CANADIAN PROVENCIAL PREMIER DANNY WILLIAMS says he does not regret coming to the U.S. for heart surgery.

Williams tells the Canadian press: "This was my heart — my choice. I did not sign away my right to get the best possible health care for myself when I entered politics."
Despite his run to the border for private care, Williams says he has the utmost confidence in his country's public system.

So why did he come here?

Mark Steyn comments.

OXYMORON

Via Prickly City.

[Update] I should point out that one could substitute "REPUBLICAN" or even "POLITICIAN" and it would still be an oxymoron.

LIBERAL ECONOMICS: Empiricism be damned.

WHY I OPPOSE OBAMACARE: Megan McArdle explains my position perfectly.

DO REPUBLICANS HAVE A PLAN?

[Poll] numbers suggest that the Republicans could well wind up with a majority of House seats next year, and perhaps more than they had at any time between 1994 and 2006. And they could even wind up with a majority of Senate seats, as well, though that would require winning all the currently close races and maybe a couple more.

In that case, they may find themselves asking the question the Robert Redford character asked at the end of the movie 'The Candidate': "What do I do now?"

I hope they have an answer to Barone’s question, but I’m afraid this is it.

GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT: a benefit of trickle-down regulation.

THE LIMITED BENEFIT of comprehensive insurance: “What first dollar coverage ... does is drive costs. Since [it’s] about spending other peoples' money, naturally we want the right to spend as much of it as possible, even if it's not very useful.... I doubt it's coincidental that the health care markets where people pay their own way are the ones where there are more real efforts at cost control, like plastic surgery, fertility, and vision care.”

I think that’s right. When I see my insurance claim form and find that the sum of my copay and the insurance reimbursement is about 63% of the billed amount, I know that health care market is badly distorted -- and likely not in my favor.

THE SCIENTIFIC RATIONALE behind this proposed massive intrusion into American life requires more than a “consensus” of like-minded climate analysts and bureaucrats. It needs to be right.

JUST HOURS AFTER Joseph Stack deliberately drove his plane into the Austin TX IRS office building, the media began speculating about a possible link with the tea party movement.

New York Magazine wrote of his Internet manifesto: "A lot of his rhetoric could have been taken directly from a handwritten sign at a Tea Party rally."

A Washington Post blog read: "His alienation is similar to what we're hearing from the extreme elements of the Tea Party movement."

And Time magazine's online write-up twice included links to a background on the Tea Party movement.

Media commentator Bernie Goldberg writes that: "For the record, there is no evidence whatsoever that Joe Stack belonged to any Tea Party organization or ever attended a Tea Party. None."

I’ve read Stack’s “manifesto” as well, and frankly it reads more like the whining of a self-important, self-entitled, spoiled brat than anything I’ve seen, read, or heard at any of the tea party protests I’ve attended.

NOT LOOKING GOOD FOR OBAMACARE: "Any bill that people have to be bribed into voting for can't any good."

CONGRESSIONAL IDIOT saved by Blackwater.

Even Blackwater makes mistakes.

I QUIT




A pleasant thought, but unlikely.

THE “I” PRESIDENCY: "What's being tested here is not just our [my] ability to solve this one problem, but our [my] ability to solve any problem."

Read it all.

NANNY CARE insults the American spirit.

You are victims. You are helpless against the wiles of big corporations and insurance companies and you need protection. You need the government to take over and do things you cannot do for yourself.

That is the thinking of what David Brooks calls "the educated class"

Most Americans don't share [the] view that they are victims, in need of protection and supervision by "the educated class.

Read it all.

AIMLESS APOLOGIES are just one of the incidental symptoms of an increasing loss of a sense of personal responsibility-- without which a whole society is in jeopardy.

Yes.

And this just in: “Where’s the remorse? Toyota CEO ‘Deeply Sorry’ for Accidents, Safety Problems.” The apology I want to hear from Toyota is this one: “We’re sorry you Americans are too damn dumb to put your foot on the brake, slip the transmission into neutral, and turn off the ignition.”

SENATE MAJORITY LEADER HARRY REID suggested on Wednesday that unemployed men are more likely than women to commit domestic violence.

Former Senator Fred Thompson tweets "Is he saying we should be worried about Mrs. Reid after the November elections?"

Senator Reid is not amused ....

SARAH PALIN’S ROAD SHOW: as seen by Paul Greenberg.

The lady not only knew where she was but, more important ... knows who she is. And makes no apologies for it. That's something else her oh-so-superior critics can't stand. Other politicians are so sophisticated, flexible, plastic, nuanced ... that they seem to have no backbone at all.

Read it all.

TAXES? We don't pay no stinkin' taxes.

THE RECESSION: It's all Kansas' fault.

CORRUPTION: it’s the “Chicago Way.”

Question: Isn't bribery enough for somebody at the Department of Justice to start asking some serious questions?

Answer: With Eric Holder as Attorney General?