On The Politicization of Healthcare

Open Public Hearing; Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committees to the Food and Drug Administration; Gaithersburg, Maryland “Good Afternoon. I am Richard Ralston, Executive Director of Americans for Free Choice in Medicine....

No “Health Care” in America?

During the first 30 years of my life, I had no health insurance. Neither did a lot of other people, back in those days. During those 30 years, I had a broken arm, a broken jaw, a badly injured shoulder, and miscellaneous other medical problems. To say that my income...

Random Thoughts September 2007

Random thoughts on the passing scene: I can’t get as fiercely involved as some other people do in controversies about the origins of human life on earth. I wasn’t there. One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are...

The Left’s Investment in Failure

It is not just in Iraq that the political left has an investment in failure. Domestically as well as internationally, the left has long had a vested interest in poverty and social malaise. The old advertising slogan, “Progress is our most important...

The Pope Sanctions the OECD Thugs

London’s Times Online recently reported that, according to Vatican sources, Pope Benedict XVI is working on his second encyclical, a doctrinal pronouncement that will condemn tax evasion as “socially unjust.” (See...

No Trade-Offs?

A whole nation following the tragedy of a mine cave-in in Utah was struck by the further tragedy of another cave-in at the same mine, killing men who had gone underground to try to rescue the miners trapped there. The second tragedy was avoidable — but only if...