The NYT notes today that, "This month, former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor told an audience at Georgetown University that a judiciary afraid to stand up to elected officials can lead to dictatorship. Last month, speaking in South Africa, … [Read more...]
Worldwide Political Failure
They had a lot to say, but it all came down to this consensus: The United States had forfeited its right to report on abuses committed by others by committing its own, failing to correct them, and then holding no one in authority … [Read more...]
Comparative Health Care
The Kaiser Foundation provides the following useful summary of a recent LA Times round-up of the various approaches being taken on health care:Democratic proposals in several states are aimed at "stabilizing and expanding group-based … [Read more...]
A Modest Proposal for Health Care Reform
It is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great town or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin doors, crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in … [Read more...]
Rumsfeld on the Importance of History
"I think the biggest problem we've got in the country is people don't study history any more. People who go to school in high schools and colleges, they tend to study current events and call it history. ... There are just too darn few … [Read more...]
Education Not Enough?
An interesting article in the LA Times suggests that even highly-educated jobs are vulnerable to the great equalizer of outsourcing. The only thing that will protect jobs at home is if they cannot be performed remotely.A bit too extreme, I … [Read more...]
Big Love Blowback for Willard?
The article continues:Romney, the Republican governor of Massachusetts, is a direct descendant of one of the Mormon church's original pilgrims. He joined the Mormon priesthood at 12, and became a church elder at 18, before serving as a … [Read more...]
Tim Murray: Polished Professional
Health care. Murray argued passionately for an expansion of employer mandates. "To me it is patently unfair to have employers who are doing the right thing and then have to pay an additional tax to pay into the free care pool to help … [Read more...]
Happy Birthday Boston Globe
"It was not that Boston lacked newspapers. On the contrary, there were ten competing papers in the city. However, none of them, including The Herald, which accounted for half of all the papers sold in Boston, was satisfactory to these … [Read more...]
Hurray for Individual Mandates!
Individuals get sick, therefore they should pay for health care. Costs for this service are massive and unpredictable, therefore insurance is the best payment approach. We've made a social decision not to let people die in the streets, … [Read more...]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 214
- 215
- 216
- 217
- 218
- …
- 235
- Next Page »