Monday, May 04, 2015

This is on Huffington Post about Carson.

Public speaking is not his forte. He makes inflammatory comments continuously. I am curious about something. I haven't been able to find the information online. How many Medicaid patients and Medicare patients does he have? What does he think of the infamous "Doc Fix?"

October 13, 2013

...Back to the specific point (click here) of Carson's transitive historical principle. If it's valid, then because Joseph Stalin himself ordered all abortions outlawed in the Soviet Union in 1936 (except in cases where the life of the mother was in jeopardy), it must follow that to oppose abortion in America today makes you a Stalinist.
To be clear, I don't actually think that's true at all. Opposition to abortion doesn't make you a Stalinist, just because Stalin himself outlawed it. But it's a fair reminder of what passes for historical analysis on the right these days.
Back to the Lenin quote. By now it shouldn't be a surprise to learn that -- leaving aside whether the quote itself has any probative value relative to the Affordable Care Act -- in all likelihood, Lenin never said it....