Robert Goldberg
Bonaparte famously said to “never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.” Thus stands the Kennedy health care bill, placeholder for the hard left dream of a government takeover of the American health system. The bill…
HERZLIYA, Israel — Yom HaShoa began on Hitler’s birthday. Two groups of people were mindful of this dark coincidence. All Israelis — or at least everyone I talked to — knew about the overlap. They thought it was both poetic…
The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen’s Guide By Sally C. Pipes (Pacific Research Institute, 182 pages, $24.95) President Barack Obama has promised to fundamentally change America’s health care system. But before he and his team get…
Despite all his talk of “change,” Sen. Barack Obama’s policy proposals are hardly new. Many are a blast from the past, coming right out of the disco era. A prime example is his plan to raise taxes. Obama has expressed…
Jimmy Carter’s meeting with Hamas has been roundly condemned as another expression of his anti-Israel sentiment. Ken Stein, director of the Institute for the Study of Modern Israel at Emory University, who resigned as a fellow of the Carter Center…
Last week, Barack Obama’s military adviser and national campaign co-chairman Merrill “Tony” McPeak accused former President Bill Clinton of “using divisive tactics and unfairly trying to question Barack Obama’s patriotism.” McPeak, a former chief of staff of the Air Force,…
Now that Nancy Pelosi has started her tenure as House Speaker, it’s time to bone up on Pelosian, an arcane language with semantic origins in both ancient San Franciscan and Clintonistan tongues. From what most scholars can tell, Pelosian is…
Engineering Communism: How Two Americans Spied for Stalin and Founded the Soviet Silicon Valley by Steven T. Usdin (Yale University Press, 329 pages, $40) Engineering Communism is an engrossing and quintessential tale of two American immigrants — Joel Barr and…
If an ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition then Ron Pollack, the head of Families USA, the liberal health care interest group, is the most ambitious health policy wonk in Washington. Pollack has been working overtime as…
Late Wednesday the Senate voted in favor of a resolution supporting government control over “negotiating” for the price of 60 percent of all medicines sold in the United States. The two supporters of the resolution peddle the same lies (yes,…
