by Thomas Sowell | Aug 25, 2009 | POLITICS
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, economics or medical care, the preferred explanation tends to be an external explanation– that...
by Sylvia Bokor | Aug 23, 2009 | POLITICS
Dear Mr. Scott,I was shocked to read that Wal-Mart’s supports socialized medicine. Having asked for a donation to our Tea Party Association here in Albuquerque, New Mexico, I was told that Wal-Mart’s policy is not to involve itself in political movements....
by John David Lewis | Aug 20, 2009 | POLITICS
The major impetus behind the Democratic health care plans is not economic–it is moral. The claim that health care is a moral right has motivated enormous government coercions against the medical industry for nearly fifty years. But this moral claim has blinded...
by Walter Williams | Aug 19, 2009 | POLITICS
Harvard Professor Henry Gates’ arrest has given new life to the issue of racial profiling. We can think of profiling in general as a practice where people use an observable or known physical attribute as a proxy or estimator of some other unobservable or unknown...
by Thomas Sowell | Aug 19, 2009 | POLITICS
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 all of us to stop and think, even though his political strategy from the outset has been to prevent...
by Thomas Sowell | Aug 19, 2009 | POLITICS
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 lack medical insurance? Despite incessant repetition of the fact that millions of Americans...
by Thomas Sowell | Aug 18, 2009 | Healthcare, POLITICS
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 sunrise that medical care for the elderly will be cut back under a...
by Thomas Sowell | Aug 17, 2009 | POLITICS
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 attempted twice in the first 6 months of a new administration. The fact that they got away with it...
by Sylvia Bokor | Aug 17, 2009 | POLITICS
Nancy Pelosi wants government to take over health care. But there’s a snag. At present the yearly income level at which Americans will be slapped with an onerous tax increase, is set at $250,000.Pelosi’s own salary is presently $223,500 per annum, which...
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