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H/T Michael Brown I've written in the past (here, here) about idiot Boulder liberals believing anything negative they read about risks of vaccinating children because those liberals are so willing to believe anything negative about any large profitable… more »

The Cato Institute's Michael Cannon blasts presidential hopeful Mitt Romney with both barrels regarding Romney's responsibility for, and refusal to back away from, Romney care and thus Obamacare. As Cannon says, "Romney claimed, 'Our plan was a state s… more »

Many people, including it turns out my father, have serious questions about the political wisdom of Paul Ryan's approach to Medicare reform. My father's problem with it is that he thinks it will be used to hand Barack Obama re-election. I disagree that… more »

A regular reader of these pages, Scott Elmore, has abandoned his company's many-year affiliation with the National Federation of Independent Business over that group's support of Colorado's SB200 which would set up a government-run (or at least quasi-go… more »

The strings attached to President Barack Obama's Monday offer to allow state waivers out of certain Obamacare requirements are designed to earn Obama political credit for appearing flexible while restraining states from actually implementing any program… more »

Over at the Huffington Post, Colorado's own liberal media gadly, Jason Salzman, offered some thoughts about health care politics in response to hearing State Senator Greg Brophy on my radio show, Backbone Radio. My response to Salzman follows: Jason,… more »

Yesterday, on a 47-51 party line vote -- with Senators Lieberman (CT) and Warner (VA) not voting -- Senate Republicans followed their House colleagues in coming through with their promise to get a vote on repealing Obamacare. Despite the rhetoric of th… more »

This page has a live video feed, from 10 AM Eastern until the vote, which should start around 3 PM Eastern (I think): http://cspan.org/Events/Congress-Wraps-Up-Debate-on-Health-Care-Repeal/10737418994-3/ more »

Congressman Ted Poe (R-TX) explains in a piece for Human Events "Why Repeal Really Matters".  It's a solid piece from a solid member of congress, but I would pick a nit with one aspect of Rep. Poe's note: To Rep. Poe: I appreciate the sentiment expres… more »

A letter I received from my health insurance company with my new and not-so-improved premiums for 2011 inspired me to write to my Congress People.  Here's that letter: http://spectator.org/archives/2011/01/06/an-open-letter-to-my-congress more »