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Sibelius defends the indefensible
Originally published September 28, 2010 @ American Thinker. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius writes an utterly unconvincing retort to charges of thuggery in her threats to health insurance companies, in today’s Wall Street Journal. What is amazing about this display is that she doesn’t use the space provided to defend her actions, [...]
Extortion by any other name
You know that when the Wall Street Journal uses the word “thuggish“, to describe a letter from HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that the contents must be serious. Normally the WSJ prefers terms like “political hard ball” and “aggressive tactics”. We have another more straightforward name for this type of Chicago style politics – extortion. [...]
The ‘L’ word
Originally published September 13, 2010 @ American Thinker. What do you call a person that tells you one thing, but knows that isn’t true? For instance, in March the President said “My proposal would bring down the cost of health care for millions — families, businesses and the federal government.” On Friday our President [...]