time in America 2.25.10Episode Description
Ever since the first ?Tea Party? convention was held last month in Nashville, Tennessee, with Sarah Palin as one of the keynote speakers, America?s political and media establishments have been reacting with a combination of apprehension and disdain. The Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has called the Tea Party adherents Nazis, while the mainstream media tend to portray them as ignorant and provincial, a passive rabble with raw emotion but little analytical skill, stirred up and manipulated by demagogues to advance their own agendas.
To be sure, the Tea Party?s brand of aggrieved populism ? and its composition of mostly white, angry, middle-class voters ? has deep roots in the United States, flaring up during times of change. But observers who have drawn comparisons to the Know-Nothings, the racist, paranoid, anti-Catholic, and anti-immigrant party that surged in the 1850?s, are reading the movement far too superficially.
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Naomi Wolf | Mon Mar, 8 | Share The Poverty of Stimulus 2.16.10Episode Description
Most economists think that macroeconomic disruptions, such as the current recession, can be understood in terms of aggregate indicators such as total employment, the price level, and the money supply. But this view is misleading, particularly in the current economic situation. Worse yet, it misleads us into counterproductive economic policies.
As the economist Fischer Black explained, an economy matches a population?s desires to the available resources and production technology. When an economy is operating efficiently, expectations are largely fulfilled; desires, resources, and production technology are well matched; and people are reasonably satisfied with their plans, relations, and contracts.
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What, You Have a Better Idea for Cost Control? 3.8.10Episode Description
David Brooks thinks it. David Gregory thinks it. The Washington Post editorial page thinks it. And, what the heck, I think it. If health care reform passes Congress, the final legislation probably won't cut the cost of medical care as quickly as seems possible on paper.
But would the legislation make a good start--as good a start as possible, given political reality? Brooks, Gregory, the Post, and plenty of other critics seem to think the answer is "no." I think they are nuts. And since arguments about costs are likely to loom large in the thinking of nervous House Democrats, it's worth explaining why.
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Jonathan Cohn | Mon Mar, 8 | Share Sink or Swim The GOP?s Dickensian fix for health care. 3.4.10Episode Description
When you consider the differences between Democrats and Republicans on health care, you probably think in terms of scale. Democrats want to enact a big reform, while Republicans favor incremental progress. House Minority Whip Eric Cantor coos, ?We want to take a much more commonsense, modest, incremental approach, trying to address the first issue first, which is cost, and then go on to try to deal with some of the things that the president and Speaker Pelosi want to do.? Within a recent six-month span, Republicans on the Senate floor used the phrase ?step-by-step? to describe their approach to health care an astonishing 173 times.
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Jonathan Chait | Fri Mar, 5 | Share The Public Isn?t Enthused About Health Care Reform. So What? 3.3.10Episode Description
?With the passage of time,? former Bush administration official Pete Wehner writes today, ?President Bush?s decision to champion a new counterinsurgency strategy, including sending 30,000 additional troops to Iraq when most Americans were bone-weary of the war, will be seen as one of the most impressive and important acts of political courage in our lifetime.? Wehner may turn out to be right. And his argument has broader implications that deserve our attention.
Wehner tacitly defines political courage as the willingness to go against public opinion in pursuit of what a leader believes to be the public interest. Fair enough. And unless one believes?against all evidence?that democracies can do without courage, so defined, it follows that there?s nothing necessarily undemocratic about defying public opinion when the stakes are high. After all, the people will soon have the opportunity to pass judgment on the leader?s decision. And they will be able to judge that decision, not by the claims of its supporters or detractors, but by its results.
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A Raw Deal: Farms selling milk straight from the cow vex food regulators, but the demand isn't diminishing.. 3.3.10Episode Description
The word "raw" sounds like something exciting and maybe a little dangerous. It makes you think of bloody steaks and wrestlers and untanned hides. "Milk," on the other hand, evokes just the opposite: motherhood, kids with sippy cups, and Oscar-winning movies. Maybe it?s the uncomfortable juxtaposition of the two ideas that makes certain people so nervous about raw milk. As demand increases, state legislators, regulators and courts are all reexamining the issue of raw milk. But as some jurisdictions legalize while others crack down, farmers and milk drinkers are stuck in limbo.
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Katherine Mangu-Ward | Wed Mar, 3 | Share Weaponizing Mozart: How Britain is using classical music as a form of social control 2.25.10Episode Description
In recent years Britain has become the Willy Wonka of social control, churning out increasingly creepy, bizarre, and fantastic methods for policing the populace. But our weaponization of classical music?where Mozart, Beethoven, and other greats have been turned into tools of state repression?marks a new low.
We?re already the kings of CCTV. An estimated 20 per cent of the world?s CCTV cameras are in the UK, a remarkable achievement for an island that occupies only 0.2 per cent of the world?s inhabitable landmass.
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Brendan O'Neill | Thu Feb, 25 | Share The Visible Persuaders: Advertising as a medium for truth telling 2.22.10Episode Description
Covering up the inconvenient facts of his résumé, donning new identities the way other men change suits, the hidden persuader at the center of AMC?s Mad Men has a talent for duplicity that would seem to place him squarely in pop culture?s rich canon of ad industry villains.
But even with his fake name, appropriated past, perfect show family, and less than ethical approach to client management, Don Draper stands apart from the cynics, hoodwinks, hacks, and evil mesmerists who populate the pages of such anti-advertising tomes as The Hucksters, The Hidden Persuaders, and No Logo. At home in his dining room or at a fancy restaurant wooing clients, Draper may be a lying, boozing con man. But when he?s in his office, dreaming up catch phrases to sell products, the specters of candor and authenticity possess him. ?You are the product,? Draper tells a neophyte copywriter. ?You, feeling something. That?s what sells.? He doesn?t just want to sell us the sizzle of girdles and popsicles; he wants to sell us their souls.
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Greg Beato | Mon Feb, 22 | Share More » See more articles from this podcast.
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February - Health Care in a Free Society - Paul RyanEpisode Description
SOMEONE once said that before there was the New Deal, there was the Wisconsin Deal. In my home state, the University of Wisconsin was an early hotbed of progressivism, whose goal was to reorder society along lines other than those of the Constitution. The best known Wisconsin progressive in American politics was Robert LaFollette. ?Fighting Bob,? as he was called, was a Republican?as was Theodore Roosevelt, another early progressive. Today we tend to associate progressivism mostly with Democrats, and trace it back to Woodrow Wilson. But it had its roots in both parties.
The social and political programs of the progressives came in on two great waves: the New Deal of the 1930s and the Great Society of the 1960s. Today, President Obama often invokes progressivism and hopes to generate its third great wave of public policy. In thinking about what this would mean, we need look no farther than the health care reform program he is promoting along with the leadership in Congress.
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