http://spolitics.com/blog Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:44:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The photo below is of a real sign posted in an NHS hospital in the UK and it's indicative of what inevitably happens with socialized medicine: supply cannot keep up with demand and, as a result, care needs to be rationed. Apparently, the situation is so dire in Britain ... http://spolitics.com/blog/2008/11/25/with-socialized-medicine-everyone-gets-screwed-in-the-end/ Unfortunately, according to our President-elect and likely Secretary of State neither of them will be qualified for their jobs: [Hillary] Clinton zeroed in on Obama's remark that his "strongest" foreign policy experience came from living in Indonesia as a child. "Now voters will judge whether living in a foreign country at ... http://spolitics.com/blog/2008/11/22/a-trip-to-the-memory-hole-foreign-policy-lightweights/ Note: This post has been updated. A recent article in Time linked to a review of the Top 25 blogs. Although undated, the permalink suggests the reviews were written last year, which makes one wonder why Time linked to them as if they were still current, but I ... http://spolitics.com/blog/2008/11/22/how-to-lose-credibility-in-one-sentence/ Megan McArdle is pretty ticked off about the selection process Barack Obama is using to build his White House team. It appears his top criteria is that it ends up looking like a United Colors of Benetton ad. More to the point, the worst financial crisis in seventy ... http://spolitics.com/blog/2008/11/21/white-house-team-or-united-colors-of-benetton-ad/ Anyone who believes media outlets simply report facts seriously underestimates the editorial power they exercise. Not only do they choose what to report in the first place (as opposed to what stories to kill) where to report them (front page or last) and how often and in what detail ... http://spolitics.com/blog/2008/11/21/cnns-shades-of-truth/ The S&P had shed over 250 points since Barack Obama was elected President -- a drop of over 25%. That's what you get when you elect someone who campaigned on the exact same policies that led to the Great Depression. But hey... it is change. http://spolitics.com/blog/2008/11/20/sp-down-25-since-obama-elected/ They made headlines with their illegal donations to Obama's campaign. Now that he's been elected, will Obama repay them with power? http://spolitics.com/blog/2008/11/20/obama-to-reward-two-controversial-donors-with-positions-in-his-administration/ It's not that Obama's supporters are totally uninformed; they know all the dirt and gossip on Sarah Palin -- even the stuff that's made up. They know about McCain's slip-ups, too. They just don't seem to know any of the dirt on Barack Obama or Joe Biden. As part ... http://spolitics.com/blog/2008/11/19/anatomy-of-an-obama-voter/ In today's New York Times, Mitt Romney makes the case against bailing out the automakers: Without that bailout, Detroit will need to drastically restructure itself. With it, the automakers will stay the course — the suicidal course of declining market shares, insurmountable labor and retiree burdens, technology atrophy, product inferiority and ... http://spolitics.com/blog/2008/11/19/romney-bankruptcies-not-bailouts/ If liberals weren't concerned about al Qaeda before, they certainly will be after this: Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites. [snip] In al-Qaida's first response to Obama's victory, ... http://spolitics.com/blog/2008/11/19/has-al-qaeda-finally-gone-too-far/