John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 6, 2009, 10:21 am
From Politico: Democrats – headed into an historic health care vote this weekend — got smacked in the face with a 10.2 percent unemployment rate in October, the government reported Friday. The j...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 5, 2009, 3:01 pm
This just broke. Here’s a link to a live feed from the local NBC affiliate: Officials told NBC DFW that one gunman is in custody and a second was on the run. KCEN-TV is reporting the gunmen wer...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 5, 2009, 2:19 pm
Typical is probably the best way to say it: CBO begins with the baseline estimate that 17 percent of legal, non-elderly residents won’t have health-care insurance in 2010. In 2019, after 10 yea...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 5, 2009, 11:13 am
At Big Hollywood, John Nolte responds to this post by Patrick Goldstein of the LA Times. Nolte correctly points out that a new $150 million biopic of Mohammed — which promises not to show its ma...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 5, 2009, 10:09 am
From the AP: President Barack Obama’s economic recovery program saved 935 jobs at the Southwest Georgia Community Action Council, an impressive success story for the stimulus plan. Trouble is, ...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 4, 2009, 1:41 pm
Well, that didn’t take long. Consumer advocate turned libertarian John Stossel left ABC to join Fox news a few weeks ago. The dogs of media correctness are already barking: I made The New York ...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 3, 2009, 10:08 pm
As I write this at 7:00 p.m. (PST), Republicans have already clinched an expected victory in the governor’s race in Virginia, and are on the verge of taking back the governor’s mansion in...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 3, 2009, 3:14 pm
From Politicker NJ: Controversial robocalls made by the Democratic State Committee that criticize Republican Christopher Christie and seek votes for independent Christopher Daggett continue to be mad...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 3, 2009, 2:50 pm
Now that the bill is on the verge of passage, Ezra Klein is finally having some doubts about the perverse incentives the exchanges might create: I’m a longtime proponent of the exchanges, but k...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 3, 2009, 1:12 pm
Ulm, Germany. On October 28th, the Protestant body council elected its first female to head the Evangelical Church of Germany (EKD). Bishop Margot Kaessmann, 51, won the election in a landslide, re...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 3, 2009, 9:05 am
Whether Democrats succeed in passing healthcare reform legislation in the coming weeks will to a large part depend on the final bill scoring by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The latest report...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 2, 2009, 4:12 pm
I’m stealing this from Ed at Hot Air. The director of a Texas Planned Parenthood abortion facility has a change of heart after witnessing an ultrasound: Planned Parenthood has been a part of Ab...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 2, 2009, 12:13 pm
Senator Joe Lieberman (DI-CT) was on Face the Nation yesterday defending his announcement that he would support a Republican filibuster of healthcare reform if it includes the public option. The liber...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 2, 2009, 11:37 am
Excellent piece by William Voegeli in yesterday’s LA Times: In America’s federal system, some states, such as California, offer residents a “package deal” that bundles numerou...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 2, 2009, 10:41 am
Since September 10th, Media Matters for America has put out 20 tweets declaiming the “witch hunt” Fox News has (supposedly) aimed at Obama’s czars. Several of those linked to posts o...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 31, 2009, 11:33 am
So its Dances with Wolves in space: In lesser hands I wouldn’t expect much, but James Cameron is pretty much the best there is at this sort of thing. Related posts:The British Al GoreThe White...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 31, 2009, 11:00 am
Been saving this one. This is actually a serious academic look at the meaning of Godzilla, something I’ve been interested in myself: Question: Does Godzilla represent the US, i.e. a nuclear gia...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 31, 2009, 2:23 am
A perfect story for Halloween: Previously, if anyone waved a sword at Christopher Lee it was to cut off his head before driving a stake through his heart. Yesterday, however, the blade was for purel...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 30, 2009, 5:04 pm
Before you read on, follow the link and take the quiz yourself. It’s only 12 questions… Okay, you’re back. The average number right was around five. I scored a 12. Now compare yours...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 30, 2009, 12:47 pm
Someone had a little too much time on their hands…but the result is amazing: Click here to view the embedded video. An early Happy Halloween. Watch out for all the little ones this weekend. R...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 30, 2009, 11:53 am
The White House was backing away from the war on Fox pretty hard by the end of last week. Kudos to Campbell Brown for this revealing interview with Valerie Jarrett: Click here to view the embedded vi...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 29, 2009, 5:13 pm
I can remember the November night incredibly clearly. The Berlin wall, approximately 97 miles in length, surrounding former West Berlin, the site of over 900 shootings, 239 deaths, 200 injuries, was ...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 29, 2009, 1:06 pm
Just looking through the 1900 page bill now. What fun! Won’t you join me? Page 211 is where discussion of the public option begins. It looks like the public option is not actually one option bu...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 29, 2009, 11:53 am
From Reuters: The U.S. economy grew in the third quarter for the first time in a year, beating market expectations, as consumer spending and new home-building rebounded, signaling the end of the wors...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 29, 2009, 11:18 am
Here’s the AP, which looked into the data on those stimulus jobs “created or saved”: An early progress report on President Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan overstates by ...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 27, 2009, 1:48 pm
Most casual followers of politics did not pick up on the debate over healthcare reform until some time this past summer. They mostly ignored the umpteen news conferences held by the President since th...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 27, 2009, 12:35 pm
They called this the “Mickey Mouse Project” as a way to indicate the Danish cartoons originally published by the Danish paper Jyllands-Posten: Terrorism-related charges were filed against...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 27, 2009, 12:01 pm
From the Daily Mail: Ministers today faced calls for an inquiry into claims that their open-door immigration policy was designed to make Britain more multicultural and allow Labour to portray the Tor...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 26, 2009, 4:45 pm
Today’s column by business writer Robert J. Samuelson goes a long way toward correcting some of the real myths about the Democrats public option: In the health-care debate, the “public pl...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 26, 2009, 3:16 pm
This is on Drudge, but I couldn’t let it go without comment: A government-sponsored “public option” for health care lives, though it may be more attractive to skeptics if it goes by...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 26, 2009, 1:07 pm
Stolen from the Corner: I think the president could improve his poll ratings markedly if he simply took all the things he has said about Limbaugh, Hannity, Fox News, the town-hallers, and his domesti...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 26, 2009, 12:11 pm
That’s the sense you get reading this new piece on the behind the scenes action in the health reform debate. The piece begins and ends with the political necessity of passing…something, an...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 26, 2009, 10:49 am
A few months ago I signed up to receive e-mails from some of the groups supporting single-payer. Today I received an e-mail from this group that reads, in part: Congressman Wiener needs your help on ...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 25, 2009, 5:44 pm
I took the kids to see Astroboy yesterday afternoon. Both my girls, 8 and 5, thought it was great. Me…not as much. I should say that I’m a big, big fan of Japanese entertainment exports f...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 24, 2009, 1:14 pm
Over at Big Hollywood, someone named Schizoid Mann has a post up about his love for “B movies.” When I think about those elements that I love in my favorite sci-fi monster movies, my mind...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 24, 2009, 10:55 am
There is an interesting discussion going on over at Hot Air regarding whether an individual mandate to buy health insurance would be constitutional. Ed Morrissey seems to have serious questions as to ...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 24, 2009, 2:10 am
File this in the “only in California” department. The California Secretary of State today granted approval to begin collecting signatures to the proponents of a ballot measure which would...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 23, 2009, 6:43 pm
***Refresh your browser if video does not load below. Way back on May 20 we produced and posted a video which we called “The Public Plan Deception“, the purpose of which was to expose how...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 23, 2009, 1:31 am
Back when the “missing link” was announced the NY Times wisely wrote a piece focusing on the hype as much as the discovery. I was sympathetic and wrote that, at best, it was the 2nd bigges...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 22, 2009, 9:14 pm
Jay Cost at Real Clear Politics has a terrific analysis of polling on the public option. He finds that the response pollsters get depends heavily on the wording of the questions being asked. This is s...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 22, 2009, 4:28 pm
The American healthcare system, as presently configured is unsustainable and will eventually collapse. It will collapse due to developing demographic pressures. We are well into the beginnings of tha...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 22, 2009, 11:33 am
In case you missed it, Morgen and I co-authored a piece at Big Government yesterday. Essentially it was another attempt to expose the open secret about the public option, i.e. that it is a marketing s...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 22, 2009, 1:00 am
Take 37 seconds and watch this: Click here to view the embedded video. The White House is monitoring MSNBC. Closely. They have the host’s e-mail address ready. So they can issue corrections...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 21, 2009, 7:30 pm
Uwe Reinhardt is a highly-regarded Princeton economist who is one of the nation’s foremost experts on health care policy and economics. While he is unabashedly liberal in his perspective, he is...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 21, 2009, 10:59 am
Melissa Clouthier alerted me to this post by Donald Sensing. He writes: And to think that George W. Bush was mocked for saying, “If you’re not with us, you’re with the terrorists.&#...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 20, 2009, 10:47 am
Ed Morrissey has a look at the sampling in the latest Washington Post poll, the one that proclaims America supports a public option. Here’s what he found: The sampling comprises 33% Democrats, ...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 20, 2009, 10:37 am
Americans are about evenly split on the question. From the Daily Mail. Related posts:The Pro-Life SurgeDaily Mail Pulls a Fast OneAP Analysis Sounds Just Like Daily Kos
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 19, 2009, 4:34 pm
Coincidence? We report you decide. Here’s Emmanuel on CNN’s State of the Union with John King Sunday (key portion transcribed below): Click here to view the embedded video. I suppose th...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 19, 2009, 12:21 pm
This is a real commercial produced by a group called Act on CO2: Click here to view the embedded video. This is how Marley and Me would have ended if Al Gore had been the author. This bit of ham-fi...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Oct 19, 2009, 11:41 am
Obama’s press team had a strategy, put out videos rather than talk to reporters. That way, they control what the reporter writes, rather than the reporter being able to go off and, ya know, ask ...
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