No Runny Eggs

The repository of one hard-boiled egg from the south suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (and the occassional guest-blogger). The ramblings within may or may not offend, shock and awe you, but they are what I (or my guest-bloggers) think.

Archive for August 14th, 2009

Stuck-at-the-airport hot read – Ed Morrissey’s “Rights and Wrongs”

Yes, I missed the morning flight through piss-poor planning and preparation, which always results in piss-poor performance. However, that means I get to read Ed Morrissey’s latest column for American Issues Project, a historical look at why health care is not a “right”:

Rights cannot be confiscatory in a society that respects the individual right to property. That’s why none of the enumerated rights in the Constitution involve confiscation. Americans have the right to free speech, but they do not have the right to demand publication in a newspaper, nor do they have the right to demand that other people listen when they speak. The right to free expression of religion does not involve occupying someone else’s church and using it to your own ends. You have the right to keep and bear arms, but you do not have the right to demand free or publicly financed weaponry. All of those examples involve confiscating someone else’s property or services, whether done through the government or by force individually.

That brings us to the notion of the “right” to health care. As human beings, we want to see people succeed to the point where they can feed, clothe, and care for themselves independently, as that establishes true personal freedom. However, none of us have the right to confiscate the services of a doctor or nurse without their consent, and without their ability to set a price for their time and expertise. We don’t have the right to walk into a grocery story to demand apples when we’re hungry, either, although we should have access to the market without bias when we can properly compensate its owner for the goods.

I can’t put it any better.

Eggs in the air – RightOnline

by @ 5:45. Filed under The Blog.

Fresh from a week of canoeing, fishing and camping in the Boundary Waters (outfitting done, as always, by Tuscarora Outfitters, I’m off to Pittsburgh for the RightOnline conference, hopefully pick up a new trick or two, and run into a heap of old and not-so-old friends. I think, I hope, I pray I got enough sleep up in Minnesota this past week because I’m running on no sleep since about 7 am yesterday.

If Thier Lips Are Moving, They’re Lying

by @ 5:30. Filed under Politics - National.

Is there anything that any Democrat says or does anymore that isn’t hypocritical, pacifying the peasants or a bald face lie?

A video montage for your enjoyment.

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