She’s back. You’ll find Miss King in the new issue (April 24, 2006 cover date) of National Review, with a beaut of an essay-”The Great Uninsured: A meditation on the covereds and the uncovereds, and other things.”

Here’s a snippet:

The slur that comes closest to describing how Americans view the uninsured is “poor white trash,” but we have been so worked over by the goons of political correctness that we are now in the grip of a terrified need to make everything we say sound inclusive, even slurs. “Poor white trash” would have to be tarted up to “poor white trash of all races and classes” before anyone would touch it, so if you want to take out inclusion coverage before you run down the Great Uninsured, it’s best to stick with Marie Antoinette’s “them.”
The uninsured always were “them.” What we are dealing with here are reincarnated attitudes that go further back than most people now alive can remember. But I do remember them, and that’s what got me started on the subject of insurance.

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