Wish I’d Thought of That Turn of Phrase

February 27, 2008

The Discerning Texan comes up with a very nice turn of phrase:

Every day, the scientific news is more and more starkly the polar opposite of every single hysterical lie that has come out of Al Gore’s egomaniacal mouth.

No! It’s the “polar opposite” part of global warming, not the other ones about “hysterical lies” or “egomaniacal mouth.”

Just Like Global Warming

The solution to medical costs for Americans won’t be found in the government’s tent.

From the Investors’ Business Daily editorial:

Socialized Medicine: Quebec’s former health minister is tacitly admitting that the system he helped create is not sustainable. It has, as Claude Castonguay has succinctly noted, reached “a crisis point.”

Actually, when 40% of the province’s $60 billion budget is spent on health care, or when public health care costs in Canada are growing at twice the rate of the economy as a whole, we’d say the crisis point was reached long ago.

It sounds like the ‘cure’ is worse than the ‘disease.’

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Just a Hard Working - err - Stiff

Paul Greenberg wrote an acidly sarcastic post mortem of Imad Mughniyeh in the Washington Times on February 23rd.

The lede sets the tone:

In another case of gross disregard for due process, a senior leader of Hezbollah was blown apart on a Damascus street last week without even a by-your-leave, let alone being read his Miranda rights.

What a well-placed jab at the liberals’ emphasis on the line that ‘terrorists are people too.’

Terrorists’ rights - - The Washington Times, America’s Newspaper

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