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Four Key Facts about the Costs of Harry Reid's Health Care Bill

Here are four key facts about the costs of the Democrats' 2,074-page Senate health bill: 1. According to the CBO, only 1 percent of the bill's costs would kick in prior to the fifth year of its alleged "first ten years" (2010 to 2019). Starting in 201 ...

From JEFFREY H. ANDERSON, The Weekly Standard,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Senate,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress

Reid's fuzzy math

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is touting the Senate’s newest health-care bill as costing $849 billion over 10 years. But this uses the same accounting trick as past versions: 99 percent of the costs don’t kick in until the fifth year of that “10 ...

From JEFFREY H. ANDERSON, New York Post,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Congressional Budget Office,  Harry Reid,  Kathleen Sebelius

Their Best Role: Meryl Streep

Welcome to a new series here on Cinematical where we select an actor or actress and the role we think is their all time best. Last August, "Meryl Streep" wrote an op-ed piece for The Onion called "Name One Masterpiece Of Cinema That I've Starred In." ...

From JEFFREY M. ANDERSON, Cinematical,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Meryl Streep,  The Onion,  Dustin Hoffman,  Woody Allen,  Michael Cimino

Health Care by the Numbers

A closer look at what is at stake in the debate over health care reform. The health care debate has largely been a battle of numbers, and the most widely cited one — 46 million uninsured — isn’t even accurate. According to the census, the real number ...

From JEFFREY H. ANDERSON, Pajamas Media,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Congressional Budget Office,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Senate,  Benjamin Rush,  United States Department of Health and Human Services

400 Screens, 400 Blows - What's Up with Whip It?

Drew Barrymore's Whip It (260 screens) opened seven weeks ago and still hasn't broken even on its initial cost. What's going on? When I walked out of the press screening, the critics were all buzzing about how much fun they'd had. The reviews were ...

From JEFFREY M. ANDERSON, Cinematical,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Drew Barrymore,  Ellen Page,  Jimmy Fallon,  Juliette Lewis

Free Flick of the Day: Mr. Arkadin

One of the great fallacies of film history is that Orson Welles made his directorial debut at age 25 and then burned out and never made anything else of note. And it's true that he spent a lot of time doing acting jobs for money and starting projects ...

From JEFFREY M. ANDERSON, Cinematical,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Orson Welles

Should Herzog Have Made 'Bad Lieutenant'?

Werner Herzog's new film Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans has raised all kinds of hackles, mainly over the "remake" issue. Some movie buffs are crying foul over the remaking of Abel Ferrara's classic Bad Lieutenant (1992), including Ferrara ...

From JEFFREY M. ANDERSON, Cinematical,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Werner Herzog,  Abel Ferrara,  Nicolas Cage,  Ron Howard,  Uwe Boll

Free Flick of the Day: Black Sabbath

Anthologies are common in the horror genre, whether two or more directors band together on a project, or whether one director takes on several short stories alone. Usually the result is that at least one of the entries is pretty weak, but the strongest ...

From JEFFREY M. ANDERSON, Cinematical,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Boris Karloff

Real Cost of the Health Care Bills: $1.8 Trillon Over 10 Years

As my piece with Ben Sasse in today's New York Post shows, the real 10-years costs of the Democratic health bills are not $800-900 billion, but roughly double that. In their real first decades, the House bill would cost $1.8 trillion, the Senate bill $1 ...

From JEFFREY H. ANDERSON, The Weekly Standard,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  New York Post,  Congressional Budget Office,  U.S. Democratic Party

Free Flick of the Day: Night of the Living Dead

If there were any justice, George A. Romero's (1968) would be counted as one of the great movie debuts of all time. (Yes, up there next to Citizen Kane.) In some quarters it is, but the fact that it's a horror film and the fact that it has languished ...

From JEFFREY M. ANDERSON, Cinematical,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: George A. Romero

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