A closer look at the actual details of these ideas, however, shows that the White House has done very little indeed – and while it would be nice to say otherwise, the reality is that what President Obama is offering to Republicans is not an olive branch, but a rather insulting joke.
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It’s Not About Him: America’s Decline is About a Lot More Than Obama
February 4, 2010 – 5:26 pm
Time for a Big Picture episode of the podcast: “We have never had, in the history of the world, periods of sustained economic prosperity and growth accompanied by a sustained decline in population. Today, every developed nation in the world is witnessing this decline.”
Political Terrorism
September 12, 2009 – 12:34 pm
I trust that the Department of Homeland Security will now concede that political terrorism does not just come from the starboard side of the political divide:
Rationed Care & The Most Vulnerable Among Us
September 11, 2009 – 9:51 am
If current proposals make law, they will have to find ways to cut costs to make up for all the additional people. Reducing Medicare and Medicaid payments is already on the table. If they are reducing payments and services now, what do you think they will be doing five, ten, twenty years from now? They will begin telling mothers to treat this too early birth like a miscarriage. They will let our children die.
What Does Ruth Bader Ginsburg Mean By “The Populations That We Don’t Want to Have Too Many Of”?
July 9, 2009 – 2:46 pm
Most abortion proponents insist that the disproportionate numbers of minority abortions is an unintended (and surely undesirable!) consequence of this nonetheless important social policy. Thankfully, we have people like Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg around to remind us what an insidious lie this is, as she does in this weekend’s New York Times.
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