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July 31, 2009
First, I and my family have been exceedingly fortunate in never having to want for heath care.  The USAF, read the Government, provided heath care for both me and my family while I was on active duty, some 27 years.  When we were at remote locations the family had access to whatever medical [...]

From a friend
by Garrison Keillor
 
I have made fun of Lutherans for years - who wouldn’t, if you lived in Minnesota? But I have also sung with Lutherans and that is one of the main joys of life, along with hot baths and fresh sweet corn.
 
We make fun of Lutherans for their blandness, their excessive calm, [...]

Who’ll blink first: the unions, or the White House?
July 30, 2009

The Obama Administration unveiled its new “Race to the Top” initiative late last week, in which it will use the lure of $4.35 billion in federal cash to induce states to improve their K-12 schools. This is going to be interesting to watch, because if [...]

The danger is that ObamaCare will stifle medical innovations that could save patients like me.
July 30, 2009

By MYRNA ULFIK
I have been battling non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, an incurable blood cancer, for the past nine years. Last year, I was also diagnosed with uterine cancer.
I didn’t run to Canada for treatment. Medicare took care of my needs right [...]

Democrats should be asking: What would Big John do?
July 30, 2009
By Kimberley Strassel

If anyone might have the right to revel in a bit of health-care schadenfreude, it’s John Dingell. Nancy Pelosi and Henry Waxman ought to feel lucky he’s foregone the pleasure.
The Michigan Democrat, at least until last year, presided over the powerful Energy and [...]

The House bill would harm businesses’ ability to offer insurance.
July 31, 2009
The worst thing that can be said about the House health bill is what’s in it. Presumably that explains why Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office zapped as “false and misleading” one of our recent editorials—on the 1974 federal law known as Erisa that lets large [...]

Another $16 billion not available to other car makers.
July 31, 2009
As everyone else’s taxes rise, one favored outfit may not have to pay federal taxes for years: General Motors. In another sweet deal from its benefactors on Pennsylvania Avenue, the government-owned car company is set to profit from billions of dollars in tax breaks not [...]

Blue Dogs retreat with a whimper.
July 30, 2009
By Kimberley Strassel
If House Democratic Blue Dogs have become known for anything, it’s their never-ending capacity to cave under pressure from their liberal leadership. And so it came as no surprise yesterday that the Blue Dogs’ loud revolt over Nancy Pelosi’s health-care bill ended with a whimper.
Arkansas Democrat [...]

The organization displays a strong bias against Israel.
July 30, 2009

By NOAH POLLAK
Over the past two weeks, Human Rights Watch has been embroiled in a controversy over a fund raiser it held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. At that gathering, Middle East director Sarah Leah Whitson pledged the group would use donations to “battle . . . [...]