by Harry Binswanger | Apr 1, 2010 | POLITICS
Both the L.A. Times (March 11) and the NY Times (March 12) ran articles on the secularism of the Tea Party movement. Both said that the leaders and the grass roots base of the movement are concerned with economic issues much more than the “social” issues... by John Browne | Mar 31, 2010 | Investing
Over two thousand years ago, China began to build its Great Wall in order to keep nomadic tribes and marauding armies from crossing its borders. In the last few decades, China has built another protective barrier, a ‘Great Firewall,’ to keep socially... by Paul Hsieh MD | Mar 30, 2010 | Healthcare, POLITICS
During President Obama’s final push for “universal health care” legislation, his biggest obstacle was not Republicans but rather anti-abortion Democrats let by Congressman Bart Stupak (D-Michigan). Stupak eventually reached a last-minute deal with... by Richard E. Ralston | Mar 30, 2010 | Healthcare
What passes for “reform” in Congress would eliminate health insurance firms. Why? Because, we are told, it is immoral for anyone to make a profit providing health insurance. Virtue, in this view, is restricted to those who impose government insurance on... by Paul Hsieh MD | Mar 29, 2010 | Healthcare
These government-mandated “quality” and “cost effectiveness” measures will thus place doctors in a position where they are punished for upholding their Hippocratic Oath to treat patients according to their best ability and rewarded for violating it.
by Scott Holleran | Mar 25, 2010 | POLITICS
Disney writer Linda Woolverton (Mulan, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast) and director Tim Burton thoroughly reconfigure Lewis Carroll’s literary classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in Disney’s new, computerized adaptation, which bears some... by Sylvia Bokor | Mar 24, 2010 | POLITICS
In a proposal entitled EBSA Proposed Rules, the Labor and Treasury departments are requesting information from employers, employees, financial institutions and others regarding Retirement Accounts. They “are asking for public input about the use of annuities in... by Dr Michael Hurd | Mar 22, 2010 | POLITICS
The fields of ethics, knowledge and general philosophy are more fundamental than psychology. These fields refer to the nature of ideas; psychology deals with ideas as people hold them in their minds, along with the attendant emotional consequences when contradictory... by John Browne | Mar 19, 2010 | Investing
Last week, the Dow closed at 10,741, up some 64 percent since its 2009 lows, [03/19/10, Yahoo! Finance] when most markets had priced in the likelihood of financial Armageddon. As the markets have rebounded from the brink of disaster, many Wall Street cheerleaders have...
