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 few coherent arguments. Let’s start at square one. Why is there alarm about American medical care? The most usual reason given is because its cost is high and rising. [...]
Archive | June, 2009
The Obama Health Care Plan: Hazardous to Your Health
Sylvia Bokor (2009.06.29 ) Politics
On June 25 a town hall meeting was held in Rio Rancho, New Mexico to discuss Obama’s health care plan. The meeting opened with a televised study of the Canadian and UK’s health care plans. Afterwards, a factual report of the Obama plan was presented. Listening to it, I felt like I was in 1938 [...]
Doctors: Stand Up to the Political Bullies
Michael J Hurd (2009.06.28 ) Politics
Physicians and other medical professionals have the power to bring down socialized medicine–socialized medicine as we know it, and as its expansion is being proposed. They can do so by simply saying, “Enough.” Government does not own my skills. Government has no property rights over either myself or my patients. My competence depends on government [...]
College Education: To Much of a “Good Thing”?
Thomas Sowell (2009.06.28 ) Politics
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 lining up at the trough. All you need is something that sounds like a “good thing” and the ability to sell the idea. A perennial “good thing” is [...]
Three Good Things
Jean Moroney (2009.06.28 ) Living
Here’s a daily practice I learned from Martin Seligman, author of Learned Optimism and Authentic Happiness. Once each day, write down three good things that happened in the last 24 hours. You can write them before going to bed or first thing in the morning. You can write them in a journal or in a [...]
Tea Parties amd Going John Galt: America’s New Direction?
Sylvia Bokor (2009.06.26 ) Politics
On April 15, 2009 Tea Parties protesting the government’s fiscal irresponsibility took place throughout the nation. A second Tea Party is being planned for July 4. Rejecting socialism, Tea Party participants are acting fundamentally on the principle of individual rights. It is right to earn a living. It is wrong to give our earnings to [...]
Tell Me Everything You Know
Lisa VanDamme (2009.06.25 ) Education
I have invented a new educational game. I call it “Tell Me Everything You Know.” Here is how the game works in my grammar class: I write a sentence on the board, set a time limit, and then have the students write down every grammatical fact they can name about the sentence. When the time [...]
Republicans in the Wilderness
Thomas Sowell (2009.06.23 ) Politics
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 both the 2008 elections and the 2006 elections. In a country with more conservatives than liberals, it is puzzling– in fact, amazing– that we have the furthest left President of [...]
Obama Broadcasting Corporation
Edward Cline (2009.06.23 ) Politics
The Drudge Report was the first to announce the latest step in the fascist/socialist march to dictatorship in the United States. To guarantee that there is no “debate” on the government’s plan to impose mandatory health care “reform” on the nation, President Barack Obama has made a deal with ABC News to conduct a phony [...]
Obama Submits America To Islam
Edward Cline (2009.06.22 ) Politics
One could devote a career to dissecting President Barack Obama