Better Banter

This is just maddening stuff. Hillary Clinton has decided that she knows best about what you should purchase for yourself, and if you disagree, she'll just take your money anyway. Clinton further noted that "there are a number of mechanisms" that could be used, including "going after people's wages, automatic enrollment." As the Associated Press notes, "Clinton said such measures would apply only to workers who can afford health coverage but refuse to buy it, which puts undue pressure on hospitals and emergency rooms." There is a tendency in this country to confuse health insurance with health care. Strangely, health care has been around millennia, while health insurance is a relatively recent invention. How did anyone get health care without insurance? Well, they paid for it. Or they didn't get it. We certainly don't want to revisit a world where the poor cannot see a doctor. But have we gone so far as to say that you can't get health

We have seen, over the course of a truly remarkable Republican primary season, a number of experienced, well-qualified candidates, each of whom would be a marked improvement over either Democratic nominee. In fact the depth of the field this year made any type of consensus quite improbable, such that the talk of pundits a few weeks ago was that we'd have a brokered convention. Now, improbably, on the eve of Super Tuesday, we have sudden clarity, and even a presumptive nominee. John McCain has all but sewn up the nomination, if you read the papers. I'm not so sure, but even if I were, I feel it's my duty to make an appeal, for whatever it's worth, for a different path. Mitt Romney is a man of many accomplishments, and has a record to be proud of. The case for Romney flip-flopping is really one for the left to make, not the right. Not because we shouldn't criticize our own, but because I believe he's showing his true colors, and if anyone might have been duped, it