CBO Cost Estimate of the American Health Care Act (VIDEO)

I think I've mentioned it, but there's a couple of core elements of ObamaCare that shouldn't be repealed, particularly the protections for preexisting conditions and the provision to allow health coverage for children up to 26 under parents' insurance plans.

Some of the other provisions of ObamaCare, especially the individual mandate, have to go. Doing so would of course weaken the law, making it easier to shift to a more market-oriented alternative. Whatever happens, though, Republicans can't just drop millions of people off the health care rolls. It's going to be political dynamite, as a number of conservatives mentioned last week (see Dana Loesch, for example).

Most of all, congressional Republicans must protect the Trump administration, to say nothing of their majorities in the legislature.

At the New York Times, via Memeorandum, "G.O.P. Health Law Insures Fewer People, Nonpartisan Review Shows."

I personally don't trust the CBO to be "non-partisan," but that's just me.

Also, at CBS Evening News:

Wearing Red, White, and Blue is 'Offensive' at Iowa Basketball Game (VIDEO)

This is pretty messed up.

You can't even wear America's colors anymore without being attacked as "racist."

At Zero Hedge, "It Is Now 'Blatant Racism' to Wear Red, White, and Blue."

Also, at Heat Street, "Iowa Teens Blasted for Wearing ‘Offensive’ Patriotic Attire to Basketball Game."

Lightning Deals

*BUMPED.*

At Amazon, Today's Deals.

And, Brother TN450 High Yield Black Toner - Retail Packaging.

Also, GoPro HERO5 Black.

More, Coleman 8 Person Tenaya Lake Fast Pitch Cabin Tent with Closet.

Plus, Acer Aspire 15.6-Inch Full HD Laptop (Intel Core i5, NVIDIA 940MX, 8GB DDR4, 256GB SSD, Windows 10).

And, NordicTrack T 6.5 S Treadmill.

BONUS: David Horowitz, Take No Prisoners: The Battle Plan for Defeating the Left.

Intersectionality as Religion

Andrew Sullivan got props at Hot Air from John Sexton.

See, "Andrew Sullivan: Is intersectionality a religion?"

Excitable Andrew's arguably a great writer. It's just so hard to get past all of his baggage (don't look over there!)

But I'll give him a link, to be nice, heh.

At New York Magazine, "Is Intersectionality a Religion?"

"Intersectionality" as orthodoxy is shutting down debate on college campuses, says @sullydish https://t.co/90IdlNiBpq

— New York Magazine (@NYMag) March 11, 2017

SEAL Team 6 'Decapitation' Strike Against North Korea

That just has a rad ring to it, not to mention it'd be cool to really "decapitate" the North Korean regime, as in regime change Pyongyang.

At Business Insider, via Memeorandum, "SEAL Team 6 is reportedly training for a decapitation strike against North Korea's Kim regime."

How the Lack of Ideological Diversity on College Campuses Slows Progress and Threatens the Ideals of Liberal Education

From political scientist Samuel J. Abrams, at the American Interest, via Instapundit, "HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Mind The Professors."

Alexa Ray Joel Uncovered for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2017 (VIDEO)

She's nice.

Amazingly so.

Sean Spicer Ambushed While Shopping at Apple Store in Washington, D.C.

I hope the dude has some security with him.

It's just not safe to go about your business on your own. Leftists are truly evil.

Here's some black chick named Shree, attacking the press secretary, via Memeorandum, "Such a Great Country, Such Nasty Bigotry."

Nicholson Baker, Substitute

At Amazon, Nicholson Baker, Substitute: Going to School With a Thousand Kids.

Charlie Rose is Back After Undergoing Heart Surgery in February (VIDEO)

At CBS This Morning.

I'm normally up at 7:00am to catch the opening of the show, but not on Mondays when my son has late start at school. (We can sleep in an hour longer, which is heavenly.)

Charlie's a good guy. Yeah, they're progs on the show, all of them, but I like the more serious news format compared to the morning shows on the other networks, especially Good Morning America, which is vile.

Theodore Draper, A Struggle for Power

At Amazon, Theodore Draper, A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution.

Sunday Cartoons

At Flopping Aces, "Sunday Funnies."



Also at Theo's, "Cartoon Roundup..."

Cartoon Credit: A.F. Branco, "The Shadow Knows."

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

*BUMPED.*

I picked up a copy.

Dunbar-Ortiz gets right into "settler colonialism," starting on page 2 of the "Introduction."

She really hates the U.S.

Know your enemies, people. Books like this have a lot of influence.

At Amazon, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States.

New Michael Brown Video Prompts Massive Round of Fake News

This is so stupid. Even Obama's own Justice Department couldn't exonerate the thug Mike Brown.

At NYT, via Memeorandum, "New Ferguson Video Adds Wrinkle to Michael Brown Case."

And at Conservative Treehouse, "CNN Tries Another Michael Brown Con Job – Everything About The “New” Mike Brown Video is Fraud Here’s Proof…," and from Ed Driscoll, at Instapundit, "NO. NEXT QUESTION? DOES NEW VIDEO IN THE MICHAEL BROWN CASE CHANGE ANYTHING?"

Still more, at Gateway Pundit, "VERY FAKE NEWS: CNN Releases New Mike Brown Video at Convenience Store – Suggests It’s From Day of Shooting."

The Glory of Rhian Sugden

At the Sun U.K., "Spend some time drinking in the glory that is @RhianMarie."

Also, "NEW CBB LINE-UP: Former Page 3 girl Rhian Sugden to be part of most explosive Celebrity Big Brother ever as O.J. Simpson and Peru drug mules ‘join the line-up’ — Model is set to have some VERY interesting housemates."

Rhian Sugden joins the line up of the most explosive #CBB series ever https://t.co/OtmqwvhalW pic.twitter.com/3JhIBrtMGA

— The Sun (@TheSun) March 12, 2017

Far-Right Surge in the Far-Left Netherlands

As you know, I don't think populist nationalist parties are "far-right," but WaPo insists on the terminology, despite the support for Geert Wilders' insurgent parliamentary campaign among people we'd normally call center-left.

A great piece, surprisingly.

At the Washington Post:

Anti-immigrant anger threatens to remake the liberal Netherlands https://t.co/5OvIlBfutY

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 12, 2017

Internet Addiction Resistance

Following-up, "Adam Alter, Irresistible."

Here's a great piece, with the reference to the book, from Ross Douthat:

My Sunday column: Resist the Internet:https://t.co/BNR0FYxWpQ

— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) March 12, 2017

Fabulous Pic Dump

He doesn't do these so much anymore, and thus a rare thing to behold.

At Theo's, "Pic Dump..."

Here's Owen Wister, The Virginian, in Mass-Market Paperback

I posted Owen Wister's book the other day, but at the time I didn't see the Signet mass-market paperback edition that's available.

Here, Owen Wister, The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (Signet Classics).

And it turns out Zane Grey had read Owen Wister to study the format of the Western novel. Here's my previous entry, "Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage."

(I'm not a Western fiction fanboy, so this is new information to me. I do love it, though.)

Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage

Amazing.

This book's over 100 years old and still in print.

At Amazon, Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage.