Tag Archives: Welfare State

Celebrating #Julia’s Circle of Life

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Lawrence Person

You may have heard of the Obama campaign’s attempt to use an imaginary woman named Julia to convince women to embrace a cradle-to-grave welfare state. (And looking at European demographics, we can only assume that’s more grave than cradle.) Naturally, … Continue reading →

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Third Day of ObamaCare Arguments Roundup

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Lawrence Person

(Sorry for the delay, the James interview took a lot of time to whip into shape and post.) Day 3 was all about severability and medicaid expansion: Here’s the official transcript. TPFF/PPACAction final analysis. Buzzfeed has edited together all of … Continue reading →

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Second Day of ObamaCare Arguments Roundup

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Lawrence Person

The second day of ObamaCare testimony, and things are looking up for fans of limited, constitutional government. here’s a passel of links culled from Instapundit, TPPF, NRO and elsewhere: Reading excerpts from today’s arguments, the justices sound extremely skeptical that … Continue reading →

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First Day of ObamaCare Arguments Roundup

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Lawrence Person

Today was the first day of oral arguments over ObamaCare at the Supreme Court. Here’s a roundup of some of the coverage: TPFF offers up a nice primer on the issues involved. Speaking of TPFF, here’s newly hired Senior Fellow … Continue reading →

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Greece: Bailout? Austerity? Stool Samples?

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Lawrence Person

Monty, the guy who does the Daily Doom over at Ace of Spades, is taking a break, which means that I have to do my own damn research step into the breach, so here a roundup of European Debt Crises … Continue reading →

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Euro Bailout Train Derailed: “Germany’s engagement has reached it limits”

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Lawrence Person

Well, ain’t that a pisser. “‘European solidarity is not an end in itself and should not be a one-way street. Germany’s engagement has reached it limits,’ said the text, drafted by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats and Free Democrat (FDP) … Continue reading →

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Why the Tea Party Exists

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Lawrence Person

This piece by Dan McLaughlin encapsulates why the Tea Party exists, and why it has to fight a willfully heedless Republican establishment, so well that I’m going to quote whopping great chunks from it: As anyone with a passing familiarity … Continue reading →

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Going Down, Down, Down…

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Lawrence Person

France’s credit rating, that is. “Standard & Poor’s has downgraded France’s credit rating, French TV reported Friday, while several euro zone countries face the same fate later in the day, according to reports.” Maybe because that “strict” 2012 budget France … Continue reading →

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Slow Motion EuroZone Trainwreck Continues

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Lawrence Person

It didn’t take long for cracks to start appearing among national politicians who are not nearly so sanguine over the prospect of Anschluss II as their counterparts in Brussels. The French people are not wild about it either. But French … Continue reading →

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Scenes from the EuroZone Summit

Posted on October 23, 2011 by Lawrence Person

There have been high level Euro rescue talks going on all weekend. How are they faring? Not well. Just when the eurozone governments thought it could not get worse for Europe’s single currency, it did. Shell-shocked EU finance ministers meeting … Continue reading →

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