The House yesterday passed, by a margin of 225-204, the reauthorization and expansion of the State Child Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP). The bill will expand healthcare coverage for children whose families have enough money to be ineligible for medicaid but too little money to have...
Month: August 2007
Via Matt see Max Blumenthal's video of a rally for Christians United for Israel.Several months ago on Colbert, Zev Chafets made a funny comment about evangelical Christian support for Israel..
Shorter Fred Thompson:I can say without the slightest trace of hyperbole that Leslie Southwick reminds me of a pious old Puritan woman who was hanged on suspicion of being a.
This is just awful. For eight years in graduate school, this was the bridge I took to the U. of M. campus. And as you might expect, it took about 30 minutes before the mouth-breathers at Little Green Footballs were performing complex numerological calculations in...
Bernie Brewer no longer slides into a mug of beer after a homer (even a Prince Fielder homer!), but just...goes down a slide at the kiddie park behind the bullpens.
Since one fan sez that the last Harry Potter book sucks I was clearly correct never to read any of them! Whew.
I agree with Roger. The good citizens of Maine should, by referendum, vote on Chief Justice Roberts's medical treatments and whether or not he should be permitted to stay on the bench, and hopefully they won't listen to any of those hoity-toity "doctors" with their...
Legislation has been introduced in the Ohio legislature requiring women to not merely inform fathers before obtaining an abortion but to obtain written permission. And why not? Given that a.
The UK once used New South Wales - now Australia - as its penal colony, shipping its convicts to the ends of the earth instead of making space for and.
I will have more on Bergman and Antonioni soon, but in the meantime I should note that anyone who thinks that people who admire Bergman do so because they are "embarrassed by the movies" couldn't be more spectacularly wrongheaded. The idea that nobody can enjoy...
The Wall Street Journal asserts that there's no possible way that Rupert Murdoch will compromise its journalistic standards:The nastiest attacks have come from our friends on the political left. They.
Loomis asks an interesting question:I have been thinking about some of the implications of Michael Moore's Sicko. Specifically, why is the United States the only nation in the developed world.