oyvayblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Instapundit quotes Mickey Kaus on the stigma of food stamps: "But a stigma placed on cash-like welfare (which food stamps are) remains a positive sign of a healthy work ethic. If you came across two societies--Society A, in which food stamps were stigmatized, with families reluctant to go on the dole even if they were eligible, and Society B, in which they weren't, you would want...
Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
MICKEY KAUS: STOP STIGMATIZING STIGMA! But a stigma placed on cash-like welfare (which food stamps are) remains a positive sign of a healthy work ethic. If you came across two societies–Society A, in which food stamps were stigmatized, with families reluctant to go on the dole even if they were eligible, and Society B, in [...]
Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
LOTS OF HEALTH-CARE NEWS FROM MICKEY KAUS. Including this sweeping delegation: “[I]n a little known provision, the bill authorizes the HHS Secretary to implement nationwide, without any congressional action, any reform that department actuaries certify will reduce long-term spending.” Kaus comments: “I smell a new Czar!” You know the non-delegation doctrine...
Miss Kelly (Free subscription) | yesterday
From Mickey Kaus at Slate, a blogpost about removing the stigma about receiving food stamps: "Stop Sitgmatizing Stigma!"). As Kaus writes: "But a stigma placed on cash-like welfare (which food stamps are) remains a positive sign of a healthy work ethic. If you came across two societies--Society A, in which...
The West Virginia Rebel's Blog (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Mickey Kaus supports the latter: A stigma placed on cash-like welfare (which food stamps are) remains a positive sign of a healthy work ethic. If you came across two societies–Society A, in which food stamps were stigmatized, with families reluctant to go on the dole even if they were eligible, and Society B, in which they weren’t, you would want to bet on (and live in) Society...
Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
That's where Lou Dobbs is polling right now in the 2012 presidential race, according to a Democracy Corps/Greenberg Quinlian Rosner survey taken November 12-16 (via David Frum , via Mickey Kaus ). In a prospective race between Dobbs, President Obama, Mitt Romney, and Ralph Nader, the polling results are: Obama 45%, Romney 38%, Dobbs 6%, and Nader 4%, among "likely voters." (Obama's...
Opinionated Catholic (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
It just gets to the point where it is beyond bizarre. What is scary is we are seeing this attitude go into other areas. THERE IS NO PLAN B FULL SPEED AHEAD AND DAMN THE TORPEDOS WE ARE ON A MISSION FROM GOD Mickey Kaus , Dem and Comprehensive Care Supporter, has a devastating post at Obama Demands Staff Go Cocoon Themselves . Here is a part: 4) Is it a coincidence that ever since press...
Jaltcoh (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Mickey Kaus seems incredulous that parents who use baby sex selection services usually prefer girls. He quotes this passage from an article in Elle: Seventy-one percent of American families who use MicroSort—which is still in clinical trials—want a daughter. ... “The era of wanting a first-born male is gone, not to return,” founder Ronald Ericsson, MD, has said....
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Mickey Kaus alerts us to the latest Greenberg-Carville’s Democracy Corps poll suggesting that 6% of likely U.S. voters might vote for Lou Dobbs in a Romney-Obama race in 2012. Even tossing a hypothetical Green party candidacy by Ralph Nader into the mix, their numbers raise the possibility that a Dobbs candidacy might well take a serious bite out of the Republican vote. As a third-party...
JustOneMinute (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The Politico points out some of the landmines ahead. Robert Samuelson explains that in the political scuffle between youth and experience, bet on the AARP. Mickey Kaus fears neither asteroids nor Ezra Klein. Finally, legalize and tax. It's a gamechanger.
