Media Keep Butchering the Facts About Obamacare: New at Reason

Regulation Is Stifling Accessible Healthcare.

IT’S LIKE IT’S DESIGNED TO KILL OFF THE WORKING CLASS: “Obamacare Won’t Pay For My Back Surgery, But It Will Pay For Opioids.”

Cantor comes clean, admits he didn’t believe his own ACA rhetoric.

[Ilya Somin] Obama, Trump and the perils of illegal Obamacare subsidies

HHS Documents Reveal Known Pre-Launch Security Flaws in Healthcare.gov.

OBAMACARE ARCHITECT JONATHAN GRUBER FIRED AFTER FRAUDULENT-BILLING PROBE:

Anyone Taping Me?’ Ellison Reveals How Pelosi Really Feels About Single-Payer.

THEY TOLD ME IF TRUMP WERE ELECTED, WE’D SEE MORE OPEN RACISM THAN WE’VE SEEN IN DECADES. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! ‘Description of their clientele.’ Ijeoma Oluo tweets ridiculously racist tweet about Cracker Barrel.

THEY’D NEVER DO THIS IF THE RACES WERE REVERSED: Trinity College Reinstates Professor Who Said White People Should ‘F***ing Die.’

ELIMINATIONIST RHETORIC: Stanford University course to study ‘abolishing whiteness.’

IRONY ALERT: CHARLOTTESVILLE CANDLELIGHT VIGIL FEATURES SONG FROM RACIST SON OF A KLANSMAN.

The Jammie Wearing Fools quote extensively from an L.A. Weekly article headlined “Little Known Fact: Woody Guthrie Was a Big Ol’ Racist.”

I grew up in the town my father did.  His father moved there (from 30 miles away) just after WW I.

I used to know many of the shop-owners,  most of the kids in thehigh school and all of the teachers.  Now I know a couple shop-owners, none of the kids and none of the teachers.

I used to know all of the police department and most of the volunteer fire department.  Now I know none of either.

The streets used to be lined with beautiful old fully grown trees.  Almost Disney-esque.  But the Obama stimulus money paid to cut them all down and plant saplings.  A generatio after I'm dead it might be beautiful again.

It used to take me an hour or more to walk from one end of the Labor Day Ox Roast Festival grounds (a couple hundred yards.)  I'd stop to talk with people I knew or folks who knew me would come up to me to chat and catch up.  Last week I walked from end to end without seeing a single person I knew.

And yet, somehow, it's still my home town.

SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF ECONOMICS: Cash for Clunkers Was a Complete Failure.

from late July:  As Gas Prices Fall to 12-Year Low, Schumer Claims Gas Prices ‘Never Go Down.’

INEVITABLE: Singapore Startup Launches Cryptocurrency Debit Card.

Nancy MacLean and the Lazy Jury Fallacy

I read Hazlitt's book two or three times a year.  The First Economics Lesson

PAUL KRUGMAN ON ELECTION NIGHT: “If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.”

CNBC, August 2: “The Dow Jones industrial average notched another milestone on Wednesday, breaking above 22,000 for the first time.”

a roundup of the Amy Wax dust-up over at the Penn Law School

Scandal Erupts over the Promotion of ‘Bourgeois’ Behavior

Rachel DiCarlo Currie In Defense of Bourgeois Culture—and Professor Amy Wax

J.  Haidt:  In Defense of Amy Wax’s Defense of Bourgeois Values

MARK BAUERLEIN: GANGING UP. 

 a good response from the "other" side:  I Don’t Care if Amy Wax Is Politically Incorrect; I Do Care that She’s Empirically Incorrect

WHAT, INDEED? Say, Whatever Happened To ‘We Can’t Drill Our Way To Lower Prices’?

ROGER SIMON ON IMMIGRATION AND HOW TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME DUMBS DOWN THE PRESS: “How many IQ points do you lose from Trump Derangement Syndrome or similar conditions of blind political rage?”  Read the whole thing.

TYLER O’NEIL: Trump administration is more effective than it appears.  That was certainly true of his campaign.

BAKE THE CAKE, HATER: Bakers refused to make pro-Trump birthday cake for 9-year-old boy.

I KNOW THEY SAID “CHOOSE THE FORM OF YOUR DESTRUCTOR,” BUT THIS IS RIDICULOUS: Trump Fans Gleefully Appropriate Anti-Trump Chicken for Meme Magic.

THE GRAY LADY MORPHED INTO EMILY LITELLA SO SLOWLY, I HARDLY EVEN NOTICED: Timesmen confuse “fisking” and “fisting,” claim that Dana Loesch wants to “fist” the New York Times, now alternately busy deleting tweets, and/or blaming their “mistake” on Dana.

More from John Sexton at Hot Air: NY Times reporter claims NRA wants to sexually assault the NY Times (Not kidding).

UPDATE: On April 11th, Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner tweeted a link to his column on Dana’s video: “Word of the day is FISK. Ask NRA spox Dana Loesch or see how she uses it here.”

TO BE FAIR, WHO REALLY BLAMES THEM? You Heard It Here First: NY Times Editors Deny Reading Their Own Newspaper. I mean, if they want to know what’s going on they can always read InstaPundit.

AN IMPORTANT LESSON FROM MICHAEL WALSH: This is how the Compromised Media™ creates and propels its own Narrative.

QUESTIONS NOBODY IS ASKING. Wolf Blitzer: People will ask, was the Barcelona terror attack a copycat of Charlottesville?

As Allahpundit writes, “after eight jihadi car-ramming terror attacks this year alone, I think it’s more likely people will ask whether Wolf ate paint chips as a kid.”

one post at a time

PROFILES IN LEFTIST COMPASSION: Is it bad that I laugh at homeless white men for how much they screwed up their privilege, whenever I see one?

“THIS IS NOT A PEACEFUL PROTEST”: Richmond Local CBS Photojournalist Left Bloodied After Unprovoked Attack by Antifa Protesters.  Collectivist thugs gonna thug collectively

ANTIFA GETS NOTICED: Peter Beinart: The Rise of the Violent Left.

REMINDER: Almost three months ago, Steve Scalise was shot by a Trump-hating, Bernie-backing gunman who set out intentionally to massacre Republican congressmen.

The next day: ‘F*ck Steve Scalise’: HuffPost writer wishes ‘violent resistance’ were more ‘organized.’

METAPHOR ALERT: Protesters in Atlanta Vandalize ‘Peace Monument’ After Mistaking It for Confederate Symbol.

CHANGE: A Smaller Government, At Least At 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

BEGINNING TO DECONSTRUCT A FAILED PRESIDENCY: Politico: How the World Fell Out of Love with Obama: In countries key to the president’s legacy, people express profound disappointment in a man from whom they expected great things.  Heck, Obama even disappointed me, and my expectations were fairly low.

WEIRD HOW THE PRESS DIDN’T REALLY COVER THIS: Obama’s White House Boys’ Club: New Obama White House Memoir Reveals Staff Drinking, ‘D*ck Jokes,’ and Womanizing.

Who Elected Donald Trump?

GARY TAUBES FANS WILL NOT BE SHOCKED: Eat fat to lose weight? Scientists say it’s the smart thing to do.

Bad Laws Contribute to Food Waste Problems: New at Reason

Study finds: Corn better used as food than biofuel

So MANY of these coulda been posted under other catagories as well, hence:  YOU CAN HAVE MY BLT WHEN YOU PRY IT FROM MY COLD, DEAD, BACON-SCENTED FINGERS. Why It’s Hilariously Hypocritical For Food And Wine To Lecture About The BLT’s Carbon Footprint:

WHY THE CALORIE is broken.

GO AHEAD, PUT SALT ON YOUR FOOD. 

Alabama Bans Margarita Pitchers, Declaring Them Adulterated