125 MILLION WHITE AMERICANS ARE RACIST. New York Times “editorialist” Frank Rich believes that “opposition to the new health care legislation is driven by racial animus.”

And yet Obama’s approval rating has changed 24 percentage points with whites since his election. His race has not changed.

Much more here. Money quote: “We are saddled by ideologues mired in partisanship, practiced in deception, and blinded by their own hatred.”

CLIMATEGATE - the whitewash.

GARFIELD ON THE OIL CRISIS. A lot of folks can't understand how we came to have an oil shortage here in our country. There's a very simple answer.

Nobody bothered to check the oil. We just didn't know we were getting low. The reason for that is purely geographical. Our oil is located in Alaska, California, coastal Florida, coastal Louisiana, North Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Texas.

Our dipsticks are located in D.C.

Any questions?

YOU LEARN SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY.



I didn’t know islands could tip over and fall into the ocean ....

Linked from Michelle Malkin, where a commenter remarked “Something tells me this is the guy that other Congressmen send out to bring back a bucket of prop wash, or a spool of flight line, ….”

“HAVE YOU EVER SEEN a more gleeful bunch of politicians than the Democratic leadership of the House as they prepared to ram the health-care bill or bills into law? ... The smiling faces brought to mind a group of Roman solons marching triumphantly toward Vesuvius.”

Enjoy it all.

A FAINT LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL? If preliminary summaries of Obamacare are true, it looks like individual health insurance will soon be a better deal than employer-provided health insurance. In the individual market [with the pre-existing condition limitation gone], you can now wait until you're really sick to buy insurance: "Heads I win, tails I break even."

Commenter Robert astutely observes:

Something is being left out of the "heads I win, tails I break even" argument. Even within the new system, there is a strong incentive to buy insurance even if you are healthy. In fact, the primary reason I carry insurance now is that it allows me to take advantage of the insurance company rates for routine care. For example, a physical with lab work costs about $600 if you are uninsured....but only about half that if you are insured. What I do is carry a relatively cheap high deductible ($10,000) policy (effectively, I pay for my own care), but I pay dramatically reduced prices because I get the BCBS rate for care instead of the MSRP.

For example, I recently had an MRI. The MSRP was $1,200, but the BCBS negotiated rate was $400. Since I have not met my high deductible, I had to pay, but only the $400. Simply by virtue of being insured (if barely), I avoided an $800 incremental expense. Those of us in the private/individual insurance market are well aware of this incentive to carry insurance. Even under the new regime, I will have a very muted incentive to play the "heads I win....." game because of the access I have to negotiated prices by virtue of holding a cheap, high deductible policy.

So maybe there’s hope for me yet if by banning preexisting conditions ObamaCare allows me to finally buy that high-deductable policy I want on the individual market.

ZERO EMISSION VEHICLES AREN’T. Imagine that. Pretty soon the world will be shocked, ... shocked! ... to find out that the only things that are zero emission are also dead.

GROUP WORK = GROUP THINK. “Collaboration, or working in groups, is a favorite pedagogical strategy of hung-over graduate teaching assistants, soviet indoctrinators, educators with advanced degrees, and social studies teachers too dumb to do anything else.”

And the truth is it’s more than an educational pedagogy problem - it’s a workplace problem when collaboration is mistaken for productivity.

TROOPS ABROAD will lose a taste of home. No more obscene amenities.

LEFTIST LOONS: The 5 craziest attacks on Tea Parties.

APRIL FOOL'S DAY has been canceled.