Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen
An argument for sacrificing your child to the greater good by keeping him in a (bad) public school.
Crime has not fallen in the United States, it has shifted ― to the inside of prisons.
Most Americans can’t find Syria on a map. Does that matter?
Could our bombing Syria kill more civilians than the chemical weapons killed?
“Crime has not fallen in the United States—it’s been shifted.”
Is it such a bad thing that crime has shifted away from our homes?
I think not.
unless you’ve been wrongly convicted… then, it is terrible.
“Most Americans can’t find Syria on a map. Does that matter?”
Not really. As long as they are aware of other important factors, the latitude and longitude means very little.
“Study: Nearly half of U.S. births paid for by Medicaid.”
Wow. What does that say about the shifting demographics of this country?
“ObamaCare IT requirements being outsourced to India.”
We should just annex them already.
… eh. Talk about expanding the welfare state…
“Crime has not fallen in the United States, it has shifted ― to the inside of prisons.”
I guess that’s a good thing.
“The chemical attack we’re punishing is thought to have killed about 1,400 people: It won’t take all that many ill-targeted explosives to match that death toll.”
What a novel conclusion.
Dead is dead, doesn’t matter whether it’s a chemical weapon or a bomb does it?
An argument for sacrificing your child to the greater good by keeping him in a (bad) public school.
Isn’t a similar argument used to justify Single-Payer health care in Canada?
1) If you give Canadian Medicare a monopsony, it will extract better prices; 2) Everyone should get equally bad care — the rich should not have an advantage that gets them better care; and 3) If the rich have to receive sucky medical care, they will demand improvements.
Sound familiar?