This is what will happen if we permit government cost/benefit boards to decide on what treatments—and patients—are worth spending money on—and which aren’t. The Province of Ontario, Canada, has limited life extending treatment for terminal colon cancer patients to save . . . . Continue Reading »
Being a student of Voegelin, a philosophical groupie as it were, I’ve long wanted to attend one the annual American Political Science Association meetings held throughout the country and Canada. This year’s event was held last month in Toronto and has, of course, been blogged . . . . Continue Reading »
The latest edition of my podcast is up and ready for your listening (I hope) enjoyment. In this edition, I discuss the issue of “animal standing” to bring lawsuits, and the now confirmed regulations “czar,” Cass Sunstein’s, support for the proposal.If we want to . . . . Continue Reading »
The Brave New World crowd and the media continually pretend that the only objections to scientific projects such as human cloning are religiously based. The latest example is in a profile of the new head of the NIH, Francis Collins, an evangelical Christian, in the New York Times. From . . . . Continue Reading »
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on why she no longer attends the “Red Mass” —a Roman Catholic service for members of the legal profession in Washington: Before every session, there’s a Red Mass. And the justices get invitations from the cardinal to attend that. And . . . . Continue Reading »
On Saturday Bruce Ackerman, a notoriously liberal Yale Law School Professor, took to the editorial pages of the Washington Post to criticize General McChrystal. In ” A General’s Public Pressure ” he writes: In a speech in London on Thursday, Gen. Stanley McChrystal publicly . . . . Continue Reading »
The drive to “stop” global warming—relabeled climate change—does not depend on facts on the ground. Yes, the earth has warmed in the last one hundred years and there is evidence that some or all of it may be due to human activities. But it is by no means a sure . . . . Continue Reading »
Gold is at a new record, on rumors that the Gulf states will dump the dollar as a pricing unit for oil. I don’t believe that will happen, yet. But if the Keynesian idiocy persists in Washington, it will happen simply because the dollar will be unsustainable.I wrote about gold’s use as a . . . . Continue Reading »
In honor of his newly released film , I thought I should write something about the illustrious filmmaker Michael Moore. Too many people have already lauded the merits of his documentary, though, so I’ve decided to take a different approach. Instead of adding one more rave review to the pile . . . . Continue Reading »
Paul Zummo on the Christian left’s “theocratic” leanings : Aside from the promoters of the Prosperity Gospel, few conservative Christians actually try to advance the idea that their particular economic theories have been especially endorsed by the Lord. Of course we’ll argue . . . . Continue Reading »
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