by Lawrence Huntoon | Dec 22, 2000 | Healthcare, POLITICS
The complex system for Medicare reimbursement for physicians is based on over 7,000 medical treatment codes. You know we’re in big trouble in medicine today when there’s a code not only for flatulence, but one for the guy standing downwind as... by Thomas Sowell | Dec 21, 2000 | POLITICS
The privations and sufferings of the poor have long been central themes in the vision of the political left. That is what attracted many of us to the left in our youth. But the actual consequences of the agenda of the left on the poor — and on others — is... by Thomas Sowell | Dec 21, 2000 | POLITICS
Even those of us who have been complaining for years about the bias and shallowness of the media should admit that we never expected the media to be quite so grossly biased or so unbelievably shallow as they have been about the outcome of the recent presidential... by Daniel J Mitchell | Dec 21, 2000 | POLITICS
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, a member of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, has led his country to the brink of implosion. His policies flout freedom and the rule of law and have ruined a once-healthy economy. Washington should urge... by George Reisman | Dec 20, 2000 | Energy
Destructionist government policy has increasingly restricted the supply of electric power in California and throughout the United States.
by Dr Michael Hurd | Dec 20, 2000 | POLITICS, Psychology & Living
What’s the fundamental difference between being a whim worshiper and being spontaneous? A whim worshipper acts on whatever urges move him, at the moment they first move him. He does not stop and use reason to evaluate what he’s doing. A spontaneous person... by Walter Williams | Dec 20, 2000 | POLITICS
Democrats have no constituency more loyal than black Americans. Much of that loyalty is delivered by black elected officials, civil-rights organizations and church leaders such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. During the last election, these people did a... by Daniel J Mitchell | Dec 20, 2000 | POLITICS
President-elect George W. Bush is being advised by his political foes to abandon tax cuts. This step, they tell him, is the only way to heal the wounds caused by weeks of legal wrangling and partisan rhetoric. Yet abandoning tax cuts would be a big mistake, both... by Andrew West | Dec 19, 2000 | POLITICS
“Buy the stock – it’s a good company.” This oft-repeated platitude is one that’s very popular on Wall Street, but it’s also one that I’m sick of hearing it because it’s not necessarily a useful guide for investors. A...
