Daggers In The Forum

Practice Not Perfect
The practice of medical underwriting — being able to consider the health of a prospective policy holder before deciding whether to offer coverage and what rate to charge — will no longer be permitted after 2014 under the health care law. (NYT, 1/6/2013)

And so insurance as we know it will disappear. 

Next to fall, medical underwriting for life insurance:
Terminally ill? Not to worry. Thanks to President Obama and the Democrat party, you cannot be denied life insurance due to your medical condition!


As The Crow Flies
As the best-selling author Michelle Alexander pointed out in her sensational 2010 book “The New Jim Crow,” various factors, including the methodical mass incarceration of black men, has led to the disintegration of the black family, the disenfranchisement of millions of people, and a new and very real era of American oppression.

As Alexander confirmed to me Friday: “Today there are more African-American adults under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began.” (Charles M. Blow, NYT, 1/4/2013)

Recall that Blow's columns have been referred to as "the punch line for many writers." So here he apparently agrees with Alexander that "various factors have led to the disintegration of the black family." One of these is the "methodical mass incarceration of black men." The phrase purposefully evokes images of Nazis rounding up innocent Jews and sending them to concentration camps. Here, of course, they would substitute "Republicans" for "Nazis" and "black men" for "Jews." The slander is the same. 

The truth, of course, is that the black men that are being imprisoned are criminals, sometimes apprehended by black policemen and sentenced by black judges to prisons with black guards and black wardens. We just finished reading Ann Coulter's latest best-seller Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama. Coulter brilliantly exposes the lies about race that Liberals tell and that the media echoes endlessly. We'll have more on Mugged in future posts. 


Assorted Sins
The Federal Election Commission has fined President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign $375,000 for an assortment of reporting violations.
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The FEC has levied steeper penalties, but the $375,000 fine is one of the largest charged to a presidential campaign in recent years, according to FEC records. (WSJ, 1/4/2013)

Sick of hearing about this yet? What...you hadn't heard?


Repetition
In his December fiscal negotiations with the GOP, Obama repeated many of the mistakes he made earlier in his first term. Rather than come to the table with a grand vision of his own — a real strategy for cutting the deficit and the entitlement programs that drive it — he played a poker game of incremental bargaining with House Speaker John Boehner. (David Ignatius, Washington Post, 1/2/2013)

With Obama safely re-elected, Liberal commentators now want him to get serious - really - about the deficit and entitlement reform. Geez, there was another candidate for president who actually ran on these positions. What was his name again?