Here is the official CEI press release on the motions filed on Friday.
Category Archives: Business
An Historic First
The average Canadian is now wealthier than the average American. Just as the Democrats have been working so hard to ensure.
No Flying Cars
…but the future is bright.
The present is pretty good, compared to mid-century. I hope she’s right about the future.
The Terrible Coverage Of The Massacre
It’s time for some common-sense media control.
The State And Local Income Tax Deduction
Time to eliminate this subsidy to the rich.
The Doctor Won’t See You Now
Thoughts on the current state of the American health-care system, from Mark Steyn:
They gave her the usual form to fill in, full of perceptive inquiries on her medical condition: Do you wear a seat belt? Do you own a gun? How many bisexual men are you now having sex with? These would be interesting questions if one were signing up for eHarmony.com and looking to date gun-owning bisexuals who don’t wear seat belts, but they were not immediately relevant to her medical needs. Nevertheless, she complied with the diktats of the Bureau of Compliance, and had her medical records transferred, and waited . . . and waited. That was August. She has now been informed that she has an appointment with a nurse-practitioner at the end of January. My friend pays $15,000 a year for health insurance. In northern New Hampshire, that and meeting the minimum-entry requirement of bisexual sex partners will get you an appointment with a nurse-practitioner in six months’ time.
Why is it taking so long? Well, because everything in America now takes long, and longer still. But beyond that malign trend are more specific innovations, such as the “Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology,” which slipped through all but unnoticed in Subtitle A Part One Section 3001 of the 2009 Obama stimulus bill. Under the Supreme National Coordinator, the United States government is setting up a national database for everybody’s medical records, so that if a Texan hiker falls off Mount Katahdin after walking the Appalachian Trail, Maine’s first responders will be able to know exactly how many bisexual gun-owners she’s slept with, and afford her the necessary care.
If she’s really paying over a thousand a month for insurance, she’s overpaying. She should cut back to a high-deductible catastrophic plan, and just pay the doctor (or nurse practitioner) herself.
And ObamaCare is just going to make all this much worse.
The Federal Regulatory Tsunami
Scheduled to hit this year, with no warning. It’s like we’re reliving the Roosevelt administration.
[Update a while later]
Related: The wages of Wickard:
“The exhibition of the Hemingway cats is integral to the museum’s commercial purpose, and thus, their exhibition affects interstate commerce,” the court said. “For these reasons, Congress has the power to regulate the museum and the exhibition of the Hemingway cats.”
The USDA acted after a visitor complained several years ago about the museum’s care of the cats. The agency wanted the museum to obtain an animal exhibitor’s license; either cage the cats at night, construct a higher fence to contain them, or hire a night watchman to keep an eye on them; tag each cat; and construct “elevated resting surfaces” for animals, according to the opinion.
Can it get more ridiculous? I often say I’m glad that we don’t get all the government that we pay for, but things like this make me wonder if we actually do.
Four Decades Since We Abandoned The Moon
Some anniversary thoughts (and a mention of my property-rights piece) from Adam Keiper.
The More They Stay The Same
Business as usual in space policy.
It’s interesting to note that Augustine thought it would take six years for the first cargo delivery to ISS, when it really did happen in three.
The Sandy “Relief” Bill
…is a scam. Exactly what you’d expect from this gang.