Friday, August 21, 2009

Steve Kangas's Home Page

Here's a link to a mirror of Steve Kangas's Web site. There's a treasure trove of liberal reading material here:

Steve Kangas's Home Page

FAIR's Media Contact List

Here's a handy list of Who to write to and Where:

FAIR's Media Contact List

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Health Care Bogeyman, part (I lost count!)

Does the government actually run the BEST healthcare?
People on the right rail against "socialized medicine" without actually knowing anything about socialized medicine. Somehow, the inclusion of the word "socialized" is supposed to frighten us, especially if we don't know what it means. Coming in a close second is the phrase "government run (insert anything here)." Normally accompanying any rant against government-run whatever is something like "government can't do anything right" or "I wouldn't trust the government to walk my dog." (And I doubt very much that the government aspires to walk anyone's dog. Except, of course, the official Government Dog. Which might be Bo, at the moment.)

Government actually does do things right, which is not surprising, since government is "we, the people." We, the people, are actually capable of doing things right from time to time. Has anybody crossed a street lately? A paved street? One with, perhaps, street lights? A stop sign or -- for the deluxe version -- a stop light with a cross walk and a "Walk... Don't Walk" sign? Blame it on the government. Get any mail lately? Damn government bureaucrats at work. Had the fire at your house put out by those folks with the red (or yellow, these days) truck? Was that serial rapist/murderer/burglar apprehended? Did you fly in an airplane that managed to safely take off, climb, cruise, descend, and land? It was those blasted government folks again.

And didn't a vast number of government agents defeat a couple of military powerhouses 64 years ago and save the world, including your sorry ass (or the sorry asses of your forebears)? Well?

Or maybe you think your precious Ayn Rand could have gotten Hitler to shrivel and die with little more than a withering glance.