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After 38 years of collecting blogging material, I finally felt I had enough to start Asymmetric in October of 2006. I've divided Asymmetric into twelve sections covering movie and music reviews, politics from a moderate conservative perspective, reli
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Long lines in Spanish health care system
It's interesting to read foreign newspapers. You're going to have to translate this one. http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/545317/0/esperas/diagnostico/especialistas/ Powered by b2evolution. ...
Think Progress: Misinformed like a fox
My friends alerted me to this post from Think Progress (to which I always ask, "towards what?"). Ignoring the fact that most liberals when talking amongst themselves really want all of the things people are "misinformed" about ("give benefits to ill...
Most Americans not ready for Health Care debate, says TV news
Health care is complicated and boring. That's probably why the press is focusing on the rowdier town hall crowds and sensational statements by Sarah Palin instead of the plan itself. As usual, it's hard to say whether people prefer this to the real ...
BSA: Is there something to the private-public corruption link? Mark Sanford
1. One theory concerning marriage fidelity matters is that one's personal conduct is a good predictor of one's public corruption factor. It may not be a completely 1:1 correlation, but I do think that dishonesty is a habit or: if one practices dishon...
More organized SEIU violence, un-american language
When Democrats accuse opponents of government-run health care of organizing "mobs," I don't know if they're appalled or jealous. The SEIU violence below was organized because the SEIU is "organized labor." The guy with the camera said that he "di...
Democratic health care tactics on offense and defense
Democrats are more predictable than the 79 USC Trojans' offense or an episode of Pokemon. Their lack of creativity was on display this week when congressmen went home to make a case for health care insurance reform. When on offense, Democrats will us...
BSA: Gates incident, Cuba ticker, anti-abortion nurse
1. I've heard people criticize Gates by saying that you shouldn't talk back to the police because "they have a gun." Not only isn't that a funny joke, it's an absurd argument. Does anybody think that .005% of cops would shoot a man for being sassy? ...
BSA: Obama wants to pass health care even though he doesn't know what's in it
1. How does Obama know the health care bill will help if he doesn't even know what's in it? Here. 2. This is because of Obama's management style: He's a delegator, "Go do something about health care, will you?" 3. He does seem to be coming apart. Q...
BSA: Ponying up or ponies, Communion on the moon, health care compromise
1. I wonder if we can take the money we're spending on one of the ponies protected by the ROAM program and give it to the kid below so that he wouldn't have to sell his toys. Embedded video from CNN Video 2. The desire to save horses instead of pe...
BSA: Who's scaring whom on health care
1. The Republicans mention the fact that the federal government is broke, and states that have tried universal care likes Massachusetts are even more broke, and they're fear mongering, according to Obama. Yet, Obama can out and out lie and say that...
Mommycare, nosiness, and the Army: Our Obamariffic future
**I started writing this in an Army line about a month ago. If you've ever been in one, you can imagine why I might want to divert myself.** I'm writing this from an Army base in Los Alamitos where I'm going through a "Periodic Health Assessment" (P...
Why health care won't be a disaster, from a conservative perspective
There's an article in this week's National Review by Mark Steyn which insists that government-run health care provides enough momentum to the statist bowling ball that socialism becomes not only inevitable, but irreversible. It's been true that once...
BSA: Barbara Boxer, making responsible people feel like chumps, again.
1. Barbara Boxer's comments came at a good time, as my friends, reacting to Jonah Goldberg's piece in this month's National Review, said that Fascism is more a function of authoritarianism than the other stuff Goldberg mentions. I replied that the ...
Tort reform in health care- let's have it
In his speech to the AMA yesterday, Obama said that he thinks medical tort reform would be a good idea. Well, if it's a good idea, can we have it now before the rest of the package? Why do we have to wait? Or, does it have to be federal at all? Texas...
