Obamacare, like ogres and onions, stinks and has layers. Repealing it involves removing those layers and at the very least putting things back the way they were (ideally, making them better.) Given that congress never wants to: a) relinquish power or b) stop funneling money to their states/congressional districts, removing these layers was going to…
Month: June 2017
Political Football
Over the weekend, I engaged in a discussion with Friend of the Blog @tmi3rd. The topic of our discussion was what to think about shutting down a Shakespeare play over what Julius Caesar looks like. In part, going through my mind was this article by Popehat on free speech principles. A few points to get…
Apparently We Won’t Always Have Paris After All
The problem with “the Pen and the Phone” is that every president has a pen and any number of phones. What’s easily established is just as easily destroyed. Yesterday, Trump “Pulled out” of the Paris Accords, and I’m going to take a little different approach here and say: The arguments for leaving the Accord were…