June 29, 2007 by mr_flood.

Please head over to his site and read his latest on socialism killing pharmaceutical invention, with the left wanting to do the same here. An excerpt:

Socialism fails. Always has. Always will. And the toll in Europe in so many areas is clear. Here’s what socialized medical systems have done to European pharmaceutical research:

# For over 100 years, Europe has been a powerhouse of pharmaceutical progress and innovation. Over the last decade, however, Europe has gradually lost its leadership in the pharmaceutical sector, with a steady transfer of its R&D to the US - where policies and market conditions are more favourable to pharmaceutical innovation.
# Key benchmarking indicators show that between 1990 and 2002, R&D investment in United States rose more than fivefold, while in Europe it only grew 2.5 times.
# In 1990, major European research-based companies spent 73% of their worldwide R&D expenditure on the EU territory. In 1999, they spent only 59% on the EU territory. The USA was the main beneficiary of this transfer of R&D activity.

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June 22, 2007 by mr_flood.

…which, I suppose, is representative of the Left as a whole.

In The Plank he writes…

But other parts of the article were more personally unflattering. For instance, Kuttner cited Rubin’s “professed concern for America’s downtrodden,” [italics mine] which strikes me as highly uncharitable.

followed by…

But I think it’s worth noting that Rubin, who is enormously rich, has staunchly favored higher tax rates on the rich for years.

I remember listening to an interview with the singer Jewel a few years ago where she professed the exact same belief; that endorsing high tax rates means you care for the poor.

Well, I have two things to say about people who believe this: you don’t care and you’re stupid.

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June 20, 2007 by mr_flood.

From M.J. Rosenberg at TPM Cafe we get an article decrying Richard Cohen’s belief that Libby should be pardoned because there was no underlying crime.

His main point is that since there was “no underlying crime,” lying to the grand jury about it was no crime either.

What’s funny is that Rosenberg goes on to reinforce exactly what Cohen was saying.

No underlying crime!

Scooter Libby was a key part of a group of government officials who lied this country into a war that has cost us 3500 soldiers and destroyed a foreign country.

It is a war we have lost and which we will be paying for decades hence.

Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of people will never get over the losses they suffered as a result of Scooter (and his buddies’ war). It is sad that Scooter is, at this point, the only one facing jail time. Feith, Perle and the whole bunch should be brought up on charges.

So let me get this right. He disagrees with Cohen’s position that there was no underlying crime to commit perjury on and as his evidence he doesn’t cite any evidence. Rather, he spews BDS vomit all over the place.

I’m sure he’d agree with the statement that Clinton’s impeachment was just, not because he lied to a grand jury, but because he bombed an aspirin factory in Sudan.

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