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Rep. Roskam (R-IL) shakes his Etch-A-Sketch as Pres. Obama looks on. from C-SPAN “[The American people] … have rendered a judgment about what we have attempted to do so far,” said Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) at the president’s big health care meeting last week.30+31 “[P]ut that on the shelf and … start […]

(Analysis.) Since the Democratic leadership has ignored the “Medicare for All” bill and has instead opted to keep for-profit companies in the basic medical insurance business, though in competition with a non-profit public option, those companies have focused on scuttling that public option.3031 The companies complain that, as a recent ad […]

(Analysis.) In his inauguration speech, President Obama made this appeal:x50

[T]he time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history …”

But when a child clings to childish ways, an adult should be firm. In a news conference last week, Obama […]

(Analysis.) Why should an American want to be a citizen of the great United States, instead of just a member of one’s own little tribe? What is the purpose of the United States? The preamble to the U.S. Constitution answers that question:

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more […]