Keith_Indy on Aug 25 2009 | Filed under: Around the Web, Keith's Page
nothing could go wrong with that idea… 2 questions: will a 12 guage slug take them down, and will they taste like chicken??
Sphere: Related ContentLee on Aug 14 2009 | Filed under: Domestic Politics
The latest Fox/Opinion Dynamics poll on health care reform has an interesting finding buried midway through it. Respondents who expressed support for the Democratic plan were asked for their reasons. Interestingly, the most obviously altruistic motive –that the reforms would expand health insurance coverage for children and the poor– was most popular among Republicans (21%) and Independents (29%) . A reason that was comparatively unpopular among Democrats (8%). Indeed, the altruistic motive is the top specific reason Republicans and Independent supporters of the bill supplied.
Doubly interesting was the finding that the most popular specific reason among Democrats for supporting the bill, was the most private: that it would personally benefit their own family. Democrats were also fond of the plan’s potential to reduce their own individual costs (14%), a parsimonious motive which was substantially less popular among Republican (8%) and Independent (4%) supporters of the plan.
I’m not sure I would have anticipated these results. They do beg the question of whether some Democratic advocates of the plan are as selflessly motivated as they contend. As for the apparent altruism of Republican and Independent supporters however, it should be observed that since the poll also reveals almost everyone except Democrats now opposes the plan (only 27% of Independents and 8% of Republicans favor it), their sample sizes were inevitably smaller, and thus potentially less representative.
Sphere: Related ContentSynova on Aug 13 2009 | Filed under: Synova's Page
The “right” to free health care is the right to own the labor of other people without their consent.
Any time you’ve got a right TO something like that you take the rights of other people to their own selves and their own freedom away.
The libertarian idea, as I understand it, is that your rights end where they intersect another person. I have a right to “pursue happiness” to make my way in the world, to worship my own God, to feed myself, to supply my physical and other needs, rights to my own body and self-determination, rights to my own property, rights to employ violence to defend my rights (which is pretty much a good way to define what is a right and what is *not*)… just up *until* I intersect another human being. I may not take someone else’s food nor compel their labor nor sacrifice them to my God nor otherwise violate *their* rights in the pursuit of my own.
Sphere: Related ContentSynova on Aug 07 2009 | Filed under: Around the Web
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Synova on Aug 03 2009 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Humor, Synova's Page
From The Other McCain at Hot Air:
“Now, here’s my idea: I told my source to give my phone number to . . . uh, two sources in Wasilla, Alaska, if you get my drift. Because I’ve made my living as a professional journalist since 1986, I’m not really so good at this newfangled making-stuff-up business, but I’d be willing to give it a try:”
What follows is definitely worth the time, the effort and the link.
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