KERNEN: “In spite of the government, you're doing OK.”SORKIN: “What is your latest read on the website, if you will.”BERTOLINI: “You know, I think too much is being made of the website. We've all had website failures from time to time, and this was a particularly big problem, but I think, really, is the program working behind the website—”SORKIN: “OK, so what about the pool?”BERTOLINI: “So right now we see that only 11 percent of the population is people that were formerly uninsured that are now insured. So we didn't really eat into the uninsured...
Monday, March 31, 2014
Sunday, March 30, 2014
From the oral argument in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.MR. CLEMENT: . . . If they take away the health care insurance, they are going to have to increase the wages to make up for that. And they're going to have to pay the $2,000 penalty on top of it, plus they're going to have to violate their their own interest which is, we actually we believe it's important to provide our employees with qualified health care. JUSTICE KENNEDY: Okay, the last is important. But just assume hypothetically...
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Below is the relevant text of Piers Morgan's comments. Here a few comments.1) Doesn't Piers recognize the irony that the Aurora movie theater and Newtown shootings both occurred where guns are banned? That the movie theater shooting occurred in the one movie theater out of seven showing the Batman movie near where the killer lived? That these attacks generally keep occurring where guns are banned?2) Piers directly attacks the notion that more guns mean less crime. But he never in all his shows dealt with the evidence that...
Friday, March 28, 2014
As anyone should know, topics of controversy invite all sorts of misleading claims to be posted on Wikipedia (also here). Apple Computer is apparently not immune from this treatment. From AppleInsider:At first glance, Wikipedia's article on the first California Apple v. Samsung trial appears to be an attempt to create an unbiased legal outline of events, one that is painstakingly researched and carefully sourced. But as is the case whenever the free online encyclopedia ventures into a subject involving any sort...
Thursday, March 27, 2014
From AFP via News Corp Australia:A CHINESE man has gone on a killing spree following a dispute over family properties, leaving six people dead in a village outside Beijing, police said. The 34-year-old, identified only by his surname Zhao, stabbed several people with a knife in Wanghua in Huairou, in the suburbs of the capital, before being overpowered by police, the Beijing Public Security Bureau said. Six people died and an unspecified number of wounded were being treated in hospital, police authorities said on a verified account on...
Click on figure to make it larger.With the final measure of GDP growth during the first quarter of 2013 just being released (2.6%), I thought that I would graph out how GDP growth has preformed during the Obama "recovery." As economists know, during previous recoveries GDP growth grows much faster than the trend growth rate until GDP growth catches back up to trend. This is the first recovery where that isn't the case. As you can...
With Republicans holding at 74 to 45 seat majority in the state House, Democrats couldn't even a third of Democrats to vote to repeal the Stand Your Ground law. From the Florida Courier:In a rare procedural move, supporters of repealing Florida’s controversial “stand your ground” law forced a vote on repeal on March 20. The House debated and then voted down an amendment that would have led to the elimination of the stand your ground law by a vote of 83-31. . ....
The problem with gun control is that it mainly disarms law-abiding, good citizens. Yee fought for laws that stopped law-abiding citizens from getting guns, but behind the scenes he helped criminals get them. The statement below obviously refers to criminals getting guns. From Fox News:. . . Despite his stances on gun control, Yee allegedly described himself as "agnostic" in these dealings. "People want to get whatever they...
It seems Bryant makes a very simple and obvious point:"I won’t react to something just because I’m supposed to, because I’m an African-American,” he said. “That argument doesn’t make any sense to me. So we want to advance as a society and a culture, but, say, if something happens to an African-American we immediately come to his defense? Yet you want to talk about how far we’ve progressed as a society? Well, we’ve progressed as a society, then don’t jump to somebody’s defense just because they’re African-American. You sit and you listen to the...
My advice is that this woman should get a new lawyer. I may think that gun-free zones are dangerous, but the bank is correct that only the government can be sued over constitutional violations. From Marketwatch:Ivette Ros carries her 9-millimeter handgun almost everywhere, saying it makes her feel safe. Then she brought it to her job at Wells Fargo, where she worked as a branch manager, and it got her fired. So Ros is suing the bank, saying it violated her constitutional rights and other protections afforded under Florida...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
The Washington Post describes the results this way:Negative views of President Obama have hit a new high, according to a poll.The AP-GfK poll shows 59 percent of Americans now disapprove of Obama -- a point higher than the previous high set in December.Obama's approval rating stands at 41 percent. That's the second-lowest figure the poll has ever found. . . . .The media is noting that Obama's approval rating is down to 41% in the new AP poll,...
California State Senator Leland Yee is well known for pushing for more stringent gun control regulations. For example, on his website you can still find this announcement:Click to make screen shot larger.Just announced minutes ago from the Los Angeles Times: "Sen. Leland Yee, S.F. Chinatown figure arrested in corruption raids"Fox News has this:As part of the raids, Fox News has learned that the FBI also arrested multiple people including...
When Todd Atkin made stupid comments in his 2012 Senate run in Missouri it was major national news. Braley's comments are also stupid, but we will have to see if it gets the same extensive national coverage.This first video is simply amazing, with Bruce Braley attacking someone from Iowa for being a farmer and not being a lawyer!WHO-IA: "No Question" Braley's Criticism Of Iowa Farmers Is "Damaging" & "Big Mistake"At 1:45 into the video you have even Bill Press saying that he was stunned by how politically insensitive Bruce Braley's comments...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
As the ABC Channel 7 TV news story above makes clear, the citizen with a gun who stopped the attack was a concealed carry permit holder. The video also notes that the police are putting in for an award for the permit holder. Fox News Channel 32 notes: "Berlin says that Silva stabbed a store security officer several times. He says a customer with a concealed firearm permit ordered Silva to stop, and police arrested him."From the Detroit Free Press:Acustomer with a handgun stopped a shoplifting suspect from slashing a securityofficer...
From the Orlando Sentinel:"It strains credibility when 40 to 50 people a week show up with guns at the security checkpoint and then say 'I forgot.' They didn't forget their ticket. They didn't forget their pants. They've been on notice for over 12 years that guns are not permitted and it's time they be held responsible for violating the law." . . .To put this in some perspective, 16 million passengers travelled per week in 2012. 40 or 50 cases out of that is about 0.0003 percent. But it probably makes sense to say that 16 million...
Given the large majority by which this law passed Florida's House, the question is why this law hasn't been passed in other states. From the Washington Times:. . . Over the past year, schools have increasingly punished children for playing games that involve pretend firearms. Now Florida is leading the nation in stopping this madness. On Tuesday, the Florida Senate will hold a committee hearing on legislation that has become known as the “Pop Tart bill.” The legislation got its nickname from an incident involving Josh...
Either the Obama administration is simply dishonest or this is more evidence that they don't know simple math. Of course, both things might be true.This ad for 25 to 34 year olds implies that there is a fifty percent chance of them having to pay at least $500 in medical bills over the course of a year. In other words, the expected medical bills over the course of a year are at least $250 (it would be more useful to simply state what the...
Monday, March 24, 2014
From Ben Swann's blog:On Thursday, Idaho Governor Butch Otter (R) signed a bill, which would effectively nullify future federal gun laws, by prohibiting state enforcement of any future federal act relating to personal firearms, a firearm accessories or ammunition. S1332 passed the house by a vote of 68-0 and the senate by a vote of 34-0. Alaska and Kansas have also passed similar laws. . . . Introduced by the State Affairs Committee, the Idaho Federal Firearm, Magazine and Register Ban Enforcement Act, will: “protect...
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Saturday, March 22, 2014
My piece starts this way:Can mass shootings be stopped or prevented? The Obama administration's political views prevent it from even considering certain obvious solutions. On Tuesday the Department of Defense released its report on the Sept. 16 Washington Navy Yard shooting. But the report focuses solely on how mental illness of the assailant went unreported. There clearly were mistakes. The Navy did not properly report multiple troublesome incidents during Aaron Alexis' active-duty service. The government did not tell his employer about...
The Berkeley Forum debate entitled “Guns, Crime and Freedom” included: CPRC president and economist John Lott, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Stanford professor Jack Rakove and Robyn Thomas, executive director of the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. The debate took place on October 25th, 2013, but the video of the debate has only just now been releas...
(Click on figure to make it larger.)Over the last few weeks it has been very easy to find a number of stories such as this from The Weekly Standard:As of last week, bitcoin is probably functionally finished as a serious hope of ever achieving mass acceptance as a currency. Because last week, someone stole half a billion dollars worth of bitcoins from Mt. Gox, the world’s oldest bitcoin exchange. . . .From The Economist:THE father has been found...
Friday, March 21, 2014
Sharyl Attkisson was talking with Chris Stigall on WPHT when she explained how things work in Washington:“I wouldn’t surprised if sometimes there is that level of cooperation with some questions. If I need something answered from the White House and they won’t tell me, I’ll call our White House Correspondent. They’re friendlier with the White House Correspondents in general. So the White House Correspondent may ask Jay Carney or one of his folks about an issue and they will be told ‘ask that at the briefing and we’ll answer it.’ They want to answer...
Thursday, March 20, 2014
If you were already concerned about the short distances that electric cars could travel, do not go in either frigid or hot temperatures.The average EV battery range in AAA’s test was 105 miles at 75 degrees but dropped 57% to just 43 miles at 20 degrees. Heat also sliced the cars' ranges but by not as much: The cars averaged 69 miles per full charge at 95 degrees, 33% less than in 75-degree weather. . . .If there is a 57% drop between 75 and 20 degrees, what happens if it gets really cold? I would assume that the distance drops even further....
My op-ed yesterday at Fox News is available here. Well, Media Matters couldn't stay away from attacking my piece. Below I will try to give a quick point by point response.Linking back to a post that Media Matters had on December 17, 2012, Media Matters claims, in their typical evenhanded fashion, that I have been "thoroughly discredited." My response to their claims is available here. Responses to other claims against me by...
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