Tom Toles: March 21, 2010 - March 27, 2010

Reading comprehension

Friday rant "I know you are just a cardboard box full of leaves, and you can't fully understand what I'm saying to you, but the excellent news is you qualify for a $400,000 mortgage on a new home! And...

By Tom Toles  | March 26, 2010; 12:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (14)
Categories:  DC, Education  
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Miracle care

Star Wars II I was going to write about libertarians today, but that will have to wait. Some commenters have replied to yesterday's post about manned space flight, and I'd like to respond. The argument that space exploration yields...

By Tom Toles  | March 25, 2010; 12:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (11)
Categories:  Democrats, Health care  
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Health-care horrors

Been there, done that I risk sounding anti-grand-human-quest-for-adventure by saying this, but I for one am pretty happy that U.S. plans to return to the moon have been back-burnered. This is one of the areas (there are several!) of...

By Tom Toles  | March 24, 2010; 12:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (14)
Categories:  Health care, Obama White House  
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Brief history of health care

What about the Grandkids??? There's been a lot of garment-rending about the deficits accumulating under Obama and the effect they'll have on our grandchildren. (These deficits, of course, are completely unlike deficits accumulated under Republican administrations, which don't matter.)...

By Tom Toles  | March 23, 2010; 12:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (7)
Categories:  Health care, Obama White House  
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Drill here, drill now

Okay, so they're smart again now After the health-care near-death experience, the story about the administration's competence now reverses completely. For a second or two anyway. All the preexisting facts will now be reported as having entirely new meaning....

By Tom Toles  | March 22, 2010; 12:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (5)
Categories:  Environment & global warming  
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