by Harry Binswanger | Sep 11, 2009 | Healthcare, POLITICS
The Great Prevaricator spoke again on Wednesday, attempting to return us to tribal morality and tribal medicine. The speech was smoothly delivered, but extremely evasive and dishonest. For instance, just as one small thing, I came away from the speech thinking he was... by Richard E. Ralston | Sep 9, 2009 | Healthcare
Nearly a century ago, the Federal Reserve Board was created to eliminate the supposed economic problems of a free market. A century of inflation, recessions, one or two depressions, huge expansion in government debt, and wild swings in unemployment tells us the system... by Thomas Sowell | Sep 8, 2009 | POLITICS
“Hubris-laden charlatans” was the way a recent e-mail from a reader characterized the Obama administration. That phrase seems especially appropriate for the Charlatan-in-Chief, Barack Obama, whose speech to a joint session of Congress was both a... by Walter Williams | Sep 8, 2009 | POLITICS
A very brief but important article on the fundamental purpose of the health care bill is circulating and with which President Barack Obama and his cadre of communist and pinkish radicals, czars and advisors would agree with nods of approval, and which most Democrats... by Walter Williams | Sep 7, 2009 | POLITICS
President Obama and congressional supporters estimate that his health care plan will cost between $50 and $65 billion a year. Such cost estimates are lies whether they come from a Democratic president and Congress, or a Republican president and Congress. You say,... by Thomas Sowell | Sep 6, 2009 | POLITICS
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 Madoff were apparently quite convincing to many people who were regarded as knowledgeable and... by Walter Williams | Sep 2, 2009 | Money & Banking, POLITICS
With the massive increases in federal spending, inflation is one of the risks that awaits us. To protect us from the political demagoguery that will accompany that inflation, let’s now decide what is and what is not inflation. One price or several prices rising... by Harry Binswanger | Sep 1, 2009 | POLITICS
Rather belatedly, I’ve just finished reading Ayn Rand Answers: The Best of her Q & A, edited by Robert Mayhew. It’s a superb collection, and I want to re-read it soon. In reading it, I was wondering how impressed a non-Objectivist reader might... by Thomas Sowell | Sep 1, 2009 | POLITICS
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 itself. But it is even more profoundly troubling as a sign of a larger mood that...
