Operative BJ writes in with alarming news: Hey, you in the chair! Operative BJ is happy to have you and you and you pay for him to enjoy his 8-week tanning treatment through your tax dollars. And no, Operative BJ … Continue reading →
Hey, in case you missed it because the media cannot comprehend the impact of it, Obamacare died Monday afternoon. Basically, this is true. Before you get overwhelmed with optimism and put on your Ronald Reagan straw hats and fire up … Continue reading →
Island Dweller presents with an exchange between him and his Esteemed Associate: Your esteemed majesty: Your minion here on the Island express-shipped Lobot-Ami back to EA in a heated crate to avoid our feathered friend becoming frostbitten, or hitching a … Continue reading →
Perhaps you heard that over 2 million people have participated in Obamacare since October. This has been a major story on many Obama-friendly news outlets, as they celebrate how wrong conservatives were to celebrate the broken website issue in October. … Continue reading →
CBS News took a look at their polling numbers for President Obama over the last 12 months and concluded things aren’t going well for him. It could be worse than even this. Of interest is their conclusion that three things … Continue reading →
This landed smack dab in the middle of Dr. J.’s Facebook feed this morning from none other than Dr. Benjamin Carson: It is going to be increasingly difficult to attract outstanding students to pursuing careers in the medical field. This … Continue reading →
JAB, who deep fries even the turkey stuffing, writes in on Thanksgiving: Your Czarness: With Organizing for America sending out talking points for how to promote Obamacare at the family Thanksgiving table, I propose a competition: For every OFA point-spouting … Continue reading →
All right, the Czar will explain the liberal mindset yet again, but this time we will explain what the deal is with Obamacare. Even though polls are showing liberals are dumping on Obamacare (a recent poll showed only 12% of … Continue reading →
The following essay is a guest post from Island Dweller because it seems the Czar doesn’t post anything of his own lately. But this great news, because we remind our readers that you are welcome to submit your thoughts either … Continue reading →
The following essay is a guest post from Island Dweller. We remind our readers that you are welcome to submit your thoughts either as an email or as a complete essay. A certain well-known radio talk show host this afternoon … Continue reading →
Island Dweller has some observations: Losing Our Cool, are we? Your immenseness: I had cause to laugh yesterday while watching an out-take from Megan Kelly’s show on FoxNews that featured an interview she attempted with Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of Rahm … Continue reading →
Our guest writer today is no less a celebrity than JAB, who writes to you from the Doublewide. “’The gentle but powerful influence of laws and manners had gradually cemented the union of the provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and … Continue reading →
So after about 45 days, something less than 50,000 people have actually signed up for Obamacare. Wasn’t it supposed to be 30 million? And then 300 million? Oh, and it turns out this number may include people who simply went … Continue reading →
Inevitably, future historians will write detailed biographies of President Barack Obama as they have done for all the presidents. God willing, President Obama will enjoy a long, happy retirement with his family and take the time to read some of … Continue reading →
Our able accountant SW—who is so good most of us retired on 401(l) accounts—has a chilling thought about Obamacare and illegal immigration: Just a thought. I read that many large companies are all in for amnesty for illegal aliens. I … Continue reading →
Mika is so depressed over ObaamCare’s inexcusably inept roll out, she attempted to burn down the set of Morning Joe early Monday morning, screaming, “If I can’t believe in Obama (PBUH) any more, I don’t want to live, and you’re all … Continue reading →
Island Dweller writes (and so should you!): O most dread, awful, omnipotent, omniscent, etc etc . . . Mother Jones magazine recently published the results of a public opinion poll conducted in part by James Carville. The results of the … Continue reading →
Sundays are great when other people do our writing for us. Keep the letters inbound, folks! The Czar might have this up even sooner, but he prefers a Windows operating system and lately it takes forever for this thing to … Continue reading →
America is now a nation full of people willing to be the 36 year old “kid” living in their parents’ basement, eating their food and paying for nothing.* Sure, Healthcare.gov blows chunks. And sure, anyone with a brain in their … Continue reading →
David Axelrod, who continues to advise President Obama on campaign strategy—that in itself should be a subject of concern for all Americans—incredibly doubled down on the most unkept promise in recent history: “If you like you current healthcare plan, you … Continue reading →
The Czar elects to look at some common memes in the press, and reveals his hunch about each. These aren’t predictions—just gut feelings. Claim: The Republicans are going to pay dearly for the shutdown. Hunch: The public has already moved … Continue reading →
America’s welfare state rewards self-centered freeloaders like Margo Smith, and ObamaCare will only exacerbate America’s free rider problem. Meet Margo Smith. Ms. Smith is a sixty-five year old grandmother. Ms. Smith is also a lazy, greedy, unrepentant self-entitled freeloader. “Gee, ‘Puter, … Continue reading →
So far, the good news about Obamacare is that very few people can actually get it. Yesterday, millions of people watched (or re-watched) The Daily Show’s brutal attack on both Obamacare and to a lesser extent the President himself. Indeed, … Continue reading →
You might like Jon Stewart. You might not. Indeed, you might loathe him. But his Daily Show put together the most horrific, scathing takedown of Obamacare and its dysfunctional Healthcare.gov yet done—horrific because it is all true. Given Stewart’s influence … Continue reading →
The UK has been running a publicly-funded healthcare system since 1948 imaginatively named the National Health Service (NHS). As GorT was trolling his tech sites this morning – yes, tech sites – he came across a discussion pointing at a … Continue reading →
Mark Spahn of West Seneca, NY, is one of our favorite correspondents. It is important to know that this is a cover, because he is technically closer to Lackawanna than he is to the geospatial center of West Seneca. Just … Continue reading →
More polling news today, and the situation is even worse for media reporting. Breitbart.com perfectly sums up the media critique, so check it out. Bottom line is that Obama’s approval rating is now at 37%. The GOP and Democrats, people … Continue reading →
If anyone’s got a herpetic monkey wang, it’s the drummer for Lancelot Link and the Evolution Revolution. Good luck with getting your “little problem” treated under ObamaCare, Mr. Drummer! Eugene Robinson, an ever-reliable Obama sycophant, parrots the White House’s ObamaCare talking points in … Continue reading →
Many minions write to the Czar in an overtly supplicating tone, apparently terrified that the Czar will unleash some horrific punishment onto them. Ridiculous! The Czar encourages and welcomes all manners of correspondence with his minions, for he truly respects … Continue reading →
Well, the gun control arguments have been disarmed, and we can pretty well bet that gun control will never happen at this point. The US Senate won’t even entertain new legislation concerning firearms. Done. Dead. Finished. Also, forget about global … Continue reading →
Against quite long odds, the House GOP has decided to stick it to the Obama administration and will fund a continuing resolution minus the required Obamacare portion. This, despite condemnation from the President and Senate, as well as a great … Continue reading →
Republicans are pretty annoyed with each other over the Obamacare funding deadline. Many Republicans want to defund Obamacare by passing a continuing resolution that funds everything budgeted for the government except Obamacare. The problem is that while this will pass … Continue reading →
As you know by now, Obamacare is not just failing, it is basically collapsing in on itselfand most of the law has not even been implemented yet. The Czar used to hold town hall meetings in his day. Guess how we … Continue reading →
Some marriages are more equal than others… A number of workplaces across the nation including many ivory towers of enlightened thinking have, in the last several years, extended employee benefits to same sex partners. It was surmised that it since … Continue reading →
Island Dweller carefully wrote this onto a stick of gum, chewed it to get it past security, and placed this on a Castle window for us to find and reconstruct. Unless we are wrong in how we deciphered the squiggles … Continue reading →
So Island Dweller is a bit hot under the collar. And why not? Your immenseness The news just keeps rolling in, providing more information that should be dissected – and disseminated – via your site. I humbly refer to a … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, Your Gormogons have, since its inception, pilloried against the healthcare timebomb affectionately known as Obamacare. Dr. J. refuses to call it by its Orwellian title, the Affordable Care Act because it is neither affordable, nor caring for the … Continue reading →
Probably the most surprising news on ObamaCare in years happened yesterday with very little fanfare: the White House has realized and tacitly admitted the whole thing is a freaking travesty. In the unlikely event you missed it—despite its near-total absence … Continue reading →
A girl’s got to make a living… If you recall, Dr. J. discussed with frustration that there isn’t a good alternative to the ER if a patient needs to get tanked up with IV fluids due to a GI bug. … Continue reading →
An interesting quote from millimeter-deep thinker Ezra Klein: The gun vote failed because of the way the Senate is designed. It failed because the Senate wildly overrepresents [sic] small, rural states and, on top of that, requires a 60-vote supermajority … Continue reading →
This is a particularly embarrassing Tweet: On Gosnell “blackout,” where were conservatives before this week? salon.com/2013/04/12/con… via @salon — Donna Brazile (@donnabrazile) April 12, 2013 It is difficult to determine whether CNN’s shockingly clueless Donna Brazile really believes this herself, … Continue reading →
The Emergency Room, we’re not just for emergencies anymore… Dr. J. got sleepy when he was typing his last post, so he forgot about getting to his point which was that medicine evolved to the point where the regulations and … Continue reading →
Conservatives, by and large, seem to be having all sorts of moments of clarity lately. You know—maybe we need to be a little more honest about things. Likewise, it is probably time for liberals to do the same thing. Here … Continue reading →
Whenever gun control is brought up in a public venue, someone on either the Left of the Right brings up the need for mental health reform. After all, the Newtown shooter should have been in treatment; instead, he was out … Continue reading →
By now, even Tibetans who live in caves and eat rope for a living have heard that Obamacare is an utter disaster. And that isn’t just the folks who can correctly add two numbers together and digest more than website … Continue reading →
JAB, about whom the Mandarin, Dr. J., and ourselves were just speaking, has this carved into some poor slob’s entrails and sent up to the seventh floor: Your Czarness: For ‘Puter’s reference, here is someone else who is decidedly not … Continue reading →
An undercover field report, which the Operative delivered through an ingeniously complicated plan of (a) converting it to base74 notation, (b) engraving the characters on a grain of rice, (c) inserting it into a cotton swab, (d) embedding the swab … Continue reading →
Much ado is being made about an 87-year-old California woman who died in a retirement home because nursing staff were prohibited by employer policy from performing CPR on her. The story is certainly a tragedy because there is every indication … Continue reading →
Hold me closer, Tiny Dancer!Also, speaking of crises, why theheck are you hung like a Ken doll? Since Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) does not understand the concept of “negotiating against yourself,” ‘Puter finds it necessary to step … Continue reading →
Reader Uriah Heep writes: Dear Dr. J, I seem to remember something about a gambling and boozing ship being moored somewhere off the California coast during prohibition to get around the laws against having a good time. If it comes … Continue reading →
A nice Polish lady got to conversing with us the other day, and asked if we had heard anything about Obamacare taxing people selling their homes, starting in 2013. Would this not, she suspected, severely damage home sales just when … Continue reading →
Friend of the Gormogons, Professor Mondo (who you should be reading EVERYDAY, BTW…) writes in: Hey, Doc – In the quote from your double-barreled Obamacare post, you quote Dr. Kripalani thus: “So, which would we rather have — a hospital … Continue reading →
Typically Dr. J. gives his gentle readers one required reading assignment in a post, but serendipitously there were two articles today worth reading regarding everybody’s favorite campaign issue, Obamacare, also known as the albatross around the neck of the economy. … Continue reading →
Always two there are, a master and an apprentice… Gentle Readers, After Dr. J. posts this, he is off to attend a memorial of a late, great senior colleague, emeritus, Dr. B. Dr. J. has known Dr. B. since Dr. … Continue reading →
Tarkin knew that if you take out Alderaan, smaller systems will toe the line.Take out HCA, and the same will happen with smaller for-profits. Dr. J. caught this little factoid in the news the other day, but hasn’t had a … Continue reading →
Dr. J. showing Minion the light(ning)… Dr. J. has a Berkeley brainwashed minion who he holds in high esteem. The young man, despite being a lefty, is an otherwise good and decent human being, and a fine physician (who knew, … Continue reading →
Dr. J. has written at great length regarding his opinion on Obamacare and the creeping control government has had on the health-care system through payment (medicare/medicaid), legislation and regulation. What he didn’t give is a patient’s perspective. One Cziltang does … Continue reading →
Like Odin, G’Kar lost an eye and gained wisdom… By way of a post script, Jamie Jeffords, over at The Eye of Polyphemus, a law school grad takes a stab at it. The cynic in me thinks the Supreme Court … Continue reading →
I‘m not Herzog is the kind of guy you can expect to take apart a car, put it back together, and say “Here is how you improve this.” Like just about everybody else, he has an opinion or two on … Continue reading →
Conservatives, to say the least, are deeply divided over the Roberts opinion. Right-wing pundits are equally divided, even ones who normally agree with each other on everything. Over here at the Big G, the minions seem equally divided…and there is … Continue reading →
The Czar, as you know, is not the kind of guy who relies on hysteria for very long. This evening, he read the Supreme Court’s decision, written by Justice Roberts. What we find there is not a total capitulation, but … Continue reading →
Note: this is actually a combined post between the Inscrutable Mandarin and the Czar of Muscovy. Heads up, Americans: today’s SCOTUS decision is actually good news for conservatives, and Justice Roberts knows the Constitution better than your average Congressperson. Surprised? … Continue reading →
Over at National Review Online, Ramesh Ponnuru discusses tomorrow’s vote to repeal Obamacare’s 2.3% tax increase on medical devices. Dr. J. loves medical devices, be they pacemakers, implantable defibrillators, PFO/ASD/VSD closure devices, stents, or ventricular assist devices. Dr. J. hopes … Continue reading →
President Obama’s latest silly little campaign trope is the life of Julia. Like the composite girlfriend in his autobiography, Julia represents a composite of the sheeple he would like to see suckling at the teat of government dependence. Much has … Continue reading →
President Obama is at it again. At a White House forum on women (a.k.a. a 2012 exercise in campaign gender warfare) President Obama boasted about the following: Contraception at no additional cost (handouts to rich women who can afford it) … Continue reading →
Boy, the President and the progressive left have been on a real tear, have they not, about the fate of the Obamacare mess. Calling for impeachments of judges who vote against it. Warning them not to ignore imaginary precedents. Delivering … Continue reading →
The Supreme Court of the United States is, as everyone knows by now, ruminating over the legality of Obamacare. Things are not looking too hot for that particular law, at least based on legal experts’s opinion (real ones, not the … Continue reading →
BG writes a short essay so perfect that the Czar presents it in its entirety. Great Axe-Wielding Czar – You state, “Obamacare provides nothing that the majority of Americans want; it provides—at great cost—a handful of dark and unpleasant items … Continue reading →
Let us consider what Obamacare really is from the perspective of whether its authors were competent. We can begin with the opposite point of view: if the authors of Obamacare were incompetent, then the legislation should be scrapped and re-done … Continue reading →
The Czar, Dr. J. does not disagree with you regarding any narrative about the Progressive Movement regarding its desire to control free citizens through healthcare law. Government monopoly of the delivery of health care to its citizen is a linchpin … Continue reading →
Say Doc, The Czar has noted that a bizarre complaint about Dick Cheney’s recent heart transplant is that he is “too old” to receive one. Where has the Czar heard this before? Put simply, this is an attempt to create … Continue reading →
The left are grabbing at straws. The most recent meme making the rounds with Dr. J.’s lefty Facebook friends (will they ever stop being a never ending source of material?) is this lil Jon Stewart LOL: One big controversy with … Continue reading →
No, not the great pirate from The Goonies, but rather, Dr. J.’s buddy Jamie Jeffords, aka the Eye of Polyphemus took on an issue that Dr. J. has been ruminating on all weekend, and that is, “How do you solve … Continue reading →
Operative FRJ wrote in about 3 weeks ago (yeah, Dr. J. sucks) but it is just as timely now.: I continue to be appalled that the Administration consistently refers to contraceptive services as a right. I want to know who … Continue reading →
GorT, and many others before him have discussed the ‘Cass Sunstein’ method of government nudging individuals to behave in the manner that they see fit. Given the strong resistance to Obamacare, Dr. J. hopes to see a ramp up in … Continue reading →
Operative and Myrmidon Wrangler DT (not to be confused with Operative R2DT) writes in: Oh Noble Hoopy Frood Dr. J, As you are no doubt aware, Medicare is starting to use the results of patient surveys in calculating reimbursement for … Continue reading →
The Czar is already hearing that large (even massive) Catholic organizations across America are rallying for a major fight against the HHS letter that forces Catholic institutions hiring secular employees to cover abortion (through day-after pills), contraceptives, and a host … Continue reading →
h/t DrudgeCNN Money writes today that doctors are going broke. Dr. J. will break it down for you really quick. About half of all doctors are in private practice. Private practice is a small business. It is a weird business … Continue reading →
It is official. The FDA revoked approval of Avastin™(bevacizumab) to treat breast cancer. This issue has been discussed here and here because there has been some speculation that the FDA decision examined the costs in addition to risks and benefits. In … Continue reading →
Walmart excels at providing value at a discount for many Americans. So that made Dr. J. take a moment to rethink things, as Walmart bent the cost-curve of healthcare when it introduced $4 generics. Patients went from thinking generics were … Continue reading →
Dr. J.’s had a busy week folks. There is a news story that has been percolating in the background for months that Dr. J. has been trying to get his hands around, and finally he has gotten to where he … Continue reading →
Dr J. has written to this August readership on the topic of implantable cardioverter defibrillators, or ICDs. An ICD is an implantable device, much like a pacemaker, that in addition to pacemaker capability, can deliver rapid bursts of pacing or … Continue reading →
Dr. J. is scratching his head. Before the seas were lowered, the skies cleared, and the heavenly hosts sang out, “Mmmm mmmm mmm, Barack Hussein Obama…” in celebration of The One’s jamming of Obamacare down our throats like an otorhinolaryngologist’s … Continue reading →
There is an article in the New Atlantis Times that Matt Drudge linked to the other day. Dr. J. didn’t pick this up before Matt because he doesn’t get the daily New Atlantis Times, and because he was winging his … Continue reading →
The door to exam room 1 opened, and Doctor Gillis breezed in, Gary’s chart in hand. “Morning, Gary,” he said cheerfully. “How are you?” Gary waved back and said “Great, just a checkup today. The factory’s making me get a … Continue reading →
Dr. J. is back from his biennial hajj-al-inlaaws in New England and New York. Dr. J., Mrs. Dr. J., the lil resident and lil med student took in some of the sights in NYC, but Dr. J. mostly relaxed poolside … Continue reading →
Dr. J. is up late watching Fox News. The issue regarding HHS mandating insurance companies providing free birth control to all women who want it still sticks in his craw. In all of the debates he’s watched or listened to … Continue reading →
“Nothing is as expensive as it is when it is free,” or so goes the adage. Obamacare rears its ugly head again, obscured in the news by the debt ceiling debate and the like. Part of Obamacare is that the … Continue reading →
‘Puter was reading this post concerning Medicaid availability and its impact on health outcomes over at Megan McArdle’s place at The Atlantic. The takeaway is that there is no correlation one way or the other between availabilty of health insurance … Continue reading →
“Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people’s money,” Margaret Thatcher, 2/5/1976, This Week with Llew Gardner. (Image courtesy of The Margaret Thatcher Foundation (www.margaretthatcher.org/). The place where governments truly wreck themselves upon … Continue reading →
The Czar was caught off guard by a commercial last night, in which a group of people begin to decry government waste such as funding dog poetry, treadmills for shrimp, and so on. Seems a bit early for a GOP … Continue reading →
MEMORANDUM RECD Castle GIN RE Follow-up on Order [redacted]UNCLASSIFIEDREAD ALOUD TO GPPOST TO BLOG Notorious ŒV, Dr. J. spoke and the Obama Administration timorously quaked in fear. The mystery shoppers have been abated for now. Quoth team Obama: “After reviewing … Continue reading →
MEMORANDUM RECD Castle Gormogon IN RE Order [redacted] from Confucius, Œc. Vol., commanding Dr. J to report on what it’s like to be spied upon by someone other than Gs UNCLASSIFIEDTO BE READ ALOUD TO GPPOST ON BLOG Dear ŒV, … Continue reading →
Dr. J, Royal Surgeon, took ‘Puter up on his offer to respond to ‘Puter’s post regarding grandma killing. Without further ado, here’s Dr. J: Erudite Puter, the Philosopher-King of the Gormogons: I have read with fascination your missive, along with … Continue reading →
From the good doctor: Dear The Czar, Dr. J. has spoken in the past with regard to the McDonalds recovery, and the effect that healthcare waivers had on hiring. Today there was an article posted on CBS Marketwatch. Heavily paraphrased—A … Continue reading →
Dear The Czar, Very briefly, two news items to keep an eye on. Remember when we discussed the attempts to place a ban on male circumcision in San Francisco? Well, it’s made the ballot in November. It would become a … Continue reading →
Dear The Czar, Mickey D’s created 25% of the new jobs in April. Wesley Smith, at The Corner speculates that a waiver exempting them from Obamacare helped. That theory was originally floated in this forum. However, truth be told, Dr. … Continue reading →
Dread and Awful Czar , Today was a weird day for Dr. J in that both a Facebook buddy and a colleague in the Ivory Tower both made snarky comments to Dr. J. regarding Mr. Cheney’s clockwork heart given that … Continue reading →
‘Great Ghettoputer, Yes, it appears that Dr. J refers to himself in the third person. The Czar takes no responsibility for this, as the Czar sometimes refers to himself in the third person. Sometimes we refer to ourselves in the … Continue reading →
