The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
Other Than That, the Story Was Accurate
“An Oct. 14 Style article about access to the prison camp for terrorism suspects at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, incorrectly referred to Navy Capt. Robert Durand as ‘thickset.’ He should have been described as muscular.”–Washington Post, Oct. 23
Longest Books Ever Written
“What the Obama Administration Did Wrong in the Health-Care Web Site Rollout”–headline, Washington Post website, Oct. 22
From the A-Bomb to the O-Bomb
Count Bloomberg’s Margaret Carlson among the ObamaCare supporters who are unhappy, even angry, with the HealthCare.gov debacle:
The rollout of Obamacare had to be absolutely perfect. Obama needed to treat it like a 21st-century Manhattan Project, full of 20-something geeks pulling all-nighters and managed by geniuses from Apple Inc. and Google Inc. who can fill in that blind spot between the techies and end users. Instead, he took the pedestrian route and spent $400 million on a Canadian company that our Good Neighbors to the North once fired for incompetence.
Carlson is being unfair here. ObamaCare is actually just like the Manhattan Project, a government program that produced an awesomely destructive bomb.
For more “Best of the Web” click here and look for the “Best of the Web Today” link in the middle column below “Today’s Columnists. [Note: the excerpt above is from the Oct. 18 BOTW archives.]
