Posting

I haven't been posting very often lately. I'm in the process of re-doing my blog so while I'm working on that and deciding how to deal with the material I want to post I won't be posting on blogspot.

The Health Care bill and inequality

David Leonhardt: In Health Care Bill, Obama Attacks Wealth Inequality

David Brooks: Getting Obama Right

From the New York Times:

The fact is, Obama is as he always has been, a center-left pragmatic reformer. Every time he tries to articulate a grand philosophy — from his book “The Audacity of Hope” to his joint-session health care speech last September — he always describes a moderately activist government restrained by a sense of trade-offs. . .

In a sensible country, people would see Obama as a president trying to define a modern brand of moderate progressivism. In a sensible country, Obama would be able to clearly define this project without fear of offending the people he needs to get legislation passed. But we don’t live in that country. We live in a country in which many people live in information cocoons in which they only talk to members of their own party and read blogs of their own sect. They come away with perceptions fundamentally at odds with reality, fundamentally misunderstanding the man in the Oval Office.

Dang, this man is funny

Colin Powell on CBS

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Glenn Beck: Self-educated genius

Leaving the irrelevant and inaccurate rant about how successful people are hated and persecuted, I do give him a some credit that in this speech he's at least honest about the real health care debate. The real question is: should we let someone die or go bankrupt because they can't afford otherwise available health care? The real conservative answer is, "Yes," not, "Stop the secret Muslim, anti-white, elitist gay-married Nazi, reparations death panels."

It would be nice if he always spoke this clearly.

So much for runaway inflation

Reuters: Consumer prices rise marginally, core falls

Consumer prices rose less than expected in January, while prices excluding food and energy fell for the first time since 1982 . . .

Kinda cool

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