The Loudest Cricket

Not surprisingly, we don’t hear a peep about tort reform from the trial-lawyer-Democratically-controlled Congress or President.  But the litigation costs of medical malpractice in the US was $30.4 billion, double what it was ten years before.  Any real health-care reform must include changes in tort and we won’t get that out of a Congress wholly [...]

Predictably, the Freep doesn’t like the health-care bill because it doesn’t give the government enough control of the entire system.  The polls show a majority of the people prefer their current health-care over the proposed system.  They (rightfully) fear handing over the reins to Washington.  The Freep complains about the sustainability of the current system:
That [...]

Obama claims that the cash-for-clunkers program has used up all the appropriated money set aside for the trade-ins.  But the real reason the program has ground to a halt:
The chaos began after auto dealers warned the government Thursday it was losing track of how many trades had been made.
And these people want to run our [...]

Everything the government does is about control.  They want to control every aspect of our lives (not their lives, just ours).  And they usually get away with it because we let them, especially when there’s a crisis.  9/11 brought us the Patriot Act which allowed the government to look at what books we checked out [...]

The Freep thinks that there is some confusion with the Chrysler summer shutdown, particularly whether or not union members can file for unemployment during the mandatory vacation days they used during the closure.  But the union contract clearly states:
“Chrysler employees will be required to utilize two weeks of their vacation entitlement for a mandatory shutdown. [...]

Members of the ruling class, those in our federal, state, and local governments, are more equal than those of us in the ruled class.  Government employees pay less out-of-pocket for their health-care than the private sector.  Where I work, we recently switched from the very nice, but very expensive Blue Cross to the somewhat nice, [...]

$6.25 million or $14 million, either way it’s a lot of money for one person over five or six years, especially in a cash-strapped Detroit.  The city council wants to know where all the money went.  I want to know why the city council hasn’t been on top of this for the last five years.  [...]

While I support the plan laid out by Democrat Andy Dillon, it’s important to remember that Republicans came up with the idea back in 2005 and it was summarily shot down by the Democrats.  I guess a lot has changed in four years.

Another good reason we should all be thankful that Al Gore didn’t win the presidency – coldest July Chicago has had in 67 years.  With an average temperature of about 69 degrees, in July, in a large city, no wonder the moronic global warming crowd has changed their tune to global climate change.  Also, it [...]

Everyone involved acted stupid.  Not to be outdone in stupidity, the president got in on the circus.  While Gates was a jerk, and probably still is a jerk, it’s no reason to be arrested.  There is not law against being a jerk, nor should there be one.  We are not a land of laws but [...]