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- Bowing to "World Opinion" - November 17, 2009
- In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign...
- Random Thoughts - November 10, 2009
- Random thoughts on the passing scene: If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of...
- Making Health Care Worse - November 7, 2009
- What is so wrong with the current medical system in the United States that we are being urged to rush headlong into a new government system that we are not even supposed...
- The "Costs" of Medical Care: Part III - November 7, 2009
- One of the strongest talking points of those who want a government-run medical care system is that we simply cannot afford the high and rising costs of medical care...
- The "Costs" of Medical Care: Part II - November 5, 2009
- Although it is cheaper to buy a pint of milk than to buy a quart of milk, nobody considers that to be lowering the price of milk. Although it is cheaper to buy a lower...
- The "Costs" of Medical Care - November 3, 2009
- We are incessantly being told that the cost of medical care is "too high"-- either absolutely or as a growing percentage of our incomes. But nothing that is being...
- Dismantling America: Part II - October 30, 2009
- Many years ago, at a certain academic institution, there was an experimental program that the faculty had to vote on as to whether or not it should be made permanent. I...
- Dismantling America - October 27, 2009
- Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official, not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate but simply one of the many "czars"...
- To Sue or Not - October 20, 2009
- To sue or not to sue? That is the question. After racist statements were made up out of thin air and then attributed to Rush Limbaugh, these were the options he had. It...
- Magic Numbers in Politics: Part II - October 14, 2009
- It is understandable that many people do not pay nearly as much attention to political issues as they do to practical decisions that they have to make in their own...
- Magic Numbers in Politics - October 13, 2009
- Back in the days of the Soviet Union, two Russian economists who had never lived in a country with a free market economy understood something about market economies that...
- A Letter from a Child - October 6, 2009
- Recent videos of American children in school singing songs of praise for Barack Obama were a little much, especially for those of us old enough to remember pictures of...
- The Brainy Bunch - September 29, 2009
- Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might...
- The Underdogs - September 22, 2009
- It is a good reflection on Americans that they tend to be on the side of the underdog. But it is often hard to tell who is in fact the underdog, or why. Many years ago,...
- Choosing the Right College - September 22, 2009
- There is so much for high school seniors and their parents to know about colleges that they not only need to get a lot of information but also need to make sure it is...
- Fables for Adults - September 15, 2009
- Many years ago, as a small child, I was told one of those old-fashioned fables for children. It was about a dog with a bone in his mouth, who was walking on a log across...
- Obama's Rhetoric vs. Common Sense - September 12, 2009
- "Hubris-laden charlatans" was the way a recent e-mail from a reader characterized the Obama administration. That phrase seems especially appropriate for the...
- What Obama Says vs. What He Does - September 8, 2009
- The most important thing about what anyone says are not the words themselves but the credibility of the person who says them. The words of convicted swindler Bernie...
- CIA Interrogators Did Not Cross the Line - September 1, 2009
- Britain's release of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi-- the Libyan terrorist whose bomb blew up a plane over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, killing 270 people-- is galling enough in...
- The Great Escape - August 25, 2009
- Many of the issues of our times are hard to understand without understanding the vision of the world that they are part of. Whether the particular issue is education,...
- A New Push to Play God from Washington - August 24, 2009
- The serious, and sometimes chilling, provisions of the medical care legislation that President Obama has been trying to rush through Congress are important enough for...
- Deception is at the Heart of Dems' Plans - August 20, 2009
- Amid all the controversies over medical care, no one seems to be asking a very basic question: Why does it take more than 1,000 pages of legislation to insure people who...
- Whose Medical Decisions? - August 18, 2009
- There was a time when rushing a thousand-page bill through Congress so fast that no one has time to read it would have provoked public outrage. But now, this has been...
- Whose Medical Decisions?: Part II - August 18, 2009
- When famed bank robber Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks, he said: "Because that's where the money is." For the same reason, it is as predictable as the...
- Beware of Bureaucrats' Prescriptions - August 8, 2009
- As someone who was once rushed to a hospital in the middle of the night, because of taking a medication that millions of people take every day without the slightest...
- Utopia Versus Freedom - August 4, 2009
- "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." We have heard that many times. What is also the price of freedom is the toleration of imperfections. If everything that is...
- Amateurism and Incompetence - Investor's Business Daily - July 31, 2009
- Obama's Amateurism and Incompetence - July 31, 2009
- After many a disappointment with someone, and especially after a disaster, we may be able to look back at numerous clues that should have warned us that the person we...
- A Post-Racial President? - July 28, 2009
- Many people hoped that the election of a black President of the United States would mark our entering a "post-racial" era, when we could finally put some ugly aspects of...
- Magician Politics - July 24, 2009
- Distracting the audience's attention is one of the ways magicians pull off some of their tricks. President Barack Obama's televised news conference on medical care shows...
- Medical Care Confusion - July 21, 2009
- Is there a coherent argument for government-controlled medical care or are slogans and hysteria considered sufficient? We hear endlessly about how many Americans don't...
- A Personal Inequity - July 16, 2009
- Sometimes, when I hear about "disparities" and "inequities," I think of a disparity that applied directly to me-- the disparity in basketball ability between myself and...
- What Constitutes Discrimination? - July 9, 2009
- Much of the backlog of cases in our over-burdened courts has been created by the courts themselves, with adventurous judicial "interpretations" of laws that leave a...
- A Tangled Web - July 7, 2009
- While the recent Supreme Court decision in the New Haven firefighters' case will be welcome news to those who don't think that a gross injustice is O.K. when those on...
- Equality on Trial - July 1, 2009
- For the fourth time in six cases, the Supreme Court of the United States has reversed a decision for which Judge Sonia Sotomayor voted on the 2nd Circuit Court of...
- Alice in Medical Care - June 30, 2009
- Most political and media discussions of medical care have an air of unreality reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland. There is an abundance of catch-phrases but remarkably...
- Republicans in the Wilderness - June 28, 2009
- A Gallup poll last week showed that far more Americans describe themselves as "conservatives" than as "liberals." Yet Republicans have been clobbered by the Democrats in...
- Another "Good Thing" - June 23, 2009
- Even if the "stimulus" package doesn't seem to be doing much to stimulate the economy, it is certainly stimulating many potential recipients of government money to start...
- Equality or Pay-back? - June 21, 2009
- Back when I was on the receiving end of racial discrimination, it was to me not simply a personal misfortune, or even the misfortune of a race, it was a moral outrage....
- The Character of Nations - June 10, 2009
- In an age that values cleverness over wisdom, it is not surprising that many superficial but clever books get more attention than a wise book like "The Character of...