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Flawed Thinking

Alan Partis | March 24, 2010

A popular refrain from Obamites is that the Republicans are just the party of "no" and didn’t participate in the process of crafting this obamination of a health care plan.  As a result of this, "they" say, it was all up to the Democrats to craft the whole thing.  So, "they" conclude, the people who don’t like obamacare, should blame the Republicans.

The Time Warner Communists

Alan Partis | January 13, 2010

I will never look at today’s Time Warner and its many subsidiaries the same way again.

Manhood Missing in Denmark

Alan Partis | January 5, 2010

Perhaps Denmark’s definition of manhood differs from my own, but this guy must surely fail to meet any threshold.

Good For the Government Watchdogs

Alan Partis | September 8, 2009

Education Secretary Arne Duncan acknowledged that some prepared guidance for school officials included a suggestion that students could compose essays stating how they could help support Obama and his causes – an idea the he acknowledged was wrongheaded. The logical conclusion is that in the absence of the protests from vigilant government watchdogs, these “wrongheaded” suggestions would have gone through.

Stimulus Not Stimulating

Alan Partis | July 8, 2009

While it is relatively old news and widely known that the Obama administration’s $787 billion stimulus package, also known as the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009," wasn’t designed to dump large amounts of cash into the economy in a hurry, VP Joe Biden’s recent remarks about it are still striking1. Nor is [...]

Name One

Alan Partis | June 10, 2009

Mr. President, if you’re going to make claims about something highly doubtful, please be man enough to provide specific examples that back up your position.

The Associated Press’s Agenda

Alan Partis | June 3, 2009

I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating until everyone begins to get it: consumers of news should carry with them a very healthy dose of skepticism and question everything. We are constantly being lied to and manipulated by politicians and their media allies in an attempt to advance an agenda that thinking people would reject outright if only these people would be more intellectually honest about their desires.

50 Million Uninsured — Really?

Alan Partis | April 12, 2009

From the outset, let’s be very clear: everyone in the USA has access to medical care/services. What we’re talking about his the number of people who have an insurance policy that can arguably reduce the cost of medical care on a per individual basis.

Somebody Is Lying To Me!

Alan Partis | March 15, 2009

In a column I wrote yesterday, I lamented the fact that Obama’s graph seemed truncated and caused me to be suspicious that further back data would not support his thesis as much. Further research on my part has borne this out. Piketty and Saez do have a graph that does back 67 more years than the one Obama published.

Just the Facts, Ma’am

Alan Partis | March 14, 2009

I heard Mike Malloy, a liberal talk radio host, the other night make the claim that 1 in 9 homes in America are now sitting empty due to foreclosures. That’s patently false, but the figure was used repeatedly and was the basis for all his following arguments in support of the economic plans and policies of his champion: B. Obama.